Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Where'd All the Good People Go?

When I was younger there were times when I really wanted the power rangers to lose, or Yugio to not win a duel for once. Although, I like many of you am a big supporter of Poetic Justice (The good guy wins and justice is restored), I have come to realize that its not all black and white there are some major shades of grey. See the concept of poetic justice is just nice, you always want the good guy to win and evil to be defeated and get what's coming to them. Unfortunately in the real world it is difficult to distinguish between the good guy and the bad guy. How can you deem what is good and bad? From my point of view, I am always the good guy, but what about from the other guys point of view. Ever felt like wolf? or how about the step sister or stepmother? I mean all our lives we have decided that the evil stepmother was the bad guy or the wolf was just evil but what if we saw it from their eyes. History is more of the same, It is simply the story of the winner. We are so sure that the south was the bad guy in the civil war because the north won but what was the real story down south? Lets not forget how britain must have felt during the revolution, yet the we were most def. the good guy because we won and thats what history taught us, right? The thing is life doesn't quite work like this, every person in their own right claims that they are the good guy, no one wakes up and thinks I am the bad guy. So if everyone's good who is bad? And who deserves the punishment that comes from poetic justice or my favorite quote "why do bad things happen to good people". Who deemed these people good? Themselves?? So basically this quote is saying that bad things should happen to bad people but then who are the bad people. The point is man is in no way good. We are inherently all bad, we are not better then the next guy, we are selfish, seeking out only for ourselves and our good. It is only by the grace of God that we are able to develop the fruit of the spirit which makes us better but still not GOOD. Good is a term that I would

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