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Saturday, March 12, 2011

Proverbial myth 6: “Evil is sooner believed than good.”………


Even when I was a kid and was reading these childish stories…. My thinking was that when people do not want to understand….. They divide things in good and bad…. As  I grew up… I became more convinced that people do not really understand the “good” and “bad”……..  and these two concepts are just general expressions that they have learnt from society…. Don’t believe…. That is your choice but when I hear…..
“How are you?” ….”Good”…  “How are you?”…. “Not bad”…….
“Good” and “not bad” are both same…. Whatever are the feelings and conditions, you will hear these two expressions from all at all time… What does it mean???
So when we are not really clear about good and devil… how to decide that which one we are believing sooner?.........

Following is a story from my childhood textbook… it is a great story that teaches the cost of dividing things in “good” and “bad” by ignoring the nature of things…….

“Once upon a time a scorpion wanted to cross a brook. On the bank he saw a frog and asked if the frog would give him a ride to the other side.
"Oh no," says the frog, "If I carry you on my back you will sting me."
"But why would I sting you when we would both surely perish," replied the scorpion.
The frog eventually conceded that the scorpion had a point, and agreed to the request.
Half way across, the scorpion stang the frog, and they both began to drown.
"But why did you break your word and sting me, knowing it would be certain death for us both?" cried the frog.
"Because it is in my nature." said the scorpion.”

If you have still appetite for more story that read the following one…..

“A missionary came upon a hungry lion in the middle of the African plain.
The missionary knelt and prayed, "God, please give this lion a Christian soul!"
The lion stopped, knelt, and prayed also: "Lord above, may this meal be blessed.."

Of course, Lord is one, kind and just but He has created grasses, herbivores, carnivores and omnivores… and there is no “good” and “bad” in them…. Every creature follows its nature………..
We believe sooner in “good” and “devil” than in nature of things………..



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