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A Year of Contemplation

Good and Evil? Look at Your Choices (Day 128)

5/8/2019

 
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Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor Evil? In the things outside of our own reasoned choice.”
(Epictetus, Discourses, 2.16.1)

Today, on the heels of another Colorado school shooting, many are left wondering what it all means. Dozens of questions about the who, what, where, why, and how of good and evil. Who is this person that they could cause so much senseless harm? What could they have been thinking and feeling to cause them to take such terrible actions? Why on earth would they do something like this? Where did they get the tools to pull this off? How can this be happening again… and again… and again… 

It’s happening because individuals CHOOSE to do these terrible things, just like good things happen because people choose to do good. 

It’s not a mystery. 

It’s not rocket science. 

It’s basic human nature. We do the things we choose to do. 

Choose understanding. Choose compassion. Choose kindness. Choose SYMPATHEIA (interconnectedness), and live according to SUMMUM BONUM (the greater good). 

(See y’all tomorrow) 

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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