Maybe it’s just me, but the Washington routine is getting old… maybe they need some new material. Seems recently — with Hurricane Florence wrecking havoc in the Carolinas, the earthquake/tsunami in Indonesia, the uncertainty of the Supreme Court Justice nomination and all the other important/serious issues kicking around, it’s been all about good and evil in Washington… the President is good, the press is evil, the Republicans are good, the Democrats are evil,
I grew up being taught that things (and people) were good and/or bad. Evil was a term I never heard much when I was younger. It seems it’s being used more lately. I’ve heard that there is a good force in the universe and a bad, or evil, one and that they are at war. I don’t know if that’s true… the “force” appears to be used more since the popularity of ‘Star Wars’. I’m “kind of” of the belief that there are good people and bad or evil people — I’m not sure about this war of the forces.
But I suspect that most of us are a mixture of good and bad.
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles this way: “Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time.” When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, “The one I feed the most.” I couldn’t have said it better….
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