If the appearance of the world is subjected to the eyes you are seeing it through and who's shoes you are walking in... how then can we come to definite conclusions about the condition of the world? Of the matter of good and bad? Of the concept of time and relevance of matter? Are we purposeful or the product of happenchance?
The concept of physical sight, can be compared to the concept of understanding truth. We make conclusions about our worldview by looking through different lenses, however that does not change the physical properties of that which we see... that is, the materiality of the object or matter on the other side of the lenses. One may be colorblind, and see only gray... yet that does not change the fact that the painting they are seeing has color, unless someone explains the fact or, better yet, the colorblind observer speaks to the artist himself for an explanation, even so never fully grasping the concept of color. The painting is the way the artist created it, regardless of the interpretation.
What of contentment? Some people are blinded from all joy when life robs them of material things, while others intentionally separate themselves from all that causes comfort and become enlightened. How does anything receive attention unless it is out of the norm? We are surrounded by a pattern of rhythms. It is the means by which these rhythms are broken, or taken to the extreme, which gains attention. Because it is unusual. What is Rhythm and Order unless there is someone to set them in place?
There are two rhythms at place in the world that we can observe. The pattern of production and the pattern of destruction. When we see extremes in either area it receives attention. It can be also be called the conflict of good and evil. Evil can be explained as the lack of good. Just as dark is the lack of light. We can conclude by this, that because there is evil, it proves the existent of good. If we are in a dark room, we would not even know it was dark unless we had experienced light to compare it too. Similarly, silence is not a property, it is the lack of sound. Unless we knew what sound was, we could have no concept of silence.
When a person loves someone who hates them, that is something out of the normal rhythm of the world. When someone rises from the dead, that is breaking the natural pattern. If God is good, then the lack of God must have a name of that which is in contrast to him, and that is what we've named 'Evil'.
The fact that we have intelligence, reveals yet another idea and that is the concept of conscience. We have a choice to do good or evil, to have the ability to consider and wonder with curiousity is also out of the 'normal' pattern of the world. For a patterned, designed, rythmic, concious human being to conclude that there is no God, no Good and no Purpose in the world is to deny his own very existance.
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