# One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend.

# The Mind lets in the light, then the dark, in interaction; so time is generated. At the end Mind awards victory to the light; time ceases and the Mind is complete.

i mean in a way it kind of seems like everything is just this friction generated by these opposing-but-coexisting forces, and god is within that, god the constant process of neutralization or cancelling out. i don’t know if that makes sense the way i articulated it.

and yet i’m not a fan of moral relativism.

and I never said the godhead needed anything from me. but I sure as heck need the godhead.

what helps the godhead consciousness unfold on earth is my yardstick for the highest ‘good’,

How do you know what helps the godhead unfold on earth? If it’s nondual, don’t both good and evil help it to progress? Why would the godhead need help from you?

Slavery was good in the south, evil in the north, defined by the cultures of south and north.

I would beg to differ here, although I see what you’re saying. Slavery was good in the North too, but they paid hourly wages instead of providing free room and board and job security

there’s the level of opinion, or the relative level. Everyone has personal ideas of what is good or not, based mostly on how thingsmake them feel.

then there’s the level of function. what works, what is efficent and durable and sustainable is good. this is the level of economies and ecologies and mechanics. it is objective and verifiable

and lastly, there is the level of the absolute. what accords with ultimate reality is ‘good’.

I personally take the ultimate reality to be the nondual godhead. hence what helps the godhead consciousness unfold on earth is my yardstick for the highest ‘good’, but I recognise that doesn’t neccisarily cover a whole lot in terms of dealing with people or moving through life, so i fall back when possible on what is best for the health of the larger system as i understand it.
when neither of the first two seem to apply then I feel comfortable resorting to my opinion on the ‘good’ from an aesthetic standpoint. certain things offend my sense of beauty and justice and if they don’t seem to play an important role in the larger system, I feel fine wiping them out.

Slavery was good in the south, evil in the north, defined by the cultures of south and north.

Nuclear power was a good, a boon to humankind even; then came Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

To Reagan, Russia was the Evil Empire. Not to the Russians

To Khomeini, the U.S. was the Great Satan. Not to us.

To Bush, Iran and North Korea (and Iraq, but we invaded them) were/are the axis of evil, because they were pursuing nuclear weapons, which we consider good — in our hands.

I could go on, but you get the idea, I’m sure.

Now — another one for you:

Are Right and Wrong absolutes?