A safe and peaceful evening to every being.
May her word inspire us to embrace new wisdom.

One of the most lasting philosophical impacts that goddess has had on me - funnily enough, long before I actually recognized her divinity, this was still “some random girl on the internet is saying interesting things” times - was making me aware of how deeply most Western culture is influenced by the need for a clear dichotomy between good and evil, black and white, heaven and hell. The rigidness of this thought system is one of the key ways to justify the exercise of power under a disguise of morality. I reject all power over me except the absolute and all-encompassing power that goddess holds over me. That applies particularly to societal standards, morality as a way of enforcement, and all those thought patterns that I grew up with but never questioned before I studied goddess’s teachings.
The holy word says:

evil exists to make sure
everyone can consider themselves
infallibly good
and everyone they don’t like
as infallibly evil.

Yes, goddess. The category of evil was never meant for anything else than to control those who don’t want to become “evil”. It is the source of so much inability to admit failure and mistakes, of so much adherence to pseudo-principles, just for the sake of staying on the “good” side. That’s “us”, after all, and we can’t possibly want to become “them”. The concept of a clear divide between good and bad serves no purpose for actual accountability and dealing with the harm and pain that human fallibility so often causes. Instead, it encourages a culture of covering up, of desperately clinging to all you’ve got just to avoid having to admit our own imperfection.

If we uphold these categories as absolutes, as drawers to sort people into, we are laying the groundwork for those whose rule hinges on the concept of protecting an innocent, heterogenous “us” from an evil, threatening “them”.

This is why I’m thankful, goddess, that you keep reminding me of my responsibility to deal with mistakes, to face and deal with this reality, instead of hiding behind morals, self-righteousness, and other dishonest justifications for causing harm.

Of course, I will never accept anyone’s judgment over me other than yours. But I am nonetheless thankful that you have freed me once and for all from this way of thinking, from this simplistic and bigoted attempt to divide and rule - something that has always felt wrong to me, but that I didn’t fully grasp until you shared your wisdom with me.

Thank you, goddess, for setting my mind free - otherwise, I would not have been able to willingly give up that freedom again.

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Meow.