Website owner: James Miller
Some people believe that "bad men win and good men lose" in this world while others believe the opposite --- that "good men win and bad men lose". Who is right? The answer depends on your definition of winning, your definition of success. If your definition of success is wealth, power, social position and things like that it must be admitted that bad men often do win and good men often do lose. However, if your definition of success is happiness then you must say that "good men always win and bad men always lose". Why? Because it is a natural law that goodness is health and happiness to the soul and badness is ill-health and misery to the soul. And, furthermore, if you assume that the real reason people seek wealth, power, social position and the like is because they think these things will bring them happiness you can say that the bad men who gain these things still lose --- because these things don't bring happiness. They finally achieve them and realize that they are sterile and empty --- that they have spent their lives chasing after illusions and mirages that don't exist. Oct 1981
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