I was just giving you some more food for thought, because I know you like that.
I think your questions and your pondering are important, but I don’t want to derail Sammy’s thread away from the topics he wants to discuss. So, I’ll be brief here.
Let me start off by saying that I do like that " 'be’ing" of yours. You might call it “unintentional” and I understand that. I’m calling it “inspired.”
And I’m starting there because, in addition to taking advantage of sharing a heartfelt compliment with you, it also takes me to another important point: these–“choice”, “sit by idly”, “taking action”, “good”, “evil”, “inspired”, “true”, etc.–these all are labels. That’s all they really are.
So, this takes us to that thing-that-I-do (which seems to aggravate some of our forum friends) of examining what we’re meaning with our labels and how are we using our labels. I share @SammyG’s attitude that it’s become sort of a common thing where we (and I’m including myself in this “we”) give away more of our power than is helpful to us. So, I try to be mindful (with myself and with others) about the labels being used and will encourage us (myself included) towards labels which seem to me to take back and wield our power, rather than give it away.
I understand that. I’ll just say that, although I have some opinions about these important questions, that’s all they are. They’re my opinions. And during my time on this planet, I’ve come to discover that there are many, many, many other opinions (some which agree, some which markedly differ from my opinions) on these important topics. And for the most part, all of these are simply opinions. I don’t know anyone who has The One Universal Objective Master List of Truth (although there are many who claim to have such a list).
Nor do I know of any objective and empirical way of verifying the list of any other, or even my own own, because I also have an opinion that we see it (and the “evidence” supporting it) when we believe it. If I believe that there’s a source of Evil and there are evil things out there to get me (I don’t, FWIW), then I’m going to see “evidence” to support my beliefs. And thanks to this opinion of mine, I’ve seen pleny of “evidence” to support my opinion that we see it when we believe it, you see?