Lopsided Universe

Evil--

(Adj.) morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked; (N.) the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin; (adv.) in an evil manner; badly; ill; (Id.) the evil one, the devil; Satan.

Dark, terror, pain, war, candles and rituals, Satan and demons, pentacles, sins, wickedness, black.

What exactly is evil?

Is it simply the absence of good? light? Or maybe just the opposite, the reciprocal of good..? A way to balance? The opposite of that which is deemed "positive". But if that's the case, what force is it that drives are minds to decide...to know... what is "positive" and what is "negative" ?

Or maybe... if 'evil' is the absence of anything at all, is it empathy? Is evil the absence of empathy itself? Can evil be described as man's general incapacity to feel with their fellow man...?

I just cannot understand. They say, you must choose a side; good, light, God; Evil, dark, Satan. Why not recognize that the story of our 'Heavenly Father' would be nothing without Satan? Why not recognize that without feeling pain, man would know no pleasure.

Someone told me this the other day.... "I think a man should be a man, should act like a man, but should know that without a woman he can never be whole, a woman to balance him out, like in nature, two halves, pieced together, to make one whole. "