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If you get bored easily by smart things, you are advised not to read this. Proceed at your own risk. Also, these thoughts are just a beginning, they haven't really been thought through, so some things are going to sound really, really stupid. Enjoy.





In classic literature as well as average day society, you will always hear people say that good cannot exist without evil, and vise versa. Why is this?

Good brings rise to evil. Too much good will always result in evil, and this is one of the reasons why there will never be peace in the world. Good intentions, if you extend them, will go too far and begin to harm a certain, tiny group. Just think about it. You have to sacrifice something, no matter how small, for the cause of good. This sacrifice will only grow bigger as time goes on.
In the beginning, you start with an innocent intention, filled with good motivation and calm intentions. It takes a matter of time, short or long, before you realize that this is not good enough. You need to sacrifice something for the greater good. Sometimes, people sacrifice themselves, which is already a bad start. It may seem noble, but what about the people who love them? If they are truly sacrificing themselves for a good cause, that will take all of them away. The next step is realizing that all of their self sacrifice and all of their hard work is not good enough to break the barriers of the ignorance of the world. That is when evil simmers and begins to set in.
They need to go further with their good intentions, frustration and desperation may begin to set in. They need the world to wake up and listen to their cause, because it is a good one. Manipulation can now begin. Here we introduce the classic manipulative character-eager to turn all of the good intentions and motivation into another and darker cause. Good is very, very flawed in that it is selfless. It cares only about others and wants to do the right thing for the people and for the environment around it, and with a little bit of harm from the evil side, this can be manipulated. There are countless ways to do this. One of them is to claim that they must protect the things they are passionate about, and to do this, they must become stronger. Good people will get so desperate that they will do drastic things that will instantly put them in a world of evil, and harm the ones and things they set out to have good intentions towards.  You have to understand that all of this begins with good intentions. Once fear is introduced, it can turn to hate or the fear can grow stronger. It continues to be good intentions, in the hero’s mind, while in reality, it is twisted and broken. It will always be good intentions, that will never change.


Secondly, I want to break down the bias that evil people are bad. All evil begins as good, and I want to make that clear. We bring evil upon ourselves, it is written in the destiny of good. Why? Why does evil have to exist? You could ask the same thing about good. Evil is good that has been broken down or forgotten. It still has the same motivations, the same need to protect and fight for the right cause in the mind of the beholder. Evil is the good, in the mind of a villain. You rarely, if ever, find a villain that was evil to begin with, for good is the beginning. In the mind of a villain, what they are doing is right, just as it is the same way with a hero. They are both fighting for what is right-only if in a different way. If there was someway the two motivations could be used together, evil and good, yes, there could be peace. But there will not be peace, because humans dare to be different. We dare to think and have opinions about life. Think about villains as what they used to be: normal people. Just like you and me. Think of mass murderers, terrorist bombers. Something has gone terribly wrong in the course of their life. But they have not changed. They have motivation. You and I have motivation. They fight for what they believe is right, just as we do.
I’m not saying that justifies what they do, but merely to smash down the common mindset that evil people must be extraordinary, they cannot be human beings. They are. Also to bring down the misconception that what they do is wrong, for in their eyes, they are doing what is right.
Evil is just as flawed as is good is.
Evil is graceful at times, yet clumsy at others. It is clumsy because unlike good, sometimes it does not follow a cause, instead it follows emotions, much more then good does. It takes your hate from loss, from tragedy, from things that have scarred you inside. It motivates your hate. This would make you powerful and supreme, but this is where emotions start to fail you. Emotions are powerful things in themselves, they can save lives and do incredible things. But hate is different. Hate comes from hurt, and hurt is a negative emotion. This is the core of evil’s weak spot. It is true that the most powerful people feel that they cannot feel emotion such as hurt, but that is not true. Hurt is what spurred them on in the first place, for hurt is at the center of hate. The problem with hate and hurt is that they will blind you. And while they may make you feel powerful at first, they will destroy you. They make you so blind that you will block out all logic, even when it could help you more then hate could.
Good, while not usually motivated by them, can be provoked by these two as well. Good sees past them, or accepts them as they are. Good moves past them, and in that sense, good is stronger then evil because it sees the logic. It knows that those kind of emotions can lead you on but will eventually destroy you.

 This is the first understanding: How good beats evil.


But how does evil beat good?
Going back to that first argument, you may have heard stories in real life or in fiction of characters who have been the purest and most good-determined souls that have fallen into the ‘darkness.’
I want to break another cliché here: Evil people have it bad.
This most certainly is not true. While it may be the case for some evil people, most evil people have it, or at least believe, they have it good. They feel powerful and on top of things, because the world is groveling beneath them. You hear about the chaos of evil, but really, it is the most balanced thing because it is the controller. It knows, or believes it knows, that it has control, or will be gaining control soon. It has the attention of the people who cower before it, and I can imagine that feels pretty damn good.  They may have scarred pasts and messed up personalities, but I can imagine truly evil people feel powerful and in control.
Evil is so smart and so talented because it has the power of knowledge. Here we come to the core of the fault of good.
Evil knows. It has seen pain and hate, suffering. It has seen past the lies and knows, oh yes, it knows everything. And it can take it. It takes knowledge, of culture, of emotions, of everything-and combines it into a powerful mastermind. It knows how to stay secret. It knows people-and this is the key to manipulation, which is one of evil’s key tools. It can manipulate people because it understands the fear or the hate or the loss they feel inside, because it has felt all of that strongly. This is how evil gains its’ power, through manipulation. It takes people, and it corrupts them by showing them. Teaching them of all of the knowledge, the things that good people will never know. Truly good people can continue on while knowing all of this knowledge, or rather, it will power them on. But few of those people are left. On the other hand, evil will ignore this knowledge if needed to gain the trust of the good people, but this is what usually leads to evil’s ruin, for the good people, while lacking knowledge, are still clever and do not normally trust evil. Think of evil as a predator-it seeks out it’s prey, but if it is truly crafty, instead of killing it, will befriend it and manipulate it until one day killing it. This is the second understanding: How evil beats good.
Everyone knows good. It has been inside of all of us at one time or another. But after you finish reading this, I want you to think of evil in a different way. Imagine this. Your family or friends have just been ravaged, brutally murdered by the government. Anyone you tell will think you’re insane, or begin to get suspicious of you. You cannot tell anyone, and you decide that enough is enough. Justice will be served. You begin to go underground with other people, and you find they are just like you. They understand your suffering and your hate, and with them you become family, a shared group of tortured souls. You share the same emotions that good people feel: Love. You may even laugh or smile. You share a close bond with these people, a normal bond that good people feel. You are motivated in your cause, and you believe that you are doing it for the greater good. Doesn’t this sound familiar? Ah yes, this is the core of goodness. Doing things for the greater good, fixing things and making them better again. To put it even simpler, here’s another example. Good people make an establishment, make a society, and are happy and think that everything is good. Another good person comes along, and discovers evil. Most often, people do not want to accept evil. But let me tell you something-Evil balances society. Evil, in it’s best form, is trying to fix the problems. It sees the evil with it’s eyes, and does not turn. It stays put, and fights for the greater cause, in a different way then the good people. Now, not all evil is morally right, you might say. I am not trying to justify the things people do. Just that evil is good. Good is evil. They are the same. They both have a cause, a purpose, they both believe that what they are doing is the right thing. I do not pick a side, I cannot pick a side. You should never judge evil, however. At it’s worst, evil is a purposeless and weak tool. At it’s best, evil is a motivated soul that is trying to fix the world in a different way. How does evil tie in with good then, if the two are constantly fighting? I’ve proven how evil and good are alike, but does good really need evil?


Good always needs evil. I believe that the greatest people are the ones who fight with both sides, along both people, for the common good. They see evil at its’ best, a determined fighting machine who desires equal rights and fights for the world.  They see good at its’ best, a determined fighting machine who desires peace and fight for the world. If these two motivations were combined, there is no doubt that peace would reign. But evil is hardly at its’ best, and that is why the world is in its’ present condition. It is hard, so very hard to get rid of things such as hurt and hate…because we can feel them so strongly, and people without any hope cling to them because they give them a false sense of power.

I cannot imagine good and evil ever working together, but if they ever did, the world would be a strong and motivated, kind and united fighting soul where everyone fought for the common good, and even if they didn’t fight for it in the same ways, it would still be accepted. Until then…we can only dream of such a united world.]]> http://rickahottie.webs.com/fourthlevel.htm?blogentryid=4499684 2009-5-03T22:39:00-0100 So.

It's uh, been a while...*Looks around awkwardly*

Decided to resurrect this thing from the pile of trashed websites. Not really a resurrection, per say, because no one's going to visit, but that's okay. It looks good and that's gorramn enough for me.
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Thanks to a little thing called LHC.

And if the world doesn't end, I'm going to laugh so hard.

Well, have fun celebrating whoever reads this (which is no one XD)

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