The Darkside: Spiritual Sanity?

[Abishai100]

The Christian Bible states that the adversary of man and his humility is the Devil (or Satan), a corrupter of values and a figure of conspiracy.

When we think of ethics and morality, we think of the endless spiritual struggle with the problem of evil and the temptation to experiment with life and indulge sinfully in life's gluttonies.

However, where does Sin come from, and why are we intrigued by it intellectually?

Is there a tangible 'darkside' to faith (or optimism)? When a cancer patient is cured, he/she is relieved to be alive and well but remembers what it was like to have the growing, 'living' cancerous tumour inside him/her. There seems to be some natural curiosity about the viability (or vitality) of destruction, decay, and corruption (and hence sin).

American fantasia-themed television programs such as Challenge of the Superfriends and Tales from the Darkside invite audiences to ponder the perceptibility of purgatory.




Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)

 

[emilynghiem]

Dear Abishai100
If you read Scott Peck's books on Glimpses of the Devil
and People of the Lie, he explores the process by which
the person's free will becomes taken over by evil forces
influence and energy: by CHOOSING to rebel and reject instead of forgiving,
this "invites" and "forms agreement on the side of evil."

The opposite process of forgiving allows these evil
influences to be removed.

So our part is to AGREE to ask help to forgive, remove
the obstacles and receive healing help and energy on the good side of life.

Otherwise, if we neglect deny or refuse to ask help to forgive,
if we hold on to our selfish will and ways, this blocks
the healing and correction process, and the "evil influences"
feed on fear and unforgiven conflicts to wreak havoc abuses
and destruction, where stress destroys relations and health of people
and society with social ills and waste of resources fighting over these.

 

[Abishai100]

Mad Mouth


Take a look at the below side-by-side pictorial comparison of the American comic book superhero Wolverine (Marvel Comics), a wolfish mutant who boasts large steel-like knuckle blades, and Freddy Krueger, the iconic knife-gloved dream-stalker from the popular Nightmare on Elm Street horror film franchise.

Both Wolverine and Freddy boast blade-weaponry functional at their fingertips. Wolverine uses his 'hand-razors' to claw away at 'evil-doers,' while Freddy Krueger uses his 'hand-razors' to terrorize the 'innocent.'

Such art contouring is not possible in the social sphere unless we have clear agreed-upon definitions of what characterizes an 'evil-doer' and what defines an 'innocent.'

If becoming evil involves the yearning to rebel/defy and the unwillingness to meditate on the wisdom of mercy/patience, then what defines a 'good' or moral soldier during WWII (1939-1945)? Didn't the world unite to 'defy' the evil mega-machine that was Nazi Germany?

In other words, doesn't it seem that characterizations of the proverbial 'darkside' require an attention to the apparent 'ambiguity' of predicting fury? Aristotle analysed this.



Aristotle's Quote: The Fog of Anger