Could you clarify exactly what you were trying to say in this article?

Sehr gemuetlich.

On the flip-side of the coin with good. Where does "good" reside?

Good and evil reside in the same place and we are the keepers. We let it enter, or we can keep it out of anything - from personal realationships to global politics. From what our children watch on TV to what is preached on a pulpit.

Seeing or Choosing not to see - That is a good question. The ability not to see evil is easier when it is not happening to "us". The few who see that all of creation is the only group, the only "us", tend to see the evil.

I have an answer to your question. I believe my heart is on the left-hand side because I am right-handed. If my right controls my left, then I can live under the illusion that I have some reign over that lovely organ that keeps me breathing.

Parricide? I would venture further to say "Parricide's Doom". It may be that evil is but a catalyst for our decisions and then penetrates to re side within the aftermath; the consequences we face post-sin.

Among the Elders of the Lakotah People are some who say the virtual world-o'-hurt inhabited by the "civilized" peoples is in its entirety Heyoka.....upside-down, inside-out, and backwards. They take the 'image' from their own long-time reliance on Persons who receive the "Thunderbird Vision," the so-called 'Contraries' or Sacred Fools, the Heyokas, to have always before them examples of how NOT to live.

"Evil" is of course L-I-V-E backwards, as any fool (or at-least this one, anyhow) can plainly see. So in a Heyoka World the "problem" of "evil" is "solved" by being a Heyoka Heyoka, as old Fools Crow told us one Day....laughing uproariously. He declined to say what Vision Quest Medicine would help a Person onto that path, except to say, dead seriously, that anybody who got it would know it for sure....adding he was glad it wasn't going to be him.

It used to be the function of Heyokas, essentially, to do everything to excess, suffering the consequences for all to see. So in that Way of Being in The World, "evil" is not knowing when enough is enough, or knowing but being unable to stop at it. Nothing defines the "dominance" paradigm more concisely, nor better explains the terminal mess its gotten its adherents into here in its (and their?) latter Days.

So biologically speaking "evil" presents as a disease....evidently terminal if not treated. This raises again the matter of Medicine.
There is some, of course.

Pat Ettien

Does the evil always have a fore-shadow? Is it the calm before the storm, The Heart of Darkness, or a white flash? If you watch closely you can always detect evil before it arrives. Maybe you just have to be a woman to see the foreshadow before The shadow.

no place like home. eVIL must venture. eVIL has no address, but the eye of another, of likeness. eVIL can be seen as a flash of silver when seen over the left shoulder, but this is only an illusion of awareness of lifE. death is everywhere, always tapping, but death is not eVIL. no, eVIL has characteristics, seven i hear, what are they again? fury, sloth, envy, lust, gluttony, pride, greed. this may be directions to THE location of eVIL. should i follow direction?
Hey-o-k...a..it may lead only to my father. but where is his heart upon my return? is it on the left, easily penetrated by my right hand, warm for consumption, nourishing, sustainable, green? Unheimlich.

IT is sad that we have spent so much time exploring this word, EVIL.

It is apparent that we are all evil in so far that the evil we are committing is viewed as good by another.

It is not an act of evil which leads an individual to darkness. It is the act which leads an entire society to darkness that we ought worry about.

Deception at its best, Machiavellian deception... lack of education,(?) manipulation, and deprivation of order, which leads us all to evil.

Perhaps it is too late for our society this time around. Evil is lurking and may be here to stay.

But in the meantime enjoy your latte' and anticipate tomorrow as being better than today, because I am sure it will be?

Unglaublich....

For what can not be uttered, can not be seen, can not be named.
Even Petain could not keep out the Witch King of Angmar.
Verdun passed, and then passed into shadow...

This lexicon, it lingers around the bend.
Runes are not enough. Ist verboten.
Folding, unfolding
Avatars

Mssrs. Oppenheimer & Teller
"I am become Vishnu..."
"Who shall I say sent me?"

Dorothy & Job peering into vortices, F2,F3,F4
House Intact. Verboten.
The Wicked...
"Where are you Toto?"
Birds inbound.
Weapons free.
We've got debris in the air.

Actung Panzer!
F2, F3,F4
"...when I laid the foundations of the world?"
Where were you?
House Intact.
Folding, unfolding

One time I was watching the movie version of The Tin Drum.
It was in a movie theater in Aspen.
German with English subtitles.
There is the scene where there is a set of Russian boots going down into the cellar. The Russians have "come in". It's over. It's just beginning.
I involuntarily shut my eyes, made an involuntary grimace, and an involuntary voice spoke (in my head) in Hungarian:
Ezt nem szabad nekik megmutatni:
This means:
They are not allowed show this.
This cannot be shown to them.

War;
As you point out,
We live in the shadow of WWI
Shade--Schade......

Between Light and Darkness,
Heaven and Hell,
Woman and Man,
Beginning and End,
Cause and Effect.
Yin and Yang.
East and West.
Pleasure and Pain.

Evil lives in the interstitial space. It lives in the space of ambiguity that is not easily defined. It slips and slides between the cracks in the paved road of good intentions. It's chilling in the white noise of the tv set just waiting for you to notice it. It lives in the messages of a barking dog. It's under your bed. It's in the house made of candy. Perhaps it's the curiosity to enter the in-between space, and see what's on the other side. Or perhaps it's the wall-flower, waiting for someone to ask it to dance.