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[franceslievens]

Excuse me for the radio-silence, but preparing classes on good and evil doesn't do much good to a person's overal health.

Ironically my subject is morality. Every class is about good and evil.

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[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Reading your short piece, I suddenly had a thought. Why is it always, 'good and evil?' Why not, 'evil and good?' Google each phrase and you'll find that 'good and evil' outweighs 'evil and good' by over 60-1 - 14,700,000 to 235,000!! Is it our inherent desire for the good that we place it before evil?

Is good really beauty and evil actually ugliness? Is that the nature of things? When Adolph Sax of Dinant invented the Saxophone back in mid-1800s did he know it's soulful sound would become associated with Jazz, alchohol, and drugs, such that it came to be known as 'the devil's horn?'

Yeah, me too....

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

According to some sides in christianity evil is associated with beauty, because it's the instrument of the devil to tempt us into evilness.

Maybe "good and evil" sounds better than "evil and good"? It's like those couples you know from whom the names always should be said in the correct order or it doesn't sound well. It's Lois and Clarke, not Clarke and Lois.

There's no nature of things, I believe. We make what is wrong and right. It's a human decision. (And now you can wonder if you read "wrong and right", like I wrote it, or "right and wrong"...) ;-)