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From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
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Subject: Re: re: What evil is
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Date: Fri, 24-Jun-83 02:34:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 24 02:34:53 1983
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Just as there is no evil without good, so there cannot be good
without evil (no rose with no thorns.)  We do have several
cliches in our language that echo this point, but we Westerners
apparently never will come to understand the yin and the yang.
Why do you think the symbol takes the form of a circle?

They tried to make this point in the Star Trek episode (name not
known) where Kirk is split in two:  a good half, and an evil half.
The good half is kind, etc., and the evil half is belligerent, etc.
It turns out that he is really crappy at making decisions and 
generally being a leader without his 'worser half.'  Spock, as
usual, makes observations about this.

Remember, God didn't create Satan (nor Allah America); Satan
is merely the other side of God.

			--Randy
			rh@mit-eddie