The bible and other religious books are written by that side. Its natural for people to push for thier team. Rah Rah we're The Best! But what if either side can be Victorious and there is no preordained outcome? Any good myths like this?
2007-05-11 06:26:42 · 13 answers · asked by capekicks 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Oh, yes, they are "evenly matched" if one wants to think in terms of "who's better"... but that's a human construct after all. Energy just is, it knows not its "power". It is the human being with its higher intellectual reasoning "skills" that attaches "labels" to all phenomena of the natural world.
There's a reason for this. It started long ago... in a land not too different from our own. This is how myths are *born*. The story goes in such a way that the people are given the ability to triumph over uncertainty, ambiguity, insecurity, chaos... etc. If "Good" does not win, we the people become socially distressed.
So, there again, it is a human construct, that "good" and "evil" bit. It's all about perception and ulterior motives... labelling serves many a lost soul.
2007-05-11 07:46:40 · answer #1 · answered by 'llysa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's less a matter of victory for one side or the other and more a matter of balance. If good defeated evil or vice versa, how could either continue to exist? Good cannot exist without evil, otherwise, it's just normal and no longer good. Same with evil. They both become neutral. So why do we push so hard for victory on one side or the other? Do we want the end of existance for both?
2007-05-11 14:27:50 · answer #2 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot divide something as complex as human behaviour into two camps. No one else in the world, but you yourself, can judge if a deed is good or bad. You base your moral judgement on your experience and what you where taught, by your parents, friends, school or any other media. Hopefully your moral code is similar enough to what people around you think, then there is no conflict. Problems arise when the moral codes of those involved are more different (like in different religions or cultures).
2007-05-11 14:56:34 · answer #3 · answered by Otavainen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is the story of the Book of Pacts.
Basically it goes that there existed groups of different beings who were ever at odds with each other for various reasons, from simple playfulness to a desire to rule over all. Through their conflicts over time they came to realize that no one group could ever gain enough power to have the upper hand, and so if things were left as they were, then their conflicts would continue never ending. It was decided to change existence so that one group, or even one individual of a group, would be able to obtain sufficient power to be the one dominating force.
The agreements of how existence was to change to accomplish this task, and the abilities and limitations of each group within this existence, were gathered and bound together and hidden in a place agreed by all, whereupon existence changed.
It is from here that vampyres, were-beings, daemons, etc. first emerged.
2007-05-11 13:50:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The other side HAS been victorious many, many times. The ULTIMATE outcome is that good is victorious, but evil wins man times along the way. Anyone who doesn't know this is awfully naive and doesn't know much about history.
2007-05-11 13:30:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok. people. open your eyes!!!
both sides ARE evenly matched. all the time. it is not a matter of taking turns to win or lose.
one cannot exist without the other. both sides of the same coin. etc etc
there is no preordained outcome.
that IS the strategy!
fun and games.
2007-05-11 13:33:27 · answer #6 · answered by exex 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try Robert Heinlein's "Job" or something along those lines. I don't recall off the top of my head any classical mythology that has evil winning, but you might check out Kali or Satanism....
2007-05-11 13:31:27 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one side isn't any stronger than the other. They are equally balanced. As are all things from nature and physics. They are two sides of one coin. They are the yin and the yang.
2007-05-11 13:35:59 · answer #8 · answered by taliswoman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is one of the laws of the universe - you can't have yin without yang - one cannot appreciate rain if it is always sunshining,
We can all choose to be positive or negative, mostly we all do both some time.
2007-05-13 17:00:24 · answer #9 · answered by Jewel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are looking for evil to win then you need to try for some religion or way of living that endorses that
2007-05-11 19:52:07 · answer #10 · answered by katlvr125 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋