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NAUGHTINESS AND EVIL
: I thing that being "naughty" is normal. This is our 'bad-self'. Sometimes we just want to be free of the necessary rules that we have to abide by in order for civility to run smoothly and all the sensitive people to continue on their way 'untweaked'. Flirting with being "naughty" is one way of getting a bit of relief. Letting our 'bad-self' out for some air now and again isn't necessarily a 'bad' thing. Being the leather wearing motorcycle rider that 'lives by his own rules' and chases all the girls isn't necessarily 'bad'. However, this is MUCH different than evil. In my opinion, evil is the product of a psyche gone bad; where the aspects of a normally functioning psyche hasn't developed as they should. Evil people have common characteristics. One such characteristic is that they understand that everyone else seems to understand and 'get' the idea of compassion, but they themselves don't understand it. It seems like a weakness to them, but it still frustrates them that even idiot 'good' people understand compassion and yet they don't. People who deny their bad-selves can bottle-up, hate and loath themselves for its existence. They want to be "all good" and in this insistence, cause permanent damage and a splitting of their psyche. When the bad-self escapes and gets out of jail, it runs rampant and 'out of control'. Usually the 'good' people who keep their bad-self under wraps say "this wasn't me" but it was of course. It is an aspect of themselves that they denied existed. When they hit 'rock bottom', they subdue the bad-self, shove him back into prison while making vows to everyone that they had let down "never again", but of course the genie will get out of the bottle again and the cycle continues. We see such behavior with alcoholism and other forms of dependency. We also see this behavior with "Jesus dependency". The high ranking church member with the philandering secret life or pedophilic obsessions or "addiction to pornography" or the ubiquitous "preacher's daughter" phenomenon, or the proverbial "back-sliding", etc. I say that there is nothing necessarily inherently wrong with "being naughty", but there can be of course in any given case. There is nothing wrong with flirting, but married people being involved can open up a can of worms. There is nothing wrong with being the bad boy on the motorcycle who chases girls, but if the girls are not of the age of consent of or are married, then again, this is a potential load of problems. Fundamentalists and extreme conservatives tend to deny their bad-selves, equating 'naughty' with 'evil' and seeing "The Devil" as a personified cause of it all. To me, this is ridiculous and unhealthy. Such a warped sense of self can lead to the psyche schism I mentioned above. Here's an illustration of the difference for the "naughty impaired". Naughty is flirting with your second cousin. Evil is torturing small animals. Naughty is lying to one girl about having to work this Saturday when you really have a date with another girl. Evil is planning a rape. Naughty gets thrown in jail for drunken assault and battery for hitting another guy in a bar. Evil is kidnapping the same guy's daughter and burying her alive. Of course, there is really no comparison here. We ARE NOT simply talking about orders of magnitude IMO; as "naughty" might result in hurt feelings or a fat lip and evil is...well, evil. It speaks for itself. "Naughty" recognizes "sane" limitations. Evil has no limitations, but may keep self-preservation in mind. (Remember, evil does not mean crazy. "Insane" is a legal term not a clinical one. It means to not know good from evil, or rather "right from wrong". The Evil DO know right from wrong, they just don't care). One curious and interesting common characteristic of The Good is that they have a difficult time accepting the existence of The Evil. They may suggest that Hitler was too far gone from syphilis, Pol-Pot was totally insane, or that Stalin was not keeping up with what his officials were up to. Manson is misunderstood and wasn't really involved in the Tate murders. The Holocaust couldn't really happen or have been as bad as it was, etc. (BTW, the Holocaust was probably exaggerated to some small extent in some cases, but IT DID happen to the extent that it is documented fact and recorded on film. The Holocaust IS A FACT and is not credibly deniable.) In other words, sometimes The Good are The Evil's best supporters and advocates because they find the depths and capabilities of evil to be incredulous. This is a curious phenomenon. Love is blind, and The Good are rife with love, ergo it is difficult for them to really comprehend and accept the existence of true Evil. The Evil do exist and they walk among us. Some of the background images on this site are "naughty" and should be taken tongue in cheek. The subject is the inherent evil of Christianity, so I've got sexy rubber-clad vampire nuns giving you the evil eye and background images of a young girl who hanged herself, etc. Interesting images, but harmless art, a flirt with naughtiness and nothing else. Macabre imagery has a certain interesting fascination but fascination is not advocating anything, just as a fantasy is not necessarily a wish. As a fantasy should not be confused with a wish, so macabre art and imagery should not be confused with advocating evil. "Wednesday Addams" is not advocating evil. She's funny and appeals to our naughty selves as a caricature of our more morose side and our appreciation of dark humor. The vampire nuns are sexy taboo carnality, the taboo of sexy nuns and the danger of vampires (and the inherent sexual naughtiness of vampires tossed in as well) makes the imagery on this site interesting IMO. VAMPIRES, SEXUALITY AND FREUDIAN REPRESSION: Have you ever noticed how the actual vampire legends were about decaying corpses with horrid tepid breath of the dead? The 'sexy' vampire gradually came into vogue in the Victorian era with the popularity of Bram Stoker's Dracula and the vague 'artsy' lesbian imagery of Carmilla. With the advent of the 'sexy vampire', it became apparent that the vampire was a vicarious 'bad boy' that we were fantasizing being. He gradually morphed from a stumbling corpse or ghost into a rich and powerful member of old and established royalty with political ties and control as well. He had magical "magnetic" powers over women (who all turn out to be incredibly sexy and large-breasted, of course) who were supernaturally drawn to him as well as drawn to his 'bad boy' mysterious self. (And it never is entirely clear how much of this 'trance' she may secretly desire). This capricious "monster" became what the Victorian era sexually repressed gentle-people could not be, carnal, openly sexual and sexy, flaunting power without the guilt of having or using power to their own gain and obviously "unholy" casual sexual and otherwise intimate encounters and relationships with anyone that they found attractive, regardless of marital status or social status etc. The male vampire can be 'naughty' because he's a vampire and the female 'victim' can guiltlessly 'let go' because she is in his power. "I'm not a shameless slut, I was in a trance", LOL. And the female vampire can have all the dominatrix-type sexual power she wants, (and male masochists can enjoy that fantasy as well, if that's your cup of tea). While the female "victim" of the male vampire is otherwise a 'good girl' in a trance, we can intuitively sense that she has a carnal dark side that is let loose and is enjoying the naughtiness, and we can vicariously enjoy this fictional naughtiness as well without guilt. "It's a story" after all, right? ;-) The vampire went from an animated corpse to a Freudian bad-boy fantasy in about 50 years of popular fiction and still enjoys his or her "naughty" reputation today. LOGOS |
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