AgnosticBoy
Open-minded Skeptic
– The Dark Side is dangerous, yes — it shows what happens when shadow overwhelms balance.
This is a good observation. I also think we all have a dark side.Jesus overcame his dark side by externalizing (projecting) it and resisting it's tempting.
FOr instance, I think of a wife who has an unfaithful husband. This wife has never done anything illegal, and everyone who looks at her would probably never expect that she ever would harm anyone. Then, she later poisons her husband.
Do we say that her dark side only started out as a reaction to her husband cheating? Or was it always there?
THe point I'm getting at is that we're all capable of great evil, but fortunately, most of us hold it back by staying within the good side (following the law, not acting on or out of negativity, etc).