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Evil is not the Opposite of Good, it's the Opposite of Truth
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(10-11-2025, 08:09 AM)UltraBudgie Wrote: Poetic Andy is my favourite! This is pretty prose.

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Now, that rage and suffering: is it evil?

Good choice, some Dylan Thomas.

In the context of the poem, i think it's about defiance and resistance to the inevitable. 

It's about struggle.

And i suppose, that's life in a nutshell for most people on the planet.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."



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RE: Evil is not the Opposite of Good, it's the Opposite of Truth - by andy06shake - 10-11-2025, 08:25 AM

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