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If you're a long way from home,
Can't sleep at night.
Grab your telephone,
Something just ain't right.That's evil,
Evil is goin' on wrong.
I am warnin' ya brother,
You better watch your happy home.
Well, long way from home and,
Can't sleep at all.
You know another mule,
Is kickin' in your stall.
That's evil,
Evil is goin' on wrong.
I am warnin' ya brother,
You better watch your happy home.
(Spoken: You better catch him, 'cause somethin' wrong, in your home.)
Well, if ya call her on the telephone,
And she answers aweful slow,
Grab the first train smokin',
If you have to hobo.
That's evil,
Evil is goin' on wrong.
I am warnin' ya brother,
You better watch your happy home.
If you make it to your house,
Knock on the front door,
Run around to the back,
You'll catch him just before he go.
That's evil,
Evil is goin' on.
I am warnin' ya brother,
You better watch your happy home.
--"Evil" by Howlin' Wolf
― Mama Roux, Saturday, 11 February 2006 07:07 (eighteen years ago) link
mr jones, lots of undesirable things are not evil. the classic distinction is between human actions and natural disasters, for instance. evil's usually particularly applied as a moral judgment on human actions, and that doesn't necessarily make it a religious judgment.
i guess emotionally it seems religious though. the idea of evil seems more fitting and less horrendous given the idea of an overwhelming good.
― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 11 February 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I don't think evil as an absolute can logically exist without some kind of external moral force (ie God, in whom I don't believe). It's just a personal moral judgment.
This doesn't mean I think murderers, rapists, dictators etc. are anything other than absolute bastards, just that it's not at all useful to explain away that kind of behaviour by saying 'They did because they are EVIL!'
seven years pass...
two years pass...
I saw that on Gawker, really having trouble understanding why she would do that. Evil sounds right.
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
yep, that's definitely evil.
also evil: when people on the internet start calling her family with death threats, which has probably already happened, because lol, the internet.
― rushomancy, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 11:38 (nine years ago) link