What is the dark side?

Question

What is the dark side? How can one fall to it? How does it corrupt? Is it stronger than good? Tell me everything about the dark side? Tell me the myths about it.

Also, where do you think I fall on the Dark Side/Light Side scale of 1-100. 1 meaning as far as you can go to the light side, 100 meaning as far as you can go to the dark side.
-Made girls cry
-Sexually harassed women
-Hit on my best friend's ex
-Emotionally attached to my closest friends
-Have bad dreams about closest friends dying
-Hurt some of my closest friends when my girlfriend died and I also had nightmares about her death
-I do very nice things for my closest friends
-I helped out one of my close friends when they were in trouble
-When I was bullied, I payed those bully's back, but in sadistic ways
-I ruined the lives of people who picked on me
-Even joined up with the Trench Coat Mafia to save my best friend's life

Answer 1

The dark side is the expression of all the self-serving, selfish and materialistic components of human nature. One only need to stop caring what effect our actions have and you will be on the path to the dark side. Usually the dark side corrupts through deception, and by twisting one's own desires to make them more important than anything else. I'll quote Yoda here "NO, stronger it is not, quicker, easier, more seductive."

I know you're looking for validation and justification for your actions, and I can't give that to you, there isn't a scale of good > bad.

Answer 2

When I read what is the dark side, I automatically thought about the dark side of the moon....both the actual dark side of the moon and the Floyd album. I guess my head isn't in the right place this morning.



If a person has a dark side then you might be in it. I do not like to think of people as light or dark; good or evil but I guess that is part of life. I think we all have the potential to turn to the "darkness within". I can honestly and not proudly say I have done a few vengeful things in my life (an eye for an eye), but I didn't feel good about myself when I did what I did. I do believe in karma my friend and when something bad happens to me I chalk it up to what I have done to others in this life or the last and I don't like it. Now when I have the unpleasant urge to pay back someone, I take a deep breath and as I exhale I let it go. If you sit back karma catches up with the ones who have wronged you.



If you are finding that you are having a little trouble with you behavior you may have issues that you haven't dealt with and may be projecting on others, in which case you should maybe seek the help of a therapist. I am not saying you are crazy, but I personally feel that it does help to change irrational thinking and beliefs.



I hope this has helped and I wish you the best and hope you can find peace within yourself.

Answer 3

It pains me to say this, but Yoda and Qui-Gon don't apply to life as we live it. Although, I will say that had Quigon lived the Jedi order would have been vastly different. I have great respect for this 'Grey Jedi'



And maybe that's what I'm getting at here. There isn't a light and a dark, it's all shades of grey. You've listed some of the actions you've taken in your life here, and there are countless others that didn't come to mind.



What I think matters is where you view yourself and if you're comfortable there. Life isn't "good" or "bad", as most rational people come to believe. Little children understand "good" and "bad" as behavior concepts, largely because we don't have the ability to get them to understand the interim shades at an early age.



Where do you want to go with your life? Are your actions helping or hindering that? Meditate on it. It's never too late to alter your path.



The past is the past. The people you've 'wronged' or 'righted' in your past are going to come to their own conclusions about you. In the long run these don't matter. If you feel that you've 'wronged' them and you care about them you will have to begin to reverse that. Not by words, but by actions. Nothing can erase the past, but you can add actions to the history.



Oh, and I'll absolutely refuse to rate you. Who am I?!? Just one more person searching for her path and doing the best she can. Some days I'm more successful at it than others.



Blessings,

Answer 4

Probably between 2 and 3.



The dark side is the evil within... Many of the things you listed do not come from your dark side, but your "light" or good side. Your actions are not depraved or wicked.



You must use your powers for good, not evil... Do not be seduced by the dark side young jedi.

Answer 5

The dark side is anything bad or evil. To do something you know you shouldn't do. To sin. The Light , is when you are good and do not become evil. To always walk in the light and stay away from the dark. In other words, don't follow anything or anyone who wants you to do evil. Use your Wisdom within you to go for the Light, Always !! satan is evil and in the dark. God is Love and go to the Light.

Answer 6

that's quite a laundry list of...um...stuff you've done. you're definitely honest, which i suppose puts you on the good side.



the dark side isn't an entity, like it seems to be in star wars. all people have one, and sometimes they choose it instead of their good side. it's all about choices.

Answer 7

"anger fear aggreswion, the dark side they are"



Yoda, Jedi master of the Jedi council

Answer 8

the opposite of the light side.....................my sister told me to type this.