There's dark and light but it's not as black and white as that. This is just my opinion of course, but this is how I have come think of it: there's also grey. Grey is the point of union between black and white, light and dark meet in shadow. The world is the way it is because even though it seems balanced, everyone is living at two polar ends. Extreme light. Extreme darkness. So they can't get along. But even the extreme light has some dark tendencies...they just try to pass it off as light or sweep in under the rug. Its the compromise between extremes that causes the problems wherease staying away from the extremes (like in the Buddhist veiw of the Middle Path) is where the balance is. Ancient peoples understood this...in fact Satan didn't start out as a bad guy...in old beliefs he was an aspect of god...an aspect of order not chaos, and they believed God to be chaos. Chaos is necessary...order can only arise out of chaos but order is finite, chaos is infinite. And even though order seems to reign I think there's nothing but chaos beneath the facade of that order. You can never eliminate chaos. That's why your ordinary Joe Shmoe at school was good at math...it gives people a constant. Except math isn't a constant at all under the surface. Your views totally make sense to me. This is a needed topic to understand Light.