To culture, good and bad tend to be some cosmic duel between the forces of righteousness and evil, because it is the function of culture to get society operating as one.

To nature, good and bad are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken. Some bad can be educational. Our minds evolved by dealing with the bad. If it was always good, we would still be little tadpoles swimming in our puddles.

Oftentimes, too much good can be bad.

So nature is some enormous computer, that doesn't always come up with answers we want to hear.

The problem with monotheism is that ideals are not absolute.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.

The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Evil is when the feedback loops don't have any circuit breakers and the crazy goes parabolic. Like holding the mic up to the speaker.

It can only go so far, before if breaks down, along with lots else.