The evil one reverses the process, obliterating all that was good about the good one and inflicting a spring penalty on those who enjoyed the benefit the previous fall.

This is an interesting perspective... I, however, prefer to see the glass as half full.

It is truly evil that the "powers that be" decided that our clock needs tampering with so as to align a person's work day with some *western ideal <sheesh> and I officially banish *them to a life of living with their consequences of doing so. However, it is the autumn reversion to reality... a return to what is pure and evident which propells us forward and allows for us to draw on the strength of all that is natural (especially us a bit further down north) to deal with what will be soon known as "frozen tundra".

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It does seem as if; although one wouldn't specifically call other religions "dualist" (as their defining character), doesn't all *religion reside in a dualist climate?