Interestingly enough, this very subject was brought up in another thread a few days ago:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...68#post1256368
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Originally posted by Redgirl
Have you not lived here very long, Sinister? Should I be talking to you, considering your motives? hehe...
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Originally posted by SinisterMotives
I've lived here awhile but still don't see the attraction. 
"Sinister" originally meant "left". You can thank the right-wing nuts down through the ages for turning it into a negative term. 
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While it may not be correct to say that right-wing politics or religion
consciously invented the negative connotation of "sinister", the religious functions of consciousness are definitely at play in that the unconscious typically depicts the left brain as chthonic in symbols and dreams.
Shades, I find the psychological roots of word etymology fascinating quite beyond the seventh grade level of simply positing "a = b".
