Opposites are an artifact of the way WE label things. The universe is indivisible: Any attempt to cut it into pieces with labels is doomed to fail, and worse, doomed to mislead those who fall in with that mistaken impression.
Accept non-duality!
Or, you can go with Hegel’s dialectic: that from every idea immediately follows the idea of its opposite (whatever that might be), and the idea and its opposite then must immediately form a new merged idea which, of course, immediately merges with its opposite… Until (the folks who believe the top one would say) it becomes apparent that the universe is in fact indivisible…
Averagemoe about 3 years ago
No, I can’t live with that. We’d only ever talk about sports and the weather and… just… no.
Concretionist about 3 years ago
Opposites are an artifact of the way WE label things. The universe is indivisible: Any attempt to cut it into pieces with labels is doomed to fail, and worse, doomed to mislead those who fall in with that mistaken impression.
Accept non-duality!
Or, you can go with Hegel’s dialectic: that from every idea immediately follows the idea of its opposite (whatever that might be), and the idea and its opposite then must immediately form a new merged idea which, of course, immediately merges with its opposite… Until (the folks who believe the top one would say) it becomes apparent that the universe is in fact indivisible…
Or…
ZarPaulus about 3 years ago
Bit out of season, don’t you think?
tghllama about 3 years ago
“The optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears that it is so.”
Actually, a true optimist believes that it is possible to get better, and possible to prevent getting worse.