Dualist-opposites-help

Re: Dualist-opposites-help



I'll try but it's very hot and I've fused my brain putting transmission fluid in my car, but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, when you say for a non-dulaist to hate someone means to "care" about then, I think "care" means to be bothered or worried that they might succeed at something that the non-dulaist would wish them to fail. Love in the accepted sense doesn't come into. Does that make sense or have I muddied the water

Dualists are full of crap...that should answer you question. My feeling is that it comes from an unimaginative mind, and a rigid personality. Our Canadian dollar has a queen on one side, and a loon on the other, yet it is still valid currency. I am being absurd, but the basic fact is that dualism is divisive, while non-dualism, which I prefer to call humanism, is not.

Love and hate aren't opposites. They both arise from the same emotion - passion. I see them as the extremes of the same base.

The opposite of both is indifference.

sorry i think i worded it wrong

lol i understand love and hate are not opposites....

but i would like to be able to understand how good and bad are not opposites...

Every coin has two opposite sides, and yet, it is still a singular object.

It boils down to what you mean by "opposites".

1. Opposites cancel out ? (e.g. Riches - Poverty)

2. Opposites attract ? ( e.g. Positive - Negative charges)

3. Opposites are mutually exclusive ? (e.g. Freedom - Slavery)

Each pair of opposites have at least one common dimension and they occupy the extreme ends. Dualism tends to ignore this common dimension. (Non-dualism appears to be equivalent to Hegelian "synthesis" which transcends "thesis - antithesis")

well, mr polarity will have 2 wade into the breach here; hope he doesn't get blown out of the water (was that breach fullof gunpowder?);

not being an expert on duality, i will twist this subject into a discussion of polarity.

opposites define 1 another; that is, 'light' defines, or complements 'no light', or dark. without light there can b no definition of dark because it cannot b conceived unless 'light' is 'known', or the concept of light is understood.
i will bring the ancient asian concept of yinyang in2 this as there is good, and evil, virtual opposites, but all is subjective; 1 might say something is good while another considers it bad. is there a reliable definition of goodness, or badness. we define these things 4 ourselves and if pressed will admit that within all good there is a kernal of evil, just enough to give the good the radiance and strength it deserves by contrast, and within all evil there is always a glimmer of the light of purity.

I am with BoGoWo on this one.

LOOK OUT CAV!!!!!!!!

that really is a dagger!!..............

oh, ok, so a virtual dagger....

Our strength as humans is our adaptability...ergo, our future as a species depends on finding the truth somewhere in the middle of our sad attempts to polarize an existence we do not truly understand. So, I'm still with BoGoWo on this one, heh heh.

A virtual dagger & a virtual Brutus per chance.

except in this case, the writing is 'off the wall'!

off the wall eh ? watch out for those glass bits called windows.
They go crack, shatter, smash. OUCH. Saved by the virtual.................

virtual, hurt u al; go put u're slippers on oak.

Hey Bo , did you see Die Hard, where they shot out all the glass and Bruce willis had walk across it in his bare feet ??????????
Big Boys don't wear slippers Bo. If they got any sense they wear them big, serious, industrial boots with thick soles & metal toecaps.

the way i do house keeping, those r my slippers!

Touchet Bo.

At least you wont vacuum your toes off your feet