we percieve things according to our experience. we commonly see characteristics by opposition, by polarity. this is the functioning of consciousness. the mother/father distinction is our fundemental model for this.
throughout the world, we have 'creation myths'/cosmologies *based on our consciouness*... yin/yang ; earth mother/sky father ; matter/idea[spirit]...
these are about the origin of our consciousness, rather than that of the world.
-- R'zenboom Signal.ds
"zenboom" wrote in news:d7kk3r$gd0$ snipped-for-privacy@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net:
Unless of course you're from a culture, and/or have an innate mondset, that instead perceives things in triplicities - mother/father/child, earth/sky/sea, day/night/twilight-dawn, etc. - and/or other, more complex geometries. The world is not an either-or place - it isn't black-or-white, and it is even beyond greyscale - it's full-blown multicolor.
So don't say "we" - maybe you live in a black-or-white world, and maybe even most people (a.k.a. "the fat belly of the bell curve") do, but not all of us do.
- K.
yin/yang actually recognizes this. It's a nice model. Probably explains the demise of its popularity... in some circles (I crack me up.)
The Rainbow Connection!
Hey, it's not easy being green.
"gruhn" wrote in news:WOTFe.31$ snipped-for-privacy@news.uswest.net:
Heh... ;)
The problem is that the circles (very loosely, "light in the dark and the dark in the light") are most often eliminated from the representation.
Ribbit... I am *positive* there's a reference in there that's (contraction for "that has" ) gone right past me (at about Mach 2)... Can I blame senility or do I actually have to pass 50 as opposed to being on the verge of it...?
((...I know - I prob. ought to have let the post go, but I get really tired of the "either-or" cultural mindset...IMO it's one of the main contributors to most problems.))
- Kris
You must be... FIFTEEE FIIIIVE!!!!!
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Yer either furry assed or yer a Guinness.
Aye, I'm a big non-fan of the "single political axis" people. Worse the "Oh, you are for gay marriage so you must be for abortion and against big corporations and for government healthcare and..."
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