Without Darkness, there is no Light......?

Question

What do you think of the statement above? Your input/insights on this.

Answer 1

Well... I suppose without darkness you probably would not know what light was... And without darkness... There could not be light because what would light be? Oh.... I'm confusing myself now... lets get back to basics...

Answer 2

Light exists. Darkness is non-existence, it is the non-existence of light.
There is no planet sending us darkness. There is a planet sending us light. Light has a physical source. Darkness has none. A room "full of darkness" can be transformed in an instant by just flicking a switch and all the darkness in the universe can do nothing about it.
This analogy can be used to show that what we call bad or evil is just the absence of good. For example to be stingy is considered bad. But being stingy is the absence of a moral quality which is generosity. It is not caused by an unknown or malefic force.
So Light will always be -as long as it's physical source remains active-. And Darkness will always be the non-existence of Light.

Answer 3

as a quote from a favorite game of mine: when light falls into darkness, darkness will become light" and another quote from that series: "without light there cannot be darkness, and without the darkness there can be no light, in the end it must be balanced or the world will be full of nothing"

Answer 4

Dark Chocolate cannot exist without White Chocolate. ;-) If there were no 'light' chocolate then 'dark' chocolate would just be called "chocolate."

'Darkness' can only be defined as the opposite of it's counterpart. Just as 'Light' can only be defined as the opposite of it's counterpart.

Your statement may very well have vastly different meanings to different people - so to understand it as a philosophical statement you must first define it...word by word.

Anyways, that's my input ;-)

Answer 5

Light can exist without darkness, and darkness without light.

Answer 6

Other way around - Without Light, there is no darkness

1 John 1:5 "This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all.

Ecclesiastes 2:13
then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly,
as far as light excelleth (is greater than) darkness.

I only switched it around, because God is Light and He created it all.

Answer 7

This is the nature of humanity, not part of nature.It is part of the human psyche to be as conflicting as possible.Each and everyone of us carry the seeds of greatness and infamy. It is what makes us humans. It is not our intelligence but rather this aspect which makes us who we are. We define ourselves with differences rather than similarities. In nature light is equivalent to dark. Neither holds sway both are required. As humans it is we who denote the importance of one over the other. Not nature. In nature the predator is yet still the prey.

Answer 8

It is true. If you never saw light would you know it was dark? If no one was ever mean to you wouldn't know if someone was nice to you. Without one there cannot be the other. I actually once wrote a poem about this..........it wasn't very good. ;)

Answer 9

Honey, darkness is merely the absence of light. Keep at it, though.

Answer 10

It is dualism; a split or a division in consciousness that takes place when "spirit" manifests in the physical realm. This division may be what is actually inferred when Christians speak of "original sin".....ie....they came to know both good and evil.