2007-04-21 16:48:39 · 22 answers · asked by enki 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Golly, that's an esoteric question. All I know is that they enhance each other. Then there's that old tale about God. He must have been in the dark because the book said he said "Let there be light". I don't know to whom. And then there's the tale of Nasr ed Din who stumbled drunk into his garden one night to get a drink from his well (it must have been before Islam). Down in the well water he saw the moon and panicked. He knew it was up to him to save it before it drowned and all nights were doomed to darkness evermore. So at the risk of his life he fished for it with his bucket on its rope. But the moon shattered into sparks and ribbons of light at every plunge, sinking deeper into the water. Vowing not to be defeated in a good cause he fished again and again, until he could manage it no longer. Then he pulled his bucket up in despair - and lo! he found he had caught the moon in his bucket! But when he raced indoors to declare his triumph to his wife, she merely rolled over in bed and told him not to be silly. Life was ever thus for the wise. There are many kinds of darkness, and of light.
2007-04-21 19:14:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lets see i really dont know which attracts the other but when i was in church the pastor was saying turn of the lights and you see no light turn on the lights you see light yeah ok ok whats my point my point is that darkness and light cannot and will never be in the same place at the same time one comes before the other. So which attracts which neither they come and they follow each other in a pattern.
2007-04-21 16:56:36 · answer #2 · answered by Miiyae(me i ya) 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Darkness is just the absence of light. When you turn on a light bulb, the particles that make up the light are only filling up the empty void of the space where it is contained. Darkness doesn't attract light, and light doesn't attract darkness. Darkness is just an empty void. A space absent of the energy we call light.
2007-04-21 17:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by Lindsey H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and metaphors beget metaphors. no they don't, that's just the funny talk. Anyway: when I was a kid (chronologically speaking) I wondered if something that glows in the dark, like those stars on the bedroom ceiling, if the light from one could keep another one glowing and vise vera- like they would power each other perpetually like that. It didn't work so I decided that there's different kinds of light. Laughter is contagious and so is confusion- and panic. Light simply spreads out until it dies at the source. It keeps going until it bounces off the walls at the ends of the universe and then doubles back upon itself. When it gets back where it started I suppose the whole thing has to start over somehow.
2016-05-20 23:30:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light starts at a particular point, and travels fast (speed of light fast) into the darkness. Once the light reaches the darkness, it is no longer dark.
2007-04-21 16:55:28 · answer #5 · answered by Jadochop 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if you're truly a light in this world, you won't be attracted to darkness. Darkness may be attracted to light because it hates light and wants to destroy it.
2007-04-21 17:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Darkness preys on light stealing from it the warmth and security that give it its strength. The passing of light to darkness is the pause. By that i mean it is the seconds of unending anticipation, the held breath, the coming chill as you feel the warmth being slowly drained away replaced by a sense of unending nothingness.
2007-04-21 17:14:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There must be equal parts of light and dark. Just as the balance, to both good and evil. Light may attract dark as much as dark attracts light. It's in the balance of everything.
2007-04-21 16:52:21 · answer #8 · answered by ~* Garden Empress*~ 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
darkness is afraid of light, because light is superior to darkness. so darkness leaves anywhere light wants to go. darkness cant push light out of its place because darkness is the absence of light. theres no attraction, but i guess you can say light repels darkness. and because light is superior, it cant be attracted nor repelled by darkness.
he isnt asking for a physics based question. thats why it is categorized under philosophy. like you know more physics than I
2007-04-21 16:52:09 · answer #9 · answered by Tony 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Light was made for the express purpose of going into the darkness. That's what God put it there for.
He also wants for us to be a light in the darkness. That's what He put us here for.
2007-04-22 16:33:53 · answer #10 · answered by teran_realtor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋