Do you believe in dualities? [Read details before answering]?

Question

I mean this as in specifically good and evil, right and wrong, Yin and Yang {Positive/Negative, Masculine/Feminine, active/reactive and so forth]. etc. I mean this in a hard term as well [Lines between the two are clearly and unmistakably drawn.] [Note: Philosophically and physically]

Do you believe that dualities are perhaps flexible, where in one second something that we see as acting becomes reacting? Something good becomes evil?

Do you believe all things must have an opposite for the universe to function? Maybe you believe that it might not require an opposite, but something else to balance it.

What are your thoughts? Why do you beleive the way you do? Please go into as much detail as you'd like.

Also, please do not thumbs down anyone for being different. Only do it if the answer is dumb, or not detailed at all.

Please star this so as many people as possible can see it.

Thanks. I'm interested to see what you all have to say.

Answer 1

I used to think dualistically in that I thought everything had an opposite. After being on here, I'm leaning towards everything positive exists and then we have the absence of that trait. So, we have love and then there's the absence of love. We experience the absence of love to have a more complete understanding of what love is.

Peace, Love, and Blessings
Greenwood

Answer 2

This is riddled with logical fallacies. Right away you open with something that is not evidence at all, and you admit as much, but then try to salvage it with a false comparison. Physicists didn't come up with the higgs boson because they had some feeling or sense of it. They came up with it because the mathematics of the standard model demanded it. Now those mathematics may be wrong, but the fact that it can be shown to exist at least in theory is a provisional reason to accept that it exists. You cannot compare that to some anecdotal "feeling". In the second half of that paragraph you attempt to shift the burden of proof, essentially stating that you are correct until proven otherwise. Which would be hard considering you have to to even define what it is that you believe in. The second paragraph is a massive argument from ignorance. You have stated that since you do not understand these things, or no explanation yet exists, then it must be something beyond the material universe. But let's drop the fancy language here what you are saying is that it is magic. If something is not natural, then it is SUPERnatural, and that's just another word for magic. You are just taking things that we do not yet fully understand like the human brain, or quantum mechanics which I agree is a total mind bender, and plugging magic into it. Why does the wave function collapse when observed? Magic. Why do humans and other higher animals exhibit creativity? Magic. Rather than just admit that you don't know, or that no one knows, you simply assume magic. That is not evidence. It's not even a coherent idea. You self identify as a pantheist, but your definition of what you believe in is so ill defined that it is meaningless. " the divine is equivocal with the infinite" That doesn't mean anything, and it's certainly a long way from believing in a personal god which would be theism. You're basically no more than a hair breadth from atheism.

Answer 3

I believe in dualities, but not in the way you describe them. I do not believe in good or evil and stuff like that.

But I do believe that every person has two faces inside them that are in constant conflict and turmoil. Some may label them as good and evil but I believe that it's not quite like that. My two sides are warm and cold. One part of me is very empathic and loving and sympathetic. It hurts when others feel pain, and it rejoices at all the beauty in the world. But the other side of me is completely the opposite. It just doesn't care. About anything. It acts on a whim. Although it understands consequences, it is in no way connected to other people. It does not feel sympathy. If it helps someone, it is for selfish reasons only.

And every day is a conflict between the two sides. My cold side is often hidden, and it only emerges when my warm side feels too hurt or is unable to act. But when it comes out people have noticed. They say that there is an instantaneous change in my expression and in my eyes. Not that they change color or anything, but they claim to be able to actually see the emptiness inside them. The complete lack of empathy.

In essence I don't believe these sides of us can change. What changes is where we draw the line. A person can become different, but that's only because they chose to give more importance to the other demon inside them. I guess the Yin/Yang idea fits what I describe well. I believe we have more or less a balance of both, but we choose which is the dominant one. And that can change as life goes on or as different things happen in our lives. But the warm and cold essences remain as they were before.

All of this comes from myself only. I do not know if anyone else experiences the sort of turmoil I described. But I do believe that everywhere there exists this balance. Some people may not be aware of it inside them, which might explain how they act sometimes, as if they didn't know what was happening to them.

Answer 4

This is the way I see duality. It's in everything. Every person has a light/good side and a dark/bad side. It's the same way in nature. One day it could be nice outside, the next it could be nasty outside. Yes, they can be flexible. You can be good one minute and bad the next. Some people actually shift from one extreme to another all the time. I don't know what exactly I'm trying to say. I was talking about this kind of thing with my therapist the other day. I have borderline personality disorder, and it's very hard to me to see things in shades of gray. Everything is either inherently good, or inherently bad. There is no such thing as in between. When somebody is nice to me and treats me with respect, they are inherently good. But when they upset me or disappoint me, they become inherently bad to me. This is the duality that exists in people. Do you get what I'm trying to say?

Answer 5

I believe in balance, which may or may not mean "duality", as there can be many factors working together to achieve balance.

Masculine/feminine, yin/yang, etc - I think those are dualities that do represent balance.

I think "right and wrong" and "good and evil" aren't quite so clear-cut, because they involve too many human interpretations and mores.

Answer 6

IMO dualism is illogical. All things are interdependent upon the other, or something else to exist. Both sides of what you typically consider one side or another, in any dualistic philosophy, arises due to causes and conditions and NOTHING can be INHERENTLY any one thing, it's impossible... so the only balance, again IMO, is the understanding that either side has no finite beginning, and no finite end. Endlessly blending into something else, or becoming something else, nothing "hard" as you propose.

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Answer 7

I think that this kind of dualities is just a way of seeing things, of simplifying ideas and concepts, but it has no "abstract" or "spiritual" meaning. In fact, categorizing everything into just two slots will be an invalid simplification, in most cases.

Answer 8

every action has an equal but opposite reaction.

and that's about as far as my belief in "dualities" goes.