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Can your feeble human minds realize that there need not be a contrast for a concept to exist? If there is an abscence of all light and darknesscovered the universe, would we need light for there to be darkness? We may not have anything to compare the darkness to yet we would know it exists!!!!
Not everything is built upon simple contrast as it is only a human construct to define ideas and their place in the world.

2007-07-23 22:40:27 · 6 answers · asked by ya 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

You would not have to know something exists for it to exist! If a tree falls in the forest and there is no physical organisms to hear it, a sound does exist!!

2007-07-23 22:52:04 · update #1

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because not everyone can have a strong mind(have I provided the required contrast?)

2007-07-23 23:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by FoudaFaFa 5 · 0 0

I apologize. I used an analogy before without explaining the science behind it.

Darkness does exist, but not on its own. Light is a form of energy. The instruments that we use to measure the amount of light are measuring this energy. This measurement is a count of the number of photons present. When these instruments read the number of photons is zero we call that darkness. So light does exist, but darkness does not.

Cold does exist, but not on its own. Heat is another form of energy. We measure it in units called calories or BTUs. It is a measurement of the movement of molecules, specifically the speed at which molecules interact with each other. When the instruments that we use to measure this speed read zero, we call that absolute zero. So heat does exist, but cold does not.

Good and evil, though conceptual rather than part of the physical universe, can very well exist in the same way. But do we measure how good someone is by the lack of evil in them, or do we measure how evil they are by the lack of good? Personally I think that evil is the absence of good, but one could argue it the other way pretty convincingly if they wanted. That would make a good discussion question.

Now, back to your question:

Contrast is the basis of the all scientific experimentation. The scientific method is a contrast. We take something and change it, and then contrast it with somethin that we have left unaltered. We determine the differences between the two and come to a conclusion based on our observations. Hardly a feebleminded concept.

And yes, contrast does have to exist, just as a way for us to be able to differentiate one thing from another. It is a human construct, yes, but one that allows us to know the difference between a grape and a zebra (zebras don't taste as good).

2007-07-24 06:09:25 · answer #2 · answered by SDW 6 · 0 0

can your feeble mind go to sleep for a couple of months
and give us a break from this cadswallop you dish out
and any way the contrast on my monitor is no more
it needs divine intervention just to switch it on
and a few well targeted whacks with a mallet
which you also can have if you dont put a holy sock in it
or is it.....holey sock.....well whatever,now shut your eyes and soon all the darkness you can dream about will be yours to embrace .and in contrast to that byebye

2007-07-24 06:22:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

If we never saw "light" in all our lives, how will we even know what darkness is? Yes it exists cause we can see it but how will we know it is darkness?

2007-07-24 05:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anna 3 · 0 1

alife or not alife and half-alife
a wooden tree, a half-wooden-partial tree of water-sand
i think you are right

2007-07-24 05:46:00 · answer #5 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0 0

unfortunately most minds are incapable of this mine included

2007-07-24 05:48:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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