2007-11-12 18:24:23 · 14 answers · asked by bboi_tan 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Well, I guess it depends upon which myth pleases you most.
In Christian mythology there was only darkness and then their god said, "let there be light".
But I'm sure that other creationist myths have other stories. What does it matter? I don't care, because I wasn't there; at least, that I remember.
But I do know that for me the darkness always comes first. I am one who loves the night.
2007-11-12 19:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by LodiTX 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Scientifically speaking, j153e appears to have gone on the wrong track..... the latest theory of the Big Bang and its precursor suggests that before the Big Bang, there was only an inflating vacuum energy, which means there was no light, no sound nor any other physical form of energy..... darkness would then have obviously been the rule with not even an iota of light anywhere. It was the Big bang which created space as well as the various physical forms of energy that we know about, including light.
Philosophically too, I believe that the very beginning must have happened from a state of nothingness, since if something or anything was there, then it must have itself come from something else, and this chain can only be taken to its logical conclusion that something must have come out of nothingness to start it all. Can something or everything come out of nothing?...... yes it is possible in the same way that zero can be broken up into several pluses and minuses that sum up to zero... and indeed this universe does seem to have opposites all over and also sort of balancing both sides!! We are even theorizing about inverse universes!!!
Even if we assume that nothingness can not give birth to anything or everything, the only other possibility is that there is no beginning or end and thus there has always been a grand Continuum.... and since changes are happening constantly, we get the illusion of a beginning and an end... after all every change is a beginning of something and an end to something else!! In this scenario, we must conclude that both light and darkness must have existed all the time so that neither of them can be assumed to be the first to happen.
In my view therefore, if there was a first, it must have been the birth of light before which there ought to have been total darkness.
2007-11-13 03:06:03 · answer #2 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you mean a visible light, the answer is obvious.
A child comes to this world from the darkness and the whole Universe initially had been dark before the first star has ignited.
if you are talking about energy, the question doesn't make sense.
E = mc^2, so the energy is everywhere, it has been here since the very beginning and will be present until the end (whatever it will be).
2007-11-13 05:33:37 · answer #3 · answered by Donald D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love this question since I'm given this question almost every day....
I'm what some may call a shadow....
I'm usually left out of things...
I'm usually alone and barely have friends
what I would say is
darkness is first
but don't get me wrong...I'm not a gothic..just a high thinker or watever some people call it
every yin has a yang and every yang has a yin
their is no complete balance in life
I would neither choose darkness nor light, but if I were to choose
I would choose darkness
because darkness does not hold just shades and tears, but also light
what is light without darkness?
If their is only light in this world we live in...
people would go blind
what is darkness without light?
if their is no darkness the world would be notting
without yin...
their can never be a yang
without yin
their can never be a yang
but if I so pick
I will say the darkness is what I will seek
it's because without darkness their is no hope for light
with light...their wouldn't be no hope in darkness since you already have light
the shades of life...
the shades of beings
is true light...
in my world....
darkness is light
light is light
their is no complete yin in this world
their is no complete yang in this world
their can only be balance
and darkness is balance
I chould go on and on about this, but I guess that should sum it up
darkness is what I will choose if I have to choose
if their is darkness
their is always hope for a light which will of course give off balance
a yin must never give up it's yang
so can be said the other way around, but it's better if darkness is first
when one sleeps...
does he sleep with light and wake up in complete darkness?...perhaps in some cases, but usually no
the many views in life is what inspired me to be who I am...
and hopefully others will soon to understand these views too...not from their view, but from others
bless
2007-11-13 05:23:22 · answer #4 · answered by unknown 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Without light, there is darkness. Light must be added to alter darkness, but without light there is only the dark. Darkness came first.
2007-11-13 05:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Darkness is the lack of light,light is NOT from darkness.
Light comes first,darkness is lack of light.
Kinda why the Big Bang theory doesn't make sense/
2007-11-13 03:05:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Light must have a source; darkness is the default, so darkness came first.
2007-11-13 02:30:27 · answer #7 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Darkness first. Absence of light is darkness which is first. Absence of darkness is not light, it is darker darkness.
2007-11-13 04:58:31 · answer #8 · answered by sv 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light is first...darkness is just the absence of light.
2007-11-13 02:28:08 · answer #9 · answered by smithy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think , maybe , THE MIND was so afraid cause by the darkness , had made the light to came out shining by it's.
2007-11-13 03:15:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋