Dualistic thinking Options

Dualistic thinking is very relevant to people following spiritual paths of any kind, since it involves believers who claim to see and experience another existence and others who having not experienced anything they would describe as other-worldy, disregard these claims and it therefore divides people into two camps.

The language used is also a form of dualism as it separates entities into good and bad and places into discrete areas thus: Heaven and Hell.

Is dualistic thinking useful and a good way of hanging ideas on hooks for further exploration or does it lead to extremes of thought that lack balance and settle people into positions that are hard to find their way out of?

Good and evil is therefore in the eye of the beholder.

And for those of us living in the real world rather than the philosophy textbook it is quite obvious that good and evil do exist. Or is good and evil just for mundane people? I think we know where that particular philosophy ends up, concentration camps and gas chambers.

It is a shame that morality is looked down upon by the arrogant liberal/intelectual elite. It is because people fought against evil and for good that we enjoy the rights and freedoms we have today. People decided that slavery was evil, people decided that denying equal rights to women was evil, people decided that nazism was evil... this is not some intellectual game.

Good and Evil are all around us. It is obvious to those with eyes to see. As our libertarian western first world coutries sleep walk towards fascism yet again let us hope that some people put aside their copy of Nietzsche.