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why not divide the universe into Ketchup-ness, and Mustard-ness? Or how about salty & sweet? or what about up & down? (boy that last one's sure opening the door to relativism isn't it?)
its all entirely arbitrary. there's no such thing as actual absolute darkness or actual absolute light... those are just conceptual parameters between which all of reality exists.
thinking of the universe as entirely existing on a grayscale from white to black, or worse yet as something which is black & white with no middleground. Is about as useful and sensible as thinking of the universe as existing on a scale between salty & sweet. This obsession with dualism and categorization which mankind has is wildly delusional. we create parameters out of abstract absolutes, and then we start getting silly notions about the universe's nature being based on our abstraction... it isn't based on our paradigm, "it just is", in infinite diversity, along infinite abstract axis, it exists as a plethora, and putting on blinders which view it only through something as rationally shakey as a human religion or an individual's concept of ethics... is just putting on blinders and will greatly distort one's view of our otherwise magnificent and diverse universe.
There is no place in this universe which resembles either YHVH in terms of absolute illumination, or 'sheol' in terms of absolute darkness. they're just ideas we've come up with to use as bookends on reality.
anyway, if you MUST have dualism, I would add that you don't become a master of yin and yang by focusing entirely on only yin or only yang, and shunning the other.
that said, I do respect your right to believe as you wish.
This post has been edited by Kath: Nov 17 2009, 10:12 AM
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zsjur Choose The Light Sep 27 2009, 05:15 AM
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