Duality/Polarity --> True Principle or Outdated Axiom?

[China Cat Sunflower]

Originally Posted by flowperson

Muuu tooo Allll of Youuuuu:

Read the first words in Genesis. The very first thing that G-d did was to "let" there be light in the darkness. So light is the exception to darkness, and we found out as scientific discovery exploded in the 20th century that the Bible's first words were really about relativism, on a cosmic basis.


flow....

What's interesting to me is that God commences creating by seperating things. He seperates the light from the darkness, water from land...etc. It's not necessarily duality because both things are potentially inherent within the undifferentiated whole. Light and dark aren't opposites, neither are land and water...or good and evil for that matter.

Chris

[flowperson]

Ahh...but if one perceives them to be different things, then they are to that person. If this did not happen in everyone's everyday life, we would have a world without conflict....boring?

It is my opinion that to see the world and everything in it wholistically is the divine portion of our selves. Seeing things in the world as being different is the natural and human way of dealing with reality.

flow....

[China Cat Sunflower]

Well, if we weren't able to compare, contrast, and differentiate we couldn't function. So for anything to move, for creation to animate matter, there has to be an initial seperation to create space for the movement. If we say that God doesn't move, since It is both beginning and end, or the center of the wheel if you like, then it becomes obvious that the God who creates is Himself a seperated part of the Biggest, top turtle God who is changeless and motionless. So the prequil to "In the beginning..." should read "before the beginning God seperated Himself from Itself."

Chris

[Snoopy]

In the “West” we have Descartes to thank for the dualism of mind / body separation I think? (therefore I am).
Descartes’ mind-body dualism laid the groundwork in Western thought for the separation of theology and science, of materialism and spiritualism, of body and mind.
The mind and body are possibly not as separate as Descartes believed. Western science is beginning to see they may not be so separate. How else does our mental "will" translate into physical bodily movement? I don't think anyone accepts they are connected at the pineal gland (as per Descartes).

Snoopy.

[Snoopy]

Erratum!

I'm conflating duality and dualism. Therefore ignore previous post! (and possibly this one too)


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[shadowman]

is god right and wrong?
how powerful is god.
what does he control
does he control angels if they exist
demons if they exist
the devil if it exists?
is god both faithful praisers and unfaithful blasphemers?
is god athiests
he must be?
he is all things or not?
both beleif and unbeleif?
both faith and undying questioning?
my guess is the christian worldview answers no to most of these questions.
it is more and more nonsensical to me.
are the questions even entertained?
rebeliion to god, is this natural for humans?
some forms of rebellion are normal through certain psychological or society featurs.
of course some christians say psychology is the devils work
until their son becomes suicidal at least.
in america and other nations on the cutting edge of modern thought, psychology, sciences, morals... is the chrisitan world view causing untold cognitive dissonance?
what is the sign of the times
whats up with the fundamental christian ressurgence
is the rapture about to come
did we create the end of the world when we created christianity (assuming it is man made)obviously if any world leader tries to unite everyone or claim that god is in the mind, we know who the mind of society will call him.. the anti christ
does god haver a problem with this person or not is the question
or is it our mindframe/psyche/society
is christianity thought control or not.
is the possibility that it is obvious point that it is not right
or does god want thought control to protect us from sometihng?