Haha Okay, I know that the title of my last post doesn't make much sense to the post itself, but I'll explain it further.
Duality is the idea of coexistence of opposites that complements each other. Some say that these opposites are conflituous, like good and bad. Well, why do they necessarily have to be conflituous? Do they have to be conflituous just because they're opposites? Some say this conflict is generated by a fight for power. The surpassing of one over another, just like ideas of winner and looser, strong and weak and so on. But instead of dissensions, why not simplily accept their existence?
That's the why of the coexistence term, in my conception. This is the idea behind this new layout. And of course, following this idea, there is a lot of meaning behind the elements used, that's completely free to the reader to imagine about.
May 05, 2008
About Duality
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I think there are two different kinds of opposites.
Opposites, and polar opposites.
lets take for example... A Mother.
To determine it's opposite, we look at it's qualities.
a mother is (we hope) Protective, nurturing, and wise.
Now, to determine it's opposite, we determine the opposite of each of these qualities, and find something that embodies those antynoms. someone who is defensive, neglectful and foolish is the opposite of our idea of 'mother'.
But, the polar opposite of it, simply enough, is Father.
They are on opposite ends of the same pin-the same object that connects them, which is family.
Though a nurturing person conflicts with a neglectful person, a mother and father do not (or should not) conflict.
Maybe this is insightful for you.
Your auri
Lemme see.
I think it could be related to the idea of confliting and coexistence...
To be wise might conflict with to be fool in the sense of thinking ahead of some point. The conflict in at their intention for deepening their preview about the results and consequences, being careful or not that their thoughts.
To be nurturing and to be neglectful differs in their intention of giving what they have to others or to themselves.
Maybe opposite intentions make them conflituous opposites.
About the othe kind, as between mother and father, they share the same intentions that link them tight. There is no other intention and a child is the result of it between the mother and the father. That's a family link.
A more abstract example is between hot and cold. They are not conflituous because if you put them together, one wouldn't keep hot and the other wouldn't keep cold. Their distance wouldn't be longer, but they would mix together until they reach the harmony of one single new temperature. Their intention, again, are not two different ones, but the same for both of them.
In both cases, they would give in some qualities to grow new ones.
I believe that's the idea of polar opposite and coexistence. The intention of being one, despite being two different things.
An interesting thing is that these two kinds of opposites are also opposites. Haha. Conflituous or not, depends on each person.
Auri's Rafie
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