Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Pairs of Opposites

         So much in life runs in pairs of opposites, or seems to, like good and evil, matter and anti-matter, love and hate.  I've been thinking that this phenomenon runs right to God, who both is and isn't at the same time.  He seems to exist when we pray to Him and ask His forgiveness, but then He seems not to exist when we observe so-called "natural disasters," like the tsunami that killed some 300,000 on the day after Christmas, 2004.  Or are there perhaps two Gods, a good one and a bad one?  A pair of opposites.
         This line of thought, when applied to the axiom that "nothing is permanent--everything changes" leads to the conclusion, using the Theory of Opposites, that something must therefore be permanent, that not everything changes.
          Maybe, if we look hard enough, we can find God hiding somewhere in this construction. 

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