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1. The union of extremes is balance.

2. The absence of balance is an extreme to balance.

3. Balance and imbalance are extremes thus resulting in imbalance.

4. The union of balance and imbalance is being.

5. The union of extremes is being.

It's all in how you look at it.

And the stories and meanings you make up.

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:23 pm It's all in how you look at it.

And the stories and meanings you make up.

And how you look at it is an extreme to how you do not look at it.

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:24 pm

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:23 pm It's all in how you look at it.

And the stories and meanings you make up.

And how you look at it is an extreme to how you do not look at it.

How so? Just because something is different, it's an extreme? Are you trying to justify extremes by applying them to everything?

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:27 pm

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:24 pm

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:23 pm It's all in how you look at it.

And the stories and meanings you make up.

And how you look at it is an extreme to how you do not look at it.

How so? Just because something is different, it's an extreme? Are you trying to justify extremes by applying them to everything?

An extreme is an absence of something else through differentation.

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:32 pm

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:27 pm

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:24 pm

And how you look at it is an extreme to how you do not look at it.

How so? Just because something is different, it's an extreme? Are you trying to justify extremes by applying them to everything?

An extreme is an absence of something else through differentation.

Whatever.

Conversations overheard in an asylum.

RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:56 pm Conversations overheard in an asylum.

stop sitting on teeter totters

-Imp

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:44 pm

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:32 pm

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:27 pm
How so? Just because something is different, it's an extreme? Are you trying to justify extremes by applying them to everything?

An extreme is an absence of something else through differentation.

Whatever.

Rashness is not cowardess and cowardess is not rashness.

Left is not right and right is not left.

An extreme is an absence. This absence is the result of difference.

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:27 pm Rashness is not cowardess and cowardess is not rashness.

Left is not right and right is not left.

An extreme is an absence. This absence is the result of difference.

So... what's your point?

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:59 pm

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:27 pm Rashness is not cowardess and cowardess is not rashness.

Left is not right and right is not left.

An extreme is an absence. This absence is the result of difference.

So... what's your point?

Extremism is evil and evil is a result of differentiation with that differentiation being a result of extremism.

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:23 pm

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:59 pm So... what's your point?

Extremism is evil and evil is a result of differentiation with that differentiation being a result of extremism.

That's the story/belief you're making up, and it sounds extreme.

Lacewing wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:38 am

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:23 pm

Lacewing wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 10:59 pm So... what's your point?

Extremism is evil and evil is a result of differentiation with that differentiation being a result of extremism.

That's the story/belief you're making up, and it sounds extreme.

To say I made it up on my own is an extreme. If all is rooted in interpretation, and this is a law, then there are certain things not subject to interpretation. This is a paradox.

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:01 am

Lacewing wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:38 am

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 07, 2021 11:23 pm
Extremism is evil and evil is a result of differentiation with that differentiation being a result of extremism.

That's the story/belief you're making up, and it sounds extreme.

To say I made it up on my own is an extreme. If all is rooted in interpretation, and this is a law, then there are certain things not subject to interpretation. This is a paradox.

Do you have a purpose in regard to this topic?