[MD] MOQ: Treatment of Opposites

[markhsmit]

I do not claim to be well read in the subject of MOQ, and I post
this as a means of obtaining opinions.  Recently, I read a post
which suggested we exist somewhere in the middle of opposites.
That is on a continuum between good and evil, pain and pleasure,
up and down and so forth.  This is a common theme in Taoism.
The Yin and the Yang.  While these may not necessarily be
considered to be opposites, they certainly co-sustain each 
other in an active way. DQ and SQ are these opposites or 
do they interplay in a way similar to Yin and Yang?

The question is how does MOQ deal with the concept of
opposites?.  I believe there is good quality and bad quality,
high quality and low quality, different layers of quality which
we transpose between.

I would state that anything without an opposite exists.  
This brought me to my question, what is the 
opposite of a chair?  Marsha has suggested (I think)
that a chair is defined by its opposite.  While I can
understand this in terms of the presence of a chair (its 
opposite being its absence), I can't grasp this for the chair
itself.

Now the corollary is that everything that does have an
opposite does not exist outside our subjective sense of
reality.  We could get into Aristotle's concept of pure
form and all that, but I am trying to keep this simple.

We then divide the world up into that which has an opposite
and that which doesn't.  So let's take existence, what is the 
opposite?  We could say non-existence.  But is this truly an
opposite?  Should we be be able to draw a line between opposites,
That is create a continuum?  What is half way between existence
and non-existence?  Then we come to light and dark, do these 
really exist or are they figments of our imaginations?  What is
truly dark?

Enough of this BS for now.

Willblake2