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March 10, 2010
The debate doesn't go on
It's been a long day, but how grateful I was for Marzena's deep boredom with the science versus religion debate.
And of course we best extend this profound sense of tedium to all debate, in which two positions fight for ascendancy. (Sorry - I'm yawning already at the very thought.)
Because of course there is only one position. The world is not a duality, which we can cut up like a cake. Rather, it is a whole, in which only continuums live, gradations of health - but no either/or.
When something is whole, nothing can be separated from anything; or set apart from anything. When something is whole, there can be no labels, for labels splice what cannot be spliced - and thus plunge us into ignorance.
There is no black or white; there is just black and white and every shade of grey in between, all there on the canvass; all part of the whole; all part of the one thing.
Jew or gentile? There are just people.
Me or the tree? There is just life.
Jesus or Buddha? There is just the truth.
Labour or Conservative? There's just the noise.
So the debate doesn't go on. Not until it grows up....
Posted by Mr Bojangles at March 10, 2010 06:34 PM