Wrong. The rate of revolution of the generator has little or nothing to do with the frequency of the waves generated. You are probably think of graphing a point on a rolling wheel. Not the same thing, I'm afraid.
Superficially, yes, but they are different. For the record it also looks like the letter "S". Also like a snake. And if you lie it on it's side, it looks like a pancake. Is this an ink-blots test?
No it doesn't. What "we" are doing is relentlessly redefining reality in order to fit into "our" little philosophical metaphors. "We" really shouldn't do that.
Which means that I was correct in saying you can assign representation however you like. You can call the curve in the middle the "snake" in the Garden of Eden if you like, where Good and Evil first were separated. None of the representations have anything to do with reality.

funny...when I hit the "quote" button on your post that saysI get the following text:
Is the database having problems again?

To answer your question...if I have time later I might. What is important is that you saw it, and gooze certainly knows what symbol I am talking about. This does come back to the talk about interpreting symbols; why, if symbols show some universal sign, do they vary enough for us to see such different interpretations, even among different versions of yin/yang? (for the record, I have no idea which is "the" right one, if such a thing exists; I do know I have always had it explained that the dots are crucial to the symbol.)

No, you merely caught me in the process of trying to "fix" things. In fact I just re-edited the post and substituted pictures. If you don't find it to your liking, then by all means change it back. Thanks!

In my opinion the dots are adding more than what is necessary, as it already portrays the contrast existing within the whole which, is all these dots are doing, reiterating that.

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?

Doesn't a generator revolve around an axis and typically spin in circles?

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?

Some do, some don't. There are many kinds. But even in the ones that do use some sort of a turbine, the output wavelength/frequency has nothing to do with speed of rotation of the turbine. Some are extremely low RPM.

For example, you can turn yourself into a simple generator just by scuffing across the carpet while wearing leather shoes. Watch out for that doorknob!

That's too bad. Oh well, here's some more information on the use of the two dots in the yin and yang symbol ...

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?

What happened to the rest of this thread? Did it get moved yet again?

from your link:
from your post earlier:
Now, these ideas have been split up into so many different threads that I have no idea if this would be the place to put this comment...but in one of these threads I suggested that you (or maybe another poster, but you agreed) see dichotomies where you could see spectrums. I suggest that this is another such instance. The original yin/yang explicitly (in my reading of your link; I am willing to be corrected) spoke of the union of the two, and graphically (through the dots) showed that there is always yin in yang, and vice versa. In other words, explicitly not a dichotomy. You are absolutely correct, the later interpretation agrees with your dualistic view.

My point is that you choose to see the dualistic view when you could have seen the spectrum. That is it.

It occurs to me that you might consider this a values judgment on my part; that I am opposed to the simplified binary view; this is not the case. It is sometimes necessary to dichotomize a complex variable in order to simplify it to the level where it is manageable. There is no good or bad to this manipulation of the observed data. The trick is, we must always recognise that the dichotomy is a function of our manipulation, and that the spectrum is what our observations have shown us. (obviously, if there are situations which are truly binary, there is no spectrum. In practice, these are rare--even life/non-life is not binary; there is debate as to whether viri, or prions, are alive--they show some characteristics of what we call "life", but not others. We may simplify and assert that life/non-life is a dichotomy, but it is assertion, not fact.) (it is also not "fact" that it is not a dichotomy, lest you think I claim that. Either assertion is only that--an assertion. One is more supported by the observed evidence, but it is not at all an open-and-shut "proof".)


Anyway, This post responds to something said in one of the many threads that either was moved from this one or was close enough to this one to confuse me into thinking it was. Feel free, Iacchus, to move it to its appropriate location if you think you know it. I will not protest.

That's fine--I said feel free to move my post--although you do have a thread here somewhere where the discussion on dualism already does fit...I just don't remember where.

Yes, I believe it was started in this thread, albeit there were no references made to the Yin and Yang.

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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps?

Yes, that's the one! Thanks for finding it--I had forgotten the title...