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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe know that anti-matter exists. Why not "anti-decency" or "anti-kindness"?
I am certainly not a physicist, but I am aware that anti-matter, generally speaking, is the opposite of regular matter. The electrical charge of the sub-atomic particles of which it is made is the reverse of the charge in normal matter. Though both are thought to have been created in the "Big Bang", matter and anti-matter cannot co-exist in the same space. One must annihilate the other.
Is the concept of good vs. evil so different from what I have just described?
Are attempts to co-exist with the evil we can so clearly see in our world just postponing the eventual toe-to-toe life or death battle?
I don't know, but the comparison seems at least plausible on this Saturday morning in Little Egypt.
-misanthroptimist
(807 posts)No hyphen.
multigraincracker
(32,658 posts)Opposite sides of the same coin. There would be no reason to name it without the opposite to define it.
Karadeniz
(22,490 posts)Everyone whose near death experiences didn't reflect my trip were wrong. I finally realized that no one gets the whole picture, just a mosaic tile. We're still in the tile collection process, but I thought the full mosaic picture was emerging! Uh oh... my mosaic didn't include anything bad like hell, evil spirits... frankly, those things are just not encountered in most spiritual experiences. But they do rear their ugly heads from time to time. I watched some ghost hunter series, but they were unreal and uninformative. Then I saw the Dead Files and its attempts to substantiate with evidence the unpleasant paranormal experiences by people.
Your anti matter hypothesis could explain a lot...
Midnight Writer
(21,737 posts)I think it is fascinating to see concepts in modern science that seem to reflect earlier philosophies.
We know so little that nothing would surprise me.