No point here, just babbling...

[wispfox]

Random not yet very well verbalized thought while trying unsuccessfully to sleep last night (the valerian root did finally kick in, thankfully).

I realized that there were no opposites that I could think of where I was not happier with them being thought of as opposite ends of a spectrum, rather than them being the only options with no mixing allowed. I cannot find any cases where a pair of opposites are the only choices, with no middle ground.

I don't know what to do with this idea. I've often suspected that life would be much easier if I *could* believe in clear boundaries between opposites, but I think it would also be very, very uncomfortable for who I am. I like being switchy. And I like to try to see other people's sides of things, of which there are very rarely only two. Hell, I, personally, tend to have multiple mental and emotional states at any given time.

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[xiphias.livejournal.com]

It seems to me that, except in the few microscale physical phenomina that wcg mentioned, there are very few things in nature that are hard, defined walls with "this is this thing" on this side of the boundary and "this is the other thing" on the other side of the boundary. Such boundaries and definitions are created by human minds.

I mean, take something as obviously binary as "alive" and "dead." In our human minds, it seems easy to distinguish between "alive" things and "dead" things. But nature doesn't care about such binary distinctions, and has, for instance, viruses, which aren't quite alive but aren't quite dead, either.