Polarity vs. Orientation

[zenmaster]

"It is to be noted in this context that it is quite impossible to judge the polarity of an act or an entity, just as it is impossible to judge the relative goodness of the negative and positive poles of the magnet."

To sum up the disagreement: you read the quote to say, "It is to be noted in this context that it is quite impossible to determine the polarity of an act or an entity, just as it is impossible to judge the relative goodness of the negative and positive poles of the magnet," while I read it to say, "It is to be noted in this context that it is quite impossible to judge the relative goodness of the polarity of an act or an entity, just as it is impossible to judge the relative goodness of the negative and positive poles of the magnet."

Accurate?

Yes.

Yes, at the other end of the magnet. Where is the other end of the magnet? So we have come full circle. This is why it is not possible to determine polarity of an act or an entity with respect to the magnet analogy.

Your argument was that there was only one pole. Would you accept "axis" instead of "pole."

What I was saying is that there is only one available pole for use in evaluation, the other is the universe itself (or as ShinAr said, 'infinity').