(10-01-2016, 12:05 PM)Diana Wrote: There are many judgments attached to the difference between STO and STS paralleling good/evil.
Such as?
I see a lot of people say this (like, as in, almost everyone says what you've just said here -- that is the group-think from my perspective), but I don't think it really logically follows. In fact, statements like these are why I'm starting to lean away from using the terms myself, which has nothing to do with the correlation being inaccurate, but rather the extraneous associations people give them which is an uphill battle at all times, but then, pushing back ignorance always is.
All good and evil ever was were descriptions of oppositely charged behaviors. Same goes for STS/STO, or radiation/absorption.
If somebody wants to attach judgments to those simple behavioral delineations other than than a clinical descriptive characteristic (i.e. make a judgment, instead of an observation) I feel like that is the fault of the person, rather than the concepts.
It's just an ancient way of addressing the concept of polarity versus a new age way of addressing the concept of polarity.
And you're right that our perspectives are limited, but putting nothing in a categorical box is equally ignorant to putting everything in a categorical box. In either situation, you learn nothing. It's really easy to just say, "Well we can't possibly understand, so we shouldn't try to figure this out, it doesn't fit into our limited preconceived boxes and minds", but frankly, I think it takes more courage to actually try to hash out the fine nuances of understanding.
It takes actual thinking to do that.