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Re: The Tao of I Ching's Yin Yang - 08-16-2007, 09:38 PM

Sorry R.P. but I'm a him and not a her.

Off the subject a little bit but the Tao Diagram helped me during my sexual ambiguous years of preteen puberty. I noticed Yang had Yin in him, and that Yin had Yang in her. Suddenly feeling like a wussy inside made sense and that I'm attracted to the woman, even though inside she is tough as nails, made sense.

But I digress.

Back to the symbol.
I think you are right about the paradox. There is a similar paradox with the Pythagorean Theorem.
( square root of (a2+b2) = square root of c2).

It goes like this.
You have a vertical line A which is 4" and a perpendicular ( horizontal ) line B connecting at the bottom which is 3". Now the diagonal line connecting those 2 points would be 5", using the Pythagorean formula.

But what if instead of a straight diagonal line, the line was stepped. Then line C would be 7". Vertical line A of 4" + horizontal line B of 3"

Now lets make the steps smaller and smaller. Still 7".
Smaller and smaller and smaller. Its looking now like a diagonal line.

Lets go infintesimally small. At what point does that line go from 7" to 5"?

Back to your diagrams.

The last diagram showed the stasis status better, but the flow is still sugested, but it is more ambiguous as to whether the flow will be clockwise or coumter/clockwise.
Half the particles go in a clockwise flow half go counter/clockwise.

A clockwise universe and a counter/clockwise universe. It really does make sense RP. And there is no known physical law prohibiting it.
Back to thinking.

Best to all,

Pat
  
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