From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 1/16/26 12:17 PM, Mike wrote:   
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   > Duality is not a flaw or limited to the world.   
   > It is required for experience itself. To know or   
   > recognize anything, there must be some form of   
   > disagreement or contrast. Without it, there is no   
   > awareness — only undifferentiated being.   
      
   This is the realm of philosophy and was it not   
   Plato -- and I'm terrible with names, just did the   
   proverbial 30 second Google search so I think it   
   was Plato -- who said something quite a bit different   
   from your A.I. smegma you just wiped, above...   
      
   So in the... Greek guy's -- and let's just say the   
   Greek guy in case I'm misremembering which Greek   
   philosopher it was -- um, in this Greek Guy's   
   philosophy, you didn't know "Beauty" when you saw   
   it because you saw a contrasting ugly. No. You   
   knew "Beauty" because there was an archetype, the   
   perfect form that the flower might follow, and it   
   was that inspiration/connection to the ethereal   
   "Flower" that caused you to see beauty in that   
   flower.   
      
   It's kind of like the Egyptian ideas backwards!   
      
   The Egyptians thought if you wrote it here, made   
   statues of it here, left offerings to it here...   
   all that stuff became real in the next realm. While   
   the Greek Guy, as we agreed to call him, said that   
   absolute perfect versions/concepts of things exist   
   in another realm and that's why we have them here,   
   or at least recognize them.   
      
      
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