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~Flamboyant~
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Does EVERYTHING have an opposite?

Well, is there an opposite for everything?

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Aug 12th, 2006 03:21 AM

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Gregory
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Huh? No. The vast majority of things don't have an opposite.

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Aug 12th, 2006 03:22 AM

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leonheartmm
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i suppose in some sense ur right.

Aug 12th, 2006 12:06 PM

Mindship
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Does EVERYTHING have an opposite?

Wouldn't the opposite of Everything be Nothing?

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Aug 12th, 2006 02:23 PM

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debbiejo
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I believe so, everything has an opposite.......Yin/Yang, cause effect, Sowing/Reaping, fear/love, up/down, visible/invisible, male/female, ...etc...also cyclical....

Aug 12th, 2006 04:14 PM

Strangelove
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Originally posted by Gregory
Huh? No. The vast majority of things don't have an opposite.

While I'll agree that not everything has an opposite, I'd have to say that there's quite a large number of things that do. A lot of things exist in duality. Black/white, heaven/hell, matter/antimatter, fire/water, earth/air. Even the seven deadly sins have their opposites. There's the color wheel, which is constructed from opposites. Day/night, dusk/dawn, sun/moon, silver/gold.

In general, opposites exist in the natural world, not really in the modern one.

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Evil Dead
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ofcourse not everything has an opposite.

take humans. What is the opposite of me, Evil Dead, Jeff personally?

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Ladyluck
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Originally posted by Mindship
Wouldn't the opposite of Everything be Nothing?

If the opposite of everything is nothing, then nothing has an opposite.

Aug 18th, 2006 08:44 PM

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Shakyamunison
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Originally posted by Ladyluck
If the opposite of everything is nothing, then nothing has an opposite.

Nothing is not the opposite of everything because they are both something.

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Ladyluck
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Nothing is not the opposite of everything because they are both something.

So everything doesn't have an opposite then, and neither does nothing.

Aug 18th, 2006 08:52 PM

Shakyamunison
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Originally posted by Ladyluck
So everything doesn't have an opposite then, and neither does nothing.

I would agree with that.

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Aug 18th, 2006 08:53 PM

Ladyluck
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Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I would agree with that.

Well I believe we've come to a conclusion for the original question.

Aug 18th, 2006 08:55 PM

docb77
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Originally posted by Evil Dead
ofcourse not everything has an opposite.

take humans. What is the opposite of me, Evil Dead, Jeff personally?

The opposite of you is the Evil Dead from the Anti-matter universe of course cool

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Evil Dead
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good answer.

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Aug 18th, 2006 09:57 PM

debbiejo
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EVERYTHING MUST HAVE AN OPPOSITE For science to work....

Everything has an equal to opposite reaction.......

Last edited by debbiejo on Aug 18th, 2006 at 11:33 PM

Aug 18th, 2006 11:30 PM

Evil Dead
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what the hell are you going on about Debbie?

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Aug 19th, 2006 12:07 AM

debbiejo
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Originally posted by Evil Dead
what the hell are you going on about Debbie?

LOL

Of course there are "Polar opposites".........And even with Asexual organisms............there IS STILL AN OPPOSITE within there/that body.

What the hell...There is "Cause and Effect"..............These are opposites.............It's in science.........it's in frickin everything........cycles...............

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Aug 19th, 2006 12:43 AM

Shakyamunison
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Originally posted by debbiejo
EVERYTHING MUST HAVE AN OPPOSITE For science to work....

Everything has an equal to opposite reaction.......

Do you mean every action has an equal but opposite reaction?

Newton's Third law of Motion
To every action (force applied) there is an equal but opposite reaction (equal force applied in the opposite direction).

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Aug 19th, 2006 05:16 AM