parabola hype
Call it my exclusion principle. Blame it on a fundamental weakness I call mathematics. But in the usual dreary rag-tag pace of everyday third-world living where I see Oriental even Newtonian duality in ordinary situations, I retreat to the comfort of simple two-dimensional world-view dynamics. I call this the linear equation: y=a+bx.
Life is a continuum. We proceed from nothingness to being-ness to becoming-ness. To life everlasting. Rather than to living life backwards where we zap out from our last breath first then we anticipate our genesis and gasp the first breath in the orgasmic double-helix feast that precedes our breath of life. Or rather than to a notion of serial reincarnation from one lower order to the next higher order. Birth and rebirth. And so on and on. Still life everlasting really.
Duality has its virtue. Life is a dance. Each action has an opposite reaction. Life and death go together as yin and yang to keep the universe in the balance. And for the skeptic, the universe without. The universal set and its many subsets. And the universe prime. Duality I suppose moves towards perfection in a certain way.
Linearity does too. Life as a continuum rather than continually parabolic to a predestined state of being. We actually go somewhere far from where we started. Sometimes with bumpy rides and lots of outliers around the invisible line estimate.
Ah yes. y=a+bx. My passion now. A kind of parasitic symbiosis even, the linear equation. The value of y feeds on whatever value x takes. Hmm. To get somewhere. Always two dimensions. Therefore there is duality in the linear. The y-intercept a is the value of y when x is zero. And b is the beta coefficient which tells us how much y changes whenever you change the value of x. The slope of the line is the beta. My thinking is suspended now.
Life is so simple. Or it is complex even when it is so simple.