Eclectic Wanderings

Thursday, April 30, 2009

et Two (Tangled Up in Two)

What a marvelous invention Two was.  Was there at one time One only?  Did we create the viewpoint that there was Two?  What would we do without Two?  There are Two opposites sides of most everything (every thing being One).

Black and White,

Short and Long,
Up and Down,
Right and Wrong.

Is There not the same as Here from the other side?  And both part of a whole?  Is the trickling stream always the same or always different?

Are we inexorably bound as creatures of Two?  Two eyes, Two ears, Two arms, Two legs.  One nose but Two nostrils.  Two breasts, One brain but Two hemispheres.  Two feet, Two hands.

First is Affinity,
Then comes Hate,
It takes One to Love,
It takes Two to Mate

It is said to differentiate is to understand, to show intelligence.  But how intelligent is it if One cannot see the Whole?

How could there be War if we did not see in Two.  If we were all One People, One Race, One Species.

Them and Us,
Good and Bad,
Weak and Strong,
Happy And Sad

Do I detect a Zeitgeist of pointing out why we are different?  Could there be Fights without Two?  Would we argue if we refused to be For or Against?

Why not point out how we are the same?  What common purposes, what goals do we share?  Could there be a movement toward Unity, and One?  Have we have InTwoViated Two long? 

Does it mean we are all clones? Is there is such a thing as individuality?  Or, perhaps in that very individuality we find what we have in common, in One.  Two, I embrace you.