How can darkness exist in the light

Not another flaming post.I would like to know what you think.
I started a thread showing the suns image captured using a hydrogen-alpha filter.www.abovetopsecret.com...
This itself is an amazing portrait of the sun.
The big question is,how can darkness exist in the light?I have been involved in many religions who say this is impossible.
Without the sun there would be no light, indeed no life.Look at the sun, it's on fire hell is in fire.
I guess what I'm asking is without the sun there would be no light but the sun is the closest thing to hell.
The light is fire in the purest form so how can hell be that bad?
Is hell fire some smoker with limited light?

reply to post by flyingfish


Soo.. what kind of darkness?
We talking pigment? We talking wavelength of visible vs non-visible light? Observable light and lack there of in a region due to looking in the same direction light is traveling without something to bounce back on?

All three of those are correct "darkness in presence of light." scenarios.


I've no idea what the hades reference is about.

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Aha, the dichotomy of dual aspects. Though I do not believe in the bible I would respond based on the context of this: Genesis says the lights in the heavens-one in day and one in night(sun and moon) were created independent of other things such as hell. Ergo: no relation. Biblically Hell is simply a prison where there is torment-no the devil does not rule there-according to the bible they are all inmates.

So, I guess it's all perspective. If you want to imagine this 'hell' place as the sun-go for it, at least there are some awesome pictures on the internet of it-like the link you left for us

I prefer to think of hell as time spent near religious fundamentalists

The thing is, Light is the cornerstone on many fronts when it comes to religions dogma.
I'm starting to think the founders of religion did not understand the light they are seeing was coming from something on fire in purest sense.

reply to post by flyingfish


Darkness exists between the light.
And hell is just how close you get to something that is great at a distance.

reply to post by shoulda taken the blue pi


What are you talking about?
Elaborate.
Are you talking about space,Time what?

reply to post by flyingfish


How can the darkness exist in the light?

It chooses to not refect the light.

It holds the darkness within, and it chooses to just project that darkness.

You see this everyday, from creatures who recognize light and darkness. But choose the darkness.

There is no light without darkness. There is no darkness without light.

They come from the same place. There can't be one without the other.

But peeps can choose that which they want to reflect, or as I prefer to consider it all, exude.

reply to post by kyred


So, what your saying is, if I put rock in a box then it has no light so it can't reflect?
I dunno what your saying.

Hell is not physical. It is a concept. The sun is not hell. Hell is not under the ground, nor is heaven with a beardy weirdy god above. The darkness I assume you are referring to is the darkness of evil, which is the counterpart of the light of good. Luckily, all of these are human concepts and therefore without human thought, there is no good or evil, dark or light. Sun or moon gods do not exist.

If you ever need to find out if hell is in the sun however, I suggest you go at night.

reply to post by badw0lf


Interesting.
What I see is the sun , the source of all the light. The stars give me some light as well as the reflection of the moon.
The darkness behind my eyelids is just sleep.
All this evil seems made up to me.
Don't get me wrong, I see good and bad in all, but I'm not seeing this in the sun or in the dark mass.
I see it in people.

Imagine a tiny source of light like the flame on a candle. It's big enough to light up a room. The amount of fotons that get blown outwards will hit the matter that makes up the room as molecules/atoms by getting reflected by them. The light gets a little absorbed as well. By the time all of the fotons are absorbed the laght is gone and there is darkness.

How can darkness exist in the light?

The mystery we knoweth not, yet how glorious to ponder ecstatic light & the fearsome depth of darkness. Interesting topic OP

S&F 'cause I wanna hear folks opinion on this,

reply to post by flyingfish

"A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames
No light but rather darkness visible
Served only to discover scenes of woe."
John Milton, "Paradise Lost", Book 1 ll 61-64

Yes. if your blind