> Anarchism isn't politics, and atheism isn't religion.
Form is emptiness;
Emptiness is form.
Form is nothing but emptiness;
Emptiness is nothing but form.
-- Heart Sutra
The opposite of something contains all the elements of the thing it is opposed to, much as a footprint in the sand can be cast with plaster. Neither dependence nor independence is interdependence. Your actions and beliefs cannot escape from the continua of political and religious actions and beliefs that describe them; you can only end up highly polarized at one end.
In this thread I am desperately trying to be very clear about my definitions so as to avoid semantic arguments, but it seems futile. Your comment is an interesting claim about the nature of meaning, but I'm trying to talk about very specific ideas as best I can.
I'm simply claiming that black and white are not so different from each other, despite appearances. You are just as bound by the strictures of philosophy X when you endorse !X as your philosophy. We might not disagree about this, it's difficult to tell. If I've made a distracting argument, my apologies.
