8 ways

There are 8 ways to look at anything. From Above, from Below; from Left or from Right; from Before, from Behind; from Within and from Without.

This is in contrast to a popular view which is being promoted currently through some mis-aligned teachings – misaligned that is to truth or accuracy – that there are only two positions I and Us or It/Them. This is such an aberration I don’t know how it can be offered to mature people as a real position. The promoters of this philosophy even use language as support for the argument despite language having three positions in both singular and plural, I/Us; Thou/You and He,She, It/ Them – at least in English. But we are used to misinformation being promulgated by some American sources.

It should be noted also that other languages have different rules, while maintaining at least the singular and plural and three ‘persons’ some also include a dual form, a special form for two occurrances of a specific thing. Sanskrit is an example, but is by no means unique. We have that in English in the terms ‘both’ – which can only refer to two things or positions – a pair, and double, or dual and so on, but this is rather different.

Author: Keith Armstrong

Dance teacher, writer, film-maker, educationalist, enthusiast.