Existence is an Affine Space

Is the Arctic at the top or the bottom of the Earth? Convention says it is the top. This means that if the solar system was laid on a clock face the Earth spins anti-clockwise and also travels around the sun anti-clockwise. And we can extend this logic out to give the whole universe an orientations. But, as Australians would remind us this is only covention. The Antarctic could just as easily be the top and then the planets would rotate clockwise and so on.

Consider this: Where is the Earth? Some might say it orbits the sun. So where is the sun? Some would say that it belongs to the milky-way galaxy. And, where is the milky-way galaxy? Somewhere is space?

Basically the answer depends upon what you take as the centre, or point of reference. However there is no fixed point of reference in the universe. There is nothing anywhere in the whole universe that says "I am the centre"... except one... me.

The most important centre that we fixate upon is ourselves... even while we know perfectly well that everyone does the same... we still call ourselves the centre. It is not fixed. Anyone can be the centre.

We do the same in ideas. I do the same in ideas, since I filter ideas in this blog looking for ideas that are more originary, primary and central than others. People argue looking for a root, or centre to tie things together. Looking for common values, absolutes, axioms. There are no such things.

Existence is an affine space. Sure things are related to one another. Relative to one another they are nearer and farther, left and right of one another. But only to one another... not in the eyes of any fixed points. There natures as Buddha would put it are neither eternal nor non-existent, but dependent and relative to conditions none of which have any absolute or fixed nature.

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