i was struck recently , watching a borerline televangelical conspiracy theory snippet where the speaker used the metaphor of the candle chasing darkness from a room but darkness being unable to encroach in a similar manner on a well lit room.
having a limited background in film, including lighting and gripping, i'd object to this parable on a number of grounds, but let's start with why i agree with it.
I agree with it insomuch as that i do believe light is in essence the birth of all being- elohim = the lights, ra was the sun god, etc. etc. on some level we all understand that the radiation of energy in a bright form is where we get sustenance from... a long time ago there was a big explosion and energy began to streak across a vacuous nothing, this nothingness worked as a chisel against the energy, articulating it into a slower vibrations, matter, and so it goes.
Unfortunately I believe that the example of light as knowledge is too accurate to be twisted in parable. If knowledge can be described as etic ('objective') reality as understood by the subjective experience, then true pure knowledge (which some might call God) would be incommunicable to others as it would encompass more information than the individual experience could process.
This would be the aforementioned 'well lit room' of the parable, the purest most blown out 14k of hdmi light 2 inches from your eyeball bright, you get the picture, this room is bright, darkness cannot encroach. Maybe this is the eventual permutation of the universe before time reverses. If time even exists the way we think it does... I digress.
Well, then the appropriately dark room would be a black hole... or as close as I can imagine would be nowhere. Guess what, light a match nowhere, and it's not going to get much brighter. On one end of the spectrum, the infinite light, on the other end, the infinite dark.
more in the next post.
