Doodle Bug and Ying Yang

The post about the duality of man got me to thinking about ying yang.  It is said that ying yang are complementary.  Posing the question of whether reason and faith are part of this duality brought me to the Doodle Bug story I remember reading about.

The Doodle Bug was an invention to help find oil deposits.  The inventor became discouraged and refused to believe that what his Doodle Bug was telling him.  It was telling him that there was a rich oil deposit right under his feet.  He gave up and it was later discovered that the oil really was there.  The author of that story believes it was a negative attitude that caused him to fail to believe what his instrument was telling him.

Reason enabled him to invent the Doodle Bug.  Faith turning negative is what caused him no longer to trust it.  He refused to believe, you see.  Perhaps this isn't correct in terms of ying yang, but I'd say that the opposite of faith is not the lack of faith.  If he got curious about why his Doodle Bug was giving him readings that he found puzzling, he could have investigated that circumstance.  In any event, he had to make a decision.  His decision was not to believe.

Motivation is what moves people.  He had to have been motivated not to look for causes and effects.  That is how he made the faulty choice.  Hill calls it a negative attitude.  In any event, it is a decision.  To believe or not to believe- that was the question.

So, I'm trying to reason that reason and faith are ying and yang.  You have to decide what you are going to believe.  In the end, what you believe has to be a matter of what you can't see or perceive and what you do about that.  You can keep looking or you can give up.  That's the decision.  Hill calls that your attitude- you have a negative attitude or a positive attitude.  You can choose your attitude.  The use of reason can lead you to an answer to a question.  Faith assumes it.  There has to be an assumption with faith.  You can start with an assumption and test it.  That's reason.  So, perhaps reason and faith can complement each other.  But that would also have to be assumed.

Ying yang is like in and out.  Faith is inward.  Reason is outward.  Reason tests in order to find the truth.  Faith assumes what the truth is.  But faith can be wrong.  By faith, I mean belief.  It doesn't have to be about religion.  In this context, it is only about what you choose to believe about something.  It could be what you believe about your own invention like the Doodle Bug.

In the case of Galileo and the Catholic Church, it was believed that the Earth was at the center.  But Galileo reasoned otherwise.  Faith alone did not reach the correct answer to that question.  But Galileo needed some kind of faith in order to look for and test for the answers.  And he found it.  It is ying and yang after all.

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