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Bardic_Knowledge
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Temporal Physicist
‘You can’t sweep away ignorance with more of the same, only knowledge can do that.’
 
If it had said that, I would have been perfectly fine with it. It’s the use of light and darkness as good and bad things (respectively) that I take some issue with.
 
I don’t mean to start a debate, though, so can we just leave this lie there?
Background Pony #A6E0
@Bardic_Knowledge  
But Celestia as the ‘teacher’ plays a role that also adheres to the metaphysical properties of the light. Considering how it follows ‘hatred v love’ I’d pose that the light and darkness being mentioned is as much an internal light sweeping away darkness (I.E enlightenment, the removal of veils) as it is physical.
 
I.E: ‘You can’t sweep away ignorance with more of the same, only knowledge can do that.’
Bardic_Knowledge
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Temporal Physicist
@Background Pony #B105  
But that’s metaphysical. I’m talking physical. I know our idioms and language have been influenced by the fact that most humans are diurnal and prefer light, but I still (somewhat irrationally) take issue with assertions that darkness is in some way bad and that light is inherently a good thing.
 
This is coloured slightly by the fact that I can’t see when the sun is out unless I’m wearing sunglasses, and even then I might have to squint, so I actually see better at night than during the day.
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@Bardic_Knowledge  
We could all live under the limited cover of torches or stars, blindly groping into the veil that surrounds.. or pull it aside to see the full picture.
 
There’s a reason it was called the ‘enlightenment’.
Bardic_Knowledge
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Temporal Physicist
I have a minor issue with Celestia’s only because I don’t want darkness driven out. I love darkness. It’s the light that I have issues with.