Science01
No moral cosmic opponent is required. Conflict is physical, biological, and human. Dualism is not a scientific claim.
Asked of every system
Twenty-two questions
The same questions, asked in the same order. Read down a question to see where they rhyme and where they do not. No establishment is rewritten to fit the others.
- 01Where are we?
- 02What is reality made of?
- 03What is a human being?
- 04What is consciousness?
- 05Where did humanity come from?
- 06What happens at death?
- 07Does consciousness return to embodiment?
- 08Where is consciousness between lives?
- 09Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
- 10Can those beings become human or appear human?
- 11Are there multiple realms or worlds?
- 12Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
- 13Is the world itself alive?
- 14Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?
- 15Does history operate linearly or cyclically?
- 16Is there an opposing positive/negative force?
- 17What is humanity supposed to become?
- 18Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?
- 19What lies beyond the visible world?
- 20How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
- 21Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?
- 22Why did humanity forget?
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Is there an opposing positive/negative force?
- Judaism02
Moral opposition exists (evil, the adversary in some streams). It is not the equal-and-opposite cosmology of Zoroastrianism in this chart.
Yes in narrative force: heavenly rebellion, Watchers, and judgment of corrupt beings. Opposition is rebellion inside created order.
Yes. Fallen beings/demons oppose God and the human good. They are not an equal co-eternal creator in orthodox frames.
- Islam05
Yes. Iblis and a moral field of obedience and rebellion. Allah remains sole creator.
Devas and asuras appear as opposing classes in many narratives. This is not identical to a single cosmic dualism across all schools.
Māra and afflictive forces appear. The governing analysis is ignorance and craving, not an equal anti-God.
Differentiation includes complementary processes (often framed as yin/yang in the wider culture). That is polarity inside the Dao, not a devil versus a creator.
Disorder (Isfet) against cosmic order (Maat) is the wider frame. This chart records ordered cosmos and cyclical renewal rather than a single named anti-god as the whole system.
Gods, spirits, and monsters. Opposition exists as conflict and catastrophe, not as one clean dualism in this record.
Gods and jötnar, ending in Ragnarök. Opposition is real in the poetry without being a moral dualism of equal good and evil principles.
Other-than-human persons include powers that can help or harm. A single cosmic anti-god is not the record used here.
Gods and supernatural beings in a cosmos of obligation and prior creations. A single dualism is not isolated here.
Yes, structurally. Ordered creation is opposed by a destructive force. Humans participate morally in that struggle.
Opposition is part of the moral world (including adversarial figures in the wider teaching). The chart’s own lines emphasize divine potential, judgment, and renewal.
Not centered on a world-soul war. The teaching is about the thetan, embodiment, and auditing, not one apocalyptic opponent.
Benefic and malefic dignities appear in many systems. That is celestial quality, not necessarily a cosmic moral war — unless the host religion supplies one.
Gods contend with labor, and a flood is sent. These texts do not state one equal anti-god. Inanna’s descent has a price. That is not a moral dualism.
Gods conflict, and Titans fall to Olympians in Hesiod. That is succession and rivalry, not a moral dualism of equal principles.
- Jainism20
No devil opposite a creator. The opponent that matters is karma binding the jīva.
- Sikhism21
Self-centeredness and the vices oppose a life turned toward God. They are not a second god.
- Shinto22
Impurity against purity and right order. Not a cosmic anti-god.
Disorder, failed mandate, hungry ghosts, and unbalanced forces. Not one Satan figure as the key to the cosmology.
In many systems, yes: the maker of the world and the archons stand against the highest God. Not every text called Gnostic has that cast.
Passions and some daimones threaten the soul in certain texts. The cosmos itself is often divine. Not Zoroastrian dualism.
Ifá and other oral accounts include destructive agents as well as òrìṣà. There is no single official dualism.
Law can be broken, with consequences. A single cosmic enemy is not the record used here.
Complement of upper and lower, and of fed and unfed powers. Not an equal anti-creator.
There is no equal anti-god. The obstacle is rejection of the revelation and disunity, not a cosmic twin of God.
The twins work against each other’s making. Nation names differ. They are not filed as the Christian God and devil, and not copied from another row.
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Naayééʼ are monsters overcome in the narratives, not an equal anti-creator taken from another tradition.
Unclassified / Source Needed. Failure to keep the covenant is a condition the teaching names. It is not filed as a rival god.
Irish tales set Tuatha Dé and Fomorians against each other. That is one cycle of stories, not a theology of absolute evil.
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Working synthesis · not a verdict
Fallen/Watchers are recorded among other beings. Opposition exists as a class of fallen/rebellious powers inside a living, multi-realm world — not named here as an equal anti-creator.