What's with the triads in Neoplatonism, Christianity, and Hinduism?

The human brain is naturally drawn to triadic structures

>>24572327
Why?

>>24572339
I have no idea

sounds like a really deep and meaningful topic to discuss. from what I gather you really should fixate on the number three, it might open up some opportunities in life for you.

>>24572322 (OP)
Its an essential feature of the Indo-European Mythological character.

>>24572327
>>24572498
Because God the Father, His one and only Son and the Holy spirit are the way, the truth and the life.

>>24572322 (OP)
Hinduism is just copyinig other things.

>>24572322 (OP)
It's interesting that in hindu mythology, Brahma lets slip multiple times that he and his trinity are the one true god and the other gods are basically larpers he's letting have their fun for a while. One must remember that the true religion was confused into various myths at the confusion of tongues in babel.

>>24572322 (OP)
Tbf, Vishnu and Shiva get way more attention/importance than Brahma in modern Hindu religion

"Of things constituted by nature some are bodies and magnitudes, some possess body and magnitude, and some are principles of things which possess these. Now a continuum is that which is divisible into parts always capable of subdivision, and a body is that which is every way divisible. A magnitude if divisible one way is a line, if two ways a surface, and if three a body. Beyond these there is no other magnitude, because the three dimensions are all that there are, and that which is divisible in three directions is divisible in all. For, as the Pythagoreans say, the world and all that is in it is determined by the number three, since beginning and middle and end give the number of an 'all', and the number they give is the triad. And so, having taken these three from nature as (so to speak) laws of it, we make further use of the number three in the worship of the Gods." - Aristotle De Caelo 1

Its just how the human brain thinks, we just think about past then present then future. Also number 3.

>>24572498
Kek based honest poster

>>24572589
Man who has only ever been Christian learning about any other religion:
>Getting a lot of 'Christianity' vibes from this…

>>24572322 (OP)
The number 3 is harmonious. God creates Adam, then Eve is created from Adam. A triangle is the simplest shape after the circle. Thesis -> Antithesis -> Synthesis, etc.

>>24572322 (OP)
Man is made in God’s image. Man is triune: body, soul, and spirit. I am not three different persons in one, I am one person in three different ways. We can guess at the nature of the Holy Trinity by that comparison.

>>24572322 (OP)
It's simple, really. The triad represents perfection. One comes into being, then creates Two. To prevent stagnation and eternal conflict, Three manifests from One and Two to birth a new harmony. The triad is within the human brain (Id, Ego, Super-Ego) and the world (the heavens, the earth, and the ocean).

The triad is seen all throughout human culture: the three jewels of the Buddha, the Trikaya, the Trimurti, the Christian Trinity, the Three Pure Ones, the triple-headed goddess motif, the Three Sacred Treasures, the three beasts of the Bible, etc.

>>24572339
Humans are drawn to Three because humans collectively embody Four. Four represents wholeness and universality (the cross), but it also represents death, suffering, imperfection, and poor luck. Jung saw that within every important trio lies a secret fourth part. Within the Holy Trinity, this fourth part would be Satan as the Anti-Christ.

>>24572339
My guess is: Father, mom, son? Aka humans have two parents and themselves, so somehow they're adapted to that structure psychologically?

I dunno random guess

Also, Three rabbits live on the moon. All of life's tail is traced in their spin,
Where one’s ears end, another’s begin.

>>24573899
>humans are attracted to 3... because 4
nta glad I saw through Jung pseudoscience years ago. What a hack. You can literally just make shit up and be just as "correct."

>>24573116
Good post.

>>24572322 (OP)
Triads are embedded in the structure of intelligible reality.
Source: CS Peirce

>>24573885
The first proposition of elements

>>24573885
Where can I read about overarching/overlapping ideas like this without having it dragged with theosophist baggage? I find this concept very interesting

>>24574785
Georges Dumezil

a couple of three things begets the miriad of things

>>24572605
Do you know why?

>>24572322 (OP)
May be unrelated, but women have three holes

>>24574879
Nothing wrong with a good rape from time to time, just look at Zeus Pater.

>>24574949
kek

>>24572327
1 is strange, 2 makes rule, and 3 releases serotonin due to the rule predictions being true. 3 feels good because 3 comes after 2 and if there is 2 there must be 3.

>>24576054
Alternative answer for hegelians: 1 is thesis, 2 is antithesis, 3 is synthesis

>>24572322 (OP)
Unity (self, subjectivity -1), Duality (Other, inter-subjectivity - 2), Synthesis (procreation, mediation, objectivity - 3). There are infinite forms but this is key to how human thought is structured basically when you drill down to a deep enough level on any metaphysics

>>24572584
the triad predates christianity by thousands of years

this >>24576134
Two is an opposition, three is a communion.

>>24576170
also the reason for transgender operations btw

>>24576175
Huh?

>>24576185
many people view dualism as the greatest riddle to be solved, turning two into one aka a third has great symbolic value in that regard

>>24576212
Ah, absolutely agreed.

>>24572322 (OP)
it is magnetism, the rule of three. Positive, negative, neutral. Birth, life, death etc everything is in this cycle. Everything has a beginning, middle and end

>>24572322 (OP)
Third eye bro

>>24572322 (OP)
Read Jung’s Aion. The problem of the 3+1 is everything.

>>24572339
>1
monism
>2
dualism
>3
pluralism

the first two are unsatisfying.

>>24574879
Moralfaggot Christcucks are so cringe.