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I've gone through the swings of that pendulum several times myself. What I've found to be important is that you use the insight gleaned from the polar end each time you start to swing back. I've come to a point where I am okay with ending in a question, but it's important to me to keep looking for answers. Essentially, I feel that there is ultimate truth, but it's near impossible for any one to come to that truth within our relatively short life times and with our limited capacities. However, I feel it would be nihilistic to just admit that I don't get it and use that as an excuse to give up. The pursuit of ultimate truth, like life itself, is a journey and that is what matters; that you keep moving.
I guess, to me, I started to swing away from the religious world view I was handed but I found the extreme opposite unfulfilling. By way of swinging in out of various different religious views I still rest certain that I will almost certainly never understand the reality of the divine within this lifetime, but I am equally certain that my pursuit is meaningful and brings me closer to that understanding thus the ideal, in my opinion, is not on the extreme sways of the metaphorical pendulum, but the position of rest in the middle. However, I can probably only hope to achieve smaller and smaller oscillations.
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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