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The unsolvable mystery of Reality Itself

 
 
Mon 28 Aug, 2017 06:19 pm
In truth, the naturally occurring 'shape' of the eternally cyclic Universal Process is the only shape that ever actually occurs in Reality.

Because 'Causeless Shapelessness' is ALWAYS completely structureless, ever-changeless and infinitely symmetrical, the 'Causeless Shape' of this Process can ONLY be the 'structured ever-changing asymmetry' that It is.

Fundamentally, ALL apparent 'things' and 'events' (including 'ourselves') are actually arbitrarily delineated, impermanent 'features' of this structured ever-changing asymmetry.

WHAT this Process REALLY is, and the actual reason WHY It is occurring at all (AND why the illusion of separateness and duality EVER arises within the 'experience' of all of It's sufficiently complex features), is absolutely unknowable...


...and yet, Here It IS...


...Here You ARE...


Thoughts?
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emmett grogan
 
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Mon 28 Aug, 2017 07:20 pm
No matter where you go, there you are. No problem, no mystery.

Glad I can clear that up for you.
fresco
 
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Mon 28 Aug, 2017 09:07 pm
@Relinquish,
https://able2know.org/topic/400328-34#post-6493265
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Relinquish
 
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Mon 28 Aug, 2017 11:55 pm
@emmett grogan,
No problem, sure.

The mystery, however, yet remains.

It seems that a deep acknowledgement of this unsolvable mystery is the most 'open-eyed' stance that could be taken.

What is seen by these open-most eyes? Any accepted answer will effectively obscure it...
emmett grogan
 
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Tue 29 Aug, 2017 12:11 am
@Relinquish,
What mystery? Here we are. No magic about it.
ascribbler
 
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Tue 29 Aug, 2017 01:11 am
@Relinquish,
Quote:
WHAT this Process REALLY is, and the actual reason WHY It is occurring at all
...and yet, Here It IS...
...Here You ARE...
Thoughts?


S'happens, what's to know?
Razzleg
 
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Tue 29 Aug, 2017 03:21 am
@Relinquish,
read up on Whitehead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
Relinquish
 
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Tue 29 Aug, 2017 04:15 pm
@emmett grogan,
Where did I mention ANYTHING about magic?
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Relinquish
 
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Tue 29 Aug, 2017 04:19 pm
@ascribbler,
WHY does s'happen? I'm simply pointing out that the answer has NEVER been known, and it never will be.

I'm also pointing out that there is actually only ever one 'happening'.
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Relinquish
 
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Tue 29 Aug, 2017 04:21 pm
@Razzleg,
I've read about Whitehead and his process philosophy.

What's your point?
Razzleg
 
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Wed 30 Aug, 2017 01:22 am
@Relinquish,
Relinquish wrote:

I've read about Whitehead and his process philosophy.

What's your point?


"About"...well, maybe, i'm suggesting actually reading him, or Elizabeth Kraus's companion. i'm not sure what you think you're doing, but it might be helpful...right now your just relying on word salad to sustain your argument.

'Causeless Shapelessness' is, in fact, a useful description of my ass...
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Wed 30 Aug, 2017 05:44 am
@Razzleg,
Whitehead process philosophy makes as much sense as Walt Disney on Sunday...I don't give 2 farts about rejecting materialism per se which anyone honest would agree is enough of an obscure concept. Other than that his process philosophy is a bunch of bull. A contradiction in terms. There is no X, Y, Zed to talk about processing. Relations without relators, without foundation are as good as phenomenology being confused with noumenology...the kind of crap that appeals to ya am I right?
Razzleg
 
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Fri 1 Sep, 2017 12:38 am
@Fil Albuquerque,
Fil Albuquerque wrote:

Whitehead process philosophy makes as much sense as Walt Disney on Sunday...I don't give 2 farts about rejecting materialism per se which anyone honest would agree is enough of an obscure concept. Other than that his process philosophy is a bunch of bull.


Well, i'm as unprepared to be a full-scale Whitehead apologist as i am to figure out your Disney reference. i mostly suggested reading Whitehead, in the context of this thread, because it seemed like a fruitful line of inquiry for the OP's purposes.

That being said, ANW was a complex, subtle, tradition-divergent thinker. Many of his ambiguous statements were deliberate, some represent the clumsiness indicative of a fresh method of inquiry (and, of course, some were just misguided). i'm surprised you're not more sympathetic...

Fil Albuquerque wrote:
I don't give 2 farts about rejecting materialism per se which anyone honest would agree is enough of an obscure concept. Other than that his process philosophy is a bunch of bull. A contradiction in terms. There is no X, Y, Zed to talk about processing. Relations without relators, without foundation are as good as phenomenology being confused with noumenology...the kind of crap that appeals to ya am I right?


Well, ANW didn't reject materialism, he was a materialist, of a certain stripe. What he critiqued was substance ontology. Nor did he reject "relators"; he was a pluralist. He merely thought that the "relators" themselves were dynamic processes interacting with more of the same. As one that eats, breathes and shits i have a hard time disputing that.

There are areas of his φ that i find problematic, but, yeah, this sort of crap does appeal to me.
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