The crack of the dawn of my awakening came with the thought that every actual must have sprung from a potential. For example, the statement that “nothing existed before the ‘Big Bang’” seems to ignore the fact that the *potential* for the ‘Big Bang’ must have preceded the actual event. To deny that the potential existed is to deny the ev…
The crack of the dawn of my awakening came with the thought that every actual must have sprung from a potential. For example, the statement that “nothing existed before the ‘Big Bang’” seems to ignore the fact that the *potential* for the ‘Big Bang’ must have preceded the actual event. To deny that the potential existed is to deny the event itself.
For intelligent life to exist, its potential must have existed prior. Again, to say that there was no potential for intelligent life is to deny intelligent life itself.
Antecedent causation must therefore act on a foundation of potential. Nothing can cause an event that doesn’t exist in potential.
Serious and sincere contemplation of this necessarily universal, infinite and eternal well of potential, the processes by which it is gradually released to become reality, and how the ensuing reality is ultimately integrated into a meaningful whole, can be very rewarding (and it has been for me), the discussion of which rewards are outside the scope of what is practical in a comment on a blog.
The crack of the dawn of my awakening came with the thought that every actual must have sprung from a potential. For example, the statement that “nothing existed before the ‘Big Bang’” seems to ignore the fact that the *potential* for the ‘Big Bang’ must have preceded the actual event. To deny that the potential existed is to deny the event itself.
For intelligent life to exist, its potential must have existed prior. Again, to say that there was no potential for intelligent life is to deny intelligent life itself.
Antecedent causation must therefore act on a foundation of potential. Nothing can cause an event that doesn’t exist in potential.
Serious and sincere contemplation of this necessarily universal, infinite and eternal well of potential, the processes by which it is gradually released to become reality, and how the ensuing reality is ultimately integrated into a meaningful whole, can be very rewarding (and it has been for me), the discussion of which rewards are outside the scope of what is practical in a comment on a blog.