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CONTINUITY
From THE WISDOM OF C. S. PEIRCE A PROTEST AGAINST OBSCURANTISM
Quotes are from CP and are Peirce’s. My comments are quoteless.
CSP 62.” It is not necessary to read far in almost any work of philosophy written by a man whose training is that of a theologian, in order to see how helpless such minds are in attempting to deal with continuity. Now continuity, it is not too much to say, is the leading conception of science. The complexity of the conception of continuity is so great as to render it important wherever it occurs. Now it enters into every fundamental and exact law of physics or of psychics that is known.”
Continuity is not complex. Nor is what it points to. It is the connectivity of everything and its common tendency.
The tendency is toward unbounded love. How strange, you say. What does love have to do with it?
You need to grasp the whole thing. The whole thing is the idea which this is. You are the idea, to make it simple.
What creates you is everything that we associate, for simplicity’s sake, with love. It is not that absolute and unconditional love is not central.
It is that even this description does not begin to describe the reality that this represents.
But there is no reason not to see things this way. And to understand that continuity refers mainly to the gradual awareness that evolves or develops in the direction of perceiving and embracing this foundational love.
Continuity describes what anyone can perceive. We move forward. We do so regardless of our free decisions which often evoke and seek to revive the past.
We can only revive the past in the present and each present becomes past and each move forward is now.
The timelessness we experience in heaven is the result of our decisions, all who are here, to perform functions which relate to the intent of the whole if which we are all a part.
The intent of speech, of word, would be impossible without us.
Continuity is a transcendent rule. It would only create problems in a world that has yielded to the temptations of binary thinking.
Does this mean that you continue. Of course. All have always continued.
Does it mean that all change? Yes and no. Grow toward unification, to be sure. Lose the stigma of rejected freedom, clearly yes.
So continuity is really so fundamental that we hardly give it a thought.
This is a draft -- the URL points to a corrected version.
CONTINUITY
From THE WISDOM OF C. S. PEIRCE A PROTEST AGAINST OBSCURANTISM
Quotes are from CP and are Peirce’s. My comments are quoteless.
CSP 62.” It is not necessary to read far in almost any work of philosophy written by a man whose training is that of a theologian, in order to see how helpless such minds are in attempting to deal with continuity. Now continuity, it is not too much to say, is the leading conception of science. The complexity of the conception of continuity is so great as to render it important wherever it occurs. Now it enters into every fundamental and exact law of physics or of psychics that is known.”
Continuity is not complex. Nor is what it points to. It is the connectivity of everything and its common tendency.
The tendency is toward unbounded love. How strange, you say. What does love have to do with it?
You need to grasp the whole thing. The whole thing is the idea which this is. You are the idea, to make it simple.
What creates you is everything that we associate, for simplicity’s sake, with love. It is not that absolute and unconditional love is not central.
It is that even this description does not begin to describe the reality that this represents.
But there is no reason not to see things this way. And to understand that continuity refers mainly to the gradual awareness that evolves or develops in the direction of perceiving and embracing this foundational love.
Continuity describes what anyone can perceive. We move forward. We do so regardless of our free decisions which often evoke and seek to revive the past.
We can only revive the past in the present and each present becomes past and each move forward is now.
The timelessness we experience in heaven is the result of our decisions, all who are here, to perform functions which relate to the intent of the whole if which we are all a part.
The intent of speech, of word, would be impossible without us.
Continuity is a transcendent rule. It would only create problems in a world that has yielded to the temptations of binary thinking.
Does this mean that you continue. Of course. All have always continued.
Does it mean that all change? Yes and no. Grow toward unification, to be sure. Lose the stigma of rejected freedom, clearly yes.
So continuity is really so fundamental that we hardly give it a thought.
