metonymy4u

One of the most enduring dialectics of human reason is the polarity between necessity and contingency. That is, the distinction between that which must be and that which may be otherwise. On this basis we conceive God, the soul, the atom, the big bang, time and space, freedom and love. On the other hand we think of bodies, motion, mass, energy and hell. The avoidable and the unavoidable. That which endures and that which is equivocal. But are they not all of the same world? Does the universe not contain everything we name or could possibly name? The rational and the irrational? The explainable and the unappreciated? Heaven and hell? Can we really say that what the mind conceives, exists therefore? That the most knowable is the most real? When we forget ourselves, that is when I think we fall into error. When we divide ourselves against ourselves, that is when we re-member suffering. That is when dis-ease seems necessary, once more.