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Temporality; is it phenomenal and contingent?

Is temporality essential to being?

• Yes; existence belongs to essence of things

  Existence occurs in time, and for anything to exist it must be, and that beingness is an essential component of it.

  An eternal closed loop of the recurrence of the Universe such as Nietchze and some cosmologists such as Hawking theorized would still leaving the question unanswerered of causality and effect.

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  Arthur Schopenhauer's fourfold root of being posited the categorization of intellectual contructs of the Universe in general classes such as Plato developed and in particular specifications such as he attributed to Immanuel Kant.

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  So consider the classification or categorization of the general philosophical paradigm of the existence of the universe. It it has some cause in a line of causes yet the causes are recurrent in an infinite closed loop then there is no first cause…all causes are consequents ad infinitum…so far as one expunges reason from causation and posits the causes as having no cause themselves. A Reason for all causes is something else…

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  Reasons for causes may be a metastructural description of the purpose in some things existing, or for a state of affairs for being, while causes must be proximal or specific if possible in relation to antecedent and precedent causes which usually are construed by moderns to be physical unless discussing volitionally caused event sequences unless one is a Skinnerian attributing mind to complex causal relations of matter.

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  Does a unified field that was primarily monistic, perhaps from a hyper-inflatonic plurality for-itself resembling a monistic Higgs Field possible having a monistic ultra-prior causal origin merely give the appearance of plurality and causation as it deploys from the highly ordered state to a lower state of order over time and ‘evolution’?

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  If the universe is pre-determined regardless of volition phenomenal freedom of will, are causes then merely apparent rather than actual, and what then of effects, are all effects then without causes as just temporal phenomena within the unified field?

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  The base eternal non-temporal extra-dimensional or non-dimensional prior state of highest order entailing the hyperinflatonic kernel would seem to be closer to the natural state of affairs than the emergence of the phenomenal expanding universe. That raises the question of its resemblance to the state of affairs that Irenaeus and later Plotinus posited regarding the emanation of the Universe from The One.

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  Is the universe and example of an emanation from ‘The One’? Karl Hildebrand translated Irenaeus as writing “This depth once bethought him to put forth from himself the beginning of all things and to lay that offshoot—which he had resolved to put forth”…”this silence ” (of the eternal universe) gave birth to Intellect, a being which was like and equal to it’s Creator, and alone able to comprehend the greatness of it’s father. This Intellect also they called the Only-be-gotten and the Beginning of all things.”

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  Cosmology in some contexts has the singularity as an imbalanced Higgs field inflating faster than light briefly nearly from nothing. it is posited to have weighed less than 20 pounds, whatever that means. An emanation from the Absolute, perfect being such as Irenaeus posited, and that Plato and Plotinus considered before and after has some similar characteristics.

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    TeChNoWC
    November 6, 2006
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    *"An eternal closed loop of the recurrence of the Universe such as Nietchze and some cosmologists such as Hawking theorized would still leaving the question unanswerered of causality and effect."* As in, determinism, or origin? *"So consider the classification or categorization of the general philosophical paradigm of the existence of the universe. It it has some cause in a line of causes yet the causes are recurrent in an infinite closed loop then there is no first cause…all causes are consequents ad infinitum…so far as one expunges reason from causation and posits the causes as having no cause themselves. A Reason for all causes is something else…"* If the loop was eternal, it is possible for an end, yet no beginning. If a line has no two finalised points then it is infinite. The same would then also apply to an end. Infinity can have an end point but it then requires that there be no beggining. However, is there a problem in suggesting that a plausibly metaphysical universal has an infinite regress of causality? *"If the universe is pre-determined regardless of volition phenomenal freedom of will, are causes then merely apparent rather than actual, and what then of effects, are all effects then without causes as just temporal phenomena within the unified field?"* Determinism wouldn't necessarily denote the effect of the cause. If the cause were to, hypothetically be taken away, then the effect would not occur. To say otherwise is to posit absolute fatalism. It's just that this determinism cannot be escaped, because in the instance of taking away the cause, we can already see that causality caused your motivation, and the motivation will cause a further effect, already determined by pre-existing causes. It just mean that any changes you wish to make to destroy this determinism will ultimately convey determinism itself, because the action was simply determined. *"Is the universe and example of an emanation from ‘The One’? Karl Hildebrand translated Irenaeus as writing “This depth once bethought him to put forth from himself the beginning of all things and to lay that offshoot—which he had resolved to put forth”…”this silence ” (of the eternal universe) gave birth to Intellect, a being which was like and equal to it’s Creator, and alone able to comprehend the greatness of it’s father. This Intellect also they called the Only-be-gotten and the Beginning of all things.”"* Most forget that a Higher Being is not necessarily subject to metaphysics. We think there is always a cause, effect, starting point eg, because we are bound by such instigations. But a Higher Being can merely transcend this. I agree with you on the possibility of this 'emanation', as many would see as a likeable starting point, so of the moment, yeah, my mind will stick with that. But I acknowledge that transcendence can (doesn't have to) impose the idea of the transcendental Being not need adhering to its own creations, that being even simple logic. Otherwise, one could suggest that logic is more powerful than God. *"Cosmology in some contexts has the singularity as an imbalanced Higgs field inflating faster than light briefly nearly from nothing. it is posited to have weighed less than 20 pounds, whatever that means. An emanation from the Absolute, perfect being such as Irenaeus posited, and that Plato and Plotinus considered before and after has some similar characteristics."* Wow. A theorem with possibility, among a sea of infinites.
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    GaryCGibson
    December 2, 2006
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    PARAGRAPHS ARE HELPFUL

    I have noticed that bullet points, paragraphs and so forth are helpful in recovering salient ideas, and for philosophical editing down to get the solid ideas from the superfluous initially at least.
    
    Also one can triple space and get a paragraph through this word editor or html or at least add a line of three asterisks midway between the five or six spaces between paragraphs possibly cutting them down later. Or perhaps the paragrapher works now. I am still looking for all of my deleted philosophy posts (about 100) although I have duplicate posts elsewhere. This was the second purging of allphilosophy posts I recall.
    
    Criticisms of David Hume who might have developed the non-linear alternative paradigm to causality (complex causality or field causality) if such exists if he hadn't just deleted the idea of cause-effect altogether are worth looking into.
    
    Metaphysics exist where cosmological speculation breaks off, or hasn't enough data to make meaningful hypothetical constructs I suppose. The pre-inflaton universe from before a Higgs field expansion might be such an area where non cosmologists can consider concepts of causality and such.
    
    If one believes as I do that God is the source of all creation, it is also possible to believe that the intial 'cause' within the physical universe isn't linear or singular. If the Universe's first existant material is one, and if it was a field or one elemeny that expanded and differentiated over time, its composition later isn't determinative of its initial state. That would be a post hoc ergo propter hoc state of affairs.
    
    The one pre-inflaton or initial field might be considered by some cosmologists as an aspect of m-brane theory with recurrent brane expansions, flattening and collisions with other depleted branes like symbols clashing and reproducing a new noise or universal expansion in another dimensional array, even so the entire ensemble would be part of a complex system that had an origin and initial cause, except that it be created by God.
    
    For a universe created by God, or multi-verse created by God might be temporal as the actual universe seems to be, however as God is eternal the ideas of first cause and temporality may be avoided in a sense, because the more useful term to describe the state of the universe would be proximal cause.
    
    At some stage the non-contingent being of God disconnects from the contingent material universe and field phenomena, or at least the material role isn't within a direct protocol paradigm with the spiritual.
    
    The emmenations that allowed The Intelligence to come into being and that permitted the realm of forms and the material universe to be spoken into existence with the 'let there be light' command are a mystery--a divine mystery with the triune nature of God...three persons, three protocols relating to the sentient human paradigm.
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    Jackymania
    February 6, 2007
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    In metaphysics.......

    In metaphysics........ one may tend to forget that it exists in the realm of the mind..... thoughts are like fluids. It forms a shape of the container it exists in. It doesnot have a shape of its own. Temporality.... is like what is experienced or is known to all or, arguably, to a few, irrespective of one's individual belief's, faith and reasonings. By this view point it is realtive and subjective. To club it into a theological argument or metaphysics is a difficult proposition. And than to club it with reality is equally dangerous and should i say propogandist idea.

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