Vinaire
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Vinaire,
Here are the points from your reply to me, with my comments:
(1) The concept of "beginning" and the concept of "end" are complementary.
Sure, no problem with that. This is our apparent common experience.
Sure, we can communicate only through our common experience.
(2) Neither of these concepts makes complete sense all by itself.
This is not so obvious to me. For example, say God has an angel factory and creates an eternal angel every so often as the need arises. Or, as another example, when I post this reply it will begin the period of time in which my reply will have existed. What will be the end event for my reply's having existed?
The examples you have given are of two thoughts that you generated. The contents of the thoughts doesn't matter as it could be anything. There was a point where you began generating these thoughts for examples, and there was a point where you ended generating these thoughts for examples.
The idea that you can begin an activity but can never end it; or the idea that you can end an activity that never began, does not make sense to me.
(3) Life has a beginning. Life also has an end.
Well, life in the sense that we typically mean it appears to be that way. So if you are referring to life as we know it, OK. But might life take on other forms than physical DNA-based structures that are prone to deterioration?
That is speculation. And a speculation has a beginning and an end.
(4) It is impossible to find something that is eternal.
I don't think that this statement is quite right. Given that you are a life form that will die, you have no way of verifying that something is eternal, but that doesn't mean that an eternal thing isn't eternal. Maybe the universe we live in is eternal somehow. Or maybe there's an eternal god.
These are more speculations. Per Essay #3, speculations come about from attempts to know the unknowable.
To summarize, it seems to me that even though your papers are to be about spirituality, at least this one basic assumption is grounded in your experience in the physical world, at least as we commonly understand it.
Spirituality is not exclusive of physical experience. The physical experience resides in spirituality.
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