"tiger" by Mathias Appel
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61 You become what you eat
Can you become independent of your physical being?
We grow by looking at
something bigger than what we are now. Those things are not hard
to find. I am small compared to things of which I am aware. That
feeling increases as I learn.
Comprehending the complex
begins with the simple. Prior articles started with the self and
built out to the surroundings. The relationships involve physical
materials, people with personalities, and moral distinctions.
Expanding beyond the familiar led ultimately to defining god.
Looking so far into the future is not so much comprehending as it
is thinking about.
Cosmic questions
investigate causality and creation, two very closely related
terms. Those terms underlie god-language and immediately overflow
the bounds of human lifespan. They take us beyond the finite,
where moving beyond the familiar leads ultimately to infinite
life, which we are defining this week. To get started, we play
mental games today (a romp through philosophical
madness).
Causality
Focus on the actor--You become what you
eat.
Excess consumed sugar becomes fat.
Balanced nutrition becomes a healthy body. The differentiating
factor is which food is eaten by the body.
Focus on the element--What you eat becomes
you.
What snake eats becomes snake. What tiger
eats becomes tiger. [proverb] From the perspective of the food,
the eating process determines which body is increased. The
differentiating factor is which body does the eating.
Summary—You live, the food is eaten
regardless of focal perspective.
Choices determine outcomes. Choosing to
act produces a result. The care with which we act controls the
quality of the outcome.
Creation
Focus on the actor--god made man.
Spiritual creation precedes physical
creation. Production is conceptualized before it is realized in
material form. We invent things mentally as a precursor to
manufacturing them physically. The pattern or form exists before
the material object. Indeed, the concept “chair” exists before a
physical chair exists. The concept is not extinguished after both
the inventor and the physical chair are gone. This viewpoint
defines god as the conceptual pattern according to which man
attained physical reality.
Focus on the element--man made
god.
The manifestation of human reality is a
physical and intellectual condition in which we learn. Innate and
unconscious qualities become evident through observable
evidences. Human thought systematizes the observations to explain
them and to use them to build forward. Defining god is a process
of enlightenment as we become the power we are comprehending.
Being part of a creation does not inhibit our creating. As in the
case of the chair, the concept does not depend on a physical
example. The individual person and the repetitive cycle are
infinite, that is, eternal.
Summary—present humans and the higher order
exist infinitely regardless of causal sequence.
I am a “chair” that existed in
(spiritual) concept before birth and will exist forever after
physical death. I am presently unable to describe in detail all
the manifestations of my concept (me) outside the presently
visible world, but that does not deter my existing there, as it
does not deter tomorrow.
The school lesson opens with my 2004
verse A Poem about Generation followed by an analysis of
the stanzas as they relate to causality and creation.
A Poem about Generation
04 December 2004
The house I occupy
Does not shelter the presently
homeless.
If I did not have a house either,
How would the homeless come to
Recognize his homelessness?
Except for minerals like salt,
What I eat was once alive.
Did I bring about its death?
Because my food did not spring forth
spontaneously in the wild,
It was cultivated for my consumption.
Did I bring about its life?
Physically I am the top of a food
chain.
Intellectually there is not even a
Definition for the top of the chain.
Is my intellectual death (wrongness)
Or my life (rightness)(house)
Merely a prerequisite for
The next element in the chain?
If “home” did not exist, there would be
no meaning to “homeless.” The first stanza shows that creating a
home also creates the concept of homelessness. Does the existence
of a home cause its opposite?
The second stanza relates creation to
utility. Something never to be used is not likely to be created.
Food consumption is a large factor in the creation of plant and
animal life. Does the planned death cause the creation?
The third stanza investigates the
significance of spiritual (non-physical) elements. Rightness or
wrongness of my first attempt has an outcome that influences
creation of the following attempt. Success of the first might be
a cause of the second (sine qua non = Latin meaning that
without the first progress there would be no second step).
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