04-21-2015, 12:26 PM
(04-21-2015, 10:40 AM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: P.66
If something weren't possible or in your potential, you couldn't imagine it.
You cannot imagine something that doesn't exist.
I am so sorry, but I so strongly disagree with this quote. I'm sorry if I come on strong here but were this quote true, you'd incite the chicken/egg argument. You can solve it with the quantum mechanics of manifestation inciting a non-start beginning to something (manifesting the egg or chicken first, doesn't matter except in context), but this implies the ability to imagine something from something not in existence, which this explicitly says is not possible.
Nothing is STILL something, the possibility of nonexistence is already making it existent, formulating a paradox of being. Being and Potentially Being are not that different, one Is, the other also Is, one is simply called forth, the other imagined and waiting.
You can imagine infinitely anything as infinity is implied unity. How can there be such a thing as an absence of creation to imagine, when that absence is in itself incapable of being understood? If you want to label the concept, it's closest to the Void, that emptiness that spawned/became the Creator would either know all of itself in its infinity, or seek to understand it's whole self, that being (I imagine) where it came from.
And since we speak of such concepts (in regards to Law of One material at least) as the Original Thought (which the Creator attempts to re-experience, and IS the Creator and ALL things), it might not be too absurd to consider that other Original Thoughts might coexist with ours. Concepts could in essence be Existences, Micro meets Macro. Our One Infinite Creation may belong besides many more. Our Infinite Creator could be One of Infinite many.
I think it's more probable to say it's simply not possible to be incapable of imagining something. Infinity is the limit. When you move beyond it, you still have infinity. It is the limit, beyond it is...Infinity AND Beyond! Why try to discourage thought of the supposed unthinkable? Man didn't sprout wings and fly, that wasn't possible apparently, so they found a different way and thought of something at the time thought unimaginable, Man Flying.
The only thing unimaginable, is unimaginable, but because I can think of something unimaginable, it is no longer such. If it does exist in such a way...It is still possible of being discovered.
I just, I am so sorry, but every inch of me says this quote is potentially incorrect, even with the potential to be correct from all that we can surmise... We can barely discern what is properly 'existent' and 'nonexistent' in context of concepts, not that different from how our medical professions have trouble discerning properly medical death at times due to the complications/complexities of Human Life and Consciousness. This quote discourages so much potential to discover infinity for me, because suddenly we think we are incapable of thinking/imagining something because we believe it may just not be real or true or existent.
...Otherwise, I think I'll order this book. Sounds like a gem to me, even if I so strongly disagree with this one quote!
And if my explanation makes no sense to you, please ask. I'll try to explain it better. These things can be kind of hard describing...