I. Aprioricot

It is entirely impossible that this doesn't exist. The world, life, the vast universe, small microbes, all the myriads of factories humans have built, grand pianos, nachos, love and hate; all of these things are related in a big web of interconnectedness. And either the web exists, or the web doesn't exist. There is really no other basic fundamental concept of reality than the fact that it is either real or it is not real. But if the universe is found to be not real by examination, we have proven it is real by examining it. You see, even the act of examination, therefore, would be the universe. And if examination exists, then what is examined exists along with the examiner. Since the examiner exists, unless we hold that he is the self-starting cause of the examination, we must find a reason for the examiner, and his itch to suddenly examine a cosmos that is somehow fitted for such speculative study. We've already birthed by necessary cause a universe that is examinable, the examiner, the need to examine, the act of examination, and the subsistence in which examination can take place. By necessary cause we now need something ultimate, that neither examines nor can be examined. Why must this exist? Simple necessity. Nothing can cause its cause. If we know the universe only by examining, knowledge is something that therefore exists before examination (since examination cannot cause knowledge) and something must exist that knows without examining. If that exists, and I believe it does, we call such a concept God. Of course making it a concept would be odd. Concepts don't know things, they are known. And to be known means to be passive, and to be passive in knowledge means to be non-existent if unknown. Therefore God cannot be a concept (because to be unknown means to be non-existent and a non-causal agent). Since we said knowledge exists before our knowing (since our examination didn't cause the knowable to exist), we realize God must be an active mind, or a state of knowing that preexists the known. We call that mind (if we can call it that) God. God, therefore, exists, or nothing exists. If you even pretend to argue, you exist, and therefore God exists. And don't try to prove me wrong by logic, because if logic exists, a force greater than our minds exists that we must adhere our minds to, and you are in all kinds of trouble if you believe a mental force greater than our minds exists but have no room for God in your system. The only way to prove me wrong is to stop existing, and please don't do that in the first brief essay.

20 Essays on the End of the World

I've been hatching this idea for a while, and it has refused to go away or take coherent form. Since it won't naturally coalesce into a well-shaped idea, I will accept the amorphous nature therein and commence my diatribe on the End of the World. The natural reading of this due to popular context will be the commencement of the cosmos, rather than the purpose of the planet as might be intended. I say might, because at this point, I really don't know which topic, the cessation or the goal, to entirely devote myself to. It might be that the end of the word and the end of the world are very similarly grouped. When we come to the world, and its intended end in creation, we come to the ultimate snuffing out of all things, and after the last coal extinguishes, the rebirth and re-realization of the earth's intention. By going far enough north, we shall make good time towards the south lands. So over the next few weeks there will be twenty rambling attempts to make good sense of hide and hair, and if not...then not.