Christian Thought: Christian Theology & Philosophy
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Metaphysics

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What's life? Likewise, what's death?​ And other things that are indefinable: marriage, time, holiness, colors.

Related to the UQ: Why did God make it so that we enjoy his goodness in many forms (for example, many people, many things), if God is perfect in himself and the greatest good one can enjoy?

Though the spiritual can’t be quantified, we can still vaguely quantify it by means of comparison. But this necessitates particulars, against which one thing can be compared with another.
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Order approximates abstraction; disorder approximates concreteness/particulars. Might this relate to chaos?

Cantor dust as example of fractal time. Should it really be so surprising that within the bursts of noise there should be periods of clean transmission? After all, according to Zeno’s paradox shouldn’t this be the way it is? (Smoothness vs roughness, that is, if there’s any roughness, there must be smoothness.) And how this relates to division, which in turn is related to the one and the many. (That is, division in infinity, which means this is also related to infinity, and so infinity is related to division, which is related to the one and the many, which is related to the spiritual and physical.)

Which way does abstraction go, since naming (classifying) things makes particulars, and yet this is a kind of abstraction, yet at the same time abstraction is what leads to seeing the big picture, going from the parts to the whole. So what’s going on? (Example of the strange case of Dr. P, the agnosiac in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Had no problem identifying platonic solids.)

Why don’t things go down to their bare minimum? EXs: I read of a woman who had such an abnormally low metabolism that she could only eat half a sandwich and a cup of yogurt every day – anything more than that and she would become overweight. We say, too bad for her, but she actually has the most efficient metabolism. And a few rare individuals only need 4 hrs of sleep a night. 

Why do workplaces always tend towards inefficiency and time-wasting formalities? (entropy at the workplace) ​

Sorites Paradox
Change: How do slow changes, like getting used to a place, falling in love, or growing in wisdom, happen?
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