Selections From The Book Of The First Point Before Where
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GREAT PEARLS / CHAPTER 1
Before Where
1 In the beginning of this conjecture there was a point.
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2 Not a point floating in space.
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3 For space had not yet been granted the convenience of already existing.
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4 Not a point waiting through time.
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5 For before and after had not yet entered the account.
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6 There was simply distinction.
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7 Or perhaps not even that.
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8 For if only one thing be, against what shall it be distinguished?
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9 And I shit you not, the problem became interesting before the universe had even furnished a chair.
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10 Therefore the Society calleth this the First Point, not because physics hath confirmed the story, but because the image is useful for thought.
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11 And if the First Point possessed awareness, we do not know what awareness without an other could mean.
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12 Thus the first doctrine is also the first uncertainty.
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GREAT PEARLS / CHAPTER 2
Relationship
1 And I shit you not, a second distinction appeared.
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2 Now there was this and that.
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3 Here relative to there.
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4 One relation rather than none.
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5 And the teacher asked: Do relationships happen between already finished things, or can relationship participate in making the things distinguishable?
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6 The student answered: I do not know.
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7 And the teacher said: Excellent.