08 July 2008

Letters to Libraries (and beyond)

A letter.

Then alphabetized letters.

Letters combine to form words.

Words combine to form sentences.

Sentences combine to form paragraphs.

Paragraphs combine to form pages.

Pages combine to form stories.

Stories combine to form books.

Books combine to form libraries.

There would be no libraries, books, stories, pages, paragraphs, sentences, words, or alphabets if it weren't for letters.

Reality is series of nested whole/parts (holons). Each holon represents something that is whole but is part of a bigger whole. Every stage of development is dependent on the previous stage. Books can exist without libraries; libraries cannot exist without books.

These are not my ideas, but they make perfect sense to me.

God can exist without the universe; the universe cannot exist without God. God is the only "holon" (for lack of a better term) who is the "Whole", but yet is not a "part", and yet is immanent with every part "wholistically".

Make sense? Think about it!

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