Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
NATURAL LAW IS DETERMINATIVE
NATURAL LAW IS DETERMINATIVE
Doing something determines something. Doing nothing does too. Something is definitely going to happen, no matter what you do.
Such determinism is built into life.
You are alive. So life's determinism operates in, upon, around, & by you.
This is natural law.
Determining natural law is impossible. It preexisted "existence." Not just our existence, but all of existence itself!
Yet, we may, we have, we often do: imagine, dream, propose, pray, wish, hypothecate, even venture upon that activity, which we may deem to be, fallaciously if innocently, somehow "determinative" in nature, of nature.
This too is natural law.
Happily our opinions, our imagination, our dreams, our propositions, also preexisted before existence, before its being, like all else that we do or do not do.