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, April 5, 2017
"IF"
EFFICACY OF "IF"
The efficacy of IF is that it enables a shift, from this to that, as though either or, and neither nor, coexists, pari passu in the arcane realm of if.
If is ideation maximization alone. It travels anywhere, no matter where.
If is always there with possibilities.
If lifts as it shifts; glides as it slides.
If is one cool dude; classy lady too!
No matter the matter, if can do it, for you! Just imagine "what if" and whoot!--there it is; or he or she, is.
I love the efficacy of if, don't you?
[The foregoing précis was inspired by the 3rd century African philosopher, Plotinus. In his book, THE ENNEADS, "Matter," (1991), p.94, he writes:
"If, then, there is more than one of such forming Ideas, there must of necessity be some character common to all and equally some peculiar character in each keeping them distinct.
"This peculiar characteristic, this distinguishing difference, is the individual shape. But if shape, then there is the shaped, that in which the difference is lodged.
"There is, therefore, a Matter accepting the shape, a permanent substratum."]