Let me see if I can trace your logic on this issue – and then you can tell me if I’ve read you correctly.1. Conceptually, Nature is uncaused, due to the logical impossiblity of something arising from nothing."You were never born, and you will never die."
Seeing that Nature is uncaused [. . . something can't arise out of nothing . . .] - it makes sense that we are also uncaused: Which makes all our actions caused, as well as predetermined.
Sue: You've a couple of ideas which you've slammed together. Perhaps if you'll explain a couple of points, your ideas will become clearer. 1. How is Nature “uncaused� 2. And how are we both uncaused and caused?
a) The Totality is not caused, because it is absolutely everything.
b) The ‘Nature’ we experience conceptually is therefore also uncaused, for it has arisen out of the ‘uncaused’ Totality.
If I’ve traced your idea correctly, the question of how things exist has not yet been answered. We know that we are experiencing a ‘something’. We also know that this ‘something’ is all we have to work with to understand anything. So, the answer to, “How do things exist†must be present in this experience. Or perhaps not?
An unclear explanation is as good as no explanation at all – and in this case, that is exactly what you have given me.2. An unclear explaination of causality spanning back for countless eons.
You quoted, “You were never born, and you will never dieâ€. Perhaps you could explain the reasoning behind this quote? I suppose you where questioning along the lines of – Does life really begin at birth? And - Is death really an end?
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Sue