Philosophical Speculations

If a cog then an aware one that plays its integral role in ideation's metamorphic process, so 'cog'nize accordingly

If cogs cognize, do their woes metamorphose?

Ben Iscatus wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:11 pmIf cogs cognize, do their woes metamorphose?

Cognizing woefully may not help But however painfully gradual and incremental the metamorphic phase transition may be, the notion that it can ultimately be prevented need not be a worry. Mind you, I'm not convinced of the notion that it can be hastened on its way either.

Mind you, I'm not convinced of the notion that it can be hastened on its way either.

Nor me, Dana. Ecclesiastes comes to mind:

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
What does the worker gain from his toil? I have seen the burden that God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good while they live, and also that every man should eat and drink and find satisfaction in all his labour—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it.

Soul_of_Shu wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:27 pm

Ben Iscatus wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 6:11 pmIf cogs cognize, do their woes metamorphose?

Cognizing woefully may not help But however painfully gradual and incremental the metamorphic phase transition may be, the notion that it can ultimately be prevented need not be a worry. Mind you, I'm not convinced of the notion that it can be hastened on its way either.

We ourselves and our spiritual cognizing activity is not other than the metamorphic progression. That is how the metamorphoses take place. True, there is no point talking about slowing down or speeding up the overall process, only about quickening our own involvement in it.