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Is being a singular entity or a collection of phenomena?

...Something else entirely? Perhaps nothing at all?

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  • 5 years ago
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    Well, 'being' cannot be 'nothing' because it is an expression of existence, which nothing, is not. In 'being', people often look for the "appearances" of from and content (specifics and details), which is the superficial surface of existence and only a result of the formless and context (meaning and significance), which is expressed as "essence." The linear realm of material form is transient and subject to temperance, as energy and matter changes form. It is the Essence of Being that always remains. The 'this' or 'that' the mind focuses on, using sequential observation, is irrelevant, and without names, labels and descriptions. Everything just 'is' what it is, and is it's meaning by way of 'being' what it is, or else it would be something else or not be at all (the flaw of perception).

    "There is no 'spoon.'" We're all "Neos" distracted by the allure of the "Matrix." 'This' world is only a "special effect."

  • I came across a question where you "philosophically" justify God's existance and its really lame at best. I started reading some of your other answers and after literally being taken aghast at how febale minde are. Normally I let the rable do its thing and rable on but your level preteniousness reaches such astromical levels that I had to sit down and recover an old yahoo account to school your ***. Where did you go to school Liberty Universty? Your degree isn't in philosophy or you would realize that all of your arguments are based on assumptions that you have about the world (and when I say wrold I mean universe reality what have you) and not the metaphysical world because NEWS FLASH there isn't one. So I'm going to answer some of your questions and show you where you are wrong or why it is stupid. I have double major in Philosophy and Sociology that I got in 2008 from the University of Georgia which is the hardest (not the best) school to get into in Georgia and I work in gemology now so I'm no professional philosopher but you made a mockery of a legitimate field of study to further your own beliefs. I choose to introduce myself on this question because it is so pointless that it isn't worthy of a response.

  • small
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I think being by itself is a singular entity but it has such multi-dimentional features that it becomes a collection of phenomena to cope with the variety of physical and chemical laws that govern the Nature.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Whitehead distinguishes between eternal being and actual being, The "singular entity" of eternal being is God, the One. Related: "Return to the One: Plotinus's Guide to God-Realization," "The Path of the Higher Self."

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    I'd say a collection of fortunate circumstances.

  • 5 years ago

    As Aristotle proved, it's both, depending on how you use the word "Being". All classes of Being are at once both one-and-the-same, and individuals.

  • 5 years ago

    World we are living in,is phenomena,means it is lots of phenomenon.

  • Naguru
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Those who have some philosophical outlook will know the real fact. It is difficult for others to know about it.

    Source(s): own
  • 5 years ago

    It's a glass half full, half empty proposition, it's however you view it.

  • 5 years ago

    Yes they are different ... and this is evidenced by the fact that each exists, independent of the other.

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