Part I: Ontology and Teleology
Perhaps the two most looming questions
of existence just so happen to be: What is this? & Why this and
not that, or nothing even? These questions are couched in many clever
dynamic terms, such as: being and becoming (or nothingness),
substance and meaning, stasis and change, etc.—but their referents,
namely: ontology (what the cosmos is) and teleology (the 'design' or
pattern of the cosmos), extend inward like branches to the same
metaphysical trunk.
However, the trunk which supports them
seems to reside in an intellectual null-zone of sorts. A point at
which both branches must converge and be grounded by the trees trunk,
but where there seemingly is none.
However, before we can consider these
questions, there are other things that we must first take into account.
