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Jan. 8, 2005 Is the infinity of being ordered or chaotic? Is it both ordered and chaotic? Or is it neither ordered nor the opposite? Is it at all a question of order and chaos? To say that infinity is ordered is to cast it into a form and to make it an absolute, because the property of order is the highest and ultimate definition applied to it in such an instance. On the other hand, to say that infinity is unordered or chaotic is to define it as something lawless and incomprehensible - ultimately meaningless. But in the latter case one is still 'defining' it and rendering it as a condition of chaos. It is still being cast into a shape simply because it is being conceptualised in a specific manner and defined as having the "form" of chaos. Thus it is ultimately the same effect whether one thinks of infinity as ordered or chaotic; both designations are just that: 'designations' or definitions in any case, or 'Form' if you will. In any instance, is there any difference in the meanings of the two terms; order and chaos? Is there any difference in weight between the two seemingly opposite stances inside the opinion of the designating observer? Is it not rather subjective, in the sense that both observers who experience infinity in the one case as ordered and in the other as chaotic, mutually experience the same degree of satisfaction in each view of the infinity? What does it mean in essence to say that something is ordered? Who has the authority to designate the infinity of being as having order? If it was a universal certainty that a God or creator formed everything, only he could designate it as ordered or chaotic. But nobody can no for sure that a creator of infinity exists and thus it becomes the authority of each and every individual to decide whether existence is ordered or not. In the end it is such a subjective condition that it makes no difference in absolute meaning whether we say chaos or order. Chaos is as good as order as any man's word is as good as the others’, because there is no absolute cosmic authority to judge universally. ------------ About the author Werner Reyneke: I am a 23 year old passionate writer/poet in my spare time and a computer programmer by profession. Visit my website to see my first published book. I live in South Africa and have been published in a local newspaper (some poems in Haiku form) for the first time in February 2000. I have also been selected for publication in a VoicesNet Anthology (visit www.Voicesnet.org) and a Poetry.com (ILP Publishers) anthology called "Eternal Portraits"). Visit my website at: http://myweb.absa.co.za/wreyneke/Mybook.htm Email: wreyneke@absamail.co.za Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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