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The European Renaissance

 

            As I entered the payphone booth the phone rang. While answering the phone I was beamed through the space time continuum to some third or even fourth dimension. When I exited the booth I found myself in a classical room filled with early philosophers. Among these were Anaximander, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Parmenides, and even Socrates. I then proceeded to enter their discussions. Discussions about reality and how we, as humans, perceive life and its characteristics.
             Anaximander: The apeiron cannot be one and simple Thales, my mentor, is incorrect as the infinite cannot be water. Of the infinite, there is no beginning, but this seems to be the beginning of the rest, and to contain all things and steer all things, as all declare who do not fashion other causes aside from the infinite and this is divine. For it is deathless and indestructible. Thus the arche is the apeiron.
             Nick: So the elements are what make up everything. You"re telling me that fire is to water as air is to earth. Thus the changing seasons keep us in cyclical order and without one of these four elements we would not exist. .
             Anaximander: Yes, if one element is to destroy its opposite the cosmos will become chaos.
             Nick: That would be the end of man kind, and even the universe. Oh no!! Could that really happen?.
             Anaxagoras: No Anaximander, nothing is controlled by the elements. The mind is the key to our beginnings. Still growing, the mind is our driving force behind the separation of all things. Now governing the ways in which many things are to be. Then all things were together, unlimited in both amount and smallness. For even the small was unlimited. Everything is a product of one whole. For air dominates, being unlimited and largest in proportion. .
             Nick: So the mind is the key to our beginning.
             Anaxagoras: Yes.
             Parmenides: A beginning must have no beginning. Thus there can be no beginning. Being is not generated, and imperishable.


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