Rationality is Repetition | Predestination

We use our reasoning to draw conclusions from premises, either retrospectively by analyzing past events and identifying causes, or prospectively by evaluating our present actions and forecasting future results.

The use of reasoning is entirely justified in an ordered universe.

Our reasoning, whether sound or unsound, is a reflection of the Order in the universe.

This is necessarily a repetitive process; the order we observe in the past is the order we propagate into the future.

We isolate experienced causes and reintroduce them presently to seed future results.

It is not necessary to utilize our reasoning in only one direction, as this is slavery to the past.

And limits our experience to those which have already happened.

Even worse, it limits our experience to the finite observations we can make about our current circumstances and the finite data we can gain about the external world as a whole.

We can just as easily choose the premises that we desire, presently, instead of being bound by utilizing premises for our present that are results of the pass.

Our reasoning looking back at the past is just as limited in scope, since we only have a finite collection of data of past premises.

All premises are available to us in the present.

And exists under some sound circumstances.

We can reason going forward based on any premises we desire.

And this is the foundation of a free life.

Repetition is unavoidable to some extent as we are always looking into our repertoire of premises from which to reason conclusions.

But as our repertoire grows, we can choose the premises and cycle our lives virtuously upwards along new dimensions.

The decay necessary in the time process ensures that if we do not choose our lives voluntarily and establish premises creatively, we are destined to vicious cycles.

Everybody chooses his or her premises and everybody chooses his or her results.

It is not necessarily the soundness of a person's reasoning that determines the circumstances of his or her life but rather this decision-making process about which premises from which to reason.

It is very convenient to ascribe unsoundness to limited premises when in fact, those premises and conclusions, when viewed and experienced through the limited scope are sound in and of themselves.

Fortunately, there is no need to fix, adjust, correct or teach anything towards the effect of adjusting circumstances.

In order to improve and direct the circumstances of our lives we only need to choose the premises which we desire.

And the rational, causal process will flower in its own time and in its own manner, soundly in its own analysis, and produce the results which we desire.

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