What Exists, Via Necessity

By Austin P. Torney

This is an explanation of what exists, fundamentally, and why it has to, and how it operates.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin P. Torney
• Release date: Oct 18, 2015

Austin P. Torney

Austin began writing for real around the age of forty, a respite from working as an Information Engineer in the field of Computer Science, doing programming, an art, as it turned out. He calls himself a humanist, and is one who enjoys the liberal arts, utilizing science, for it pervades every discipline. He is currently retired and lives in the mountains of Poughquag, NY, near the Appalachian Trail. He enjoys tennis, writing, fun, humor, thinking, sleeping, poetry, music, dining, travel, romance, reading, swimming, and life.

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What Exists, Via Necessity

By Austin P. Torney

Copyright 2015 Austin P. Torney

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0. What the heck am I doing here, thrust into life, uninformed of its essence, having to mostly deal with existence, day in and day out?

So it is that you have noted the necessity of this situation of our human condition, for that’s how it is, plus it’s also our nature to wonder about the essence of existence from time to time, as probably our most often asked question.

What a dilemma!

In a Theory of Everything forum long ago, in the 9th century, Abunasr Farabi wrote:

Vague and unrefined did the secrets of existence remain.

Unpierced did that highly revered pearl remain.

Each person said something according to his reason.

Yet untold did the point which was of essence remain.

And Abulhasan Kharquani replied in the forum in the 11th century (the internet was slow in those days):

The primordial secrets neither you know nor I.

The words of the puzzle neither you can read nor I.

Your discourse and mine are behind the curtain.

When the curtain falls, neither you remain nor I.

Omar Khayyam wondered and wrote of the human condition,

The sphere upon which mortals come and go,

Has no end nor beginning that we know;

And none there is to tell us in plain truth:

Whence do we