There is never time to say our last word—the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. Science is not a club, it is an ocean. Who can exhaust the sea? Who say to intellect, the deeps of philosophy are pre-occupied? The natural sciences are a typical achievement of the intellect, and they therefore reflect a limitation in the intellect’s functioning. What is scientific knowledge now may be scientific ignorance in some years more. This limitation emerges when the sciences form their conceptions of time and motion. In each case a static abstraction is produced. Time is conceived as what clocks measure in spatially discrete units. No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. Motion is conceived as a succession of fixed positions on a linear path. Both abstractions are practically useful, but they falsify the nature of time and motion as concretely experienced by ignoring the crucial element of becoming. This falsification is inherent in the intellect’s way of working. By its very nature, the intellect is equipped to handle only what is repetitive and routine; real becoming baffles it. Hence the sciences have a severe disability built into them.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 5

Moreover, conceptual thought runs into contradictions or paradoxes whenever it tries to give a thorough analysis of motion. These paradoxes show that the scientific concept of motion is basically incoherent. The conclusion must be that the sciences can never provide a complete and adequate account of the Universe. They need to be supplemented by some other discipline. An obvious choice would seem to be metaphysics, but classical metaphysics is equally a creation of the intellect and suffers from the same disability as the sciences. Metaphysicians, with a few exceptions have misconstrued change and failed to give it the priority it actually has in the World. They regarded being as ultimate, and becoming as derivative. Accordingly, metaphysical theories have been based om such concepts the indestructible atoms of Democritus, the eternal forms of Plato, or the fixed categories of Kant. These concepts illustrate the intellect’s addiction to unchanging units that are mechanically combined or separated according to the rules of logic. Neither time nor change can be understood when so approached. The constructions of metaphysics are as inadequate here as those of science, without the latter’s usefulness.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 5

Classical metaphysics has also mistakenly supposed that an all-embracing system can be constructed, bringing within its scope not only what is actual but also what is possible. This idea rests on a fallacious assumption that there is a realm of possibility over and above the realm of actuality. The belief in possibles that would be realized by acquiring existence is an illusion of the intellect, designed to exclude the notion of absolute novelty. Let us have done with great metaphysical systems embracing all the possible and sometimes even the impossible. There could be nothing has not meaning. Nothing is a term in ordinary language which can only have meaning in the sphere proper to humans, of action and fabrication. The term designates the absence of what we are seeking in the World around us. It can be properly used only because many things already exist. To oppose nothing in an absolute sense to existence is to embrace a pseudo idea and engender pseudo problems. These criticisms do not imply that metaphysics is to be rejected, for some proposed to redefine metaphysics and provide it with a new method. Instead of employing the intellect, it is to employ intuition. Time, that is never to be recalled or stayed, blots out the memory of the greatest worth.  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 5

Father, I recognize that You are not surprised by what was lacking or hurtful in my past or present. You know every hardship and hurt, every unfair and difficult situation I have faces and will ever face. I choose to let go of the things that are holding me back from the fantastic future You have for me. I choose to forgive others as You have forgiven me, and I ask You to cleanse any poison of bitterness out of my life. I believe that You are moving me forward and will thrust me into my destiny. Storms makes oaks take deeper roots. Father God, I am at peace today because I know You control the winds and storms of my life. They can either blow me backward, forward, sideways, up, or down. However, one thing I am confident in: Where You take me is where I am supposed to be. You are in control in the good times as well as the tough times. The fierce winds may come, but You will shift the winds in my direction. I believe that instead of defeating me, they will promote me. What is testing us now will soon become our testimony. Shake off the discouragement. Let go of the self-pity and get ready for God to do something new. God is going to thrust us forward into the fullness of our destiny.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 5

It would follow from this that metaphysics is a discipline superior to the natural sciences. Indeed, from a philosophical standpoint the sciences are cognitively worthless because they can say nothing about reality. The impression by urging that metaphysics and the sciences must be coordinate and equal in value. Both are concerned with the real, the sciences with the domain of matter, metaphysics with the domain of spirit. Moreover, the knowledge that, each gains is capable of indefinite expansion and can approach completeness as an ideal limit. It was this connection that seems to have been revised in the doctrine of intuition, closing the gap between it and the intellect without obliterating the distinction between the two. The objective was to formulate a philosophy that would submit to the control of science and that could in turn enable a science to progress. The disciplines would then have a common frontier. In adopting the method of intuition, metaphysics is able to supplement the sciences by giving a true account of duration, of becoming, and even of evolution. There is no difference between Time and the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 5