March 15, 2010
The Principle Answer
All right, I’m (finally) ready to identify the First Cause of existence. Lets begin with a recap. Information is transcendent and time-less, and can have a dramatic affect of the physical world. Principles are the first cause of information. Principles are qualitative (subjective) and quantitative (objective) values. The First Cause of existence must consist of causeless principles; principles that require no preceding cause.
When you’re right, you’re right
The qualitative principle that defines the First Cause is “Right”. The concept of being right is causeless. It is the most basic qualitative measure. Something is either right or it is “not right” (wrong) – yes or no, true or false, etc.
The First Cause cannot be wrong because “wrong” is actually a measurement of how “less than right” something is. In other words, “wrong” cannot exist without “right” existing first. You wouldn’t know that something was wrong unless you had something “right” to compare it to. (We know that “Spam” is wrong, because filet mignon exists). And, of course the First Cause cannot be right and not right because we know that contradictions are impossible.
Not only is the First Cause “Right”, it is always and completely Right. How? Well, since the First Cause consists of principles, and principles are the first cause of information, then the First Cause is always completely right because it has all the information in existence.
And justice for all
The First Cause must also be a quantitative principle. That principle is “justice”. Justice is inherent balance. Justice states that if a value is taken, it must be replaced exactly. Or if a value is given, then it must be paid back in the same proportion. (On a physical/cosmological level, justice is the first cause of the second law of thermodynamics).
Like “Right”, justice is causeless. Balance (or stasis) is inherent. As in the “right” example above, we wouldn’t know what injustice, unfairness, or imbalance was unless justice/balance existed to compare it to. The First Cause is always and completely Just because, again, it has all the information in existence to insure complete balance.
Now before you start scratching a hole in your head, realize that we all believe in the causeless nature of Right and Just. We all believe that things are either right or wrong. Even moral relativists who claim that there is no right or wrong contradict themselves because they believe that moral relativism is “right”!
We all believe in justice. We prove it anytime we say, “that’s not fair!” We know justice exists and we rely on it as motivation for all our actions. When we do something, we know that there are consequences which we expect to conform to a code of justice. We work because we feel we justly deserve compensation. If someone does something nice for us, we believe that they should be justly thanked. If someone does something wrong to us, we believe they deserve to suffer just punishment. Even those who intentionally do wrong and commit injustice recognize “right” and “just” by their intentional violation of it.
So, in summary, the First Cause of existence is Right and Just.
And that concludes this blog, thank you and goodnight. Watch your step on your way out. Be sure to tip your waitress
Oh…you’re still here.
I know what you’re thinking – “Is that it?! Is that all the First Cause of existence is? A set of $@%# principles?! The great force that birthed this grand universe, the cauldron of creation that flung the galaxies against the black of space, that formed the great nuclear furnaces we call stars, that holds atomic structures together and caused the formation of the fantastic metaphysical complexity known as life… is nothing more than the abstract principles of “Right and Just”? Is that all the First Cause is? Really?”
No. I’m NOT saying that’s all the First Cause is. I’m saying that’s all we can know about the nature of the First Cause based solely on Human understanding. Anything else we know about the nature of the First Cause has to come from a source beyond human understanding. Logically, the best source of additional information about the First Cause would come from the First Cause itself (and since we know that the First Cause is Right and Just, we can probably trust what It says about Itself).
But does the First Cause actually “say” anything about Itself? As a matter of fact, I believe It does…
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