Forced to choose between impossibilities - a picture or a story?

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Is reality one and static?

Or, plural and dynamic?

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Or is it that mortality is change, corruption, decay and death; while eternity is stasis, unchangeing, immortal and perfect - but how then do we move between them?

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How can be 'progress' (theosis) from changeableness and temporality towards stasis and eternity?

Slowing down, stopping, perfecting? But how is that progression - surely it is just death?

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But if reality is progression, then activity is good.

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Is reality a Picture or a Story?

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