re: no perfect finished plan

"We do, in fact, experience perceptual novelties all
the while. Our perceptual experience overlaps our
conceptual reason: the that transcends the why. So the
common-sense view of life, as something really
dramatic, with work done, and things decided here and
now, is acceptable to pluralism. 'Free will' means
nothing but real novelty; so pluralism accepts the
notion of free will.
"But pluralism, accepting a universe unfinished, with
doors and windows open to possibilities uncontrollable
in advance, gives us less religious certainty than
monism, with its absolutely closed-in world. It is
true that monism's religious certainty is not
rationally based, but is only a faith that 'sees the
All-Good in the All-Real.' In point of fact, however,
monism is usually willing to exert this optimistic
faith: its world is certain to be saved, yes, is saved
already, unconditionally and from eternity, in spite
of all the phenomenal appearances of risk."

"A world working out an uncertain destiny, as the
phenomenal world appears to be doing, is an
intolerable
idea to the rationalistic mind." 

A perfect finished plan
Like every sparrow falling
and in every grain of sand....


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