Existence and Essence

Let me move through a logical chain of operations. To elucidate a point.

To exist is not the same as to be. According to the best minds of philosophy.
Therefore, what exists, may not be. According to the best minds of philosophy.
Therefore, to exist sometimes isn't. According to the best minds of philosophy.
Therefore, to exist sometimes cannot be. According to the best minds of philosophy.
Therefore, what is it to exist? It may be, or it may not be?
It neither is, nor isn't.
Therefore, to exist is both something and nothing.
Therefore, to exist, and not have essence, is a logical contradiction.
Yet, to exist is separate from logic.
For a thing to be logical, it must be, or it must not be.
Therefore, what is logical either is or isn't.
And what is or isn't, is essential.
Therefore, Logic is essential.
And what is essential, is understood through Logos.
Therefore, Logos is essential.
Unless, to exist is to be.
Therefore, if to exist is to be, to exist is essential too.
And what has essence, is established as what is.
If what is accidental is not permanent as either true or false, then it is not.
Therefore, what is accidental is also essential, if it is.
For what is, is also essential.
Therefore, what is true, is permanent.
If it exists, then it also is, therefore it has being.
And what has being is permanent.
For, what is, has a cause of something before it.
And without the cause before it, it is not.
Therefore, what is caused, is, and what is has being, and what has being exists.
Therefore, to have being, is to exist.
What has being, is essential.
Therefore, existence is also essential.
What has no being, does not exist.
And what does not exist, is not essential.
Yet, there is or is not.
A subject, as an observer, can either see what is, or see what is not.
Two subjects as observers, see two contradicting things, then it is or is not.
Two subjects see the same thing, then it is.
Therefore, what two subjects see, it is.
And what two subjects contradict, it either is or is not.
And what two subjects see and agree, it is.
Yet, two subjects can both agree, and a thing is not.
Therefore, what they agree on, is false.
Therefore, the two subjects are false in where they agree.
Yet, if the two subjects are false, what establishes what is?
Though the two subjects agree, and are both false, what makes it so?
For a thing is or is not, regardless of the subject who observes it.
For a thing exists, and is, and has essence, regardless of whether there is a subject to observe it.
Therefore, the thing as it is, exists, and has its essence, in something higher than the observer.
And that which is higher than the observer, and establishes what is, that is what men call God.
Therefore, what is or isn't, is established by God.
And God is the Logos, therefore, God is essential, therefore, God exists.
For what exists, must either be or not be.
For to exist, and be and not be, is logically contradictory.
Therefore, God is logically sound.
For what is logical, can only be established in what is, and what is, can only be established in God.
Therefore, what is Logical, can only be established by God.

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