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IMO the fact that I exist at all is along the same lines. Something so incredible, I cannot distill it into plainer terms. I wasn't, and now I am. Somehow, in a flash, a bridge opened between the finite and the infinite, and now... here I am. But what am I? One thing I know: I didn't do this... I didn't make myself or choose to come into being. It's not that I mind existence, it doesn't bother me, it's actually very interesting, but what in the world is it? So take your age and double it. Try looking back that far in time; if you're fifty, imagine the year 1917. Think hard on the fact that you didn't exist back then. So what are you now, and how did you become that?

A newbie to Thomist metaphysics, I’m finding it to be really enlightening. Love his insight that the intellect is pretty useless without real objects on which to operate! Really teaches the mind to know its place.