Round And Round We Go

Round And Round We Go

When will the Bubble Burst? Round and Round we go

Sophia: Master Leibniz, the world feels like a spinning sphere—bubbles within bubbles, all fragile, all shimmering. When will it burst? Or does your “necessary substance” keep it forever afloat?

Leibniz: A beautiful image, Sophia. The universe, I think, does not burst but unfolds. Its motion is not chaos, but harmony seen from too near. What you call fragility is but the play of reflections upon an eternal order.

Sophia: Yet from within the bubble, all appears uncertain. Wars, markets, loves, lives—each swells and collapses. If God is the necessary substance, is He not also the bursting?

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)

Leibniz: Ah, but the bursting belongs to appearance, not essence. Every change, every dissolution, is but a transformation contained within the divine plan. The bubble breaks only to reveal the air that gave it form.

Sophia: So, even destruction is derivative—contained in the logic of necessity?

Leibniz: Precisely. The ultimate reason of things must lie not in their surface movements, but in the being that underlies them. God is that necessary being—containing all possible worlds, yet choosing the best among them.

Sophia: The best of all possible worlds… You have been much mocked for that. Voltaire would say your bubble is delusion, an optimism too polished to be true.

Leibniz: Voltaire mistook irony for wisdom. To see order in the world is not to deny suffering, but to affirm meaning through it. The circle turns, yes—but it turns around a center, not into nothingness.

Sophia: Then our spinning—our round and round—is not futility, but rhythm.

Leibniz: Exactly so. Every monad, every soul, reflects the universe in its own way. Each bubble, though distinct, contains the whole sky.

Sophia: And when the bubble bursts?

Leibniz: The form passes, but the reflection remains. The divine harmony does not cease; it merely shifts its tone. The music continues, though the instrument be gone.

Sophia: Then perhaps faith is learning to hear the melody beneath the noise—to find stillness even while spinning.

Leibniz: Indeed, Sophia. For though the world whirls round and round, God is the still point about which all turns—and in which all finds its reason.

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