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16 May 2013
Life / First communion - it's that time of year again in Poland! [109]
That's what our intelligence is for. When i claim that Beethoven is a genius it has nothing to do with reason but it is something that i have grasped with my intellect, and the inherent certainty doesn't need any type of discursive proof to be sustained. Its an either you get it, or you don't deal, proof is entirely besides the point. Same when i claim that Beethoven has better music then 50 cent or Bieber. You can't prove either claim with reason, thus, as a rationalist you are bound to declare that the mind is impotent to understand truth of any kind, which is basically relativism plain and simple, except relativism is a paradox since it leads to its own negation (if there is no truth then the claim that there is no truth cannot also be true). Basically, rationalism has led to an intellectual cul-de-sac and western "thinkers" have done nothing but wallow in their own stupidity ever since, and it is from the point of view of sheer idiocy that condescending fools actually think they can ridicule "religion" as a stupid superstition. After all, its easy to ridicule anyone who claims to possess any type of truth if you have rejected that there is such a thing as truth a priori, but see, what makes atheist hypocrites is that they think they can only apply "reason" to religion, while all of a sudden their reason suddenly disappears when confronted with things that they know they cannot deny without demonstrating what a bunch of idiots they are, things like morality, or genius in art.
In short, your game is up. Deal with it. To be intelligence means of being capable of grasping objective realities. To be a rationalist means negating any objective reality and reduce everything to relative contingencies and accidents. The first leads to absolute truth. The second leads to paradox and its own negation. Guess why the ancients chose the first alternative.
Which one? There are so many to choose from
That's what our intelligence is for. When i claim that Beethoven is a genius it has nothing to do with reason but it is something that i have grasped with my intellect, and the inherent certainty doesn't need any type of discursive proof to be sustained. Its an either you get it, or you don't deal, proof is entirely besides the point. Same when i claim that Beethoven has better music then 50 cent or Bieber. You can't prove either claim with reason, thus, as a rationalist you are bound to declare that the mind is impotent to understand truth of any kind, which is basically relativism plain and simple, except relativism is a paradox since it leads to its own negation (if there is no truth then the claim that there is no truth cannot also be true). Basically, rationalism has led to an intellectual cul-de-sac and western "thinkers" have done nothing but wallow in their own stupidity ever since, and it is from the point of view of sheer idiocy that condescending fools actually think they can ridicule "religion" as a stupid superstition. After all, its easy to ridicule anyone who claims to possess any type of truth if you have rejected that there is such a thing as truth a priori, but see, what makes atheist hypocrites is that they think they can only apply "reason" to religion, while all of a sudden their reason suddenly disappears when confronted with things that they know they cannot deny without demonstrating what a bunch of idiots they are, things like morality, or genius in art.
In short, your game is up. Deal with it. To be intelligence means of being capable of grasping objective realities. To be a rationalist means negating any objective reality and reduce everything to relative contingencies and accidents. The first leads to absolute truth. The second leads to paradox and its own negation. Guess why the ancients chose the first alternative.