tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post6819369173850066951..comments2024-03-26T16:24:34.218+00:00Comments on Meeting The Masters: The Unlearned believe X, the Clever think Y, the Wise know XWilliam Wildbloodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-57249549436375228172018-05-01T18:08:20.242+00:002018-05-01T18:08:20.242+00:00Materialism eats its own head. I like that. You co...Materialism eats its own head. I like that. You could also say it removes the ground from under its own feet. At any rate it makes absolutely no sense. It is wilful ignorance.<br /><br />Interestingly enough, the movement into intuition, as in direct insight, does not seem to be connected to IQ. That is, low IQs do not make that progression though they may well have faith. I think it does require a reasonably high IQ to move forward as one would expect but while that may be necessary, it is by no means sufficient. In fact, high IQ people are often the worst offenders among the 'clever' people and the most trapped in politically correct ideology. Perhaps because of the link to abstraction and theory and the prideful resistance to simple faith. This might be a recent phenomenon though, dating from the last 3-4 hundred years. You would normally expect the more intelligent to be, well, intelligent.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-36787782808425767902018-05-01T16:28:46.072+00:002018-05-01T16:28:46.072+00:00Dickens has a minor character in "Oliver Twis...Dickens has a minor character in "Oliver Twist" called Mr. Grimwig. He punctuates his opinions by saying that if they are not true, "I'll eat my head." (a variation on the "I'll eat my hat" expression.) As Dr. Charlton points out, the materialism of the clever people is "self-refuting": it eats its own head. For if consciousness is but an epiphenomenon of the brain, then all thoughts are no different than any other physiological process. To speak about truth or falsehood becomes meaningless. "That's true" has about as much meaning as "I'm hungry." Both become statements of the same sort. But the clever people don't really believe what they say they believe, for they behave and opine as though what they and others say and do matters and they want to hold people accountable, e.g. laws against "hate speech" or "climate denial." But how can one criminalize and epiphenomenon of the brain? The Grimwig Perplex cannot be sidestepped except by willful blindness. If thinking is recognized as something that is above nature, that is, as an activity that can arrive at transcendent truth, then we are on the doorstep of the supernatural. Edwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-23014056221408272922018-05-01T08:09:59.389+00:002018-05-01T08:09:59.389+00:00Eric, I don't know what to say! You have just ...Eric, I don't know what to say! You have just described to perfection someone I had in mind when writing this post, a person who for me exemplifies the Y mentality. William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-25822195071055394432018-05-01T02:39:23.464+00:002018-05-01T02:39:23.464+00:00Very similar to my own line of thinking. My experi...Very similar to my own line of thinking. My experience is that people who are more intuitive minded (primarily) often have deeper personalities with more integrity and are generally more charismatic/mature than rigid "atheist" types. Being rational is not always reasonable, as I believe Kant pointed out, hence strictly rational types often lack moral personality. This makes them mental servants who are good at figuring "things" out but lack the ability to phenomenologically relate to other people hence lack insight of the psyche and soul. I believe this is partly because ideological rationalism goes hand in hand with a type of control-based way of life that is confined to daily consciousness only, while at the same time suppressing the unconscious. This is understandable because our current world is based on that type of "modus operandi", hence we have become over-socialized and neurotic. It's like modern man can't tolerate that he is an actor in a plot that is much bigger than what he is able to control through self and must consult God and release himself to grow inwardly and find himself again.<br /><br />I believe our thiswordly mental bias has lead to a very unhealthy cognitive dissonance. Humans as intuitive beings often know things to be true before we're able to articulate and confirm them. Yet nowadays we are always supposed to "wait" for empirical data and missing pieces to provide evidence for what we already know, and then people start thinking about everything that way. Hence we don't even trust our nature in a wholesome sense. We're bound to endless legal formalism and red tape, because somehow we have externalized our own rational procedures to rule things for us, while leaving the human being behind. We're even blind to the data itself since obviously materialism is a giant emprical failure. But still most people are apologists for the clever-monkey-strategy.Adilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12458942641355740167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-30375938421437160152018-04-30T14:17:04.321+00:002018-04-30T14:17:04.321+00:00Yes, I believe you're right about this lashing...Yes, I believe you're right about this lashing out in defence of the palpable nonsensical. It's part of the rush into insanity. As the consequences of people's embrace of materialist ideology become more and more extreme, the attempts to uphold it become ever more belligerent. It's as though forcing your mind to believe a lie actually turns you mad.<br />William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1513199068907090344.post-88927424536843722612018-04-30T13:57:53.663+00:002018-04-30T13:57:53.663+00:00@William - That's very well put.
The interes...@William - That's very well put. <br /><br />The interesting thing is that the current 'Clever' stage is only able to perpetuate itself (and prevent itself from moving-on) by 'dumbness'; since modern 'skeptical' materialism is self-refuting nonsense. <br /><br />However, it is self-defended by an unwillingness to stick to the point, make connections and think things through - and this is done with such determination and aggression as to be wilful; hence it is actively-sinful.<br /><br />I think most people sense this, and this feeling is what leads to the kind of defensive 'lashing-out' and wildly-inappropriate hyper-aggression which has become 'normal' in mainstream public discourse in this era. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com