Collective Trauma: The Fallout 20

I really lose patience with academic eggheads, especially philosophers, professional or amateur or just not able to stop playing with themselves all the time (stop it or you`ll go blind!) Rising in the dawn hours this morning I switched on the CBC Radio at 4 an this morning and the program was from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and it was about whether there exists such a thing as objective truth. Of course, the large-headed idiot who has never been able to get his face out of a book, or so it seems, and actually live life as a normal human being, made that classic stupid and fatuous claim that there is no such thing as truth. And this is where I really tend to lose patience. It isn't whether or not I believe in objective truth. I likely do, but I simply don't think about it. What inflames me is when these fat-headed intellectuals insist that truth doesn't exist. Why does this bother me so much? Besides the absolute hubris and arrogance that comes with the kind of intellectual atheism that is only an excuse for not having to surrender our lives to the power that made us and sustains all existence? It is the way they make these dumb claims that there is no such thing as truth and they make that into...truth. They are basically heisted by their own philosophical petard. For those bobble heads there is no truth, and that is the truth. So they're really lying to themselves, like other atheists. We can only think in terms of a or b, it seems, not because the universe is limited but because we are. we are a limited being. I believe that the truth is not only out there. But that the truth simply is. Everything that is speaks of truth, in all its intricacies and complications and complexities and contradictions. It isn't that truth doesn't exist, but what is wanting is our ability to fathom the very universe that we are a very tiny part of. But to appreciate this requires humility, which is usually in short supply, especially among academic eggheads. For me, the truth, if or as it exists, is very simple. We are here, whether or not there is a higher purpose to human existence, we do have the capacity to think that there just might be such a higher purpose to our existence and this should really give us pause. Either we are masters at self-deception (and I think there is substantial evidence to back up this idea), or we are merely acting out our hidden potential. We are either biological forms of material existence that will replicate our genes then die off and dissolve into the biosphere or we are beings of a higher potential. Just that we are able to imagine ourselves such tells me that we probably are designed for better than a simple animal, non reflective, non purposeful existence. Which also makes it absolutely ludicrous when philosophers speak from one corner of their mouth that there is no truth, then from the other corner of their mouth declare that it is morally wrong to kill Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Muslims or anyone else that the right happens to hate. It is wrong to hate and it is wrong to kill, at least the vulnerable and innocent. And there is no such thing as truth? Yeah, sure. Truth, if it exists, is so hard for us to grasp because our own capacities as humans are so limited. We are more than just mind. We are spirit and soul as well, though that of course is just as hotly disputed by those wankers (please, stop, or you will go blind!) But we also have this growing body of evidence, or perhaps para-evidence, of near death experiences, of altered states of consciousness, of religious and spiritual epiphanies and dare I say it) the occurrence of the paranormal and the miraculous that no scientific textbook is ever going to explain away, and there fore chooses to ignore and dismiss as specious nonsense in absence of peer-reviewed scientifically sound evidence. But there is only so much that science is able to prove and even on their theories scientists turn by fault into persons of faith, because they have to believe in something. This appears to be hardwired into our human psyche, whether we like it or not. We have to believe in something, not just by intellectual assent, but by passionately adhering and trusting in the very essence and virtue of what we believe. And this is how I believe in God, and this is how I believe that God is Love, and now please, my near academic eggheads, stop doing that or you will indeed go blind!