Observation and Reason

OBSERVATION:

The act of observation presupposes the consciousness of the observer which is neither entailed nor explainable in terms of the phenomena observed (i.e. the material world).  This self-evident and, yet, somehow transparent, first principle of science, through which all else is made possible, excludes --as a direct function and consequence of the ACT of observation itself-- all positive claims for (a) the exclusion of the unobservable, and (b) sufficiency and exclusive agency of the material.

           Thus, no world restricted to the material may be deemed natural.  Nor, in the most literal sense possible, could it be described any other way.   For, it would either exist in the imagination alone, or would bear no legitimate claim to existence at all.

 

Any and all advocating for this unsubstantiated, and contradictory, belief-structure is an inherent act of self-negation that renders immediately unto it's author the status of (a) mad and irrational agent or (b) blind and ignorant person.  In either case he is not to be listened to, and most certainly may not be reasoned with, for he has abandoned not just 'reasonableness' but reason itself.  

 

           And just as our physical senses provide evidence of material things, we find evidence for those forces, agencies, or intelligences that created us (which, we'll just call 'creator'), through the dimension of mind and application of Reason. 

Any person who may not, upon being asked to do so by a skeptical inquirer, present his own consciousness to  be inspected objectively is thus a Hypocrite of the highest order(!), if his boldness in accordance with his ignorance, should cause him to ask that "G_d" (i.e. creative force) show himself -- for it could only "be" through form if he were to satisfy the skeptic; and would necessarily BE within the Mind of rational agents, thus Willing, having the eyes to see. 

            It is clearer still, that the burden of the skeptic is not that "G_d reveal Himself", for Intelligence is manifest in all places at all moments, it is that He should suspend His own Laws(!) in order to fulfill the request of a selfish and stubborn child.  What possible arrogance is this?  If the skeptic insists that to be denied is proof of G_d's lack of omnipotence, it is only implied by the fact that He may not have foreseen such ignorance to be possible.  If this constitutes a limitation of Divine power, it is first-and-foremost invoked by the wanton destruction of he who would judge his Creator.

 

For this reason, any and all propositions within the framework of materialism, are acts that seek simultaneously to Affirm and Deny the existence of Uncaused causes. He insists he was not 'created' but, that he was 'caused to be'; further, he swears that the system which created him is positively unintelligent, but that he, himself, IS intelligent, while, at the same time denying the POSSIBILITY of ANY such property, relation or substance that would legitimize this distinction. 

          There is no society or system, predicated upon such madness of the highest (and in reality lowest) order, that could ever hope to function in harmony, or possess integrity in any way.  Because, the self – and in fact, the very notion of Self -- has been disintegrated, just as the world of matter and form has been dis-integrated with that most vital Dimension it cannot exist without.