A "fluke" is what's left over from a bad theory. "Random" is a broom used to sweep inconvenient facts under the rug. "Arbitrary" is derived from the word "Arbitrate" - meaning to decide, to choose, to dictate. Nothing is ever "just" anything. Nature is not complex, but it is smarter than you unless you discipline yourself to think in the same way a professional athlete disciplines themselves to run, breathe and jump. Nature doesn't abhor vacuums - the self-annihilation of vacuums is the engine of cosmic, create Eros - but Nature does indeed abhor inelegance. What you see as complexity is subtlety and nuance. What you see as inconsistency is a fractal which you haven't managed to back up from enough.
The "veil" which prevents us from seeing the truth of the world clearly doesn't consist in our organs of perception - which are themselves the most finely crafted epistemological instruments imaginable - but rather this "veil" consists of the things that we think we know without even realizing that we believe them; assumptions which live rent-free in the ideas which we internalized as teenagers and which we don't realize even **can** be called into question. Nothing is hidden from us. Seeing the Pleroma - the world of Geist, Psyche, Spirit - is a matter of realizing that you are wearing sunglasses indoors that you forgot to take off. It is a matter of realizing that you are stumbling through a dark cave, but also realizing the crucial fact that you are already carrying the only flashlight you will ever need - your own thoughts.
Genuine thinking is a skill that most human beings never develop; not because they are stupid but because the "thinking" taught in universities is nothing other than skillfully toying with thoughts which were created centuries ago, and which have hence calcified into lifeless museum specimens. The world-in-itself is not hiding behind our sensory impressions. It is not waiting for us to meditate ourselves into a dissociative stupor by staring at a wall and repeating a matra for three weeks. It is not hiding behind some hallucinogenic chemical or anomalous experience. The world-in-itself is **within** the phenomenal, and encountering those inner depths is something we do with eyes wide open, sober as a judge, in broad daylight.
Thinking is not a passive, solipsistic act; it is an act which penetrates nature and is penetrated by nature. And before you perverts beat me to the innuendos; yes, this means that thinking is quite literally an erotic act when conducted properly.
The purpose of this channel is not to give you the answers so that you can have it all figured out. Good luck even trying to regard it as that, considering I'm incessantly tweaking and modifying the cosmological narrative I am composing here. Rather, the point of this channel is to walk you step by step through the process of genuinely phenomenalogical - genuinely **empirical** - thinking, including all of my mistakes and corrections. This channel is not a textbook, let alone entertainment; it is a set of dumbbells to be lifted. Do not expect my philosophy to remain consistent over time, because I am also lifting those dumbbells.
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A "fluke" is what's left over from a bad theory. "Random" is a broom used to sweep inconvenient facts under the rug. "Arbitrary" is derived from the word "Arbitrate" - meaning to decide, to choose, to dictate. Nothing is ever "just" anything. Nature is not complex, but it is smarter than you unless you discipline yourself to think in the same way a professional athlete disciplines themselves to run, breathe and jump. Nature doesn't abhor vacuums - the self-annihilation of vacuums is the engine of cosmic, create Eros - but Nature does indeed abhor inelegance. What you see as complexity is subtlety and nuance. What you see as inconsistency is a fractal which you haven't managed to back up from enough.
The "veil" which prevents us from seeing the truth of the world clearly doesn't consist in our organs of perception - which are themselves the most finely crafted epistemological instruments imaginable - but rather this "veil" consists of the things that we think we know without even realizing that we believe them; assumptions which live rent-free in the ideas which we internalized as teenagers and which we don't realize even **can** be called into question. Nothing is hidden from us. Seeing the Pleroma - the world of Geist, Psyche, Spirit - is a matter of realizing that you are wearing sunglasses indoors that you forgot to take off. It is a matter of realizing that you are stumbling through a dark cave, but also realizing the crucial fact that you are already carrying the only flashlight you will ever need - your own thoughts.
Genuine thinking is a skill that most human beings never develop; not because they are stupid but because the "thinking" taught in universities is nothing other than skillfully toying with thoughts which were created centuries ago, and which have hence calcified into lifeless museum specimens. The world-in-itself is not hiding behind our sensory impressions. It is not waiting for us to meditate ourselves into a dissociative stupor by staring at a wall and repeating a matra for three weeks. It is not hiding behind some hallucinogenic chemical or anomalous experience. The world-in-itself is **within** the phenomenal, and encountering those inner depths is something we do with eyes wide open, sober as a judge, in broad daylight.
Thinking is not a passive, solipsistic act; it is an act which penetrates nature and is penetrated by nature. And before you perverts beat me to the innuendos; yes, this means that thinking is quite literally an erotic act when conducted properly.
The purpose of this channel is not to give you the answers so that you can have it all figured out. Good luck even trying to regard it as that, considering I'm incessantly tweaking and modifying the cosmological narrative I am composing here. Rather, the point of this channel is to walk you step by step through the process of genuinely phenomenalogical - genuinely **empirical** - thinking, including all of my mistakes and corrections. This channel is not a textbook, let alone entertainment; it is a set of dumbbells to be lifted. Do not expect my philosophy to remain consistent over time, because I am also lifting those dumbbells.
Nothing is hidden.
Nothing.
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