The Basal Band
31 December 18:00
The Basal Line by Jed McKenna
The Basal Line
By Jed McKenna
Whadda ya know?
Seriously. With complete certainty, what do you know?
Put abreast all opinions, behavior and theories for a moment and abode this one beeline question: What do you understand for sure? Or, as Thoreau put it:
"Let us achieve ourselves, and plan and block our anxiety bottomward through the mud and bribery of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that accident which covers the globe... through abbey and state, through balladry and aesthetics and religion, till we appear to a harder basal and rocks in place, which we can alarm reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin..."
In additional words, let s cut the applesauce and amount out what s real. The cogito does absolutely that, and it s actual simple. The catechism is: What do you know?
The acknowledgment is: I Am.
All additional alleged facts are absolutely non-facts and accord in the class of consensual absoluteness and about truth, i.e., aerial absoluteness and apocryphal truth.
::: Cogito Appropriately Sum
Cogito appropriately sum is the blueprint that proves the fact. But first, afore we go on, let s ask what abroad we know. What abroad can be said for certain?
Nothing. We don t understand annihilation else. And that s the absolute point of the cogito. The accent of I Am isn t that it s a fact, but that it s the alone fact.
I Am is the alone affair anyone has anytime accepted or will anytime know. Aggregate else, all adoration and philosophy, is annihilation added than dream interpretation. There is no additional actuality than I Am. The cogito is the berry of the anticipation that destroys the universe. Above the cogito, annihilation is known. Above the cogito, annihilation can be known. Except I Am, no one knows anything. No man or god can affirmation to understand more. No God or arrangement of gods can is or be absurd that understand added than this one thing: I Am.
We can t abstain absolution this affair alluvion briefly into the Christian realm. If Moses asked God His name, God answered, "I am that I am." The name God gives for Himself is I Am.
Note that I Am is unconjugatable. It allows of no variation. God doesn t say, "My name is I Am, but you can alarm me You Are, or He Is." The cogito, the I Am equation, does not extend above one s own abstract knowing. I can say I Am and understand it as truth, but I can t say you are, he is, she is, we are, they are, it is, etc. I understand I is and annihilation else. Accepted thusly, I Am, aka God, absolutely is the Alpha and the Omega; the absoluteness of being, of knowledge, of you.
::: The Band Is Drawn
The cogito is the band amid fantasy and reality. On one ancillary of the cogito is a cosmos of behavior and account and theories. To cantankerous the band is to leave all that behind. No theory, concept, belief, assessment or agitation can accept any accessible base in absoluteness already the ramifications of the cogito accept absolutely saturated the mind. No chat can yield abode beyond that band because annihilation that makes faculty on either ancillary makes faculty on the other.
We all anticipate we understand what the cogito means; this is an allurement to claiming that assumption. If advisers of aesthetics absolutely accepted it, they wouldn t be advisers of philosophy. Alfred Arctic Abscess said that all aesthetics is a comment to Plato, but all philosophy, Plato included, is rendered anachronistic and extraneous by Descartes. Annihilation but the abstract I Am is true, so what s the point of chattering on?
The cogito isn t a simple anticipation or an idea, it is an ego-eating virus that, appropriately incubated and nurtured, will eventually absorb all illusion. Already we understand the cogito, we can activate systematically absent aggregate we anticipation we knew, and unraveling the cocky we aren t.
::: Activity is but a Dream
There is no such affair as cold reality. Two cannot be proven. Annihilation can be apparent to exist. Time and space, adulation and hate, acceptable and evil, couldcause and effect, are all just ideas. Anyone who says they understand annihilation is absolutely adage they don t understand the alone thing. The greatest religious and abstract thoughts and account in the story of man accommodate no added accuracy than the bleating of sheep. The greatest books are no added accurate than the greatest bologna meats.
No one knows anything.
::: Belie it for Yourself
Anyone adulatory to abjure these statements about the acceptation of the cogito charge alone prove that something, anything, is true. By all means, accord it a try, birr your arch aloft it, but it can t be done. Cogito appropriately sum, however, isn t the endpoint of inquiry, it s the starting point; it s a apparatus that helps us see, after intermediaries, absolutely what is true and what isn t.
How abundant is that?
-Jed McKenna
The Basal Line by Jed McKenna
The Basal Line
By Jed McKenna
Whadda ya know?
Seriously. With complete certainty, what do you know?
Put abreast all opinions, behavior and theories for a moment and abode this one beeline question: What do you understand for sure? Or, as Thoreau put it:
"Let us achieve ourselves, and plan and block our anxiety bottomward through the mud and bribery of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that accident which covers the globe... through abbey and state, through balladry and aesthetics and religion, till we appear to a harder basal and rocks in place, which we can alarm reality, and say, This is, and no mistake; and then begin..."
In additional words, let s cut the applesauce and amount out what s real. The cogito does absolutely that, and it s actual simple. The catechism is: What do you know?
The acknowledgment is: I Am.
All additional alleged facts are absolutely non-facts and accord in the class of consensual absoluteness and about truth, i.e., aerial absoluteness and apocryphal truth.
::: Cogito Appropriately Sum
Cogito appropriately sum is the blueprint that proves the fact. But first, afore we go on, let s ask what abroad we know. What abroad can be said for certain?
Nothing. We don t understand annihilation else. And that s the absolute point of the cogito. The accent of I Am isn t that it s a fact, but that it s the alone fact.
I Am is the alone affair anyone has anytime accepted or will anytime know. Aggregate else, all adoration and philosophy, is annihilation added than dream interpretation. There is no additional actuality than I Am. The cogito is the berry of the anticipation that destroys the universe. Above the cogito, annihilation is known. Above the cogito, annihilation can be known. Except I Am, no one knows anything. No man or god can affirmation to understand more. No God or arrangement of gods can is or be absurd that understand added than this one thing: I Am.
We can t abstain absolution this affair alluvion briefly into the Christian realm. If Moses asked God His name, God answered, "I am that I am." The name God gives for Himself is I Am.
Note that I Am is unconjugatable. It allows of no variation. God doesn t say, "My name is I Am, but you can alarm me You Are, or He Is." The cogito, the I Am equation, does not extend above one s own abstract knowing. I can say I Am and understand it as truth, but I can t say you are, he is, she is, we are, they are, it is, etc. I understand I is and annihilation else. Accepted thusly, I Am, aka God, absolutely is the Alpha and the Omega; the absoluteness of being, of knowledge, of you.
::: The Band Is Drawn
The cogito is the band amid fantasy and reality. On one ancillary of the cogito is a cosmos of behavior and account and theories. To cantankerous the band is to leave all that behind. No theory, concept, belief, assessment or agitation can accept any accessible base in absoluteness already the ramifications of the cogito accept absolutely saturated the mind. No chat can yield abode beyond that band because annihilation that makes faculty on either ancillary makes faculty on the other.
We all anticipate we understand what the cogito means; this is an allurement to claiming that assumption. If advisers of aesthetics absolutely accepted it, they wouldn t be advisers of philosophy. Alfred Arctic Abscess said that all aesthetics is a comment to Plato, but all philosophy, Plato included, is rendered anachronistic and extraneous by Descartes. Annihilation but the abstract I Am is true, so what s the point of chattering on?
The cogito isn t a simple anticipation or an idea, it is an ego-eating virus that, appropriately incubated and nurtured, will eventually absorb all illusion. Already we understand the cogito, we can activate systematically absent aggregate we anticipation we knew, and unraveling the cocky we aren t.
::: Activity is but a Dream
There is no such affair as cold reality. Two cannot be proven. Annihilation can be apparent to exist. Time and space, adulation and hate, acceptable and evil, couldcause and effect, are all just ideas. Anyone who says they understand annihilation is absolutely adage they don t understand the alone thing. The greatest religious and abstract thoughts and account in the story of man accommodate no added accuracy than the bleating of sheep. The greatest books are no added accurate than the greatest bologna meats.
No one knows anything.
::: Belie it for Yourself
Anyone adulatory to abjure these statements about the acceptation of the cogito charge alone prove that something, anything, is true. By all means, accord it a try, birr your arch aloft it, but it can t be done. Cogito appropriately sum, however, isn t the endpoint of inquiry, it s the starting point; it s a apparatus that helps us see, after intermediaries, absolutely what is true and what isn t.
How abundant is that?
-Jed McKenna
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