Shadows. Just as the light behind them illuminates their presence, so the light of knowledge behind oneself illuminates one's unknowing. The shadows are because things are - they are the product of the Arbitrary, which All Things made; All Things being All Things, being all of existence - the comprehensible and incomprehensible (to man, for none is incomprehensible to God), the known and the unknown (again, to man) alike; God made - indirectly - all things known and comprehensible to man, and thus, likewise, this ability to reason the unknown and the incomprehensible., for man is in his finite test, but The Arbitrary made God, and All Things with Him - indeed, only in this sense can we, but with respect, establish "Him" as non-capitalized, as non-Supreme, although he is Supreme in All Things Good, which is Superior to All Things; a paradox - the particular as higher than the universal - that allows Him to be forever capitalized, even in this context, which I shall write forever henceforth.
Shadows are of two kinds: those the product of one's insufficiency in knowledge, i.e., the product of his light's angle being too narrow, and those the product of H/himself, because H/he, as All, is a product of The Arbitrary. Of the former, man, but not God, is subject, for God's omniscience is as sure as man's existence, and man's ignorance is as sure as his inability to explain it; of the latter, Both are subject, for Both are products of The Arbitrary, surely as All Things are.
But, and by paradox, the lone shadow is not a shadow for God, but an awaiting opportunity. For the shadows to man's sides are what give his own shadow darkness - like a terrible crowd they rile up its strangeness and make it the most fearsome of all to man. God has only light to His sides, and shadow - the unknown, is known, and merely awaits to be uncovered, to be experienced. As He progresses - as He moves His light toward the darkness, He knows, inexplicably, exactly what the ground will look like; but how much better a picture seen that one imagined! and each spot is more beautiful than the last. This is the heaven in which God dwells - not a place, but a state of mind - forever becoming yet forever glorious, as God is and knows Himself.
Infinity isn't - it is only an idea - surely as Things are. For Things are defined by their presence in the background of non-presence, and if there is non-presence there is no infinity - only The Arbitrary. That there is no infinity, but a (relatively) large sum of Things, allows Their Entirety to be known. But does not one thought give rise to another? After All is known, is there not a new thing made? This is the shadow of the self, dark only to the ignorant. Thus, though there is no infinity, and never can there be, there is an infinity to be had - forever out of reach.
That the ignorant knows anything in the face of ignorance is by the grace of God - the light of truth, known, but inexplicable to its mortal owner in the face of the absurd, is God's gift.
A depiction of God's knowledge is the same figure, with "known" lines across the entirety of The Arbitrary, save a single line - the shadow of the self, which, though forever unexperienced, is known by virtue of the absence of shadows of ignorance, causing His further progression to, paradoxically, transcend The Arbitrary, by virtue of His being able to make what has never before been made.
The shadow of the self is the produce of agency: the unknown "what next will you do?" However, it becomes known as soon as you know all other variables - then you have but to do it.
Is it not action to pursue that thing which you know to choose? Not so - man's will allows the option of other things. That God does not choose them is what makes him God. It is understandable, furthermore, that God's "line" may include a variety of different actions, as one's only necessary property is that producing the greatest benefit in the face of the alternatives. Suppose I choose ice skating over an ice cream cone in the winter time - with a goal of warmth and physical activity, I have succeeded, but it is no less right to have a goal of being cold and satisfied.
To believe in The Arbitrary as a cruel mistress is to live in fear. Not only do they live wrongly in fear of the non-mighty, they most often fear what they cannot explain. The Church of Matter teaches that a giant body of forever imperceivable material dictates everything. Where is this material? What does it do? How could we study it to determine what the material will do next?
As soon as we see things for what they are - perceptions, specifically forms (a brick wall, a house, a book, etc.) - the question remains: what will these forms do next? In large part, we are ignorant of this - it is one of our shadows. But the question remains: why are we not fully ignorant?
Let's assume that the atheist is right - perceptions come from nothing and exist on the will of none. Consider: how would we know what they do? It could be that one tests a physical "law" - say, actions have an equal and opposite reaction - and find that his experiment yields his expected result. But as any Humean knows, that it was done once before, or twice or a hundred, this is no evidence that it will happen again. If, at the core of this belief, we admit that The Arbitrary is Arbitrary, perhaps physical laws change in cycles. No one has more evidence than one who supposes that at precisely midnight, the physical laws will change - planets will go backwards, the Earth will stop spinning, the skies will fall and the floor will lift up, etc. It is not falsifiable, but then, it isn't falsifiable to suggest that at precisely midnight the laws will stay the same! Either way, not one could conclude it.
This brings to mind the most important question of all: how do we know what we know? Let's assume I'm right instead - that all things are thoughts. That forms are produced by the labor of us and God, and that The Arbitrary was only, to begin with, the happenstance of the existence of egos - in this context, a conscious, mindful entity - God and us and whoever else - which occupy no space.
Consider what you feel with a look at the color yellow. Do you "objectively" observe it, with only the conclusion: "this is yellow?" Most do not. Yellow applies itself as symbolic of many traits, including reason, pleasure and optimism, or jealousy, envy and betrayal. Nothing about the color yellow means any of those things, and with other colors there are similar correspondences to virtues and character traits unrelated to the color itself. One could claim that these are the product of a complex interaction with other colored things, to which I ask: why are the animals, too, so affected? Poisonous creatures are well known to color themselves brightly, standing as a ward. And children also - purple stands out as the color of magic, and is the favorite color of 75% of children.
Another example, consider how the look of a person - their facial expression, position and hand movements - allows you to predict what they're thinking to some degree. Certain sorts of smiles mean different things, subtle brow movements indicate others - many have suggested that the bulk of communication is body language. Not only do each of us recognize the meaning of that language, but we each practice ourselves. Certain looks mean things independent of their "objective" description.
Not to be too empirical here, which breaks strongly from the purpose of this blog, these are aspects of what psychologist Carl Jung refers to as a "collective unconscious." As he states:
“My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”
As a roundabout way to my point, I provide these examples and this idea as a solution to the problem of induction if all things are forms or formers. If yellow means more than yellow, perhaps everything means more than that thing which is objectively presented. Why would this be? If God imposes his thoughts into our minds such that we see them, we're getting a form, but also, perhaps, his meaning behind the form, as the form was thought. We do not understand His thinking process in its entirety - else we could make sure forms ourselves, but perhaps we catch the residue in our unconscious mind. Just as it bears God's signature, such that we know it is that of God, as distinguished from that of others (this being a speculative theory), it also bears His content, and we gain insight therefrom insofar as we can understand it.
Object permanence can be explained this way - our unconscious mind picks up the thought of this object, which includes, aside from its form, that the form is to "last." All things we know regarding the future are unknown at their core at the reasoning level - it stands to reason that other things we know are at a level we cannot yet explain consciously.
One's belief in The Arbitrary, where things elucidate nothing more than their cold, "objective" description, is necessarily a belief in the unknown, at its core. It is a belief in the fear of unknowing. It is the paradox of statement unsupported within oneself.
I've so quoted before, but Kant notes:
"Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but ... let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition."
It seems that as we explain what has befallen humanity in a language more suitable and with concepts more suitable to our intuition, and so our understanding, we indeed get farther assuming that cognition precedes objects, which conform to it. Do not take my word, go about and decide for yourself if everything you see has no attached meaning. Decide if your material explains, could ever explain, that and the problem of induction. Conclude if the explanation that things are forms rightly answers the questions, I invite you.
Monday, December 9, 2013
Saturday, December 7, 2013
A Plea to Religious Persons
What I refer to as religious persons in this plea: those who believe in a God, which is or has a mind, who is rational, and who strives for our progression. Buddhists and other non-theistic religious people, and non-religious people, are all welcome to read what's written below, but this is not a plea to you.
Who denies the need for a creation of things? That is, where do things come from? The atheistic response has commonly been that the physical world sprung forth from nothing, and did so arbitrarily. The arbitrary existence is a thing that does not exist with the ability to create existence. Not satisfactory.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, suppose they believe that something has "always" existed - the universe, space, time… whatever it may be, it has existed since the beginning by arbitrary decree. My response: what is space? what is the universe? It is commonly held by many people - religious and irreligious alike - that space constitutes "material" independent of what we see. That is, while we perceive things, they are also things outside our perception. But this is an impossibility - a statement that A is not A, a statement that A - one's perception of a guitar, which is all they can ever know - is also B - a "material" guitar independent of your perception! Indeed, since each of us perceives only perceptions of a guitar, and each perception is different, the "material" guitar being perceivable by no one, the materialist claims that A, your perception of a guitar, is also B, a material guitar, is also C, his perception of a guitar, &c. As soon as one claims they are different things - the perception different from the material guitar - this separate B is entirely superfluous. There is not and could never be evidence of it.
Now suppose the alternative - all things are ideas: forms in your mind. Each of us perceives on his own wavelength, which is bombarded by his own ideas, and other ideas: the guitar not of one's creation, and an imagined guitar that is. This is a plausible explanation because it reduces things to minimal terms. The visualized idea of a guitar is in no way different from the perception of a guitar - each of its properties is no different from those same properties imagined, with the proper strength of mind. It stands to reason that we should accept the guitar for what it is: a compilation of forms.
Of the forms we see, few our own making. Everything we don't make must come from someone else - a being powerful enough to create vivid ideas and impose them in others' minds. He has created a world for us where progress is the name of the game, and our empowerment and growth is the consistent result.
My purpose in this was to suggest that each of us argue for God. The intellectual debate sways everyone's mind, and when the religious cop out, it looks bad. Atheists are ready in a moment to claim God has no evidence, then they turn around and believe in an imperceivable matter than makes up the entire universe, which is inexplicably different from the perceptions of it. It isn't even a coherent position. The simple explanation - the Occam's razor explanation - is that only what is perceived exists. As all we perceive are ideas, and ourselves, these are the only existent things. We know by the nature of an idea - a form - that it must be thought - formed - that there is a creator.
This is not complicated logic. Reduce things to their basic form. The self - the consciousness - does it exist in space? No. It is not an idea. Is time a substance? No. It is not an idea. Time is the vehicle for action making, as space - the realm of ideas - only changes when a new thought is produced. Space and time require the self - not the other way around. The self - the consciousness - is not bound by any confines - it is the a priori, the most prior thing. It exists - and unlike ideas, which can be unthought and so unmade, unlike ideas, which exist in space and are produced by action, the self is confined by nothing. It exists in an atemporal state - an eternal state.
These ideas are not new, and they're not mine. The philosophers of greatest contribution to the intellectual sphere - Kant, Descartes, Plato and Socrates - the logic of these men is not changed by new discoveries in science; science answers to philosophy - It is the historical parent, and always gets the last word. Hume's problem of induction renders an explanation of the universe through the scientific method impossible, for science is no establisher of axioms. If nothing is certain, nothing is probable - as a 99% chance of a 99% chance of a 99% chance… is infinitesimal. No matter how many times you perform a lab experiment, it will never reveal an answer independent of an axiom.
In his paper, The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (to which I do not ascribe), reality theorist (and America's smartest man) Christopher Langan puts it this way:
"The problem of induction is very real; it is manifest in Heisenberg uncertainty and the cosmic horizon problem, finite limitations of scientific tools of microscopic and macroscopic observation, and is why no general theory of reality can ever be reliably constructed by the standard empirical methods of science. Unfortunately, many scientists have either dismissed this problem or quietly given up on the search for a truly general theory, in neither case serving the long-term interests of science. In fact, the problem of induction merely implies that a global theory of reality can only be established by the rational methods of mathematics, specifically including those of logic."
God is not scientific, and never can be - as we discussed, he does not exist in space (and neither do we - our consciousnesses). But it is logical to establish that things are forms and that forms must be formed - a better explanation than, certainly, the imperceivable and superfluous "material." There is no strict deduction in these regards - only that which is simplest and best fits the evidence. As enlightenment philosopher Kant notes:
"Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but ... let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition."
He who contends that God cannot be as he is not perceived by he specifically must then deny the existence of any other mind. By this reasoning, one should believe only in himself - that he is surrounded by mere ideas with, somehow, no origin, or else "matter." Either way, he concludes that the humans he sees are no different from trees with legs, for isn't it simpler to assume that they don't have minds than that they do?
Note the important difference between God and matter - God is not perceived by us, but is perceived by himself - he is perceivable as a self-conscious being, just like each of us. Matter is not, and cannot, be perceived by anyone - it is imperceivable. The Church of Matter is worse than hypocrites, totally oblivious to their own problems, then constantly on the attack that destroys them. Crowd idiocy, the lot of it.
God exists because he is perceived, but we know his existence by his products. Ideas need a thinker, forms need a former - plain and simple. I think other minds are known to us by the signature they bear in mindshare. People often speak of the beauty of God's creation - the beauty that makes them know it's God. Likewise, an idea by another will have a distinctly different flavor - a uniqueness that lets us sense the existence of a mind. As they communicate, they impose their thoughts in our minds in a subtle way.
Accepting that a consciousness produces, each on its own wavelength, God's power is deducing minds from these productions, finding one's wavelength and imposing his thoughts. The thoughts are such on each person that a world is formed. Communication of this world to each solidifies that God's mind is like ours - he tests based on progression and elucidates truths. Other minds do this also, but picking up on the wavelength of those productions reveals - on a level not conceived - the infinite - that these minds are different, as thought they bore a different "signature." One can produce thoughts on to another wavelength, as does God, but each produces from his own wavelength, God included.
I've constructed, and without too many words, an explanation for the universe that stands on simple tenets and is reasoned. Let the Materialists claim there are holes - theirs is the explanation with the greatest hole of all - imperceivable nonsense. That goes for the religious and irreligious materialists, who join together in one church where the audacious are almost always heathens.
These are the sorts of constructions that people need to explain in defense of religion. We need to be on the attack against the vicious doctrine of the Materialists - the doctrine that all must succumb to the imperceivable reality. They give no explanation for their ethics - they are ethical only insofar as their hypocritical stupor remains, and what when it leaves? It is a dangerous philosophy - a dangerous church - that stands on necessarily false tenets. The Aztecs were vicious in their sacrificing to false gods. Atheism demands the sacrifice to a tabula rasa of arbitrarily determined things and events, so they often claim - for if it isn't purposed, surely it's a blank slate! Follow your philosophy to its conclusion, atheist, or quit - your material grants you no oughts, you have no evidence of other minds. You either believe that you're stuck as the only man in a dreamworld - the faithless Occam's razor - or you have serious comprehension problems.
My plea to you, the religious man or woman, is to exploit these obvious contradictions. Make people think about what they say - hold them by a thread over the lone self in his dream world, then ask if they're ready to accept an imperfect explanation of the universe. Ask if they're ready to quit the nonsense of what they deem is "proof" and what isn't. Ask if they're willing to accept logic - the problem of induction, the chooser of philosophy as king and with science as its subject. Ask if they're ready to explain what they believe, rather than what they don't. Ask if they're ready to internalize the complicatedness of the problems surrounding the issue of what all this stuff *is*, if they're willing to accept that perhaps, perhaps, God is not to be isolated in a vacuum, but pondered into the big picture.
Who denies the need for a creation of things? That is, where do things come from? The atheistic response has commonly been that the physical world sprung forth from nothing, and did so arbitrarily. The arbitrary existence is a thing that does not exist with the ability to create existence. Not satisfactory.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, suppose they believe that something has "always" existed - the universe, space, time… whatever it may be, it has existed since the beginning by arbitrary decree. My response: what is space? what is the universe? It is commonly held by many people - religious and irreligious alike - that space constitutes "material" independent of what we see. That is, while we perceive things, they are also things outside our perception. But this is an impossibility - a statement that A is not A, a statement that A - one's perception of a guitar, which is all they can ever know - is also B - a "material" guitar independent of your perception! Indeed, since each of us perceives only perceptions of a guitar, and each perception is different, the "material" guitar being perceivable by no one, the materialist claims that A, your perception of a guitar, is also B, a material guitar, is also C, his perception of a guitar, &c. As soon as one claims they are different things - the perception different from the material guitar - this separate B is entirely superfluous. There is not and could never be evidence of it.
Now suppose the alternative - all things are ideas: forms in your mind. Each of us perceives on his own wavelength, which is bombarded by his own ideas, and other ideas: the guitar not of one's creation, and an imagined guitar that is. This is a plausible explanation because it reduces things to minimal terms. The visualized idea of a guitar is in no way different from the perception of a guitar - each of its properties is no different from those same properties imagined, with the proper strength of mind. It stands to reason that we should accept the guitar for what it is: a compilation of forms.
Of the forms we see, few our own making. Everything we don't make must come from someone else - a being powerful enough to create vivid ideas and impose them in others' minds. He has created a world for us where progress is the name of the game, and our empowerment and growth is the consistent result.
My purpose in this was to suggest that each of us argue for God. The intellectual debate sways everyone's mind, and when the religious cop out, it looks bad. Atheists are ready in a moment to claim God has no evidence, then they turn around and believe in an imperceivable matter than makes up the entire universe, which is inexplicably different from the perceptions of it. It isn't even a coherent position. The simple explanation - the Occam's razor explanation - is that only what is perceived exists. As all we perceive are ideas, and ourselves, these are the only existent things. We know by the nature of an idea - a form - that it must be thought - formed - that there is a creator.
This is not complicated logic. Reduce things to their basic form. The self - the consciousness - does it exist in space? No. It is not an idea. Is time a substance? No. It is not an idea. Time is the vehicle for action making, as space - the realm of ideas - only changes when a new thought is produced. Space and time require the self - not the other way around. The self - the consciousness - is not bound by any confines - it is the a priori, the most prior thing. It exists - and unlike ideas, which can be unthought and so unmade, unlike ideas, which exist in space and are produced by action, the self is confined by nothing. It exists in an atemporal state - an eternal state.
These ideas are not new, and they're not mine. The philosophers of greatest contribution to the intellectual sphere - Kant, Descartes, Plato and Socrates - the logic of these men is not changed by new discoveries in science; science answers to philosophy - It is the historical parent, and always gets the last word. Hume's problem of induction renders an explanation of the universe through the scientific method impossible, for science is no establisher of axioms. If nothing is certain, nothing is probable - as a 99% chance of a 99% chance of a 99% chance… is infinitesimal. No matter how many times you perform a lab experiment, it will never reveal an answer independent of an axiom.
In his paper, The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (to which I do not ascribe), reality theorist (and America's smartest man) Christopher Langan puts it this way:
"The problem of induction is very real; it is manifest in Heisenberg uncertainty and the cosmic horizon problem, finite limitations of scientific tools of microscopic and macroscopic observation, and is why no general theory of reality can ever be reliably constructed by the standard empirical methods of science. Unfortunately, many scientists have either dismissed this problem or quietly given up on the search for a truly general theory, in neither case serving the long-term interests of science. In fact, the problem of induction merely implies that a global theory of reality can only be established by the rational methods of mathematics, specifically including those of logic."
God is not scientific, and never can be - as we discussed, he does not exist in space (and neither do we - our consciousnesses). But it is logical to establish that things are forms and that forms must be formed - a better explanation than, certainly, the imperceivable and superfluous "material." There is no strict deduction in these regards - only that which is simplest and best fits the evidence. As enlightenment philosopher Kant notes:
"Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but ... let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition."
He who contends that God cannot be as he is not perceived by he specifically must then deny the existence of any other mind. By this reasoning, one should believe only in himself - that he is surrounded by mere ideas with, somehow, no origin, or else "matter." Either way, he concludes that the humans he sees are no different from trees with legs, for isn't it simpler to assume that they don't have minds than that they do?
Note the important difference between God and matter - God is not perceived by us, but is perceived by himself - he is perceivable as a self-conscious being, just like each of us. Matter is not, and cannot, be perceived by anyone - it is imperceivable. The Church of Matter is worse than hypocrites, totally oblivious to their own problems, then constantly on the attack that destroys them. Crowd idiocy, the lot of it.
God exists because he is perceived, but we know his existence by his products. Ideas need a thinker, forms need a former - plain and simple. I think other minds are known to us by the signature they bear in mindshare. People often speak of the beauty of God's creation - the beauty that makes them know it's God. Likewise, an idea by another will have a distinctly different flavor - a uniqueness that lets us sense the existence of a mind. As they communicate, they impose their thoughts in our minds in a subtle way.
Accepting that a consciousness produces, each on its own wavelength, God's power is deducing minds from these productions, finding one's wavelength and imposing his thoughts. The thoughts are such on each person that a world is formed. Communication of this world to each solidifies that God's mind is like ours - he tests based on progression and elucidates truths. Other minds do this also, but picking up on the wavelength of those productions reveals - on a level not conceived - the infinite - that these minds are different, as thought they bore a different "signature." One can produce thoughts on to another wavelength, as does God, but each produces from his own wavelength, God included.
I've constructed, and without too many words, an explanation for the universe that stands on simple tenets and is reasoned. Let the Materialists claim there are holes - theirs is the explanation with the greatest hole of all - imperceivable nonsense. That goes for the religious and irreligious materialists, who join together in one church where the audacious are almost always heathens.
These are the sorts of constructions that people need to explain in defense of religion. We need to be on the attack against the vicious doctrine of the Materialists - the doctrine that all must succumb to the imperceivable reality. They give no explanation for their ethics - they are ethical only insofar as their hypocritical stupor remains, and what when it leaves? It is a dangerous philosophy - a dangerous church - that stands on necessarily false tenets. The Aztecs were vicious in their sacrificing to false gods. Atheism demands the sacrifice to a tabula rasa of arbitrarily determined things and events, so they often claim - for if it isn't purposed, surely it's a blank slate! Follow your philosophy to its conclusion, atheist, or quit - your material grants you no oughts, you have no evidence of other minds. You either believe that you're stuck as the only man in a dreamworld - the faithless Occam's razor - or you have serious comprehension problems.
My plea to you, the religious man or woman, is to exploit these obvious contradictions. Make people think about what they say - hold them by a thread over the lone self in his dream world, then ask if they're ready to accept an imperfect explanation of the universe. Ask if they're ready to quit the nonsense of what they deem is "proof" and what isn't. Ask if they're willing to accept logic - the problem of induction, the chooser of philosophy as king and with science as its subject. Ask if they're ready to explain what they believe, rather than what they don't. Ask if they're ready to internalize the complicatedness of the problems surrounding the issue of what all this stuff *is*, if they're willing to accept that perhaps, perhaps, God is not to be isolated in a vacuum, but pondered into the big picture.
Monday, December 2, 2013
Poetry
SOCRATES: Gleaming metal, frozen expression
Never to settle, devoid of concession
His armor encompasses the knowing -
It's a knight we're showing -
To each his own, but to each the known.
Evil nixed, focus fixed
Gaze acquired, falchion fired
A weapon of the knowing -
It's a knight we're showing -
To each his own, but to each the known.
OVESON: Tell me a tale of the knight of the knowing.
SOCRATES: I will tell you:
DRAGON!, fierce a thing
Open wing and seven fires
Never an eye loosed but on the knight of the knowing
It's a gun show with a knife in a fire fight.
But the knight is fearless.
Raise ye your weapons high!
Sing the song of tales of sorrow!
Bring the horrors of the earth upon the knight of the knowing
And the fires of Hell!
The knight is fearless.
Scathe his armor with claws of steel
Breathe his breath ye fiery beast!
The DRAGON of lies who yearns for his passion!
The DRAGON who manifests himself in every man
Save the knight
For the knight is fearless.
OVESON: Tell me, who is this knight?
KIERKEGAARD: Is it he who stands for the weak?
Is it he who feeds the needy?
Is it he who rises to his peak
When the crowd about gets seedy?
It is he who drinks the bitter cup
When prompted by the good?
Is it he who links his pathway up
When the gods bless his food?
The former are the side effects
The latter is the knight's strength
For it's so that not any pride erects
When the crowd cheers him at length
The knight needn't any promise
That people love him true
For in his heart is an honest:
You've already paid your dues.
The former are the side effects
Of the knight of the knowing's strength
For it's so that not ay pride erects
When the crowd is there to thank.
OVESON: Continue.
SOCRATES: Frozen metal, gleaming expression
Never to concede, devoid of settling
The knowing encompasses his armor -
We're showing a knight -
To each the known and to each his own.
Burning fire meets metal cold
Winter's frost makes fire old
Sharpened steel meets DRAGON's neck
Knowing's foe meets fate of death
Never shall one fruitful oppose
That which never doesn't know.
OVESON: Who knows?
SOCRATES: The knight.
OVESON: Tell me, who is this knight?
KIERKEGAARD: Knights are secrets none can tell
Sure as man is gone to hell
In the event he loses his secrets
Such that he might find his regrets
Regrets of stories lost and told
Stories and truths that were once too old
Old and too dear made dull by the word
A swift blow to faith's herd
It must never be heard.
The crowd is mockery.
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