Living in cuckoo land
Describe to me what a ‘krtitokrac’ does. Anything you can think of. Can you be sure of anything that you think of it? I don’t think you can – because it doesn’t exist – it’s a made up word. Odds are you tried to look it up to try and get an idea. Whatever you had come out with would not have been any closer to the truth than what another may have thought of. You could not produce any thinking on the subject matter because there was no reality for you to sense (you had never seen/heard/felt/smelt/tasted one) and there was no previous information stored that your mind could have linked to the reality of the sound ‘kritokrac’. Any output of your thinking would have been irrational gibberish.
What about a ‘thalaja’? can you do any better? If you know Arabic then you may have come across the word before. If you have then you can link the sound of the word to the reality you have seen which is now stored in your previous information. If not then you may like to know that the word ‘thalj’ means ice in Arabic. You can now recall all the previous information stored in your mind about the word ice and start to produce some thinking about this thalaja- “maybe it is some form of ice, maybe it is an ice maker…”. These would all be close to the reality of it – which is a freezer. Now the next time you hear that word (the sensed reality) you would be able to give me a thought upon it by accessing your stored previous information (that sound means ‘freezer freeezer’ in Arabic).
This is the rational thinking: the use of the mind to link previous information to the sensed reality. If any of these four factors are missing from the process then there is no rational thinking: the reality, the senses (to access the reality), the previous information and the mind (to link the reality with the previous information). Rational thinking is a natural innate way of thinking and what the human being uses in everyday life to progress and solve his problems. You live in your environment and the quality of life in your environment depends on the quality of your irrational thinking. If you are missing any of the processes of rational thinking (or if there is a malfunction or incorrectness of any of the factors) then you will not be able to progress and solve your problems successfully. You will not be able to successfully navigate in your environment. You will -to put it simply- suffer and not last very long. So as an example if you were to walk into your house and there is a gas leak then if any of these factors that we just mentioned are missing from your thinking :
you don’t sense the reality of gas because you can’t smell (maybe you have a cold),
you can smell the gas but have no ‘previous information’ as to what this peculiar smell is
there is a problem with your mind that does not allow you to link this smell with the information that it is explosive
then your next step of turning on the cooker or lighting a flame could be fatal!
Considering what we have just highlighted about rational thinking, the problem and incorrect method of the philosophers can be identified as :
1-Ignoring and doubting the rational procedure when establishing sound knowledge.
2-Thinking irrationally about God and his nature- when God is an unsensed reality
we will now proceed to discuss these problematic stances to show their errors.
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