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Philosophy Father of The

Empirical and Speculative

Sciences …

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… As history is the mother of the sciences it may be said that philosophy is its father. Scotsman David Hume, who died in the year of the start of the American Revolution, is the master voice of the empirical science of philosophy, even more so than Francis Bacon, who is the father of the inductive scientific method, which went a long way for laying the groundwork for that group of human sciences we lump in with the humanities. Granted all of it was laid on the foundation of the Greeks, Aristotle and Plato being the potentates of educating us on man’s gray matter. Even though, if truth be known, the Jewish/Hebrew scriptures, such as Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, The Psalms, Job, et all, are the real fountains of pure philosophy because they teach the wisdom touching the entire nature of tripartite man.

All the modern thinkers are nothing more than ringmasters and jugglers of previously established concepts, men and women who have rehashed some truth salting it with the confusion of little white lies, then cooked it with a geometry of words and spiced it with pieces of fatty humor and chunks of witty speculations to make a nice word sausage carefully wrapped in tight transparent casings of sophistry, so that it is impossible to see or determine the tripe that has actually gone through the grinder so they may get away with calling it digestible food. Kant is the greatest man ever to put religion in such a casing for easy eating, one never knows if it is good or bad for their health, but it looks good if you don’t look to close and tastes good as long as you don’t take a close whiff.

In the mid-1800’s Utilitarian philosophy added its scientific approach to philosophy on highly speculative, but seemingly empirical grounds (if that makes any sense) making the art of flubbing around with trying to do good a true religion. Never mind that no human has ever been satisfied that there is a person among us who knows what is the greater good, and thus, how can we ever do it with philosophical or humanitarian certainty. Yet, Utilitarians insist that we can know the good, and therefore it is our moral duty to decide what the greater good is and act upon it. Even still, there is not a mortal who can see past a mountain, past or beyond the horizon, let alone into the dungeon of the human heart. Even the possessor of that heart cannot really know it unless God gives one sight. Is there one who can detect motives hidden in that heart – or literally see beyond the veil of their own backyard into the future?

Will James taught the philosophy of Pragmatism as a way to life, reducing goodness to what is practical. Some (maybe most) of the great altruistic acts of history which have been performed have been exceedingly impractical both for the object of the action and its performer. Take, for example, Christ’s death on the cross, this was not practical by any stretch of the imagination for Christ. Practically speaking it was not convenient for his disciples that he should leave them at such a crucial time. It was only practical for the purposes of furthering God’s supernatural altruistic plan which is literally, ‘out of this world’ and unknowable by any fixed knowledge of man. But it is apparent after God explains it that it literally was the only way to accomplish the salvation of a human being, but God only can know such things. God is the only one who knows the ultimate greater good, the only course to take for an individual to pass from this temporal life into the eternal universe of life that he has promised to the person who concedes to the truth.

Therefore, the language God chooses is not just important, it is critical. That is why the Bible is so vital to truth. He chooses his words with particular care. This is why the world and the sciences of men have tried to usurp, confuse and argue against the sanctity of the Word. It does not want to acknowledge its hopeless ignorance by bowing to God. For instance, Twentieth Century science began with its philosophers and word technicians arguing about language. Pragmatism opposed to Utilitarianism reduced philosophy from the metaphysical to a distilled almost petty science, sitting stale and colorless at the bottom of the test tube of Man’s argumentative mind. It debated every prefix, jot and apostrophe. Whimsically it changed with every smart guy. Bertrand Russell advanced the charge, thrusting and parrying with genius of pedantry, words were uttered and siphoned through arrogant IQs, fought over as if they were contestants competing on a TV game show, a host of ‘wicked smart guys’ vying for applause and reward for money.

Because of Enlightenment of Post Reformation Age of Europe
The sciences have ended up taking on the role of God trying to teach monkeys to speak and deciphering the language of sea mammals and fish. All this has taken place because the Enlightenment of the post Reformation Age in Europe was enthroned in the world’s collective unconscious. It gave license for us to think that the only truth, good and right thing is that “everyone has a right to their own belief”. Though it is a manifest cop-out to avoid doing the right thing while sidestepping listening to the voice and words of our Creator and to stop arguing with him about every little thing.

In this last moment of this age of history preceding the return the vague term ‘existentialism’ so casually tossed about in order to keep things slightly confused is maybe the best expression of our time. It was coined at the beginning of World War II. Its most distinctive voice was the French novelist and essayist Jean Paul Sartre who portrayed man as free to think and do what he wants and that he should do this without regard for a thought about God or any other moral decree, or declaration of righteousness. The existentialist says the duty of man is self-determination, living with the freedom of choice without restraint from any effect or force exerted by man, and not shackled by any notion of God. Faith in God is an imponderable distraction, and therefore, bad it says. The degradation and evil exemplified by World War I and World War II gave impetus to the atheistic claims of the muddled confusion of existentialism, maybe even helped to spawn it, but it was man, and not God, whose free choice was responsible for producing the death and destruction of both world conflagrations of the last century. Humanity’s perversity to ignore God is premeditated. Existentialism is the extreme, carrying godlessness to its limits. It is the perfect expression of this defect that has taken root in the heart of modern man. There could hardly be a more simple and perfect expression of the rejection of God, and thus, it points further to the fact that we are living at the end when the ‘cup of man’s iniquity’ is being filled to the brim. Whether it was Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Steinbeck or Hemingway, we have been taught to fill the role of God in our personal lives. It is ‘the’ revolution, to flee from the truth as a disobedient child who insists on freely doing something because they can, regardless of the consequences. Especially, we in America, who believe it is our birth right to be free to do whatever we want and that no one has the right to tell us what to do. We have become our own God. It is a lonely life, one in which only the strong barely survive, and rarely, if ever, catch a glimpse of love, health, happiness or anything ultimately good  –  even by existentialist standards.

Another sign of the times is that all the Enlightenment sciences are gushing onto society like ‘old faithful’, spraying out of Man’s outrageous brain pestering the truth like a little know-it-all child aggravating its parent. We pretend we are the smartest thing in the universe, and this comes forth from my three pound brain!

We have jettisoned the intelligence of God and believe we can master destiny. We salute the fasces of science. All the humanities are ruled by our abilities of the inductive method and that scientific form of government called democracy. The highest percentage of possibility rules the day, all we need to do is observe and record; then we have knowledge and can decide the good thing by majority vote. Even though our parents always said don’t follow the crowd. Truth has been handcuffed, marched off to the firing squad, blind-folded and shot, and we say good riddance. Anything in the name of science wins the day, like someone with a forged pilot’s license it flies the jetliner which all mankind now rides. The godly are left on the ground behind. Science and the humanities have flipped the switch. The faith of the masses of the world is flying on autopilot, whizzing into the dark unknown, all us passengers whistling as if everything is going to be just fine.

Theology, the science of the study of God is no better off. It has always been a questionable thing, this study of God, even bogus. Man cannot learn about God as if he could be studied in a laboratory with beakers and Petri dishes. God must be known personally just as we could never know someone by simply studying their life in a biography. Bogus theology, once just a gossipy rumor mill about God, has a booth at the science fair as well. It vies for the approved science merit badge like a fifth grader. All the D.D.’s and T.H.’s and whatnots after a name, tell the story. John Calvin, more than anyone gets the credit (or discredit for this, depending on how one looks at it) for giving birth to the modern science of theology. It is fitting that he started out as a lawyer. Men like Karl Barth, Hans Kung, Pope John Paul II, Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell were men who brought theology to its current seat at the world’s table by attempting to merge it with nearly all the paradigms of the sciences of humanism, and worst of all politics.

But take note: the truest and best science is the science of Prophistory. We are living in the moment of its full arrival, in the 21st Century. It is the Prophetic Science by the soundest method of science inductive reasoning, that which is observed in the laboratory of the world, in the Petri-dishes of politics, economics, natural phenomenon, the nation of Israel and the Jews, the restoration of the ancient Middle Eastern nations, the evolution of antichrist, the rise of technology and travel, and the prophesied apostasy of the church of God.

The collective unconscious of Man is revealed in this laboratory of Prophistory through empirical signs. They provide coherent knowledge that can lead to an understanding of what is going on in the world and even in heavenly realms. It lends us wisdom of how to conduct our lives by faith in God. All of the paradigms of prophecy are quantifying and validating God’s purposes upon the world which he created. They are not man’s limited sciences, but it is full and knowledgeable science. Through the science of prophecy, the failure of Man’s science is being exhibited every day with growing power. When placed side-by-side with the judgments and actions of the empirical measures of the Science of God’s prophesied word, Man’s hopes are exposed as impossible pipe dreams. Tornadoes pound, earthquakes shake the ground to make the way of our feet unstable, hurricanes and cyclones are whipped up regularly with force, all these have been prophesied by Jesus himself 2,000 years ago. Technology and travel make the world a village while man thinks it marvelous, not knowing that it is turning the world into one small place ripe for the dominance of all people by the ultimate Hitlerian person. The world is an incubator for turning us into neurotics. Disasters strike; food is short, plagues hit, the fear of world epidemics take up the resources and thoughts of our National Disease Control Center. Mental illness is common. Drugs, illegal and legal, are out of control like a virus invading our computers. Drugs is now the predominant religion of the world, bar none. Things are being turned upside down every day thing change radically. The computer term – ‘gone viral’ has ‘good’ connotations. Go figure!

The paradigms of prophecy are being fulfilled simultaneously and scientifically as we race toward the conclusion of God’s promised plan.

 

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