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It gets more and more obvious that nihilism is the the problem: denial of reality - denial that reality is real.
Denial that there is objective truth and humans can know it.
Nihilism eats away at everything Good: it has destroyed art, architecture, literature, science, education politics - and much of the Christian church.
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Once the question has asked - what can we answer?
Once it is asked - How is that known? Why not do this instead? Then modern man is paralyzed, because he has no reason to believe he knows anything at all.
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Much is possible to innocent natural people that is not possible to us.
The hunter-gatherer may live in the moment without consideration for meaning or purpose - just live - but merely ask the question why and that possibility is gone forever.
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All such questions have but one terminus: divine revelation.
We can only know anything by purposive divine revelation - we must believe that the divinity (who knows, and wants us to know) has built-into-us (natural law), or told-us, that which we depend upon.
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Divine revelation is a metaphysical necessity without which nothing else is possible - once the question has been asked.
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And we cannot un-ask the question; once innocence has gone, it cannot be retained.
The innocence of a child cannot be replicated and recovered by effort, training, technology, art, drugs, brain surgery nor by anything else: modernity is post-innocent and attempts to restore innocence are its greatest corruptions, its most profound decadence.
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Modernity is doomed metaphysically; therefore inescapably.
By its atheism, by metaphysically removing divine revelation from its necessary position as the basis of all discourse; modernity has undermined its own foundations; and all that remains is for the superstructure to collapse into the pit.
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