The
Knowledge of Mice
by Nathan Freeman
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
-Socrates[1]
Knowledge, how often that incomprehensible ghost breathes silently apart from mice, who in declaring themselves men only reveal their folly, yet what mouse can find folly when all think themselves men? This defines the plague of modern society, a civilization that believes itself the possessor of knowledge. The paradoxical Enlightenment gave rise to the society of ignorance. Science dethroned Wisdom and Philosophy. The bearers of that almighty knowledge, Scientists, replaced the great Philosophers and Theologians of that archaic era. Blazing through the jungle of logic these “enlightened” mice found man at the center of the circle of reason. Man, yes, finally man! It was within man that all knowledge and intelligence hid, and for all millennia men had looked to up to the skies, to the stars, to the gods! How primitive and unintelligent us humans once were! It was then that mice declared themselves men. God what is God? You speak of Y? No, it is X! It is along the great horizontal axis that knowledge manifests itself! Within man! The line was crossed upon that great enlightenment. Man found knowledge, and condemned ignorance.
“Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.”
-Solomon, King of Israel[2]
Upon the great strike of the Enlightenment the clock face of mankind gazed upon a world of illusion. Science crowned king. Its Truth ruled men’s souls. Of course, shaving divinity off the chin of man was neither a quick nor clean process, but mankind slowly merged onto this unbeaten path. Men’s theology led the merge. The Renaissance was the point of no return. It was in the context of the Renaissance that man declared equality. Equality with their Creator! No longer was that God king of micekind, but an equal! Men were now gods among God. No not gods, individuals. It was the Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio that so perfectly painted this moment in human history. The School of Athens, the acropolis of the Western civilization, the Greeks ushered the world into the era of the individual. Society mounted upon the agreeable plateau of humanism. Man injected himself into that circle of reason, shoulder to shoulder with Jesus.
That elevation of man continued to etch itself deeper into the fabric of human history. Brick by brick the second Tower of Babel was being built. Man had scraped the heavens, society endeavored beyond. Christopher Columbus in 1492 set sail to uncover the future breeding ground of individual freedom. In 1776 that breeding ground became a sovereign entity, soon producing the most successful Social Thesis human history has ever conjured. A landmark had been achieved, no longer did rulers rise through Divine appointment, but by the sovereign will of society. The Old World followed in the New World’s footsteps with France leading the charge. The French revolution: liberty, equality, fraternity, echoed a century later in Marx’s ultimate social thesis, Communist Manifesto. Meanwhile the 19th century produced the declaration of many ignorant mice, Sir Charles Darwin was lord of them all. He widened the narrow base of Babel into the uncharted territory of Creation. He solved man’s dependence on Divinity and thrust the tower far above the clouds. He removed the original nucleus of reason. Man could now administer Truth without interference. O brave new world!
IMPLICATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE
Before continuing one must understand the concept of knowledge. What is it? Where does it come from? For starters does not knowledge give purpose? For in order to possess purpose one must have direction and direction must be known by the traveler. Therefore knowledge gives birth to direction which when administered to a person gives purpose. Of course with purpose comes value, for without purpose any object whether person or thing is useless, purposeless, nothing. Therefore if knowledge springs from humanity then humanity directs itself and therefore sets it’s own value. Now remember all reason runs in an infinite circle therefore once finished we should come back to knowledge. So humanity sets its own direction and therefore its own destiny. This destiny follows its purpose which sets all values. Therefore the values of society choose the destiny of man. Now what is the destiny of man? Death! Death is the destiny of every man. Therefore the values of society lead to death! Death! Death! Contemplate that for a minute! Contemplate the significance! Humans become the center of reason. Therefore from humans comes all knowledge, from knowledge stems all purpose, from purpose stems all value, from value stems all direction, from direction stems all destiny, destiny being the unforgiving constant, Death! Then what comes after death? It is a haunting reality. Man is finite. Man has an end. But wait was not man his own means? Then how can man end if he is his own means? If man is his own means then man must live eternally, for Truth and Reason must be eternal for all reason runs in an infinite circle. Therefore man cannot be the center of the circle for man is finite! Therefore either Death is the end of man or there is another means, a means other than man.
INFINITE MEANS
Consider the mechanics of a reaction. Activation energy is needed to begin a reaction, and that activation energy made by something greater than the reaction. Once begun the reaction is fueled by the means it runs in a cycle until it dies, it ends because its means is finite. However could not the greater means rejuvenate the flame of reaction? Think of this, man could not begin himself for he is himself. The difference between himself and himself are exactly zero. Therefore in order for man to begin man must have a means greater than himself. And in order for man to live for eternity, man must be supplied by infinite means.So therefore man must not be supplied by infinite means for man will someday die. Correct? Now say man was begun by finite means? Where does that finite means come from? And from where does that finite means come from? And so on and so on for eternity? Therefore at some point an infinite means must lend the activation energy to ignite the flame of mankind. Therefore an infinite means beyond the human hemisphere must exist! Now we still come back to why does man die, especially if there is an infinite means to supply mankind? Before continuing the let the author demonstrate infinity as best a finite creature can. Let’s say Infinity = n. Therefore the infinite means = n. Now according to the definition of infinity “n” never ends. No matter what is taken from “n”, “n” still maintains its full integrity. Therefore n-n=n and n-2n=n and n-3n=n and n-nxn=n and n-100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000n=n. Get the point? Infinity minus a million billion trillion of itself still equals infinity! Nothing can be so incomprehensible to the finite mind. Think about it for a moment. Back to the issue of death. Now how can an infinite means simply stop supplying what it started! It is infinite the paradox violates the very definition of means. Therefore death is an unnatural paradox! Death is not natural! Does it feel natural! No death is painful! And pain implies the invasion of something foreign, something unnatural! So where in the hell does pain and death come from! The answer lies in the nature of mankind, in your very essence. To demonstrate, stop reading!
If you are reading this then you chose to start reading. You were never told to start reading you simply chose. You live your life making choices like these everyday. Essentially you have freedom. Yes you live in America, or maybe you don’t, you live in a jail cell shackled to the floor. Your eyes mouth and ears are glued shut you cannot sense a thing, but you are not dead. You still have choice. You choose an attitude and you may believe whatever you want about anything you want. You have the choice. Now lets say mankind was ignited by this infinite means. But mankind by nature can choose to believe whatever he wants about anything he wants! Therefore somewhere in history man chooses to believe that mankind is the infinite means. Thereby injecting himself into the circle of reason and removing the infinite means. Therefore man dies. Why? Because man is a finite means and finite means always end. Unless, of course, the infinite means is reinserted into the circle and the finite means is removed. Then the finite is rejuvenated and continues to live. But man still has the choice. Only man can reinsert the infinite means, only by believing that the infinite means can be reinserted and removing himself to make room for that infinite means can the finite flame continue to live. Ponder that for a moment. Does not religion reflect that concept? The worship of a God. Christianity especially reflects this notion. An infinite God ignites a mankind that chooses to supply itself chooses to make itself God, chooses to believe that knowledge comes from itself. But removing God from all reason mankind cuts itself off from that infinite source of life. Therefore death ensues. Now in order that man reinsert the infinite God into their circle man must live as if the infinite God were in his circle. However man is finite and only by an infinite supply can man live by the infinite God’s values and purposes and knowledge. Therefore only the infinite God has the power and only the finite man has the ability. Therefore a something 100% infinite God and something 100% finite man must bridge the gap and reinsert the infinite means of God. Christianity teaches that this man/God was Jesus. No not half-man half-God. 100% man and 100% God. Once again beyond the finite mind’s understanding. Thereby Jesus Christ gives God the power and man, that includes you, the ability. The ability to believe and reinsert God thereby receiving rejuvenation after death.
CONCLUSION
Hereby repeat the great words of Socrates, for now you understand that you do not understand. Because no finite being can understand an infinite being until he becomes an infinite being once a again. Therefore all mankind is ignorant, for it is finite. All mankind needs to know is that it is finite and ignorant, for if man knows his ignorance he will live forever. If man believes he has knowledge, he will die forever. Therefore…
"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
-Socrates
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