Rationally proving rationality

[reverendjeremiah]

I adhere to Absurdism.

the human in and of itself is not absurd. The cosmos in and of itself is not absurd. Once you mix them together is when the absurdity become apparent.

We are human in a non-human cosmos. We are thinking and caring beings in a cold, dark universe.

Many people cannot handle the duality of the absurd, so they actually convince themselves that they are special, in a special time, in a special place...as opposed to being just another human in a violent and changing universe.

The absurd is clarified from the intent of the viewer, and even the most rational and logical of us can fall prey to it. A good exaple lies in the Discordian "law of fives"

- "All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5 The Law of Fives is never wrong."

the law of fives is a humorous way to explain that intent in that the creator of it specified: "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

Another way of looking at the Law of Fives is as a symbol for the observation of reality changing that which is being observed in the observer's mind. Just as how when one looks for fives in reality, one finds them, so will one find conspiracies, ways to determine when the apocalypse will come, and so on and so forth when one decides to look for them. It cannot be proven wrong, because it proves itself reflexively when looked at through this lens.

At its basic level, the Law of Fives is a practical demonstration that perception is intent-sensitive; that is, the perceiver's intentions inform the perception. To whatever extent one considers that perception is identical with reality, then, it has the corollary that reality is intent-sensitive.

The Law of Fives is related to the significance of the number 23 and the 23 Enigma in the Illuminatus!-trilogy, as 2 plus 3 equals 5.