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for certain cases. For him, events take place in the brain until the bus crash
takes place, then events escape from the brain and assume a physical
reality. At this point, the logical defect is very clear: Politzer has made the
same mistake as the materialist Samuel Johnson, who said, "I hit the stone,
my foot hurts, therefore it exists." Politzer could not understand that in
fact, the shock felt after a bus impact was a mere perception too.
One subliminal reason why materialists cannot comprehend this is
their fear of the implication they must face if they comprehend it. Lincoln
Barnett tells of the fear and anxiety that even "discerning" this subject
inspires in materialist scientists:
Along with philosophers' reduction of all objective reality to a shadow-
world of perceptions, scientists became aware of the alarming limitations of
man's senses. 409
Any reference to the fact that we cannot make contact with original
matter, and that time is a perception, arouses great fear in a materialist
because these are the only notions he relies on as absolutes. In a sense, he
takes these as idols to worship; because he thinks that he has been created
by matter and time, through evolution.
When he feels that he cannot get to the essence of the universe he
lives in, nor the world, his own body, other people, other
materialist philosophers whose ideas he is influenced by—in short,
to anything—he feels overwhelmed by the horror of it all.
Everything he depends on and believes in suddenly vanishes. He
feels the despair which he, essentially, will experience on
Judgment Day in its real sense as described in the verse "That Day
shall they [openly] show [their] submission to Allah; and all their
inventions shall leave them in the lurch." (Surat an-Nahl: 87)
From then on, this materialist tries to convince himself that he's really
confronting external, original matter, and makes up "evidence." He hits his
fist on the wall, kicks stones, shouts, and yells. But he can never escape
from the reality.
Just as materialists want to dismiss this reality from their minds, they
also want other people to discard it. They realize that if the true nature of
matter becomes known to people in general, the primitiveness of their

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