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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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LENIN COMMANDED HIS COMRADES,
"DO NOT THINK, OR ELSE YOU WILL BELIEVE."

he world to which we're connected is composed not of matter, but
perceptions. Because this fact knocked the foundations from under
T materialist philosophy, its ideologues are very uncomfortable and try
not to think about it, even recommending that their colleagues not think about
it either. Chief among them is Lenin. In Materialism and Empirio-Criticism, a
book he wrote a century ago, he warned
that materialists should not think about
this subject, else they might become
"caught up” in religion:
Once you deny the objective reality
[that is] given us in sensation, you
have already lost every weapon
against fideism [reliance on faith
alone], for you have slipped into ag-
nosticism or subjectivism—and that is
all that fideism requires. A single claw
ensnared, and the bird is lost. And our
Machists [an adherent of Machism, developed by the Austrian philosopher
Mach, one of the leaders of modern positivism], have all become ensnared
in idealism, that is, in a diluted, subtle fideism; they became ensnared from
the moment they took "sensation" not as an image of the external world,
but as a special "element." It is nobody's sensation, nobody's mind, no-
body's spirit, nobody's will. (V. I. Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-criticism,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1970, pp. 334-335) )
As this quote shows, the only thing materialists can do about the "real nature
of matter” is to avoid thinking about it!—the clearest indication that the myth of
materialism derives its strength only from people's self-deception.