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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. 35

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 cre-
ated 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 philoso-
phers 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 Judgement 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
own philosophy and the ignorance of their worldview will be laid bare for
all to see. No ground will be left on which they can rationalize their views.
These fears explain why they are so disturbed by the facts related here.

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