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Materialists have a hard time understanding this issue. For instance, if

we return to Politzer's bus example: although Politzer technically knew
that he could not step out of his perceptions he could only admit it in cer-
tain cases. That is, for Politzer, events take place in the brain until the bus
crash, but as soon as the bus crash takes place, things go out of the brain
and gain a physical reality. The logical defect of this point is very clear.
Politzer has made the same mistake as the materialist Johnson who said, "I
hit the stone, my foot hurts, therefore it exists". Politzer could not under-
stand that the shock felt after the impact of the bus was merely a percep-
tion as well.
The subliminal reason why materialists cannot comprehend this subject
is their fear of what they will face when they comprehend it. Lincoln
Barnett tells us that some scientists "discerned" this subject:
Along with philosophers' reduction of all objective reality to a shadow-world
of perceptions, scientists have become aware of the alarming limitations of
man's senses. 48
Any reference made to the fact that matter and time are perceptions
arouses great fear in the materialist, because these are the only notions he
relies on as absolute beings. He, in a sense, takes them as idols to wor-
ship; because he thinks that matter and time (through evolution) created
him.
When he feels that the universe in which he thinks he is living, the
world, his own body, other people, other materialist philosophers by
whose ideas he is influenced, and, in short, everything is a perception, he
feels overwhelmed by a horror at it all. Everything he depends on, believes
in, and has recourse to suddenly vanishes. He feels a taste of the desper-
ation which he will really experience on the day of judgement, as
described in the verse "That day shall they (openly) show (their) submis-
sion to Allah; and all their inventions left them in the lurch." (Surat an-

Nahl: 87)
From then on, this materialist tries to convince himself of the reality of
matter, and makes up "evidence" for this end. He hits his fist on the wall,
kicks stones, shouts, yells, but can never escape from the reality.

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