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that the ascetic priest’s unbending faith in an absolute God is a disguised version of science’s unbending faith in absolute Truth. Therefore, Nietzsche’s version of absolute truth is when a proposition has become compelling:
ARGUMENTUM ORNITOLOGICUM
“I close my eyes and see a flock of birds. The vision lasts a second, or perhaps less: I am not sure how many birds I saw. Was the number of birds definite or indefinite? The problem involves the existence of God. If God exists, the number is definite, because God knows how many birds I saw. If God does not exist, the number is indefinite, because no one can have counted. In this case, I saw fewer than ten birds (let us say) and more than one, but did not see nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two birds. I saw a number between ten and one, which was not nine, eight, seven, six, five, etc. That integer 3⁄4 not-nine, not-eight, not-seven, not-six, not-five, etc. 3⁄4 is inconceivable. Ergo, God exists.”23
now let’s suppose that there is no god.
then I might think there is no faith
for what is man-woman without faith or god in the desolate deserts of Atacama?
23 Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. “Argumentum Ornithologicum” NY, USA: The Penguin Group. Viking. 1998. 299
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