- The present state of the world is called "gola" (exile). The state of the world as it will soon be is called "geula" (redemption). The two words are exactly the same, except that "geula" has the letter "alef" inserted in the middle. "Alef" means "master". It also means "one".
To make gola into geula, we only need reveal the alef—the One Master of the Universe who is hidden within the artifacts of our present world.
—Menachem Mendel Schneerson
What are the stars without us?
Something—we know not what.
What is the Earth without us?
We can never say.
What is reality in our absence?
We will never know.
For all our modern knowledge about the universe, every one of those theories, images, and concepts is born out of our embodied cognition: beyond our perception, we can never know what "is".
So before we say that anything exists—to be logically and epistemically sound—we must always say "I am" (saying so and so exist). Anything else is ignorance, self-denial, naïveté.
And that is the fatal flaw of the modern materialist myth.
We cannot escape our existence—why did we ever try to?
Something—we know not what.
What is the Earth without us?
We can never say.
What is reality in our absence?
We will never know.
For all our modern knowledge about the universe, every one of those theories, images, and concepts is born out of our embodied cognition: beyond our perception, we can never know what "is".
So before we say that anything exists—to be logically and epistemically sound—we must always say "I am" (saying so and so exist). Anything else is ignorance, self-denial, naïveté.
And that is the fatal flaw of the modern materialist myth.
We cannot escape our existence—why did we ever try to?
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