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III. Aletheian Realism: The Metaphysical Foundation

Every philosophy rests on metaphysical foundations, whether acknowledged or not. The Enlightenment claimed to have no metaphysics, and to operate on pure reason and empirical observation alone. This was merely another level of its characteristic deception. The Enlightenment’s commitments to the autonomy of reason, the mechanical nature of the universe, the distinction between objective facts and subjective values were metaphysical through and through. They were simply unexamined metaphysics, held dogmatically while the Enlightenment’s philosophers congratulated themselves on having transcended dogma.

Veriphysics makes its metaphysical foundations explicit. It rests on what may be called Aletheian Realism: the conjunction of a particular understanding of truth with a commitment to the reality and knowability of the world.

The term aletheia is Greek, usually translated as “truth.” But the etymology of the term suggests something richer: a-letheia, un-concealment, the condition of being revealed rather than hidden. Truth, in this understanding, is not primarily a property of propositions but a fundamental feature of reality itself. Things are true insofar as they are unconcealed, disclosed, available to be known. The mind does not construct truth; it discovers it. Truth exists in its own right, prior to inquiry, as inquiry is merely the process by which elements of the truth become manifest to the inquirer.

This understanding stands opposed to the Enlightenment’s characteristic theories of truth. The correspondence theory, in its Enlightenment form, treated truth as a relation between propositions and facts, verified by method. The coherence theory treated truth as internal consistency within a system of beliefs. The pragmatic theory treated truth as what works, what enables successful prediction and action. Each of these theories makes truth dependent on human activity, dependent upon our propositions, our systems, and our purposes. Aletheian Realism reverses the dependency. Truth is what already is, therefore our propositions, systems, and purposes are only true insofar as they conform to it.

Realism, the second component, affirms that the world exists independently of our knowledge of it and that our knowledge genuinely discloses the world’s nature. This is the Aristotelian inheritance: universals are grounded in particulars, known through abstraction from sense experience, real features of things rather than mere names or mental constructs. Against nominalism, which reduces kinds to convenient labels, Aletheian Realism holds that the natural kinds are real and that the distinction between gold and iron, between oak and maple, between man and beast, reflects the proper structure of reality, not merely the conventions of language. Against idealism, which makes the world dependent on mind, Aletheian Realism holds that the world would exist and have its character even if no mind perceived it. It does not depend upon either the observer or the speaker.

But Aletheian Realism is not naive realism. It does not claim that human knowledge is infallible, complete, or perspectiveless. It acknowledges that we know from particular positions, through particular faculties, with particular limitations. The glass through which we see is real—it shapes and constrains what we perceive. But what we perceive through it is also real. The task of inquiry is to clarify the glass, to correct for its distortions, to bring the image into sharper focus—not to imagine that we can dispense with the glass altogether and see as God sees.

This brings us to the concept of participation. The Platonic tradition, Christianized by the Church Fathers and the Scholastics, understood human knowledge as a participation in divine knowledge. God knows all things perfectly, immediately, exhaustively. Human beings know some things, imperfectly, mediately, partially. But the partial knowledge is not disconnected from the perfect knowledge; it participates in it. The truths we grasp are fragments of the Truth that God is. Our knowledge is not merely analogous to divine knowledge; it is a finite sharing in it, made possible by the fact that we are created in the image of a God who knows.

This participatory understanding grounds both confidence and humility. Confidence: we really know. Our knowledge is not illusion, not projection, not social construction. It is genuine apprehension of genuine reality. Humility: we do not know exhaustively. Our knowledge is partial, corrigible, open to refinement. The darkness of the glass through which we see is not total, but it is real. The fullness of sight awaits a condition we have not yet attained, a state to which we have not yet ascended.

The medieval doctrine of the transcendentals completes the picture. Being, truth, goodness, and beauty are convertible. What is, is true, is intrinsically good, and is ultimately beautiful. These are not separate properties accidentally conjoined but different aspects of a single reality, distinguishable in thought and perception but united in essence. The Enlightenment’s separation of fact and value, its insistence that science tells us what is while ethics tells us what ought to be, and never the twain shall meet, was a metaphysical error with catastrophic consequences. This distinction made values arbitrary, subjective, and groundless. It rendered facts meaningless, brute, devoid of significance. Aletheian Realism reunites what should never have been severed. To know the truth about a thing is already to know something about its goodness; to apprehend reality is already to be oriented toward its value and its beauty. Knowledge is inherently normative.

The separation of fact and value is not a discovery but a mistake.

You can now buy the complete Veriphysics: The Treatise at Amazon in both Kindle and audiobook formats if you’d like to read ahead or have it available as a reference. Thanks to many of the readers here, it is presently a #1 bestseller in both Epistemology and Metaphysics.

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Veriphysics, as requested

The Enlightenment promised to replace superstition with reason, tyranny with liberty, and ignorance with progress. Three centuries later, the results are in.

Democratic governments no longer represent their citizens. Economic models that predicted shared prosperity have delivered stagnation and debt. The scientific establishment cannot correct its own errors. The very philosophers who enthroned reason ended by abandoning it entirely. What we are witnessing is not the corruption of a good idea by bad actors. It is the inevitable collapse of a framework that was flawed from its foundations.

Veriphysics: The Treatise is a systematic diagnosis of that collapse and a rigorous description of what must replace it.

In three parts, Vox Day examines how the Enlightenment’s five core premises — autonomous reason, sovereign individualism, mechanical nature, the fact-value distinction, and inevitable progress — have each been falsified by the experience of history and by the findings of the sciences the Enlightenment itself celebrated. He then reconstructs the intellectual history of how a superior philosophical tradition, the classical and Christian inheritance, was outmaneuvered not by better arguments but by superior rhetoric, institutional capture, and the patient infiltration of universities, academies, and publishing houses over generations.

The final and constructive section introduces Veriphysics as a genuine philosophical successor: a framework built on Aletheian Realism, grounded in the Christian metaphysical tradition, and equipped with a concrete epistemological tool identified as the Triveritas. Any claim that cannot satisfy all three of its conditions — logical validity, mathematical coherence, and empirical anchoring — does not merit assent, regardless of the credentials of those asserting it. Applied to the crown jewels of Enlightenment thought, including the cogito, Darwinian evolution, classical economics, and social contract theory, the Triveritas serves as a wrecking ball. The math doesn’t work. The logic doesn’t hold. The evidence, honestly examined, refutes rather than confirms.

This is not for those who want their current assumptions confirmed. It is for those who have become aware that something is deeply wrong with the intellectual world they inherited, and who are willing to follow the path toward truth wherever it leads.

Authored by bestselling political philosopher Vox Day, also the author of the landmark science work Probability Zero, Veriphysics: The Treatise is a philosophical manifesto for the 21st century. Available on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible.

I released this 84-page treatise more so that people could have an easy single reference than as a book proper; it consists of the first two parts, the final section of the latter which was posted today, plus the third part, which I will continue to post here daily until it is complete. Although it naturally comes off as highly critical of the Enlightenment, and, to a lesser extent, their Scholastic rivals, it represents my attempt to transition from the purely critical role to constructing something useful.

I leave it to the readers to decide how effective it is as a post-Enlightenment proto-philosophy, but there are already some signs that the triveritan approach it utilizes is a fundamentally more viable and reliable heuristic than historical truth-metrics.

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The Missing Verse in Matthew

It’s readily apparent that the Bible has been significantly messed with at various points in time. And it’s not just the Mandela Effect of the wolf lying down with the lamb and the new wine causing bottles to burst instead of wineskins. This one, you can check for yourself and see very easily.

Open up your NIV Bible. Go to Matthew 17. Then read verse 21. That’s right, try to find it. You can’t. It was removed, and your NIV Bible will go from verse 20 directly to verse 22. You can even see this on Bible Gateway.

It’s not every Bible. I checked my Italian Bible and my French Bible. Both of them contain verse 21, and it contains something important that was clearly removed intentionally. It’s Jesus’s words explaining to his disciples why they couldn’t cast a demon out of a boy.

Questa specie di demoni non esce se non per mezzo della preghiera e del digiuno.

This species of demons doesn’t come out without prayer and fasting.

Mais cette sorte ne sort que par la priere et par le jeune.

But this type doesn’t leave but for prayer and fasting.

The thing is, I clearly remember this verse from when I was younger. And checking the Living Bible, it is in there, along with a footnote.

21 But this kind of demon won’t leave unless you have prayed and gone without food.”

  1. This verse is omitted in many of the ancient manuscripts.

Interestingly enough, the wineskins reference from Mark 2:22 is also there:

22 You know better than to put new wine into old wineskins. They would burst. The wine would be spilled out and the wineskins ruined. New wine needs fresh wineskins.”

It’s interesting because supposedly, the Living Bible, being a paraphrase rather than a translation, is supposed to be less accurate. Yet my Italian Bible also refers to otri vecchi, old wineskins, and not bottiglie vecchie, old bottles.

However, the NIV also has wineskins. So, I don’t trust my memory of the King James version, because I’m quite confident that most of my childhood reading of the Bible was either the Living Bible or the NIV. So, naturally, I went and checked the first thing that came to mind and my suspicions were confirmed:

The NIV (New International Version) is one of the translations used in the Scofield Study Bible, specifically in the Scofield Study Bible III edition.

That being said, none of this should trouble Christians in the least. God’s Word is not limited to ink on paper. And the fact that both human and supernatural forces strive to keep any of it from us is testimony to its importance as well as a reminder to resort to it.

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V. The Stolen Universities

The full measure of the Enlightenment’s fraud becomes clear only when one recognizes what the tradition had actually built.

The universities, those great medieval institutions the Enlightenment captured and claimed as engines of secular reason, were uniformly creations of the Church. Bologna, Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge wer founded under Church auspices, governed by Church authority, staffed by clerics, dedicated to the pursuit of truth understood as ultimately unified in God. The very idea of a university, a community of scholars devoted to preserving, transmitting, and extending knowledge, was a medieval Christian innovation. The Enlightenment did not create these institutions; it invaded them, subverted them, and eventually seized them.

The scientific method itself emerged from Scholastic soil. The insistence on systematic observation, the commitment to logical rigor, the belief that nature is intelligible because it is the product of a rational Creator—these were not Enlightenment innovations but medieval inheritances. Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste, Albertus Magnus, Jean Buridan, Nicholas Oresme: the list of medieval contributors to what would become natural science is long and distinguished. The Enlightenment’s claim to have invented scientific inquiry is not merely exaggerated; it is a lie.

The logical tools that make rigorous argument possible were Scholastic achievements. The Enlightenment produced no logic comparable to the medieval summulae, no analysis of inference and fallacy as sophisticated as that developed in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Leibniz, the one Enlightenment thinker who made genuine contributions to logic, was saturated in Scholastic learning and knew what he owed to it. The rest simply used the tools they had inherited, often badly, while denigrating the tradition that had forged them.

The hospitals, the charitable institutions, the schools for the poor, the entire infrastructure of social welfare that the Enlightenment would later claim as the fruit of secular humanitarianism, these too were Church creations. The Enlightenment did not build anything, first it appropriated from those who came before, and then it erased the memory of the appropriation.

What occurred was not a legitimate transfer of responsibility but a theft. The thief dressed in the victim’s clothes and claimed to have tailored them himself. And the victim, bewildered by the audacity of the crime, failed to cry out or even complain.

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The Epstein Inquisition

Tyler Durden considers the psychology of wickedness:

The average person has the capacity for evil, there’s no doubt.

People can be driven to all kinds of horrors depending on their circumstances.

But, the majority of us have a mechanism called “conscience” which stops us from committing evil most of the time. It also causes us to feel guilt when we know we have acted in a destructive manner.

If the majority of the population did not have a universal experience of conscience and morality, we would have gone extinct as a species thousands of years ago.

Globalists (psychopaths) do not have this mechanism. In fact, they view conscience as a hindrance, a trait of the weak and the easily victimized. They are a predatory class of human. I would even suggest that they are not human at all, but a mutation or a cancerous intrusion.

When psychopaths achieve overt material wealth they then have easy access to the resources they need to satisfy their impulses at will. At this stage in the evolution of a psychopath they have a tendency to become bored. They begin to chase increasing depravity and darkness in search of a greater dopamine fix. The more degenerate and taboo the activity, the more exciting it is.

But these are nothing but individual motivations and personal addictions. What are the ambitions and drives of the organized cabal?

Part of the allure of occultism is the glee some people feel when they believe they are “superior” to their common man. Occult groups sell their members on the notion that they will be set apart as “elite” when they join with the keepers of secrets.

When we read the numerous emails tied to Epstein as well as his island and his ranch in New Mexico, the people who correspond with him seem childish and giddy. They snicker like adolescent brats when they engage in codes and riddles. They’re committing atrocities beyond the comprehension of the average man, and they feel joy because they’re basking in the “cloak and dagger” of it all.

I think this might be a hard thing to reconcile for many people in the conspiracy field, but the cabal is not made up of darkly brilliant minds imposing cold and calculating will. Rather, it is mostly made up of egomaniacal narcissists giggling like retards as they revel in their delusions of grandeur. If you saw how these people behave behind the scenes, you would probably feel embarrassed for them and feel like an idiot for imagining them to be cunning or untouchable masterminds.

Without their money and the collective protection of their coven, they are tiny people without merit living a meaningless existence. That said, make no mistake – It’s the putrid sociopathy of their childishness that makes them exceedingly dangerous. To be infantile while rejoicing in the blood of innocence requires a diabolical and demonic mind.

From my research Epstein’s Island might have been tame in comparison to some of the other meeting places of the elites. His island was not the end destination but a gateway for initiates. I believe the island was a test, a venue where evil is concentrated and people with apprehensions are filtered away.

The worst of the worst likely moved on to even more vile nesting grounds hidden in plain site around the world. The reason the Epstein Files matter is because they open the door to a wider investigation of the globalist networks and their horrific playgrounds.

I suggest that we need to bring back the concept of “witch hunters”; people who are able to think like occultists while using modern investigative methods in order to track down these networks and erase them from the Earth. If government officials refuse to do this, then vigilantism is inevitable.

This is very accurate and important stuff, and while I absolutely agree with his conclusion about the need for witch hunters, as well as a federal special prosecutor working in coordination with special prosecutors in every state, I tend to disagree with one specific characterization here, about the demonic mind of the satanic globalist.

They’re not psychopaths. They don’t have a disease of the soul. They are, rather, paradopaths, or individuals who have surrendered their spirits to forces of greater evil. At the lower levels, they seek wealth, women, power, and fame. At the higher levels, they seek to transform themselves into what the Bible describes as “unclean spirits”.

Follow the incentive structure: if you’ve already surrendered your spirit, if you’ve already rejected repentance and submission to Jesus Christ, then your only remaining move is to try to avoid the consequences of what you’ve done. And since you know very well that the supernatural exists, that God is real, and the Jesus Christ is Man’s Redeemer, the only way to avoid the fate of a damned soul is to stop being a soul altogether.

Paradopathy explains several otherwise puzzling behaviors by the oldest and most wicked among the satanic elite. Their public activity tends to increase rather than decrease with age, and takes on an almost frantic nature. It’s hard to believe they genuinely enjoy the interminable conferences and galas at which they’re always appearing with people they don’t know. The apparent contempt they all seem to harbor for their own families, which is strange if you assume they’re motivated by ordinary material desires. The obsession with transhumanism, which reads differently if it’s not about living forever as a human but escaping humanity entirely. The pursuit of wealth, influence, and power that goes well beyond what any single human lifespan could potentially utilize or enjoy.

This concept also fits the Biblical pattern. The demons in the Gospels are desperate for embodiment. They beg Jesus to let them enter the pigs rather than remain disembodied. There’s something about having a physical vessel that matters to them. If the transaction works in the other direction too, if a human soul can petition for admission to the demonic hierarchy, then what you’d expect to see is exactly what we see in the behavior of these wicked elites with their vampiric program of blood transfusions and organ implants keeping them going into their late 90s: someone working feverishly to complete whatever the demonic entry demands are before their body gives out.

A dying billionaire has no rational reason to waste his time in acquiring more power, gathering more compromising material, participating in more satanic rituals, and committing even more lethal abuse. Unless, of course, the reward for all these wicked deeds isn’t material, but entry into something beyond the material, something that permits the inevitable judgment of the paradopath to be delayed.

 Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.

I suppose we’ll need a name for that structure of national special prosecutors. Perhaps we could call it the Epstein Inquisition…

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Not Necessarily Self-Inflicted

Well, Dave Grohl is apparently a satanist, so if Kurt Cobain truly didn’t kill himself, this belated investigation might explain the otherwise inexplicable success of the Foo Fighters:

Now, an unofficial private sector team of forensic scientists has put fresh eyes on Cobain’s autopsy and crime scene materials, bringing in Brian Burnett, a specialist who previously worked on cases involving overdoses followed by gunshot trauma.

Independent researcher Michelle Wilkins, who worked with the team, told Daily Mail that after just three days looking into the evidence with fresh eyes, Burnett said: ‘This is a homicide. We’ve got to do something about this.’

She said the conclusion followed an exhaustive review of the autopsy findings, which revealed signs inconsistent with an instantaneous gunshot death.

The peer-reviewed paper presented ten points of evidence suggesting Cobain was confronted by one or more assailants who forced a heroin overdose to incapacitate him, before one of them shot him in the head, placed the gun in his arms and left behind a forged suicide note.

A lot of black Christians are postulating that a similar deal is why Lebron James is so reluctant to retire, as they believe it won’t be long after retirement before he goes the way of his fellow satanist Kobe Bryant.

Fame and fortune are absolutely not worth it. When Jesus Christ said he would free us from fear, this is one of the things he was talking about. The terror in the eyes of the wicked is a terrible thing, as is the regret you can hear in the voice of some of those who made their deals, got what they wanted, and belatedly realize that no matter what it was, it wasn’t worth it.

Whether it is Jordan Peterson crying on stage, Lebron James wearily trudging up and down the court and taking himself out of the game as soon as he hits double digits, or Bob Dylan talking about the commander of this world, the inevitable is obvious. Sooner or later, the Dark Rider is going to throw you down.

But they merit no mercy and they know it. Because the wicked aren’t merely evil. Long before they pay the ultimate price, they put down the down payment in someone else’s blood. The satanism is worse and more pervasive than you think.

The Russians know it’s pure satanism. We know it’s pure satanism. And every single member of the elite has to be considered suspect and probably guilty until proven innocent. The wicked have rejected the precepts of the Christian West, including being innocent until proven guilty, so they have no right to appeal to them.

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Ted Cruz and the Stink of Sulfur

Ted Cruz says it wasn’t Jews who killed Jesus, saying the responsibility belongs to all of us. “Jews didn’t kill Jesus — I did. You did.” He says that blaming Jews for Christ’s death is antisemitic, saying only stupid people still believe that claim.

Stupid people like Matthew:

When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!” All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”

And the Apostle Paul:

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God in Judea which are in Christ Jesus; for ye also have suffered like things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews, who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us. They please not God and are contrary to all men.

If, at this point, you don’t understand that the people who are waging war on “anti-semitism” and actively attacking the God-given rights of the American Posterity are at best Churchians, and on average, outright satanists, you simply aren’t paying any attention at all.

Their objectives have been obvious since the Enlightenment and the Reign of Terror, and their primary objective is waging war on Jesus Christ and those who follow Him. The fact that they pervert the words of the Bible and subvert the Christian institutions is simply further proof, as if any more were needed, that they serve the Father of Lies.

Any time you see that sort of inversive rhetoric, you should be able to smell the sulfur.

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THE CHRISTMAS THEY HID FROM YOU

My kids and I were looking through a box of my grandpa’s stuff, and we found a book of Christmas hymns called “Well-Beloved Christmas Hymns”. And the only one of all 25 or so hymns I had even heard before was Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella, and that one I’m only familiar with because one of my friends made a mashup of it, and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. That’s a song I’ve never heard on popular radio, and it is a fantastic song. The hymns in that book were all lovely, some better than others, obviously, but all about Christ Our Savior. This is what they took from us.

The best way to fight the subversion is to ignore it and replace it.

I’m not really a Christmas carol guy, as my preferred holiday music is Handel’s THE MESSIAH, but I have produced a new remix of THIS VERY NIGHT which is on UATV, and those who are not UATV subscribers can hear at Sigma Game.

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The War on Happy Holidays

One of my favorite things about Christmastime in recent years is the way that the War on Christmas is in full and shambolic retreat. It’s heartwarming to see so many people treating the fake regard for the imaginary holidays with all the contempt and derision that it has always merited.

[Excessively vulgar derision removed. Sure, it’s funny, but edifying it is not. Any time you can be mistaken for South Park, you’ve gone too far.]

I can’t even imagine what the channers and memelords are going to do to the Diwali festival if anyone tries to shove that one down our throats…

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