Metaphysics is Bullshit and You Know It

Arguing the Non-Arguable Abstracts

As defined by the Merriam-Webster in b section of the definition metaphysics is an: “abstract philosophical studies : a study of what is outside objective experience”. Just to be clear I will not be talking about the division of philosophy that includes ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology. And also I don’t want to offend anybody’s religion or belief system with this article so if you feel like bursting out in anger and run after me with sharp sticks I recommend that you stop reading just about here.

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We’ve all been there, some friend telling us about an Ouija board session with their friends at one time or somebody getting so high and connect to aliens with their higher consciousness or some distant relative experiencing a spiritual bind of some sorts that affects their life so that they have to give someone money in exchange for holy water or something, I don’t know how this shit works.

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If you’ve made it out into 2017 so far with a fast internet connection and you have time to read articles on Medium, you probably have an open-minded but somewhat reserved attitude towards the world too. You could be thinking, “Damn, those things never did happened to me but yeah man all these people cannot be lying about something this serious” or “Yeah I’m pretty sure these third-eye and soul travelling mambo-jambo is bullshit but they’re not disproven by science yet so I’m keeping an open mind”. If you have a common sense you’ll of course feel that way, this is how we approach to many things, sizing them up and not interacting with them and not taking them in.

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I had a cheerful, anything is possible in the infinite possibilities that this and possibly many parallel universes offer in grand scheme of things attitude towards many things too. BUT -and that is a big but- I feel like scepticism and having a philosophical stand is way more important in this day and age.

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Metaphysics has it’s roots in religions -and religions in metaphysics- and is a way of explaining natural phenomena. In the old days when science and observation of nature existed not for the search of truth but for nile river’s ebb-flow in seasons for perseverance of the basic accumulation of grains in the pyramid silos or something similar. This lead to things like “hephaestus started working his iron forges in the depths of Vesuvius volcano so we get lava rains” sort of explanations. Or like “spirits inhabit the olden ships and they sail around the world and some fly with spagettio dutchman” stuff.

Metaphysical explanations are for explaining the things that doesn’t make sense at the time.

Plainly, the metaphysical explanations are mainly for explaining the things that doesn’t make sense at the time. We know about the earth's crust and it’s movement causes the basic earthquakes and volcanic activities, we know about atmospheric pressure and whole a lot more. We disproved all the things metaphysics offer that are disprovable. But we hit a wall after that.