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On the other hand, perhaps your above statement actually points towards the absence of any sort of "transcendent" reality. The fact is that the human mind has come to grasp vast amounts of complexity, and seems to be expanding the compendium of knowledge at an increasingly exponential rate...
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This implied progress of knowledge is something that comes up repeatedly in your posts and you get away with it because it's a shared postulate with most of the board.
If you are suggesting that we have accelerated and increased the amount of technical knowledge than I would agree. In other fields, such as the humanities, we're still at square one.
The amount of people here who believe that their opinions and beliefs are ex nihilio is totally startling to me. All of this has context and if one doesn't know the literature or philosophy that supports/opposes a particularly humanist outlook, one isn't a real freethinker.