The Problem Of Grasping Being

By Leo Gura - May 23, 2025

The fundamental problem at the heart of all philosophy and science is that you are trying to use thought to grasp Being, which is utterly impossible from the default state of human consciousness. You must have enough intelligence to immediately recognize this problem before you even being to do any philosophy or science, and you must understand that no amount of philosophy nor science can ever overcome this fundamental epistemic limit. In other words, before you begin doing any philosophy or science you must begin by saying to yourself, “Okay, I’m about to engage in thinking, and it’s already patently obvious to me that thinking can never grasp all of Being. So I will do my thinking but I will always remember that this cannot ever be the final answer or way.” But this is the one thing no one in these professions understands nor takes seriously. They bumble into their work within philosophy and science like blitheful fools, assuming it will all just somehow magically work out if they work hard and long enough. No. No it won’t. You can’t sweep this elephant under the rug.

There is only one serious problem in philosophy: How to grasp Being? The amazing thing is that Being can be “grasped”, but not through thought. This is why logicism and rationalism must fail. No amount of reasoning nor logic nor science nor proof can ever be enough to grasp Being. Being is too profound to be grasped by any quantity or quality of thinking because thought is always and merely a sub-set of Being. Asking the lesser to grasp the greater is as foolish as trying to simulate the whole Universe inside a computer. And yet, that’s the entire premise of science, exactly what scientists think they can accomplish — and it’s utterly idiotic. Science can never grasp Being simply because science is merely a sub-set of Being, not the whole of it. This should be understood by every scientist and philosopher, yet it is understood by none of them. From this one error all the other errors of science and philosophy stem.

In sum: scientists and philosophers literally lack the intelligence to see the limits of thinking. If they were truly intelligent they would sit down and shut the fuck up, but they don’t have enough intelligence to do that. And so, a thousand epistemic blunders and intellectual monstrosities are born — and God is never realized.

This correctly summarizes the error of the last 2000 years of Western philosophical and scientific effort.

It took me 20 years of work to articulate this so clearly.

Reality is simply too profound to be understood with thought. Which should be obvious if you have a lick of intelligence. All of my intellectual work is based on this one fundamental truth. Which is how I avoid the stupidity of 2000 years of Western intellectual tradition. See, all you have to do is take this limit seriously rather than acting like it’s no big deal. By taking it seriously you have a proper orientation towards philosophy and science. And then you can really do serious work.

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