Intrinsic Impossibilities

Not even a deity could make me both be asleep and awake at once.  No act of the cosmos could render a conclusion that follows from a correct idea anything short of infallibly true.  There is nothing that could ever make it true that there is not an external world if its existence can be proven.  No degree of forgetfulness, ignorance, disinterest, or hatred of truth could possibly change the the slightest fact about logic.  Intrinsic possibilities and impossibilities are fixed due to the immutable nature of logical truths no matter what someone realizes or wishes.

Even so, many people go about their lives believing or at least saying that anything is possible.  There are almost always just three reasons why someone might do this.  They have never thought deeply about the philosophical things that are impossible to escape from (they are still there even when one is ignorant of them), they derive a sense of empowerment and inspiration from the idea that nothing at all is impossible, or they have thought about philosophical matters somewhat and are truly stupid enough to think logical truths could change, disappear, or be metaphysically sidestepped.

This kind of error means their epistemological framework will also have the most foundational flaws: inherent contradictions that refute themselves.  Ideas that are in conflict with themselves, like the idea that reason refutes reason (the laws of logic are epistemologically, totally certain and metaphysically binding either way), falsify at least the reasons why someone believes the notions that stand atop them, if not disprove those ideas that stand on the foundations entirely.  Everyone could come to these truths with nothing more than rationalistic thought, yet a denial that certain things cannot be true--that some things are intrinsic impossibilities--is easy to find.

Moreover, the inflexible truth of logical axioms and logical facts is often denied in a way that makes it sound positive.  Such people think they are freeing themselves from something, only to be omnipresently shackled to the most asinine ideas that are untrue by default.  They have submitted to the most escapable prison in a house of cards that they could reside in!  For the sake of emotional excitement or social or self-acceptance, they pretend like it was ever a possibility for nothing to be impossible, when they are almost never even willing to admit that they think nothing is impossible at the mention of something they dislike being true.

Other than the most shallow and erroneous kind of emotionalism or sheer stupidity, there is no reason why someone would say that anything at all is possible as is becoming more and more popular in entertainment and everyday life.  The pursuit of personal inspiration at the cost of alignment with reality, a desire to cling to some irrational idea, and an apathetic dismissal of philosophical awareness are the only reasons why anyone who pretends like everything is possible would do do.  This is the illusory refuge of the greatest of all fools who deny the only things that have to be true no matter what else is.

Logic, people.  It is very fucking helpful.