Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Existence
Paradoxically, existence has no meaning and to ask if existence has meaning is to ask a meaningless question. Existence exist and there is neither an explanation nor a justification why it exist. Existence exists. That’s all. For millions of years before birth, we were existing as a nothing. For millions of years after death, we will again be existing as a nothing. To explain why is there something rather than nothing is a matter of explaining the existence of nothing. My dear reader, every single something is energy and that energy is continually being transformed. Every transformation affects everything else that is in the process of becoming. In the meantime each unfolding reality contains the seeds of its own destruction and the embryo of a new reality that will replace it. In the ultimate analysis, existence – the existence of something is really nothing but a farce, a fraud, and a ceremony. The sooner we accept the horror the sooner we can begin to be happy. After all there is no other way to go. Poch Suzara
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"Existence has no meaning and to ask if existence has meaning is to ask a meaningless question."
Hear, hear! I think not a few believers have a psychological constitution that would tip them over toward depression or despair unless they believe (I say trick their minds) that their life has some grander purpose, that there is some external meaning or greater signficance.
"What is the meaning of life?" is nonsensical just as "What is the wavelength of peace?" is. As for "meaning in life" I think it's overrated. Prof. Joseph Campbell said that when we crave for meaning we are in fact longing for that feeling of being alive. I say: Just get on with whatever it is you find fulfillment in and meaningfulness naturally follows.
Indeed, if life has meaning it can only mean that it will end one day. Life has a purpose of which we create our own for the here and the now. In the meantime, nothing last forever. Everything is temporary. Except perhaps human stupidity. It seems to outrank and outlive even eternity. Poch Suzara
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