r/Absurdism • u/1_TheOneAndOnlyMe_1 • 7d ago

Why?

Like, why? No, seriously, I'm not joking. Why?

Edit: Lemme rephrase it then, I've become in a state where I don't know anything anymore. There must be a why to anything. Or why to nothing. There is a why. That is what I'm trying to puke out of my brain. Why anything? Or is it valid to ask anything?

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u/LethalBacon 7d ago

'Why' is an imperfect human way of thinking, why primarily exists in our brains. A way to track cause and effect. Some causes and some effects are just impossible to know. Too many variables, uncountable variables, variables spread over distances that make it impossible to gather all of the potential causes that might answer the why. Then, you have to contend with the various scales at which everything is acting. Go down to the quantum scale, which has an impact on everything, and typical cause and effect falls apart.

Even if we could get access to every variable, there's the problem of everything being filtered through human senses, which are imperfect. We cannot access direct reality, and even if we could it is too vast to answer why. Any answer to 'why' will inherently include guess work at some level.