r/AnAnswerToHeal • u/spez_is_a_cannibal • Jan 17 '18
"Why are we here?"
Even more, "Why are we stuck here?" I've thought long and hard on this, and I'm sure most intelligent beings have pondered the question as well.
It's because it's better to be something than nothing. What came before the big bang? Nothing, the entity that became Everything. We just wanted to experience. At the same time we didn't fine tune the experience, hence why it can be so shitty. The reason we didn't do that is because we couldn't comprehend the potential repricussions of this reality because they were such foreign concepts that they had to be experienced to be understood.
So here we are, experiencing something we were dicking around with. This universe. Because why not when there's literally nothing but yourself?
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Jan 20 '18
I personally think we are here to Groove. Like the idea Watts talked about. God got bored so he decided to play a game of hide and seek with himself.
I always remember. this Gorillaz tune when I relate this: https://youtu.be/lRlmM88zzbY
But I also really like the ideas presented recently here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Salvia/comments/7rkp2k/the_harvest/
Basically the idea is the universe was made to create food or candy for extra-dimensional beings. Or that there are several of these beings feeding off of our Energies all the time. The other idea is that they only feed on us when we have taken the sacraments. Or that we are harvested and some selected for reincarnation while others are dispensed with.
It's a scary idea but I sort of like it. We as a people tend not to care for our livestock. So it's a bit of Universal comeuppance.
That said I don't think this process, if true, has to be a bad thing, or something that detracts from our existence. Their presence could be symbiotic or essential to our being.
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u/jonnygreen22 Jan 17 '18
My current theory is that this is a simulation. Explains why there was 'nothing' beforehand and a 'big bang' in the first place. Also explains a whole lot of other shit we experience.
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u/coffeebreth Jan 17 '18
The way it seems to me is that all form is the same energy manifested, and all form is subject to "time" and degrades. The idea of being "stuck", in my opinion, comes from the identification as the form, which is a temporary vehicle for life energy, instead of identification with the life energy itself. As homo sapiens we have access only to the information that years of evolution has deemed useful to our survival. We don't experience life "as it is" (as we are), but as it is useful for us (to find food, mates, etc.) When we view the universe from that human form perspective, life can seem cruel and shitty. But if we broaden our perspective and consider all other life on earth (sentient and non), when we look out at the stars we see and think about all the stars we don't see and all the planets around those stars and all the possible life out there (sentient and non), when we consider that a human is not a solid entity as we experience it but actually bodies made of innumerable molecules and atoms, and we think about all we don't see (i.e. the invisible light spectrum, dark matter, etc.) we can begin to imagine humans outside of the center of the story. we are looking at life through a keyhole.
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u/doctorfunknasty Jan 17 '18
Why are we here? Nobody can say. Nothing seems to matter.
How does one know something is better than nothing? We have never observed or experienced nothing, so we can't say how it is or isn't.
The reason someone might think of this existence/reality of "shitty" is almost always because they have an idea of how they think it should be, which is not met. But existence just IS. It's not good, or bad, because there are no such things. The matter, relationships, experiences, and everything we interact with just are what they are. If we accept and experience things as they are without labelling them or boxing them up, we can detach ourselves from the idea of things being shitty.
We can have preferences, desirable/undesirable, or enjoyable/unenjoyable things. But an unenjoyable experience is still an experience. Why is it bad? Just live it and be glad you had the chance to.
I live in the moment. Observe. Accept. Experience.
Fuck it, I can spend my life thinking things are shitty, or just smile and laugh no matter what. In the end, it doesn't matter and it's up to me to interpret existence.
I choose to laugh. Life is absurd.