/lit/ - Literature

>>17775831
Well, try bending your intuition a different way... Why would it be more normal/expected for there to be 'nothing'? Is it really reasonable to think that 'nothing' is some kind of ontological state, rather than just an abstract conceptual contrast to the extant?

I agree that existence itself is a wondrous thing from our perspective (and you should cherish that sense of wonder), but there is no good reason to suppose that existence is improbable or that it is not the singular default state.

As for infinity, our minds are not equipped to process it and we can't receive information from outside our universe, so we can only speculate. My guess would be that the 'base state' of existence is simply everywhere and trying to think of it in terms of finite regions with boundaries is a mistake of human intuition.

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>>13337859
Of course not, OP

>>9709665
Probably not. I've thought of it this way.

Back when Katrina hit, there was some fundamentalists who claimed that it was god's punishment for gay marriage and gay sex. When i heard that, my thinking was that it must be wonderful to live in their world, and I don't mean that ironically or sarcastically.

No. Their life has meaning. Their choices, and the choices of everyone around them are imbued with tremendous significance.Where you stick your dick has an effect on the fucking weather. Can you imagine in a world-view in which you think so highly of your choices? Maybe you can, but you don't live in that world, and you never will live in that world. You live in the world of pic related, and your actions are without significance. Ultimately, your worldview is probably more likely to be true than the fundamentalist's world, but you're no better off for it.

The easy answer in spite of all that, if you want to find contentment, is to embed yourself within some kind of web of social relations in such a way that you matter to those to whom you're connected to. In other words, have your actions, or your inactions matter to other people, and soon enough you'll start to FEEL that your choices are meaningful, regardless of whether there's a fact about them being meaningful, and regardless of what you THINK about them being meanigful, as well. Ultimately, you want to FEEL content, and to FEEL that life is meaningful. Nobody really gives a fuck about KNOWING that life is meaningful or not.