/lit/ - Literature

>>23330603
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Read the 7th Letter

The official answer is "Don't ask me, ask the One yourself"

>>23330603
Nobody really knows why that is. There's theories and ideas, but nobody knows why we're here. Materialists will tell you it's because of single cell organisms in a soup combined with pressure and time. Spiritualists will tell you its the will of God, or the universe, or the Tao. Nihilists will tell you it doesn't matter. Pessimists will tell you there's no reason.
Knowing why is less important than being and seeing. You'll never know, but the way you see it and the way you be it, you can choose, and reap the consequences.

My suspicion is that humans just don't have the hardware to know. We evolved to think causally but that could just be a completely retarded result of our evolution.

>>23330951
Imagine you're God and you created these amazing creatures with consciousness, will and creative capacities; they can love, hate, build things, destroy things, beautify ugliness, uglify beauty, etc and they spend their time instead constantly asking why you created them.
You'd conclude they're retarded and Flood the World in regret.

>>23330959
if the universe hates itself that much then what the fuck is its problem? just stop being emo

>>23331003
Tell that to the beings whom represent it. You and me, the humans

>>23330603
It's a meta-commentary on societal sorcery. They knew deepfake technology already back then secretly.

>>23330603
>Is there any reason why we exist as copies according to Plato's theory of forms?
Is there any reason a statue of Plato might exist? Is the statue a 'copy' of Plato, an image, a block of stone, or something else?

>>23331130
why aren't those just one thing?

>>23333086
Because one thing by itself is nothing