Part of me wonders, if it's possible that things just ARE. Like, is it possilbe that all the things discussed on this forum, IM, subjective reality, everything is connected, we are all the Universe, if somehow that is reality, yet there is no purpose behind it. Why does there have to be a purpose? When I think of how vast the universe is, it absolutely makes me want to be open-minded, but I can't help but think that we are putting our own views of what it means to be human, on what we would call God, like God wants to experience himself, so he came up with this idea to create the Big Bang, which he knew would lead to Earth, which would lead to Evolution, which would lead to humans, which would lead to conscious thought, which would lead to him being aware of "himself", when "he" has always been aware of "himself" to begin with. This is the same understanding of God... that has always been around, we are just saying it in a different way.
I think of the tao, and how it says to just go with it, be in the present moment, and not worry too much about what "It" is, the tao says it is beyond names or beyond real understanding, but that it just IS, that it's even older than "God". It seems like it's important for humans to have a linear story that makes sense. The effect we see now is the result of a cause that was put into place zillions of years ago.
Is it possilbe that things are the way they are, just because they are, and we can't even begin to comprehend the true nature of reality, because we are the true nature of reality, and it's impossible to stand outside of ourselves and be objective because objectivity is just a creation of subjectivity?
Not sure if I'm making any sense here.
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