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In your life you can search either for Enlightenment, or God.
You want simplicity, or complexity.
You either overcome suffering, or add it to the cache of experiences that make you who you are.
Chances are good that no matter whether you see reflections of the complexity of the universe in yourself and attribute it something bigger, or try to make the similarities represent the oneness of everything, you will never create a proof for it. You will die before you learn the truth of what you believe. And Nihilism is as much an escapist's route as anything, and justification for the discarding of moral values. There is nothing to really tell us what is true or good in this world, but it is not society that makes us compassionate. So it stands to reason that caring about other people is important. As for the rest I really don't know. I am confused. I think that the Ultimate Complexity Of The Universe and what it has to tell us about creation and "purpose" is certainly a worthy study. I also wonder however, if perhaps we are meant to overcome it and accept what it is that we may or may not be. Recognize that the things that we are meant to know are innate, and that even after the knowledge was bred out of us the only things we can ever really know are the things that the earth shows us. If no Ultimate Truth is ever part of that, then to us maybe no Ultimate Truth was ever meant to exist. What innate knowledge we have, has to do with survival. We have to take care of eachother because survival is innate, and survival has to do with a lot more than staying alive.
You want simplicity, or complexity.
You either overcome suffering, or add it to the cache of experiences that make you who you are.
Chances are good that no matter whether you see reflections of the complexity of the universe in yourself and attribute it something bigger, or try to make the similarities represent the oneness of everything, you will never create a proof for it. You will die before you learn the truth of what you believe. And Nihilism is as much an escapist's route as anything, and justification for the discarding of moral values. There is nothing to really tell us what is true or good in this world, but it is not society that makes us compassionate. So it stands to reason that caring about other people is important. As for the rest I really don't know. I am confused. I think that the Ultimate Complexity Of The Universe and what it has to tell us about creation and "purpose" is certainly a worthy study. I also wonder however, if perhaps we are meant to overcome it and accept what it is that we may or may not be. Recognize that the things that we are meant to know are innate, and that even after the knowledge was bred out of us the only things we can ever really know are the things that the earth shows us. If no Ultimate Truth is ever part of that, then to us maybe no Ultimate Truth was ever meant to exist. What innate knowledge we have, has to do with survival. We have to take care of eachother because survival is innate, and survival has to do with a lot more than staying alive.