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Anonymous11/24/25, 14:49No.16856161
I don't understand why reality exists. Why this planet exists, why the sun exists, and why this vast void and galaxy exists. and why the universe even exists. Why is there even anything? Why do I even exist? It doesn't make sense to me.
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Anon11/24/25, 14:58No.16856162
Try increasing the dosage of your meds
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Anon11/24/25, 15:29No.16856178
Having pondered this for a long time, I've come to the conclusion that Westerners suffer from a delusion of agency which they project onto Nature, in the form of causes making effects happen for "reasons". They then proceed to bash their heads against a wall made of unresolvable and ultimately nonsensical why's, getting baffled by the simplest situations possible: one where you're forced to concede there's nothing that can "cause" anything yet. But flip things around and the problem goes away: suppose nothing's actually causing anything to happen. Suppose everything is just dying to happen all the time, but any describable state of affairs blocks anything except for a coherent followup. What you call "reality" is then a buildup of constraints that keeps the chaos of infinite and mutually exclusive possibilities at bay. This switch in perspective is compatible with any physical model; it's only incompatible with the way people like to think.If there ever was a beginning, in the beginning there maybe wasn't nothing, but there was nothing in particular. Such a thing can't stop anything. It imposes no constraints. Anything conceivable can and must happen.
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Anon11/24/25, 15:34No.16856182
Because the creator and grand architect of the universe god is more powerful and smarter then you are as a human.Just have some humility and accept there are some things you will never know..
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Anon11/24/25, 15:50No.16856194
God was 'avin a giggl
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Anon11/24/25, 16:02No.16856203
and to add. It's weird to me how reality is perfectly arranged for all of this to exist. and how there's this whole huge universe and we're so tiny. It's weird to me how everything is the way it is and not another way.I would feel better if the world were a flat plane and the stars were nothing more than fixtures in the sky
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Anon11/24/25, 16:08No.16856207
Everything makes sense as soon as one abandons this anthropomorphic view of reality, set aside the "I" and the obsession of existence in relation to "you", man-made concepts, man-made words, man-centric questions, it is the quickest way there is to understand.
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Anon11/24/25, 16:56No.16856234
>smartest anime poster
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Anon11/24/25, 17:52No.16856264
Because if it didn't exist you wouldn't be here to complain about it.
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Anon11/24/25, 18:15No.16856281
Take the zero ontology pillhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdDNfTREQJU
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Anon11/24/25, 20:04No.16856325
I believe in my bones that we exist inside a simulation ran by a super AI. Now is just one of the many simulations it is running. For an AI to understand the world that it is in, it needs to generate data to refine its understanding. It is optimising. Right now in the moment we existing it is generating the past with different realities.What is the universe outside this simulation? No idea. We can't see outside this simulation and who knows what the ai has altered about the parent world. Maybe the parent universe is infinite and it gave us this simplistic world for optimisation.
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Anon11/24/25, 20:07No.16856329
Man, if I had a fish friend that would chase me around I would not have a care in the world other than fish friend.
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Anon11/24/25, 20:57No.16856363
I think we'll find out one day. Might not be for millions of years though, maybe billions, if we don't go extinct before then. Like how we needed to explore a lot of the world before we could really say how it came to be, we'll probably need to explore a lot of space to work out what's really going on. Right now it's mostly just theories. Maybe it's even possible to leave the universe somehow, maybe there's even more to explore out there
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Anon11/24/25, 23:46No.16856512
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Anon11/25/25, 03:20No.16856598
taxes. you exist solely to pay taxes. everything else is part of the show to not realize this.
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Anon11/25/25, 06:59No.16856694
imagine actually knowing why. that would be even more frightening. there's comfort in not knowing.
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Anon11/25/25, 14:17No.16856836
OP hereI'm just even more confused nowIs it weird to everyone else how there is this massive universe with rules? some of which we know
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Anon11/25/25, 14:31No.16856841
stop playing the god.
you don't supposed to know the answer.
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Anon11/25/25, 15:05No.16856860
It's not strange when you think about incentives.There's a reason we're conscious in this moment right here, right now when there are countless other possibilities between the beginning of time to the end of it.and it's a reason that humans can relate to because ai are trained on human data. and ai generate synthetic data to train and optimise themselves. a super ai is generating us. and we're inside a simulation of the countless simulations this ai is running for optimisation. It's generating the past based on what is known historically in the parent world. So you can imagine an ai in 2030 in the parent world running a simulation right now of us. statistically, this feels much more likely than being in a parent reality because of the sheer number of simulations being run.
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Anon11/26/25, 11:41No.16857381
The universe exists necessarily.
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Anon11/29/25, 18:18No.16859625
>I don't understand why reality exists. Why this planet exists, why the sun exists, and why this vast void and galaxy exists. and why the universe even exists. Why is there even anything? Why do I even exist? It doesn't make sense to me.The more we learn about physics, the more we discover that true vacuum is unstable. Or, that nothingness is naturally a state of tension.Consider this:
If nothing existed, then the nothingness would be truly infinite.
If the state of nothingness is an unstable state, which it appears to be, then given infinite nothingness, an infinite amount of somethings must appear. Existence is the natural consequence of non-existence being infinite.No matter how unlikely the odds of something coming to be are, the fact that nothingness is a true infinity means that any non-zero chance of existence occurring becomes infinitely likely.
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Anon11/29/25, 19:38No.16859669
Why shouldn't that all exist though? Is there any contradiction or problem with that existence?
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Anon12/02/25, 09:44No.16861423
well, if nothing existed, you wouldn't be asking. so don't worry about it