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Written by Muhammad Natsir Tahar
Sometimes we ask why
this world must exist? What if there isn't any? Why were we sent to earth and
live solitary alone in this super galactic expanse. Ocassionally it is good to
be alone here on a planet this small, so that a million or a billion, or a
trillion riddles in this universe don't hit our heads all at once.
By living on earth, we
have reason to answer only a few riddles, we live under illusions, optical
biases, delusions, mirages and belief systems on a small scale. It's really
small. Sometimes we just miss the riddle. We live in this tiny and enigmatic
world just like that robotically and repetitively.
To borrow the term
existential neurosis: unhappiness caused by a bunch of questions about meaning.
Maybe some of us choose to maintain our happiness by not answering those
questions, which is even sadder not even knowing if they exist, or shouldn't
exist.
What if this world
didn't exist? If we just gather here and there, within the limits of the same
stupidity. All around us are riddles, we are embraced by riddles.
God is not a mere
dogma, but also an enigma. God came as a riddle. Then we feel we have answered
God's riddle correctly, to get rid of anyone who can't answer the riddle.
It is a puzzle why God
came as a riddle. We don't even have the option to choose in which area of the riddle and from the womb of the riddle we are supposed to
exactly be able to answer God's riddle.
We don't even answer
the riddle, we just copy the answer key to the standard riddle that has been
copied since time immemorial. Then forget that we are only copyists not
contemplatives. But we actually feel as winners of the truth.
The interaction
between us is about the agreement of a few solved puzzles. The answer to a
riddle is a riddle, because for example there is no evidence that the colors we
see will be exactly the same as those that other people see. It's just a deal
about green, blue or orange.
According to Sigmund
Freud, even if all the parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces
of a jigsaw puzzle, one must remember that the possibility does not have to be
the truth and the truth is not always possible.
Science and technology
have come as tools for answering riddles in this universe. At least we realize
that we are not alone in this bundle of cosmos, we are just the most remote
outliers for just one of the billions of galaxies.
What if this world
didn't exist? Because the condition for saying that the world does exist is our
awareness, which is kept in a fragile shell.
At some point, our
consciousness could be erased, edited, copied, even moved. We dance on the
fragile floor of consciousness. When our consciousness is erased, it no longer
matters whether the world exists or not.
Some people hold a piece of a puzzle, and then say that he has grasped the world with all the puzzles in it answered or not. Some people do not hold any puzzle pieces, and assume that all the puzzles have been answered or will soon be answered. Then live life in terrible empty rituals.
Suppose we were born
to be tested and will be judged in God's court someday? What are we tested for,
what if we are not tested: we are not born. Does God have to exist so that we
can be tested, do we have to exist so that God can test?
What is the test for?
Does God need a toy, and ignoring that by His divine nature makes Him certain
to know the end result.
God is very enigmatic,
and we lie cold in ignorance, then seek warmth in the blanket of faith. We
escape from the pursuit of meaning by using reverse logic: the more we ask the
more stupid we are.
Why do we have to pass
linear time from one point to another? Why do the hands of the clock tick and
move in the same direction. Why is the world not presented simultaneously, and
ended simultaneously.
If one day Marilyn Monroe comes back to life through engineering technology, and we are unable to distinguish it from the Marilyn of the past, we have actually lost some of the functions of the past.
When somehow, the whole past is presented in front of us
today. Suddenly Socrates invites you to debate and traps you in various
Socratic questions, for example.
About the future, if the time machine too far-fetched. We will be able to enter the virtual booth to present the future in the right way. Part of the future will lose its function.
This is to confirm that what we perceive optically illusions, that is the world we think exists. Sometimes we ask why this world must exist? What if there are none?. ~
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