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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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