We will never be able to know the exact reason for our existence and the existence of the universe. amirite?

One thing I know for sure is that, we have no clue what we will or won't know in the future. Source: all of history

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Aka all we know is that we don't know

by Anonymous 1 year ago

All we know is that we don't know nothin And that's fine

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover. Jonathan Raymond

by Anonymous 1 year ago

and the worst thing is we dont even know what we dont know

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We don't even know what the person next to us is thinking.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If I'm sitting next to you, and I pull out my phone and start watching hardcore midget porn on full volume, I know you're thinking "damn, I need to find a different seat."

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or they could be thinking "today is my lucky day!"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Au contraire

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I know this is true as stated. However, my gut tells me that the human species will die out long before we have a chance to find the answers to those questions. I think about this all the time. I'm ok with being mortal for the most part, but the fact that you don't get to know those answers really irks me.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I fear the same…

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I know that I will know the amount of change I have in my pocket if I check my pocket so what's your point

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Actually if you go by history the human race is pretty predictable.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I dunno how you want to predict something get made which never existed before but ok

by Anonymous 1 year ago

More in the context of Famine leads to War, War leads to destruction and innovation. Innovation leads to advancement and progress which becomes growth until it becomes unmanageable and Famine hits back

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Looks like famine is next on the menu bois

by Anonymous 1 year ago

For some parts of the world, yes.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Thats very irregular circle, you talk about world wars, but there was 200 years of innovation before And before that was 1000 years without innovation because god Did everything And Smart person was witch or demon And they burned them at stake. Also at any time will be some Fight, Battle or war somewhere

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Not one single thing in this universe asks to be explained, except us. So when contemplating the meaning of it all. 42 is as good an answer as any.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Physicist Max Tegmark argues that the nature of our reality is purely mathematical, and that everything exists simply because it's a mathematical possibility that it exists.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The universe DGAF about math.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Gravity DGAF about physics.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The universe is math though

by Anonymous 1 year ago

No it's not, math is humanity's most efficient way of understanding and predicting the universe's observable behavior. I'm sure we can come up with completely different systems that will also yield accurate results while being completely different from mathematics.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's a bit of a stretch. If there were systems that were completely different but also accurate, we'd have some semblance of them existing by now. You'd be much more likely to find that everything is more accurate simply by using a different number system like base 7 or the like, which is more akin to just doing math in a different language. I would say it's a safe bet that any system that accurately predicts the universe's behavior will include pattern recognition and logic, which is all math truly is in its basic form.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Math is our interpretation of what the universe does and it's laws (along with physics), so I would say it cares

by Anonymous 1 year ago

>Not one single thing in this universe asks to be explained, except us We ARE the universe. We weren't added from an external source.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If you fake throw a log to a dog, the dog would be confused and expect an explanation. Its part of living beings to expect explanation. 42 is not a good answer as any.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Did you see that video floating around with the dog trying to get the statue to throw the stick? That's humans seeking cosmic meaning.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

How do you know that? You've been able to communicate with every being in the universe? Alternatively everything in the universe is one whole. In that way, everything questions its existence at every point in time at all times.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Orrrr…42…ima go do something now. You're smart, you'll figure it out, the universe is counting on you.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

That's because there is no reason. It's just a product of the natural order of the universe.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"If you let hydrogen sit around long enough, it begins to wonder about itself."

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Man my *hydrogen* has really been acting up lately

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Where did the hydrogen come from though

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This would look great on a T-shirt.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

obviously we exist to make memes and laugh at them. without man there is no meme. without meme there is no man. man and meme are the harmony of cyberspace

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The car warranty telemarketers ran out of numbers to call in their home universe, so they created ours.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We do know that there is no reason or goals. Hazard put a complex chemical reaction (aka: life) on this planet (and probably billions of others) and you where born completely out of hazard too. You give a sense for the future of your life, that's all. YOU give a sense, it's not predetermined. Unless you can prove otherwise, which nobody did until now.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's no real reason. That's why religion exists, to help those who can't cope well with the unknown.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You mean you've never read the bible?! It's got all the answers!!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Thanks to the bible, I learned that I can cure the blind, feed a whole lot of people with 1 fish, avoid temptation, create a planet in 6 days and resurrect myself inside a tomb. Thank you Holy Bible!!!!!!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

God, is that you?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Indeed, it is I. Bless you, my child.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Don't mean we can't try to figure it out. Hell maybe that's our purpose? To find out why anything exists.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

As for us, there isn't one. As for the universe we already know. Matter become unstable and exploded.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

This is only true if there is no afterlife where in fact the existence of the universe would be explained. We can't know one way or another.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The answer is simple, to please the kitty. One day if I work very hard I'll get past the look of mild annoyance

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Because reason is a man made term. And the universe is not man made.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There is no reason, and thats good, it would be more unsetteling if there was one

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Imagine if there was an end goal. We complete it then what? Maybe level 2?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

It's to mature, spread seed and die. Don't look into it as deeply as you are. It's just spread your genetic code, attempt to raise your spawn until they can spread their genes, mission success, pack it up, you're done.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound? Similarly, if the universe never produces consciousness in some form and at some point to witness itself, does it ever really exist?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Yes. Existence is not contingent upon consciousness.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Prove it

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Easy. We have an overwhelming amount of evidence that points to things, in fact, existing way before any form of life appeared on Earth. And the Theory of Relativity suggests that all points in time are equally part of reality, so those things, in a sense, still exist and will always exist.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You can argue particles can interact with themselves, giving them their own form of observation of the universe. But there is no evidence of any observation before the universe was created. Is that simply because there was just absolutely nothing, or just nothing able to be observed.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The exact reason for the existence of the universe is likely unknowable since any of the methods we would employ in such an endeavor would only work within the construct of our universe. The laws of physics only work within our space-time continuum. The exact reason for our humanity's existence, on the contrary, is quite simple: there isn't one. We're just a random instance of dumb luck. Now that we're here our reason for existence is to survive and reproduce, like every other one of the species that exist today or have existed in the past. Anything else is just philosophy.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There is no purpose, we as a living being was an accident, an amalgamation of space dust given consciousness, the only purpose are the ones we make ourselves

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Do you mean the structural and functional cascade of cause and effect interactions that flowed together to result in this moment, or do you mean the intention that catalyzed those interactions? If it's the latter, there isn't one. There is not a deliberate reason for existence. Deliberation requires consciousness, and consciousness is a result of existence, not a cause of it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We do not understand consciousness well enough to make any valuable contributions to the discussion, and sadly I don't think we ever will. How can a product of consciousness be able to visualize itself. How can we say with confidence that being conscious is a result of existence when we cannot even comprehend the beginning of consciousness as we view it ourselves.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Why does there need to be a universal reason? You decide what the meaning of your life is, nobody else.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Presumption of natural intent. How did you determine a reason for either of those things exists?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

"Reason for our existence". I mean, in absense of some sort of creator, there's a good chance there isn't one.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There is no rhyme or reason. We are all simply creatures able to swarm and multiply where conditions allow it.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Fear. The Big Bang was fear the size of God. And we are living it out in life-size bites until we learn life is but a dream and we are One

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We do. It's called the anthropic principle: > We, observers, exist. And that we exist in this Universe, and therefore the Universe exists in a way that it allows observers to come into existence

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We will never be able to know the reason for the existence of the universe.....why? Because there is NO reason or do you mean you personally won't live long enough to find out? Serious question 🤔

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Do we have to have a reason for the existence of the universe? Even if we don't speak religiously, does the fact that we exist mean there is or ought to be a reason/purpose for coming into being? Does the fact that we did come into being suggest there's a cause?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Because there isn't a reason. Pretty simple. "I can't find the answer to a made up question!"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

In that sense, everything is all made up in your mind anyways. But that doesn't mean it does not exist out of our mind too. Why is there an existence beyond our own consciousness, there does not need to be anything, but there is. When we don't observe the universe it still exists. When we do observe the universe how do we know what we are observing is truly what's there and not just the maximum our brain can allow. Simply saying there isn't a reason seems disingenuous, just because we cannot grasp enough to have a concrete theory does not mean we need to disregard the functions as random.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

We are born by the Blood, Made man by the Blood, Undone by the Blood, Our eyes are yet to open

by Anonymous 1 year ago

You're gonna be really bummed when you die and some dude tells you this was all actually a test to see if you were allowed into his cool kids club, but you played with your penis a lot as a teenager so now you have to go live in fire for eternity.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't know why but this made me think of Tallahassee "I'm not going to play with you at Pacific Playland." 🤣

by Anonymous 1 year ago

A better question is: Should there even *be* a reason? I think our existence is more meaningful if it just came out of unformed chaos. A glimmer in the dark torrents of time. But if theres a reason, then thats all there is to us. Nothing more, nothing less. Practically worthless.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Another possible outcome can be that the reason for the universes existence doesn't involve us at all and we are just a simple side effect of the interaction of particles. The goal of the universe existing can be something so unimaginably complex that we can be created, form a consciousness, and still only observe and not even begin to fathom the reason behind.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Declaring that we will never know is the same thing as declaring that you know.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I don't think we're here for any reason as such except maybe to procreate and expand the human race. that being said we will eventually expand out from this planet and in the far off future we will have colonized multiple stellar systems, assuming we don't wipe ourselves out before that all happens.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There is no "reason" we exist. We just exist and have to deal with that.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

False. Monty Python made a whole movie about the meaning of life. The called it "The Meaning of Life."

by Anonymous 1 year ago

The reason: there is no reason. Things just kinda happened that way

by Anonymous 1 year ago

People keep wanting a "reason". There is no reason, it just happened. I guess the problem is how!

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Why do you assume there is a "reason" for our existence? Giving "reasons" to events is a human construct, it's not something objective and absolute There is a "how" we exist, but not a "why"

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I find it interesting that humans can cut open every animal look at its brain, and be like " this animal can't do X, because of regions Y& Z in its brain" then we ask crazy questions and want answers to them, as if we did not evolve with any common ancestors as the animals we cut open.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

Or will we? That's one of the tenants of many religions is that once you shuffle off the body you gain access to perfect knowledge and oneness with eternity The idea that a brain can understand a brain has always been a stretch to me. A lot of people say that once their brain is addled with hallucinogens they understand the cosmos better.

by Anonymous 1 year ago