Comment by t-writescode
15 hours ago
Do we? Is it?
Having spent the last month staring into the abyss and Eldrich-level dread that is a pure, materialistic, reductionist universe, I wouldn’t wish that belief on anyone. There’s a deep, grasping of “there’s got to be more”, “this can’t all be chance”, “evolutionary hackery and garbage seems a poor explanation for love, compassion, empathy, and many other self-sacrificial practices we have”.
There’s only a few reasons that are slowly pulling me from that hell; but I cannot imagine that “most” people live here, even “deep down”.
I have never understood that, what exactly is hellish about that situation. You just are, why does there need to be anything else, make up your own story if it’s that important to you. There obviously isn’t anything else unless you believe in a god or some other story. All those basic human behaviors can be explained by evolution easily. This is how I’ve always thought of the world even as a kid I must not be neurotypical or something.
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