![]() ![]() ![]() But, looked at it in another way, it also gives us full acceptance of the possibility of creation ex nihilo. Realizing that everything human is a cultural and collective invention robs us of certain stability of thought and experience. Looking beyond this can be distressing, it’s true. It’s as if phenomenon and theory are one and the same thing. Insofar as no one has ever disputed these theories of the world and reality, we’ve spent all of human history believing them to be true, incontestable, as close, in theory, to the phenomena as are the phenomena themselves. It’s worthwhile to notice the verb: “invented.” Everything for humanity is an invention and always has been. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of ‘world history’-yet only a minute,” the philosopher wrote at the beginning of On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Mortal Sense. “In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. Nietzsche realized this, and he wasn’t the only one. It’s into an infinite void we’re about to rush headlong.īut what happens if, for just a moment, we stop thinking about our falling, and we look at nothingness in some other way? If we stick to the physical and biological evidence, the truth is that life is an accident. ![]() We may even feel a certain vertigo beneath us, as if the ground we believe to be so real has suddenly dissolved. And it may even be that much of our lives are spent, even bent, on answering these questions: Why are we living? What is the meaning of life? Why did we come into this world? And to answer these questions to which we’ve attached such great importance with a rather blunt statement, we might say that there is neither a reason, nor a meaning, nor any purpose to life. The fact that this is difficult to accept is because we usually learn, or we’re taught to believe, otherwise. Although at first, it may be difficult to accept, life is likely to have no definite sense or purpose. ![]()
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