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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 31, 2019 5:36:45 GMT
One shouldn't be in "awe at the mystery of existence" since mystery is just ignorance I agree overall with what you're arguing here but this is a bizarre point. Humans should absolutely be in awe at the mystery of existence (way, way more than they generally are, actually - any semblance of genuine human reflection or intelligent philosophical discourse seems to be at an all time low lately, at least in America) and stop acting like they - beings hardly that far evolved from apes - have figured the universe out. And mystery can be an extremely beautiful thing in this strange life, equating it to nothing more than ignorance is, again, just a bizarre perspective. I was trying to distinguish between being in awe at "mystery" and being in awe with "existence." Existence is awesome, but mystery is just representative of our ignorance about existence. There's nothing awe-worthy about our ignorance, and there's nothing less awe-worthy about things we understand. Basically, what I'm saying comes from these two articles that I strongly agree with: www.lesswrong.com/posts/6i3zToomS86oj9bS6/mysterious-answers-to-mysterious-questionswww.lesswrong.com/posts/x4dG4GhpZH2hgz59x/joy-in-the-merely-real
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