Existentialism, nihilism and how it links to the butterfly effect.

[recessedchincell]

Existentialism. When you begin to feel overwhelmed, everything relies on you. It's when you realize that you have too much freedom, so much so that you don't know what to do. You have too many choices. "What if I make the wrong choice?" Everyone has free will, there might be social constructs and barriers holding you down, saying that is wrong, you can't do that. But what truly stops you from making that choice? The consequence comes after the action, not before. What you do, shapes your future, your purpose and your destiny. You have radical freedom for your actions and you must take ultimate responsibility for it. Everyone strives to have an authentic existence, a real life. You want to be unique, and have a conscious choice in everything you do. You want something that reflects your own values, rather than someone else's. The realization of absolute freedom and responsibility can be a source of anxiety or "angst".

But beyond that, does the choice you make truly matter? The world may appear chaotic and without inherent meaning, which is called "absurdity". Do your actions really have an effect on the world? Thousands of years, millions of years and you only exist for 0.01% of it. Your life has no inherent purpose or intrinsic value.
The choice between good and evil; whatever path you follow, what does it lead to? Nothing. They are human constructs meant to create order and government among humans, without actually having any worth other than creating structure for human leaders and society to prosper. Since moral values are not inherently true, they are considered arbitrary, subjective, and potentially changeable. For example, why are inherently "bad" things such as lying not as severely punishable as rape, or stealing? Why are there levels to the level of evil in the world, and some are punishable while others are not? In one society, vaping or smoking can be considered bad/evil and in others, its encouraged and considered the norm.
What is knowledge? Knowledge is a fragile radical philosophical claim that has a chokehold on every sentient being on earth. It is a meaningless fabrication that forms the structure of human hierarchy. A smart person is placed over the "dumber" person, the less "knowledgeable" person.

Is knowledge impossible or is it nonexistent? The never-ending pursuit of truth is worthless and means nothing. It is a futile endeavor. The idea of "knowledge" itself came from is a human-made concept. We chase it but to what end? It is unreliable because knowledge does not have a definitive meaning or answer. You ask one person this and they gave you an answer, you ask another the same and they give you a different answer. The truth to life, the answer to all our queries; it's fake. No meaning, no answer; nonexistent.
The real "truth" is relative to the system and framework that you live in. This means that there are no universal criteria for truth that apply across all contexts. Epistemic relativism, also known as knowledge relativism, argues that there is no universal criteria for truth that applies across all contexts, only norms that vary depending on the local cultural or conceptual setting.

Christianity and Islam, similar in ways, but vary vastly in many others. Both encourage the fact that they are both real "truths".
Nihilism; nothing matters. But why does it not matter? It encourages the lack of meaning in anything.
The Butterfly effect; emphasizing that everything you do has far-reaching consequences that shape what you become.
Considered oppositions, juxtaposing each other. But what if they could be linked?

If what you do at the start shapes and pre-decides your actions in the future, then are the choices you make further down the line truly your own choices? Do your choices then have meaning? It is very known that your environment, as well as other factors in your life, can shape you to become what you are right now? But what about the future, are your choices in the far future actually your own, or are they also already decided the second you were born into this world? Your environment; what are the first defining events that shape your personality; abuse, how much time you spend with your family when you were a baby, whether you were bullied, received much praise from others, how much you ate.
I used to believe that it is the progressive build-up of events from when you were young that decide your personality. But, how do we begin to decide when it stops? Doesn't your next choice get influenced by your personality, which was influenced by your past choices. A butterfly effect that continues in an endless domino toppling. This means that every choice you have made and will continue to make has already been made and already been decided. You may argue that the "you" now would have made a different choice than the "you" 10 years ago. And while that is partially true due to the different events you went through in both time periods, why is it you went through those different events; it was through your choices. And why did you make those choices? Because something had influenced you to make that choice; and what was it that influenced you..? The choice you made before that, and the one before that, and the one before that. Is everything you do really your choice, sure, it feels like your choice but is it really?





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edit: its 4am and reading it back, i dont know what i was talking about (quite a few mistakes in the writing; sorry i dont use chatGPT)

 

[L1mbal]

Existentialism. When you begin to feel overwhelmed, everything relies on you. It's when you realize that you have too much freedom, so much so that you don't know what to do. You have too many choices. "What if I make the wrong choice?" Everyone has free will, there might be social constructs and barriers holding you down, saying that is wrong, you can't do that. But what truly stops you from making that choice? The consequence comes after the action, not before. What you do, shapes your future, your purpose and your destiny. You have radical freedom for your actions and you must take ultimate responsibility for it. Everyone strives to have an authentic existence, a real life. You want to be unique, and have a conscious choice in everything you do. You want something that reflects your own values, rather than someone else's. The realization of absolute freedom and responsibility can be a source of anxiety or "angst".

But beyond that, does the choice you make truly matter? The world may appear chaotic and without inherent meaning, which is called "absurdity". Do your actions really have an effect on the world? Thousands of years, millions of years and you only exist for 0.01% of it. Your life has no inherent purpose or intrinsic value.
The choice between good and evil; whatever path you follow, what does it lead to? Nothing. They are human constructs meant to create order and government among humans, without actually having any worth other than creating structure for human leaders and society to prosper. Since moral values are not inherently true, they are considered arbitrary, subjective, and potentially changeable. For example, why are inherently "bad" things such as lying not as severely punishable as rape, or stealing? Why are there levels to the level of evil in the world, and some are punishable while others are not? In one society, vaping or smoking can be considered bad/evil and in others, its encouraged and considered the norm.
What is knowledge? Knowledge is a fragile radical philosophical claim that has a chokehold on every sentient being on earth. It is a meaningless fabrication that forms the structure of human hierarchy. A smart person is placed over the "dumber" person, the less "knowledgeable" person.

Is knowledge impossible or is it nonexistent? The never-ending pursuit of truth is worthless and means nothing. It is a futile endeavor. The idea of "knowledge" itself came from is a human-made concept. We chase it but to what end? It is unreliable because knowledge does not have a definitive meaning or answer. You ask one person this and they gave you an answer, you ask another the same and they give you a different answer. The truth to life, the answer to all our queries; it's fake. No meaning, no answer; nonexistent.
The real "truth" is relative to the system and framework that you live in. This means that there are no universal criteria for truth that apply across all contexts. Epistemic relativism, also known as knowledge relativism, argues that there is no universal criteria for truth that applies across all contexts, only norms that vary depending on the local cultural or conceptual setting.

Christianity and Islam, similar in ways, but vary vastly in many others. Both encourage the fact that they are both real "truths".
Nihilism; nothing matters. But why does it not matter? It encourages the lack of meaning in anything.
The Butterfly effect; emphasizing that everything you do has far-reaching consequences that shape what you become.
Considered oppositions, juxtaposing each other. But what if they could be linked?

If what you do at the start shapes and pre-decides your actions in the future, then are the choices you make further down the line truly your own choices? Do your choices then have meaning? It is very known that your environment, as well as other factors in your life, can shape you to become what you are right now? But what about the future, are your choices in the far future actually your own, or are they also already decided the second you were born into this world? Your environment; what are the first defining events that shape your personality; abuse, how much time you spend with your family when you were a baby, whether you were bullied, received much praise from others, how much you ate.
I used to believe that it is the progressive build-up of events from when you were young that decide your personality. But, how do we begin to decide when it stops? Doesn't your next choice get influenced by your personality, which was influenced by your past choices. A butterfly effect that continues in an endless domino toppling. This means that every choice you have made and will continue to make has already been made and already been decided. You may argue that the "you" now would have made a different choice than the "you" 10 years ago. And while that is partially true due to the different events you went through in both time periods, why is it you went through those different events; it was through your choices. And why did you make those choices? Because something had influenced you to make that choice; and what was it that influenced you..? The choice you made before that, and the one before that, and the one before that. Is everything you do really your choice, sure, it feels like your choice but is it really?





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