by Martin Meyers

Created on: December 02, 2010

What do we fear the most, as people? The concept of non-existence. It's hard enough to live a lifestyle of pure isolation, stripped of all the luxuries that we grant ourselves strictly by remaining alive. Sure, it's easy enough to picture God and a simple Heaven and Hell rule. Let's take the idea that we may possibly not even understand what it means to understand life and put it into perspective. We all have a deep rooted belief in us that we do matters and that we all need or have a purpose. The purpose for existence is to procreate in order to secure the next generation whose goal is to, actually, procreate further. It's as if we are all here just to make more of ourselves before we die, just so they can make more of themselves before they die. It's a strange concept, and seems bizarre to continue such an endless pattern that will ultimately lead to our downfall. Our meaning however is a completely different train of thought. Individual people all choose a certain path in life and define it as the "meaning" to their lives. What we don't understand is that it is all pointless, a structured society of brain matter builds together to mold a conscience within us, therefore granting us the privilege of being able to decipher for ourselves what is important, good, evil, and what gives us "meaning".

To exist itself is a vague concept that isn't even defined as anything other than "to have actual being". Does anyone know what that even means? The reason it is unable to be explained via language is because it's a globally understood concept to exist and to know or at least believe something exists, but it's something that cannot be defined. Do I believe that a bagel exists because I myself can interact with it on a series of 4 (difficult to listen to bagels) different sense tests? Perhaps to someone else, it invokes a completely different object, "existing" on a completely separate plane as I would perceive it. It's already hard to imagine what it is like to be someone else, and every person having the thought that they are special because they can see through their own eyes or use their own mind. Imagine if everyone besides you was part of a program. Imagine if they were organized test subjects strictly for examination of your life and behavior. Imagine that you are on the Truman Show. For all we know, everything as we know it is merely a small germ infesting the existence of a larger "being".

Although, these are abstract concepts that don't really mean anything.

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