But let's pause for a while and ask ourselves: Aren't we even near to the answer or at least getting closer to it? How long more should we wait before realizing that we are chasing phantoms?
Therefore: Shouldn't we at some point accept the fact and admit that we cannot solve the mystery, give up, and move on, creating other useful and fruitful questions? — Alkis Piskas
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went. — PoeticUniverse
Interesting — Jack Cummins
(Emphasis is mine.)The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that — in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play. — Stephen Weinberg, d. July 23, 2021
music festivals — Jack Cummins
listening to some obscure band, while contemplating the mystery of existence. — Jack Cummins
more of the essence of the mysterious side of life — Jack Cummins
the only reason for it all that does not beg the question with an infinite regress is that there isn't any reason for it all — 180 Proof
Plato's forms — Jack Cummins
explain — Jack Cummins
Can we explain the mystery of existence? — Jack Cummins
exploration of our existence, including scientific models and descriptions. — Jack Cummins
such as Plato's forms, — Jack Cummins
Existence and being are not the same. — EnPassant
I guess this principle depends in the philosophical point of view you are considering in. According to Cartesian logic, existence depends a lot of “being” which is connected to awareness. This is why Descartes wrote his famous theory and phrase: “cogito ergo sum” — javi2541997
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