Pursue Of Consciousness

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There is nothing special or free about your existence. It is a cause-and-effect reaction to the ignited momentum of events that precede it. In theory, your whole existence, with your unique traits, quirks, and idiosyncrasies, could be predicted if only we had the scientific capability to calculate it. An explanation and cause to every single behavior in life could be predicted. If we had a slice of time, frozen and able to be observed. Given a scientific capacity to be able to quantify life more accurately, that is, a working model about the forces governing nature and life. Everything fits a certain pattern, animals have migratory patterns—able to be measured and predicted to some degree of accuracy. Animals have lifecycles, instincts, characteristic …show more content…
The splendor and grandeur with which you view consciousness, and assess its properties, is only a product of a romanticizing brain, lost in a narcissistic haze and declaring itself elevated and distinct than the matter (life and non-life) that surrounds it. Then it precedes to attribute its presumed specialness of a divine origin. But for another reason as well. Although the brain is unique and reiumphant in its self-aware recognition, it must also recognize its singleness, loneliness, stranded, confused, wondering why as if there is a special reason or purpose, and this sets off existential drama, a void of yearning, hoping, wishing, presumptuous assuming there are connected to something divine and beyond powerful. In this way, they are not abandoned, they are loved. They are not meaningless, but their life has purpose and soon awaits blissful paradise. Loneliness is replaced by a profound sense of oneness in your intimate connection and relationship. Questions about your value and self-worth are rendered worthless when your whole existence was benevolently and thoughtfully created by God. God exists, he loves me and I’m going to live forever. If …show more content…
“You are missing out on the ultimate gift. The peace my religion gives me, and eternal life.” Everyone’s reality is distorted and separated from the “truth,” but they are missing out on a more complete version of the truth, deliberately choose to be many more degrees of separation from any semblance of a coherent attempt at reality. Ironic how some people who seem to internalize that we are nothing experience more pronounced, long-lasting, and brain structural changes than someone who adopts a God to preclude them from the same

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