Life's Tesseract Maze
Philosophical musings about the complexity of life: Good, Evil, and Nothingness.
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Tio Oktaviana Soedarsono
10/19/20242 min read
Do you believe in pure evilness?
Can someone be created as pure evilness? Or is that particular someone just a being that chooses to be evil? Why does someone choose to be evil? Is it free will? Is it triggered? Is it predetermined? Can someone choose to always be evil? Does he actively or passively choose to be evil? Is it the result of all his past experiences and inherited DNAs that forms his filter to process the world in certain ways?
If someone is inherited with psychopathic tendencies from his ancestors and acted on his urges to murder someone, can we consider him as a pure evil?
If someone is not created as evil in the first place but has done evil things, does it mean that he is not a pure evil?
And if he is not a pure evil in the first place and just a being that chooses to be evil, does he still deserve redemption? Does he still deserve love and care?
Is he even aware that he is evil? Or is it everything that he’s just always known all his life?
How do you define pure evilness?
Do you believe in pure goodness?
Can someone be created as pure goodness? Can someone always be good? Can someone choose to be good all the time? How do you define pure goodness?
What would the world be like if there was only goodness—pure goodness?
What would human beings be like? Would the human race evolve? How far would we evolve? Do we need evil to evolve? Do we need setbacks to evolve? Do we need blockages to evolve? Do we need wars to evolve? Do we need rock bottom to evolve? How deep?
Do we even need to evolve? Why does it matter to evolve? What even matters at all?
Do you believe in pure nothingness?
No evilness, no goodness. No sorrows, no bliss. No highs, no lows. Nothing. Does it exist?
If nothingness exists, would it still be nothing?
What does pure nothingness look like? If it looks like a blackout all around, is it still nothingness? Or is it something that radiates blackness?
How does pure nothingness feel like? If it feels peaceful, is it still nothingness? Or is it something that radiates peace?
How do you define pure nothingness?
One thing I surely believe is complexity. There is no such thing as pureness, even a new-born baby is encoding countless ancestors that makes them for who they are, physiologically and psychologically. Everything is tremendously mixed up and tangled up like a tesseract maze. In fact, I personally think that life is a complex tesseract maze which no one would ever comprehend. Hence, ironically, as complex as life could be, it could also turn out to just be a simple thing—a simple dot. No one can truly know anything. The absolute truth about life is there, it always has been. But it is untouchable and unknowable to the human kind, perhaps unless we are no longer bound by time, space, and matter. However even then, we still couldn't be sure on what to expect, could we?
So, what is the point?
The point of what?
The point of it all…
Well, nothing.
Nothing. Matters.
We are just a blip in the vast and limitless universe.
Just breathe, stand up, get out the door, and live now.
That’s what we're here for, I think.
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