Inspiro Philosophy: Existentialism

It's a new week of the local magic internet money printing contest from @soundwavesphoton. If you haven't seen it or participated yet, I mean, it's got to be the most magical way to make magic internet money there is and you should probably feel bad for not supporting this contest. I'm not here to shame you though, I'm just here to tell you that a new round has started and to sweeten the pot I threw my winnings from last week back in to motivate you to go participate. To further encourage participation I shall wax philosophical about one of these inspiro marvels shown above.

This is another one of those ironically self reflection inducing whimsical computer creations that is as absurd as it is potentially true. There's been plenty of times where I feel that the self is little more than a thought form that we create to comprehend our own existence. Then again how can we comprehend our own existence without first comprehending existence as a whole? I suppose it's a bit of a chicken and the egg situation in some regards.

The conclusion that I come to is that we don't exist as a separate entity from the rest of existence. Existence is a highly correlated and all inclusive term that encompasses everything that we can comprehend as existing. It's easy to think of existence in terms of life and death, but I prefer to think of existence in terms of energy. Energy never starts or stops, it only transitions into different states and forms. I tend to view everything as energy in some form or another and I've written about that quite a bit already, so if you want further clarification on what I mean, just glance over my last few weeks of posts and you'll probably see what I mean.

The concept that existence is only what happens in between non-existence and endlessness seems pretty accurate to me. I don't think we can comprehend infinity any more than we can truly comprehend the ever expanding nature of existence or consciousness as it's always changing and expanding. To try to encompass something that we can't fully comprehend in words ultimately feels like a futile attempt at self fulfillment. Sort of like 'going to sleep' or 'waking up.' These things happen of themselves and even when we think it's all under our control, the universe can send us a reminder that we're just part of this big collective thing that we call existence and it controls us as much as we like to think we control it. Namaste.