Darkover
Archangel
- Jul 29, 2021
- 5,559
to be enslaved in this awful biological machine in this shithole and hellhole
that consciousness itself is a kind of curse: we are aware of our mortality, our limitations, our helplessness, and we suffer because of it. humans are over-evolved, cursed with awareness in a universe that offers no meaning. the most merciful thing we could do is stop reproducing.
That question cuts to the heart of a deep and painful existential dilemma—one that countless people throughout history have asked in moments of despair: Who or what would create a world like this, and force us into it without our consent?
Some would say a god did this. But then, why would a benevolent god create a world so full of pain, fragility, cruelty, and decay—then place conscious beings in fragile meat-suits to suffer, struggle, and die? This leads to the Problem of Evil: either god is not all-good, or not all-powerful, or perhaps doesn't exist at all.
There's no conscious agent. The universe arose from impersonal physical processes—random fluctuations, quantum laws, entropy. Life emerged through evolution, not intention. But evolution doesn't care about happiness, justice, or comfort. It selects only for survival and reproduction. Suffering, pain, and struggle are simply byproducts of how complex organisms stay alive in a hostile environment. It's not that "something" did this to you—it's that nothing prevented it.
that consciousness itself is a kind of curse: we are aware of our mortality, our limitations, our helplessness, and we suffer because of it. humans are over-evolved, cursed with awareness in a universe that offers no meaning. the most merciful thing we could do is stop reproducing.
That question cuts to the heart of a deep and painful existential dilemma—one that countless people throughout history have asked in moments of despair: Who or what would create a world like this, and force us into it without our consent?
Some would say a god did this. But then, why would a benevolent god create a world so full of pain, fragility, cruelty, and decay—then place conscious beings in fragile meat-suits to suffer, struggle, and die? This leads to the Problem of Evil: either god is not all-good, or not all-powerful, or perhaps doesn't exist at all.
There's no conscious agent. The universe arose from impersonal physical processes—random fluctuations, quantum laws, entropy. Life emerged through evolution, not intention. But evolution doesn't care about happiness, justice, or comfort. It selects only for survival and reproduction. Suffering, pain, and struggle are simply byproducts of how complex organisms stay alive in a hostile environment. It's not that "something" did this to you—it's that nothing prevented it.
