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“I don’t know.”

The trick is not to follow that with “therefore…”

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It is what it is.

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Selection bias.

If it didn’t exist, you wouldn’t be asking.

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Indeed

There are probably countless universes, most of which are empty.

Only on the ones with the correct physics is life able to evolve.

And only on those this question can be asked.

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I don’t.

I don’t care if it’s actually real because it feels real enough.

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My man over here living their best life inside the matrix

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Or Azathoth’s dream.

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This exactly. Any greater insight or “enlightenment” doesn’t change anything and has no tangible benefits. Frankly attempting to find it would drive most anyone mad, so I don’t bother.

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‘The chances of finding out what’s actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, “Hang the sense of it,” and keep yourself busy.’ -Douglas Adams

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