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I’m going through something like this too with zero religious background. Lately I’m of the belief that if you take a look at your life, you’ll see that most of it wasn’t really a coincidence. Tough thing to share but it’s my overall underlying feeling.

Not me:

https://medium.com/machine-cognition/objective-reality-doesn...


In the first pdf I linked the part I keep coming back to is

"Our relentless quest for knowledge drives us ever outward, probing the endless void of space and the puzzling emptiness of quantum realms, finding nothing but more questions, more mysteries, more void. Digging into dead rocks in space, landing on Mars, with each step further from Earth - our garden, where we need to be - the light of that original truth grows dimmer. We risk becoming cosmic wanderers who have forgotten why we began searching in the first place, so far from home that the very memory of simple being has faded to ash."

When you think about the universe, ever expanding, infinitely complex, probably devoid of observable life yet ever in observance, it really is built like an amazing game of "once we introduce 'the arrogance of why VS the awestruck wonder' bet you there is 0% chance they can collectively merge with nature at large no matter how much we warn them" - I wonder how much we are missing out on.

The poem "Blight" by Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to mind, too: https://emersoncentral.com/texts/poems/blight/
"And night and day, ocean and continent, Fire, plant, and mineral say, Not in us, And haughtily return us stare for stare. For we invade them impiously for gain, We devastate them unreligiously, And coldly ask their pottage, not their love, Therefore they shove us from them, yield to us Only what to our griping toil is due; But the sweet affluence of love and song, The rich results of the divine consents Of man and earth, of world beloved and lover, The nectar and ambrosia are withheld;"

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