What if you had a bigger house? What if you had a newer car? What makes these things important for our lives?
The world would be nothing without humanity. The names 'rock', 'planet', 'existence', they would not exist, and they would not matter. If there weren't any living being in the universe, the universe would cease to exist as it is.
All the verbs: to be, to exist, to have a pattern. All the nouns: electron, movement, atom, universe. They all would disappear.
As much as existence made us, we made it. We make it beautiful and we make it ugly. Nothing has those qualities inherently.
In a sense, that raises an interesting question: can we simply change the perception of something to destroy its ugliness? And, should we? Crime, destruction, abuse, disease, death, if we could turn them all into beautiful concepts and praise them... would the world make any sense? Would beauty lose its meaning and disappear conceptually?
Subsequently, the world matters because we believe in it. If we didn't hold the belief that things matter, then things wouldn't matter. The world would cease to exist if we stopped believing in it. It would be turned into either just "something" or a mind jail where we come to spend our days and then go back to nonexistence.
I truly fear for the world, for beauty and for meaning. Godlessness is the first step toward nonexistence. I stepped into godlessness, now I'm one step closer toward utter disbelief, toward meaninglessness. I sit in my garden and watch the leaves and wonder how long it will be until I die, how long it will be until true meaning shines back into my life.
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