My spirituality is mostly just the belief that we really won the cosmic lottery to get to experience consciousness in a universe filled with so many fascinating things and one way we express our appreciation for the world is by soaking it in as much as we can while we’re alive.
Pessimistic philosophies are so repugnant to me. Denigrating life is the opposite of what philosophy should be. There’s plenty to be happy about without making stuff up lol.
“What is the good life” presupposes that life can be good and I think that’s necessary because if it can’t then who gives a shit?
And if we’re asking what our purpose is then we should look at what conspicuously distinguishes “us” from the vast majority of stuff out there and that’s consciousness. “We are a way for the universe to know itself.” And that’s enough purpose for any life I think.
I like to think of each of us as almost little demigods in a pantheistic kind of metaphysical scheme. The existence of everything is itself a literally miraculous occurrence so it makes sense to restrict the concept of divinity to everything equally.
And the world being super fucked up doesn’t negate the goodness and beauty in it. Injustice is worth fighting because it’s happening to people whose lives matter.
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