I've always wondered, why are we sentient in the first place? Is it a fluke of evolution or was it created or at least influenced by some outside force/entity?
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Originally Posted by LunarEclipse
This book may help alot, it is not long and very insightful: "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainier Marie Wilke
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
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I agree with this. It's similar to my current philosophy that I live my life by because I have also pondered what the meaning/purpose of life was, and realized that life on this planet is relatively insignificant to the rest of the known universe. A thought that made me feel depressed and pointless. Yet that is no way to go through life, so I just focus on the things that I enjoy and try to cause the least amount of pain possible.