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[mo_faux]

i can distinctly remember one time, when i was about 10 years old, experiencing a flash of sudden awareness which led to my initial understanding of the absurdity of human existence. the catalyst for said epiphany was watching lipstick, bold bright red, being applied to a woman's lips in no unusual fashion. for whatever reason it struck me as both

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[thebeatpoetess]

Don't be a downer, Suzyface! Here's the bright side from my perspective

[mo_faux]

ah, guess i should've been more clear with the "this sounds more depressing than intended" part, and my entire post in general. i was seriously just rambling. in actuality, i find a lot of comfort in my very firm belief in existentialism. turns out i really LIKE having epiphanies, and i tend to have them pretty often, so it works out fairly well. i had my first extended existentialist crises of sorts first semester last year and it definitely shook me, but not necessarily in a bad way. it was just so intense and so real, two things which can be hard to come by these days. as a natural born skeptic, i'd never been so convinced of anything before in my entire life, and that just blew my mind. you could even call it a religious experience, but that'd probably lead to some confusion, so don't do it

[thebeatpoetess]

I've been finding comfort in science, and I don't see why people feel that it's so threatening. Honestly, the idea that everything we experience was the result of some perfect accident, and that the world we live in now is a result of billions of years of morphing and molding to its present shape--that all seems really miraculous to me

[mo_faux]

whether the universe exists was created by a "perfect accident" or precisely and consciously by some divine being(s), i still say it's supernatural