Episode 9: (Un)Answerable Questions!

Potential questions.

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Have been primarily existential in. In nature. You know, questions like whether or not there is God and why do we even need to do anything? Like what's the point of all of this? And you know, in. In a. In a vast infinite universe, what is the point of faith in anything? So. So we're just going to be taking these questions one by one and, you know, sharing our thoughts on the subjects just so that you guys sort of have our opinions on the matter. Again, we are not posturing as the. As the cosmic objectivity, you know, the one true answer or the secret of the universe.

Of come for something or they can give you a context with which to view these questions maybe in a different light.

The absence of proof is not the presence of. It's not the proof of absence. Does that doesn't.

That the thing does not exist.

Doesn'T necessarily mean that whether or not it's real.

Faith, to believe in things that you do not see as if they are. And you can see them, because if you truly know that there is a God, it is no longer faith. It's just really knowledge. And I think that's really the crux of, you know, the. The main. The point of it all to have faith in the thing that. In something that's bigger than you are.

Need that to get through life. Some people are perfectly content, you know, toiling away, you know, in their sort of roles in this world. So to say yes or no to that question, you know, you. I. I could not say yes for everybody. And not for everybody, but for me, yeah. I would say that there is a God.

Yeah.

A God, frankly speaking. What about you?

What do you think?

These questions are basically centered around like, whether or not there's a God and like what the point of it all is.

Know, if there's a God, you know, why did he create us all and was it all on a whim? Or is there some kind of grand plan?

Human body is so intricate sort of speaks to perhaps, maybe there's an existence of a grand plan that that makes it all possible.

If it were whimsical creations, you know, there's no reason why we don't look more animated. Not that we would know if we.

We should not be like two dimensional.

Understand maybe going down the line, purpose for why we're created and like, maybe what we could do with all of this grand planning that maybe a Creator has put in, set in motion. Yeah.

You think he created us?

I think when you hold so much power, in a sense, you and you can do anything.

Ask you, guy, what was the point?

We are human and perhaps our motivations can never be as, say, benevolent or just can maybe cannot be put on the same level as that of like an ultimate creator.

You create, why you have children.

I've recently met this girl who's like, oh, I really want to have my own baby or I really want to.

He has created you for his pleasure. And I don't know, it's maybe, maybe.

A context where it's like, you know, some people take pleasure in loving others and some people take pleasure in being loved.

Say, okay, did God create us for the pleasure of loving us?

As maybe other people might sort of sort of frame it to be.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Another question that we have here that.

Big bang and perhaps the only living creatures in the known and unknown universe, are we a mistake or are we special? And that's.

The earth, for instance, or our universe and said, oh, my God, there'll be.

And maybe he did not account for a certain reaction that maybe air would have with water or just dark matter. I would have with, you know, the oxygen in the earth or something. And then by that we're now formed.

I've done it again.

And is that why perhaps we have maybe gotten so out of control in terms of.

To your creator and creation analogy, the.

So that the traits of the character informs the decisions and so that some.

You know, what, what, what is this.

Scenario or in that scenario and all of that.

World has, the way the world is so, so wild, for lack of a.

We be a mistake?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Think is it really gives some context and we wish to look at this whole thing especially when we understand that even as we have been on this.

Earth has been, has been going on.

Things that we did not originally know, new things.

Science even acknowledges its, its, its limits and says, you know what? Like, much as we know about the universe, there's, we are barely scratching the surface. And so that may even be, it.

Something that we did not that maybe.

We have looked at something but we have not observed fully because we are not able to observe that those things maybe until a certain point in our evolution or just because we are simply not capable of observing it.

To see cloud gases in space, but.

Our, our own human eye.

See and we would not even begin to be able to think about see.

Yeah, yeah.

Do they also have a spirit or soul or life after death?

Think that we're special, but according to.

Parks and you know, modes of operation.

Looking to ants, you know, with their own complex structures where they have ant hills and you know, very, very proficient society. Entire cities where they delegate work to these different people and nobody's lazy and there's no missing link.

You think we're different from them? In, in a sense?

Of, say, languages, for instance.

Languages that they are able to communicate in that we just simply cannot possibly.

That it is less, less sophisticated, would I say.

And all these other domesticated animals where you are able to train them and say. And they're able to understand our language.

If we ask them to sit, they will sit.

We can't really tell.

Trial and error until we sort of figure it out.

In two parts in the end is, are we different from them? And even though we think that we are better, are we really better or can difference just be different for the sake of difference without it being a competition? What are your thoughts?

Yeah.

That's what I. Yeah, I mean, do.

What is the point of this mosquito if not to steal, kill and destroy my sleep?

Know, they probably have like a purpose as well and probably shouldn't discount their entire existence just because, you know, it is inconvenient for me, which is sort of like how the bad people do bad things where they will dis. They would this, they would this, they will invalidate another person's life experience all because it is inconvenient, you know, for them and their doctrines and all of that. Yeah. So next question. Is there karma?

Know, all these other creatures on the planet, apart from human beings, have sort of a Balancing role or a balancing act to play. And if karma is primarily the, the it's.

In a particular faith where it says one bad thing balances out one good thing. And universe sort of seeks to be, to be in balance.

Why, you know, it's not just one species of creature that, you know, emerged from the earth, you know, to fill the earth with life. I mean, that's why we have so many different kinds of species. And even in one species, you have so many different kinds of personalities to sort of keep a balance on the operations of the world. What are your thoughts about karma and whether or not it exists and what its purpose is?

Conversation I had with a friend who made it his sort of his life's purpose to make sure that he balances out his actions. And so he would have days or weeks where he would do things that leaned on being mean and being negative and being, you know, something of a terrible person.

And he would be like, okay, yeah, I've put out enough evil into the world. Now I'm just gonna put out a bunch of good. And he would be super nice and he'd be super friendly and he'd be super generous and all of that.

It just made him feel at peace with himself and maybe even the rest of the world. Now, I cannot tell you.

Or, you know, done any of.

Believe it's a thing.

The point of faith. If you believe in something, you will do anything and everything and nothing because of that. And so, yeah, you know, some people think that the highest expression of karma, in a sense, is the end of the world and the death of human beings in it. And before we get to questions on the end of the world and what that probably looks like, which is how we're going to wrap up this.

More to the heaven and hell thing. It's basically a place we go after we die, and that's gonna happen ultimately.

To those questions is what happens when we die? You know, there's. There's a few. There's a few options. Are we. Are we reincarnating or are we just going to go back to the earth as manure? You know, and if we're reincarnating, what. What informs our reincarnation? Is it that because we have a soul or a spirit or, you know, all of that? Just what are your thoughts about. Around death, reincarnation, and where we go after we die? That's what I wanted to ask.

But.

I. On the topic of the reincarnation thing, I ask myself if reincarnation is a thing. Surely this cannot be the first iterations of our souls. We are coming from somewhere. We've lived perhaps many lives. And if this is our first. And then we are going somewhere, right? And so it is important to gather all the experience and, you know, live as fully in this life, so that the next life will be better. In a sense, maybe we will get a head start on living at some point.

It doesn't quite make sense to me.

I imagine that there are.

Be outside of this life experience.

Is hard enough that some people, you know, want out. And if reincarnation is a thing, they will not be happy at all. Do we remember our past lives? We will remember this life when we come again? I don't know. But there's a story that I want to share. One of my mom's co workers visited us at the house and was talking about, you know, I had lost my father. And he was trying to tell me about how nobody's ever truly gone forever. And his own sort of example for that was that he lost his dad, you know, at some point and just around the time he was going to have his own son. And he said to me that before his dad died, his dad said he was gonna stay with him forever and he was gonna come back. And that anytime he has any interaction with his son, it always feels as if he's interacting with his father in the way they talk and things they say, and perhaps memories that his son has but should not have, but his father did definitely have. So is reincarnation real? I cannot say for a fact. Maybe it is the human mind playing tricks on us. Maybe. I don't know what the maybes even are, but it is a. It's a very heavy subject, I think, because I don't want all of this to end. I don't.

Know, you know, loss is a very heavy subject.

Brought up all these sort of things like reincarnation or heaven and hell is because, to a point, they don't want it to end. You know, I must see you again, you that have left me on this earth. There must be a place where we meet each other in the End. And so maybe that's why. Maybe that's.

Answer these questions, we must commune with the dead and the unborn. We must ask our fathers who have left us.

Well.

Hell and that Teletubbies were demons and all of that.

I don't know.

To somebody in their dream as a.

And then, you know, we must commune with the dead and the unborn, our fathers who have left us and our grandchildren and children yet to be born, so that they will tell us, hey, adimola. Hey, this is what it is.

The Bible, the story of Lazarus and the rich man, you know, you know, the rich man died and went to.

Back and tell them to repent. And God was like, no, they have their priests, they have their dreams and my word. Yeah. Let them do with that what they choose to do.

And per the tenets of Saturday service, that is the point of faith. That is the point of faith.

Yeah. To wrap up, why will we not see, you know, any great physical miracles? Why are we not witnesses to great physical miracles?

Yeah.

The embellishing world that exists outside of what we can see. I wonder perhaps, maybe the end of the world would be the, say, the only miracle we will see because we.

World because we're not there.

Of years before it even starts to happen. You know, climate change and all of that. But if we don't, if the world will end the way it is foretold in the holy books, specifically the Bible that I know of, will it be that. That will be the only time that we will now experience in this age of smartphone and streaming? Will this be the only time that we will see amazing physical phenomena, the sky turning blood red and the earth shaking blood red?

And, you know, creatures with like 78 wings flying up and down the sky and, you know, armies battling armies in sky for dominion and, you know, a hydra. All of that. You. You almost really wonder.

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