Oh man, RvB reference in the wild after all these years. Warms my heart.
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago“Why are we here?”
“One of life’s great mysteries isn’t it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence? Or is there really a God, watching everything. You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don’t know man, but it keeps me up at night.”
“What? I mean why are we here, in this box canyon in the middle of nowhere?”
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
if you wake up in a compound, catered to your every need by weird alien captors, “why am I here?” is a pretty obvious question.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
You ask the aliens why you are there, meaning the cell they imprisoned you, and they tell you how their species created humans and what humans purpose is. You immediately go catatonic by the revelation.
yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Well, the information that aliens created us for some particular purpose would certainly be of academic interest to me. It’s empirically interesting, but normatively insignificant.
For that, I would need to learn about the aliens’ philosophical progress (if any).