Existential Philosophy - Blog Posts

Perhaps there are no plagues, only the fickleness of nature. Perhaps there are no consequences, just ugliness. Maybe punishment is something that only comes from people, not from God.

Deborah Feldman, Unorthodox pg.80

what’s the point of looking to the stars

trying to touch the things we will never touch

Comet ATLAS

humans escaping into the cosmos

we weren’t built to go there

but we are built to break boundaries

never take no for an answer

so we move forward

In many ways it’s the ultimate question in natural science: How does our universe work? Is there a fundamental theory? An incredible amount has been figured out about physics over the past few hundred years. But even with everything that’s been done—and it’s very impressive—we still, after all this time, don’t have a truly fundamental theory of physics.

although i myself lack the attention required for mathematic philosophy i do respect the field and its practitioners so entirely - in my experience the people who are philosophers and mathematicians both always have such a beautiful perspective on existence and the universe