9/24-V for Vendetta 30 mins-40 pg
9/25-V for Vendetta 25 mins- 60 pg
9/26-Why the World Exists 1 hr 80 pg
9/27-Why the World Exists 50 mins 70 pgs
9/28-Why the World Exsts 1 hr 85 pg
Why the World Exists: An Existential Detective Story, by Jim Holt is the book I decided to read instead of the Reckoning, and while I finished this Sunday, it has greatly changed my view of the world.The author Jim Holt, goes through his travels to different philosophers in different parts of the world to learn about mankind's most vexing question Why is there Something rather than Nothing?(question:his exact words). He shows off many explanations, like simplicity, God, brute fact, closed spherical space of zero radius, all known explanations. He even goes off track with the self and whether it exists.
By the end of the story, I was both depressed and optimistic.I realized that no matter what solution is correct, or even if there's not a solution, all we'll ever be doing is grasping at straws to calm our minds. But, at the same time I was happy. Even though God is unnecessary to explain the world, there's no evidnece for anything to say some kind of deity doesn't (or does) exist. My own decision is more about what brings me peace than what is actually correct. For all we know a dancing monkey came from the void and clapped his cymbals together and it made everything. Why care?
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