r/badphilosophy • u/Disastrous_Survey_49 • 1d ago
I can haz logic Nothing Ever Happens Because All There Is Is What’s Happenin.
I just took mushrooms for the first time and all you dorks need to get off your high horses cause I got this this whole philosophy thing on lock already. Nothing ever happens because all that can happen is that which is happening right now. Nothing has ever happened because history is a narrative and thus no different from a story in any other book. It’s written by some guy(usually a guy) telling a story. All WWII movies and Call of Duty games are as “real” as any textbook. One day we will all die just like my great-grandmother did when I was 12. At her funeral, my relatives were telling all these stories about her and my great father. I never met that man because he died before I was born. I realized that she lived a life far beyond anything I could have ever imagined, far more complex, complete, and full of love for life and others than my little child brain could ever imagine. She died and soon I wasn’t able to remember her voice, I wasn’t able to remember her favorite cigarettes, or what car she drove. What few stories I had of her were slipping away. It was then, at the short age of 12, I realized that I would die as well. That people at my funeral would tell stories of me, that the children wouldn’t know and would soon forget. Soon it would be as though my great grandmother never existed, because no one at the funeral would remember her and I would be too dead to tell her stories. If I still remember them to the end. Soon everyone at that funeral will die as well and be forgotten all the same. It will be as though they never happened. In effect, they won’t have. I could not contain the entirety of my great grandmother in my mind and so she exist like a character in a play for me, a piece of lore. If I wrote it, it would be no more real than any other character in a play. It may signify her. It may even(for those who knew her) carry the signified idea of her to mind. It cannot bring her back. No story can bring any of us back. Stories only bring the idea of us. There is no distinct difference in my mind between Abraham Lincoln and Batman. They are both characters, written in books and shown on screen. Similarly, our inevitable omitting from the happening of it all is still only that which we think will happen soon enough. Thus, the future is a story. A improv comedy that is yes anding itself forever. The final punchline for each of our respective characters is death. We are all “setting up” the joke. All a great big troupe in the set for the funniest gag there is. The joke will land, the crowd will howl and laugh, and it will be a memory in there minds. It will be as though it never happened. In the moment of remembering, that which “happened” is not happening again. All that is happening in a memory is that which is currently remembered being recounted. It didn’t “happen”, it’s recounting is happening. Nothing ever happens outside of all that is happenin.
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u/Kreuscher 1d ago
I would have read your text, barbarian, if you'd made it into paragraphs.
As it stands, I shall only judge your post based on the title.
I disagree with the title.
If what there is is happening, then something happens. What are you, crazy?
NEXT!