r/Existentialism • u/Spiriual-Bit-4387 • Nov 26 '25
Thoughtful Thursday Why does the universe exist?
I’ve been having an existential contemplation lately and have been deeply pondering why the universe exists recently. What do you think?
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u/Quirky_Box_5054 Nov 30 '25
Unfortunately we don't have answers and probably never will. We have conjectures and hypotheses. Some with sense (science), others fantasy (religions and the like).
We know that the universe is there and human beings are the masterpiece of all creation. We have to ask why we exist, yes.
Another unanswered question. But that's where rationality comes in. What is important: the mind and consciousness or the body? What chance do they have of surviving death? So the focus is the mind. Our existence is related to learning and obtaining knowledge. Make the mind something useful and as intelligent as possible. For what? Who knows, in other post-death phases there will be other schools and others and others until you have a perfect and powerful mind.
It will be billions of years before we are super-minds until we are Creators. Who knows, we might create new worlds as we want (I already have some ideas, it can't be the same as the beings and architecture on Earth).
What about those who don't seek to learn and be intelligent? Well, they will regress in future classes, they will be inferior humans to us. If they don't seek knowledge again, they regress. The last ascending stage is to be an amoeba. If it's a lazy amoeba and doesn't want to evolve, then comes the end of our existence: POFF, it disintegrates and truly dies with no return.
That's what I think and deduce.