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If where we are is the answer, what is the question?

I don’t assume we have reach an enlightenment, but if the question is being resolved by existence and we are part of its medium in performing that task [to resolve the question], what might the original concepts be…

Figuratively speaking, if someone were in the philosophical space prior the universe, and they asked a question ~ any question, it would probably take a universe to answer it.

Lets ask an inane question; so that someone asks, ‘I want to love someone, and when I meet them it must be unexpected’. Now consider all that the question requires, before we even begin to answer it we have to set the stage, we need chance and the resolution must not be pre-determined.

You have to grow the place in which all the ingredients occur, in short you need a universe, evolution and one which results in humanity. The meeting of the lovers must be unexpected, so even if the questioner is primarily omniscient, something must occur to negate that. The same rule I think applies if the questioner has any idea beyond the most vague of notions, as to anything about the person they will meet.

Can you think of any question which wouldn’t require a universe to resolve?

Is the manifestation of universe the mission to resolve all questions? that is to say, it requires so much to answer a simple question, that in doing so you build what is required to answer perhaps all questions.
Either way if there is no specific someone at the beginning asking specific questions, then an unspecific question would require everything there is to resolve it.

Is then our existence merely the enacting of the resolution to the unasked question? Such that we are all resolving the stream of whatever our lives determine our part of the entire resolution to be?

I suppose the more philosophical question is; whatever may lay in the darkness before existence, all it wants is to ‘be’! any furthering of that is making it ‘be’ in an evermore profound or otherwise expressive manner. The purpose of life is thus; ‘to be’ and in that manner.

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Yes …

What is it you cannot do if the question is not resolved? (would you not exist?)

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The question that is in process of being answered is simply, “What is required to maintain perfect harmony?”

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What has two thumbs and can recite every one-liner in The Matrix?

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That notion requires you and everything that led up to you thinking that. {especially if you were the someone asking it in the beginning}

If you exist then you are part of the resolution still, something like being part of the program perhaps.

As such you can do anything, and everything you do is in some way working towards the resolution to the unasked question.

We began with perfect harmony though! This is part of my point; we often look towards the heavens for the answer when it is looking to us for it. What other reason would there be for divinity [or whatever is at the beginning] to manifest as everything there is ~ where we are?

Probably everyone here. :slight_smile: Which takes a universe to arrive at.

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No “we” didn’t. What makes you think we did?

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In the proposition was someone ‘in the philosophical space’ prior to or otherwise outside of existence, can you think of something that makes that space less than perfect? It could be nirvana or god - the absolute and such like!

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Actually, it was just a response to what you asked.

The life of the body IS programmed and ready to go. Life is not asking anything at all. It is to survive and function in that manner only. Every cell cooperates towards that purpose and is neither asking nor waiting for a resolution for anything from the intellect.

There is nothing to resolve. If you think there is, you are lost. When there is no concern for a solution, then you are yourself. To be yourself you don’t have to do anything. You will find the resolution if you do not deliberately seek it.

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Where are we?

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damn somebody beat me to it

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You’re not asking the question. You don’t have a clue where you or we are. You never did and you never will. The question is born not from some inborn natural intuition. It’s born from the answers that you have been given; from your memory. …… and, if that knowledge does not come from or belong to you, where are you?

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I’m here, you’re there.

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That’s what you think. It’s a pointer … it points out what you KNOW.

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I don’t KNOW anything.

Anyway, this topic is unnecessarily confusing. There’s gotta be better ways of phrasing whatever it is that’s being talked about.

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Life is way down the line, we are talking about what the universe takes instruction from. Why are planets and life like what they are, no reason? ~ wouldn’t that equal no blueprint or no information or laws which the universe goes by.

that’s still a resolution. I agree with your very profound philosophical point here though > [‘When there is no concern for a solution, then you are yourself‘].
We do have to do things, have aims etc to be ourselves surely? Who has ever had an aimless life?

We are here where we ‘all’ are, it’s a kind of everywhere pertaining to the whole of humanity where it is and where it is going. Like the forces of history its path is its own thing, any of us can give it direction but none of us can determine the entire direction.

There is a journey to the question which is not given.
If life were as simple as abc then no-one would be asking questions anymore, I am so glad that we don’t live in that world, ~ aren’t you!

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Unfortunately, I misclicked and disapproved a post from a new user. The content of the post is below, from user “quantum”:

“Intrestingly ,knowing the question is meant to be an answer, ( well , i don’t dare to ask U 2 reverse engineer on philosophy right now)
but, again, U call it or consider it to be answer only only when U get satisfied at that level, but not necessarily it be the same answer to other (OR may be not exact answer in reality). If U kept URself pushing into deep, the maturity of answer might change , in return, which might even push U to increase level of maturity to frame the same question with high thought.”

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I agree with quantum
The question carries often the quantum energy of an answer. But we are dealing with interpretation which can change from person to person and even within the same person.

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Then we go back to my original question: What is it that …. if you do not do it …. you cannot be yourself? (besides your basic needs)

Life, the physical life, is far from aimless. It has an extraordinary intelligence of its own in how it functions. What an awesome thing it is to be the possessor of life itself without going anywhere else.

Living in this society and among people, we need a reality of some sort. Whatever ideas and principles society upholds provides direction. You have to give society what it wants, not what you want to give. You can’t get anything out of it unless you put something into society.

If True Reality or Real Truth were to ever be discovered as something to strive for, as in religion, then it would be that knowledge and direction that provides the answers to our being here. And from those answers are questions are born.

When you ask, ‘If where we are is the answer, what is the question’…, then like someone else said …. the question is, ‘where are we?’ If you know where you are, then it is the knowledge that got you there. If you don’t know, then there is no way you can experience your whereabouts, that’s for sure. The difficult part to understand is that the knowledge you have been given …. that tells you where you are … did not come from you. It was taught to you. So, if the knowledge does not belong to you …. where are you?

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We have to work it out in terms of comparisons.

The title question was actually in reference to the idea that ‘where we are’ or where we are going to be, is the result; its what was required at the outset. …so what was the original desire?