The Movement that comes from nowhere

A philosophical essay written solely by Alexey Prokofyev.


INFINITY.

We all know the world is infinite. But do we THINK about it?

The world is infinitely enlargeable and infinitely divisible.

Multiply the world you know a billion times, then multiply

the result a billion times. Where is that end? How can it be

any other way, you may ask.


HOW IT CAN BE THUS, I WONDER.


That’s why the very essence of the world is superhuman.


We are more than ants, but we are not SO much more,

because both our species are opposed to infinity not as a

distance, but as a notion.


This stuff is as simple as can be, it’s under everybody’s

nose, but nobody cares.

More than this you know there’s nothing (Roxy Music).

The mind wants the world to be clear to someone, but God

would have to live in infinity too.


THE MEANING OF LIFE.


The meaning of life is pleasure, because if there is another

meaning to life, what is in it for you? Isn’t it what we all

carbon beings are trying to do, derive pleasure from life?


FATE.


Guilt is stupid, so is regret. Everything is predestined,

that’s why the future is predicted so bloody often.

Horoscopy is about predicting the future too, even if it only

predicts traits of your future character.

You may say that certain things are predestined, and

certain ones are not. But all things are interconnected, so

how can one appear without the other?


Everything is firmly set in the infinity of time behind us

and in front of us. Those who tried to invent an eternal

engine forgot that it would have to be an enclosed system,

while we live in infinity, powered by movement that comes

from nowhere.


Every movement in the infinitely divisible matter is

predestined since the day it all started rolling, which day

never happened.

This makes the idea of sin and the ensuing heaven or hell

absurd. It also means that everybody is innocent. People

who go to jail are innocent. Those who jail them are

innocent too. The firing squad consists of innocent men.

Pinochet was innocent. We think we move things, but we

are just puppets with miner’s picks.


This stuff should somehow be taken into consideration.

So boiling people in oil in hell makes no sense. Maybe it

doesn’t HAVE to make any sense.

It also means that nothing in the world is casual. Every

direction you take to pee is firmly set in the past and will

have inevitable consequences.

There’s no such thing as a missed opportunity. Try to

behave, but never give a damn for the past. Say: “It’s not

my fault. It was written in the stars.”


THE NON-EXISTENCE OF GOD.


Infinity is too big a plot for him to cultivate, and neither

can he rule human lives, because the humans are included

into the movement of infinity. God can exist only as an

intermediary between us and the Universe, but in no way

can he be The Master of Everything. BECAUSE THERE

IS NO EVERYTHING. There’s only infinity.


FAITH.


Faith is nothing but hope and auto-suggestion. And this can

work wonders.


HAPPINESS.


The world is infinite, and it may have infinitely different

impacts on you. On the other hand, you are not infinity,

you have certain traits of character, with which you were

born and with which you will die. So the direct and honest

reaction to things that occur is the happiest way to live.


POSSIBILITIES.


Everything is possible but the absence of space, time and

images.


SIN (returning from Cosmos).


Nothing that doesn’t hurt you or your neighbor is a sin.


FORGIVENESS.


If they slap you, turn the other cheek. If they kill you, let

them kill you once again.


AGAINST SUICIDES.

You want to kill yourself, because you have made an

unfavourable judgement against yourself. But do you want

to kill the judge? I know it’s only one of the cases.


SHIT.


Existence is the right to exist, which expires when you die.

The only unalienable right of an organism is self-defense.



The world is full to the brim with people I call shit. Shit

can repent its sins, but it can’t become a human. If shit can

hurt you physically, then you should beware. If it cannot,

then you should remember that it only deserves a shitty

relationship. You wouldn’t be upset by every piece of crap

you see. Don’t give a damn.


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