What if All This Pursuit of Truth Is Totally Futile?

Thus this Painfully Honest Guy has been pursuing truth all his life. But after all these years, he can't help asking himself this way: What if all this pursuit of truth on my part is entirely futile? What if all humans, without any exception whatsoever, are trying to reach the absolute truth in sheer vain? What if there is no such thing as absolute, objective, logical, or otherwise appropriate truth in this world? What if what feels truthful to us is nothing but something that just pleases or is convenient to us? What if we humans are nothing but creatures reacting to a simple mechanism based merely on the pleasure principle, just as an ameba behaves in a preprogrammed manner in response to light, nutrition, or other stimulus? What if everyone has always -- throughout history -- been doing nothing but pursuing what pleases themselves? What if there is no such thing as God, Buddha, absolute being, truth, righteousness, goodness, correctness, or any other thing or concept of the right kind? What if all our cognitive and emotional faculties -- including memory, understanding, and feeling -- are totally flawed? What if everyone has always been thinking and feeling nothing but what pleases and is convenient to them? What if something is missing in everyone's brain? In fact, what if our brain itself is useless, disabled, illogical, messed up? What if the starfish -- that creature who has no brain but who some biologists believe are at the pinnacle of evolution, instead of the human being? What if humankind is totally flawed, with its curse of a brain, which is precisely what makes humankind totally miserable for eternity? What if the brainless starfish is far happier, much more authentic, and more logically, objectively better-constructed and programmed than we humans are? What if we humans are totally useless and deserve to perish at once? What if we humans are precisely the sole reason for the intense misery, disaster, and misfortune of all the other creatures, minerals, and other existences in the universe? What if the rest of the universe has always -- ever since it was unfortunately born -- been wishing for us humans to become extinct as soon as possible? What if the righteousness of humans lies not in their sustenance and survival but in their immediate collective suicide?

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