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What does life entail, what does it mean? What is the meaning of it? Is this all there is?
Almost everyone asks oneself that question sometimes. The common \u2018scientific\u2019 answer to this quintessential question is very simple; Well, actually, life doesn’t mean anything at all. This whole life, everything we see and experience around us, just came about by chance from something like nothingness. In the end, there is no meaning at all. Everything is an accumulation of coincidences.
This basic attitude is deeply interwoven in the fibers of today’s (Western) man and society.

But there is also a mysterious sense of being: knowing that you exist. This is a realization that evades rational explanations. It has a nature of its own and is the basis of conscious human being-there. It’s what makes a human an actual human.

This essay gives voice to this mystery by emphasizing that the sense of being cannot be grasped by humans. Conscious insightful human action transcends matter and betrays a transcendent spiritual component through the wondrous results of that action in the world around us.

The above conclusion contradicts generally accepted beliefs. For example, it is usually assumed that all human action is scientifically \/evolutionarily explainable. This essay argues that this position is far from demonstrated.
It is an assumption, rather a dogma, that natural selection is sufficiently explanatory.

The Mystery itself meanwhile lets experience itself unperturbed. Time and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wat behelst het leven, wat houdt het in. Wat betekent het eigenlijk? Is dit alles wat er is?
Vrijwel iedereen stelt zichzelf weleens die vraag. Het gangbare \u2018wetenschappelijke\u2019 antwoord op deze wezensvraag is heel erg eenvoudig; Nou, eigenlijk houdt het leven helemaal niets in. Dit hele leven, alles wat we om ons heen zien en ervaren, is gewoon zo door toeval uit zoiets als niets ontstaan. Uiteindelijk is er helemaal geen betekenis. Alles is een opeenhoping van toevalligheden.
Deze grondhouding is diep verweven in de vezels van de huidige (westerse) mens en maatschappij.

Maar ook is er een mysterieus zijnsbesef: het weten dat je er bent. Dit is een besef dat zich onttrekt aan rationele verklaringen. Het is van een heel eigen aard en is de basis van het bewuste menselijk zijn. Het is wat een mens tot mens maakt.

Dit essay geeft een stem aan dit mysterie door te benadrukken dat het zijnsbesef niet door mensen te vatten is. Bewust inzichtelijk menselijk handelen is materie-overstijgend en verraadt een transcendente geestelijke component door de bijzondere resultaten van dat handelen in de wereld om ons heen.

Bovenstaande conclusie is in tegenspraak met algemeen geaccepteerde overtuigingen. Zo wordt gewoonlijk verondersteld dat al het menselijk handelen natuurwetenschappelijk \/evolutionair verklaarbaar is.
Dit essay argumenteert dat deze stellingname verre van aangetoond is.
Het is een aanname, eerder een dogma, dat natuurlijke selectie voldoende verklarend is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Het Mysterie zelf laat zich inmiddels onverstoorbaar ervaren. Steeds weer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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