Chapter 2
The People of Conclusion Two
Conclusion two is based on the understanding that the only fact human beings will ever know is that mankind will spend the entirety of its existence never knowing what happens after death. While the people of conclusion one hid their fear of the unknown behind religion and faith; conclusion two’s people found solace in fully accepting the unknown for what it is- unknown. These people have chosen not to use religion or faith to cope with not ever being able to grasp universal understanding. Instead, the people of conclusion two will either choose to accept a theory- which they can articulate and understand as an “answer, or they will just simply believe that nothing at all happens.
In a majority of conclusion two, there are two kinds of people who believe different ideas. Both sides of conclusion two are God free, but also hold noticeable differences in comparison. One side believes that everything in existence ultimately originates back to formulas of different sciences. Believing that science is the only real answer. These people strive to grasp at what can’t be explained by learning various scientific theories, which they think could possibly make sense to understanding a possible answer. After they mold these theories to what they can understand, they accept them. Even though they are clearly just unsubstantiated theories- these theories just make too much sense to these people, so they cling to them. Some of which will believe them completely, confusing theory with fact. Not unlike conclusion one, these people ultimately end up using their theories as coping mechanisms to deal with the unexplainable. Conclusion one uses theories of faith as solace, one side of conclusion two uses theories of science. Some claiming that existence is just a byproduct of the chaos theory on a universal scale. Others might say the good die young as a result of natural selection, or maybe because chaos rippled through existence just right. People on the other side of conclusion two might just simply say that if a good person dies young, it was for no reason.
The other side of conclusion two are the kind of people who believe in nothing; meaninglessness. Nothing matters, and whatever happens holds no reasoning at all. These people might also say that the good die young as a result to a random and meaningless series of events, holding no explanation. These are the people who have come the closest to achieving Thomas Gray’s well-known idea that ignorance is bliss. They just barely miss success in the achieving bliss brought on by ignorance, because they sometimes hold beliefs. When belief in any form exits, accepting this level of ignorance isn’t possible making the bliss unachievable. Most of these people believe nothing happens after death, which means they also confuse unsubstantiated ideas with fact. They will say that a human being’s life holds no meaning or purpose, aside from what they believe to be or true. This side of conclusion two is where you will find the existentialists who may seem blissfully ignorant, but actually aren’t. They also have beliefs which is quite specific, as a matter of fact. Existentialists believe in the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of human will. They claim to be all alone in the universe. No reason and no meaning. No explanation and no need for one.
The beliefs and the lack of beliefs of conclusion two are not as antiquated and outdated as conclusion one’s, in the sense that mankind had developed conclusion two over multiple centuries before becoming what it has become; making it newer in age. In earlier times of humanity when conclusion one had already built its foundation and started growing with the population, conclusion two was considered taboo. Being completely opposite of religion and faith, conclusion two thrived on the ideas of astronomers, philosophers and various writers and scientists. These thinkers were often persecuted for blasphemy and sorcery. It wasn’t until mankind had finally reached the point where tolerance to religious and ideological differences had overcome their need to dispute with each other over their beliefs, religious persecution became taboo. While not all of humanity followed suit; a majority did, resulting in thriving sophistication of the foundation and structures of ideas belonging to what is now conclusion two.
I hope this clearly illustrates the drastic differences between these two conclusions, and the people who choose to go one way or the other. Now imagine this illustration as a scale. A scale only weighing facts. Conclusion one is on one end and conclusion two on the other. Take a wild guess at which conclusion would tip the scale. The scale wouldn’t move. Not a single fact to measure. Not because the theories of conclusion one and two were completely wrong, but because they hold beliefs in things they cannot and will not ever know to be right or wrong, rendering their beliefs into theory. For in the reality of mankind there is no truth, with the exception to what only can be proven. Not a single theory in either conclusion will ever be proven by man.
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