Jayz, is this from a game or some kind of religion or a book? Or are you just making this up? If you are not getting fanatical about this, or paranoid or depressed, then I guess this is cool if it helps you.

It does sound a wee bit... schizcophrenic, imo - the way I'm "hearing" this from you. So if it is causing you to feel strange, hear voices, see visions, become fanatic, parnoid, depressed, suspcious or obsessed, I would suggest you go seek medical health immediately.

I hope you are fine and just have an over active imagination or found a really cool way to find meaning in your life.

Hi Pom, two things:

If Jay were having any of those symptoms, how would we ever tell whether his musings were causing the symptoms, the result of them, or utterly independent of them?

(That said, if Jay were having the symptoms you describe, seeking help would of course be a good idea.)

Why not? It has to be some way, and this way sounds as good to me as any.

Seriously, I (seriously) support you in your investigation of these matters.

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Can you say existential? How about ontology?

Hey Fooze, scientifically speaking you are correct of course. I was just speaking of the latter - IF he's having those symptoms.

I have some close schizophrenic friends, and taking Jayz words without any context, they could sound schizophrenic-ish, as they do to me. I just want Jayz to be okay and not be in any danger, or seriously ill and not be aware of it. I'm no doctor and never claim to be professionally proficient in the mental health area, I just want to be helpful if I'm able. I've lived with mental illness all my life and have lots of negative experience. Such as not seeking treatment when I so obviously should have, thus getting sicker and sicker until I ended up suicidal and making attempts or so delusional in my thinking that people around me were looking at me as the proverbial "crazy" person. Hard on the self esteem. I don't wish that on anyone else.

I already knew you were a good-hearted lady, Pom, and of course you were speaking out of concern for Jay.

I stepped in mostly to remind you (and maybe Jay, if he even needs any such reminder) not to let that existential/ontological/mystical stuff freak you out too much. I happen to be at home with it myself and know (or at least know of) many others who are, too. I'm sure many more would think we were plumb nuts if we were to say too much about it in the wrong place.

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Q: Why is there something, and not nothing?
A: Because if there were nothing, we wouldn't be here talking about it.