What if 2 + 2 = 4 is 100% true, but also illogical and comepletely nonsensical?
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Okay, you may have often heard the sentence "we are not the first advanced society to live on Earth" or "all knowledge learned over 14000 years may have been lost and we have to start from scratch" in the light of "cyclical time" but "what if there are things in our world that 100% exist, and are true but make utterly no sense whatsoever?". <br><br>What I mean by this is that often times we see the world in a sensible way, we watch a football game and say that whoever scores the most points wins the game, or that whoever has more money has a larger sum of money. <br><br>But in the case of the first example, football could just as easily be a game that is won by whoever scores the "least" amount of points, or that whoever scores the most points and has the most money wins the game, or that whoever has more money and whoever got there first wins the game, there are countless possibilities of how this game could be played and won, but there are other things in our lives that we consider to be completely logical, like the number 4 being larger than the number 3 without thinking too much about it, but "what if we are wrong? what if the world is completely upside down and we can only see a minuscule part of it in the way that we can only see a very small amount of the visible light spectrum?".<br><br>After all, sometimes we think of things that we consider to be impossible at first, like for example humanity reaching Mars, and then we achieve them, so why couldn't we have been wrong about countless other things, about how the universe works, how reality functions, how time passes, or that the sky may not even be blue, or that some people might be able to fly and we just don't know about it yet, or that some people are capable of telepathy or telekinesis. <br><br>So, 2 + 2 = 4 is a fact, but is it a logical fact that makes 100% sense, or is it just the way things are? or even worse, is it just the way things are as of now but that may change in the future?
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