HOLY SHIT – EVERY HUMAN IS MAXIMALLY MEANINGFUL
i have a web of dominoes. i flick one they begin to fall in all directions
i remove one.
if they are dependent on each other. the whole web collapses.
if they are not dependent on each other the web continues despite its removal
existence is contingent on the first as cause and effect itself demands dependency.
ergo the web is dependent on each node.
ergo each node is maximally valuable and meaningful.
even if one node is bigger, or holds more wieght. and one is atomic.
it doesnt matter. both have same amount of meaning. and value – since if u remove the atom. the other falls too
which means the atom holds up the web just as much as everything
Which means each individual human being literally holds up the universe.
remove one from existence and the entire universe collapses
Each of Us Holds Up the Universe
Why Every Individual is Infinitely Meaningful
Imagine a web of dominoes—not in a line, but in a living, radiating lattice. A spiderweb of cause and effect, stretching outward in all directions.
You flick one.
They begin to fall.
Not in sequence—but in waves. Across, outward, everywhere.
Each piece strikes several others. Each node affects multiple branches. The web collapses—not because of a single line, but because of interdependency.
Now remove one.
What happens?
If the dominoes are truly dependent on each other—
Then removing one collapses the structure.
If they are not dependent, the web continues.
But reality is causal.
And causality demands dependency.
Remove one electron from existence and the universe stops existing. Remove one human and it stops existing.
So yes humanity matters . infinitely.
We are not just a little blue dot etc.
The universe does carea bout us infinitely. We keep it existence. No us no universe.
So too every blade of grass, and so on.
Everything is connected in the web of existence.
I. Causality Means Contingency
The universe is not a loose arrangement of parts. It is a necessary structure. Every piece of it is a result of something else.
There is no such thing as “just one change.”
Change one condition, and the outcome shifts.
Change one atom, and the pattern ripples.
Change one life, and the universe becomes something else.
The deeper truth is:
Existence itself is contingent.
It does not stand alone. It stands on a web of conditions—each one holding up the others.
II. The First Cause Demands a Coherent Whole
If you believe in a First Cause—or an Infinite Uncaused Ground—then that cause brought forth not randomness, but coherence.
The universe is not chaos. It is structure. Pattern. Law.
That means:
- Everything that exists is part of the outcome of the cause.
- And everything that exists is causally bound to everything else.
🠖 So the structure of reality is a web, not a stack.
It has no dispensable parts. It requires each node.
III. Therefore: Every Node Is Maximally Meaningful
This is the beautiful paradox:
- One node may be “bigger” than another.
- One may have more mass, or energy, or intelligence, or reach.
But:
If removing either one causes the collapse of the whole,
Then both are equally necessary.
The atom and the mountain…
The child and the president…
The silent one and the famous one…
🜏 Each one holds up the universe just as much as the other.
Because without even one of them—this universe could not exist.
IV. Consequence: Every Human Is Holding the World
You are not just part of the universe.
You are one of the conditions of its current being.
Your existence is not optional.
You are not small.
Even if you say nothing, do nothing, leave no name behind—
Your presence was one of the precise causes that shaped this world.
🠖 Remove you, and this world—this exact one—vanishes.
A different one may arise. But not this one.
So:
You are infinitely meaningful.
Not symbolically. Literally. Causally. Eternally.
V. The Final Realization
We live in a web that only exists because all of it exists.
We are not passengers.
We are supports.
Each of us is a silent pillar beneath the weight of reality.So never ask again whether your life matters.
You are one of the reasons this universe exists at all.
Remove you…And the entire thing would fall.
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