• 26 Dec, 2025 *

All structures—everything that constructs our self, tangles and tightens the knot—are born and built from answers veiled as questions. If one is to question the question, to kick out the scaffolding of control, the whole thing disappears.

The question of God’s existence is born from the (same) answer(s) God or no-God. The question of how to find peace is born from the answer that there is such a thing as peace. The question of civilization and society’s motivational drives is not born from a void of intrigue and mystery, but from the presumed answer that is ‘progress’.

The question, born from the answer, is merely the veil that we use to lull ourselves into the belief of individual, separate becoming. That anything can ever become or change unto itself and, therein, can in some sense be controlled and understood. Becoming someone or something (question) is synonymous with security (answer). To become, to believe one can become, is to already believe in the answer of that becoming.

I am getting better.

I will get purer.

I will be more virtuous.

The synonymity of answers and questions is the source of all problems for the self. The question of how to get enlightened, for instance, presupposes the answer of enlightenment. The question of God’s existence presupposes the answer of understanding that God either does or does not exist. The question of happiness presupposes both that there is such a thing as happiness and that it’s attainable. The answers predefine the self, which then seeks to answer the question already complete. A fruitless, cyclic, tangling task.

If we question the questions: Who told me of enlightenment? Where did I get the concept of God from? Where did the notions of ‘my thoughts’ as mine come from? We begin to dissipate the quagmire of assumptions that tightens the knot. In short, who the hell put all this garbage into my head? Or, the counter-question to all questions: Why are you asking this question?

Why are we here?

What does it all mean?

What is my purpose in life?

Does God exist?

All of these questions—and so many more—are themselves the foundation and reality to the idea they seek to posit or negate. There is no meaning to your life outside of the question of the meaning of your life, so let the question burn down.

Any sufficient answer to a question would negate the question itself, and yet, the aforementioned ‘big’ questions have countless, unfathomably complex and diverse answers, and yet still roam free as questions.

One might follow this up by wondering (or asking), what exactly are these answers, then? Control. Comfort. Security. Safety.

A question is posited (erupts) from the fascistic realm of thought and, inherently demands to be answered, for that is the purpose of a question. The self, that is obedient to thought, seeks to know why, how, when, who, if, and should. It seeks, ultimately, to know, and in doing so seeks to prolong its tyrannical existence.

The knot wants tightening. The self wants a question. You want a problem! Without any problem, you’d die.

Stop speculating on this, it just is.

Give up.