First There is a Mountain

Research that is done to support a theory cannot be trusted. What is respected are theories drawn from impartial research. I mention this because I have arrived at a conclusion which I never expected to reach, nor would have labored to support had I been conscious of the theory which is this: there are no causes, no effects, and reality unfolds as one event in accordance with what I can only call fate.

Strictly speaking, cause and effect do exist, but not as functional laws. This is because what appears to be one event is actually an incomprehensible number, and the cause for any "one" event is not one cause, but an infinitely large number of them. It troubled me for a long time that the root of causation is unknowable and that, therefore, all knowledge is illusory. I considered cause and effect viable but incomprehensible. I now I see they only exist as tautologies: stuff happens because it happens, undeniable, but also quite useless. Well, not at all useless, but useless for explaining things. This idea is only good for understanding.

So: fate. I do not mean fate in a way that concerns prophecy or predestination. With any set of objects in motion their movements, from beginning to end, no matter how difficult they are to calculate, are set. Cause and effect only appear to exist based on our incomplete sampling of space and time. In other words, there are no coincidences there is only inevitability. As the Hindu reads, "He sees, who sees that all actions are performed by nature alone, and that the Self is action less."