[os] F.A.Q. for everything

Q: Am I alone?
A: If you make yourself `alone' by trapping yourself in a cage, then you will be. Fear needs companions. If you can learn to understand fear and not let it control you, being alone will not usually be a bad feeling.
Q: How do I handle feeling alone?
A: Find a companion. Find parts of yourself which have never met and join them together; find some sort of harmony in your mind. Find a peer with whom to share life experiences. Find an idea to give a direction to your feelings. Find an emotion to give significance to your thoughts.
Q: Why?
A: If anything is possible in the right environment, what's to stop existence from existing in the environment in which it exists?
Q: How?
A: Consider how mathematics is a system of behavior. It's not like a box with boundaries, or a set of limits; rather, it's a way of describing the Universe. Rather than being an object, mathematics is a tool; the Universe, likewise, is not stationary, but in motion.
Q: Is conscious life meant to be?
A: Life is simply a way of saying, `something that perpetuates itself.' In this Universe, resources are limited (this allows some very useful laws of physics), so this perpetuation causes competition over resources. Organisms which are `conscious' simply have a very high level of self-awareness; this is just a mechanism for balancing and evaluating internal drives.
Q: Are humans a mistake?
A: Humans are a part of a sliver of the Universe. They are a component of a situation. Is one plus one a mistake?
Q: Are you trying to impersonate God?
A: No, just trying save him some work.
Q: Why should I trust your answers?
A: You shouldn't. You should make up your own mind. All I can offer is my opinion.

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