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From Chapter 3:

My friends, what’s important in life isn’t if you dislike something or even if you like it. What matters is what it is; if you're honestly trying, that’s a question that you’ll have a very tough time answering, because there are COUNTLESS INTERPRETATIONS for everything in this world. 

Here, have a cup.

Let’s say you were just handed a cup. Logically, after receiving this gift, you decided to smash it on the ground — into five pieces (We’re assuming, of course, that you’re an asshole.). Well, now you have to ask yourself, “Is that still one broken cup, or just five whole pieces of a cup?”

I know what you’re thinking. “Whole pieces? Author, there’s no such thing as a whole piece.” Ah! But imagine this: Now you take one of those pieces and smash it into five more! You have to ask yourself even more questions now. “Is this nine whole pieces of a cup? Four whole pieces of a cup and one broken piece? Or is it just, a broken, cup?” You take things apart twice, and suddenly your whole world is flipped upside down. Can a piece be whole? If it can... what is a "complete" item, and what's an incomplete one? When are things actually WHOLE, and when are they truly BROKEN? When it's broken twice, are the smaller pieces... "pieces", or does size not actually matter in terms of completeness? Is an atom still considered "a whole piece"? It has a name… does that make it whole? Look above, and reconsider your life choices. (And buy me a new cup, dammit!)

I'll be honest, I don't think that you can answer this. I don't think there is an answer. This could be why people don’t actually look into things objectively all day long. If they did, it might melt their brains, haha. 

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You can make anything, or any thought, seem complex, or incomplete, by breaking it apart enough, like a cup being broken down into its atoms and beyond. The only question is if you can place all of your smaller concepts back together again, in the correct forms that create a much larger idea and the newer, more expansive concepts that go with it. Can you take all of those atoms, and somehow, against all odds, place them back, piece by piece, until it forms the cup again? Or is a cup just too complex of a subject for you? It's true. Even the simple things can be made complex, buuuuuut...

Alas, a cup isn’t whole either; it’s just a "piece" of tableware, for the dining room, which is only one room, and a piece of your first floor, which is one of, let’s say, 2 floors. Then there’s your yard, and your driveway, and the neighbor’s yard, the neighbor after that, and the town, and the county, and the state, and on and on and on, to the edge of the universe.

The universe isn’t the end of it either though. Things may stop, or perhaps things exist outside of our reality, other dimensions, let’s say, expanding outward and onward, infinitely and forever. At the very least, beyond that, is the unknown, and who knows how expansive and infinite that is. Yet, in the end, the cup is still a part of it all, just a single piece in the vastness of everything. Even after all this zooming out, it's still there. You see? It’s simple. It's a very tiny, little cup… just a small piece of this large, ever unexplored world... Or is it something more complex than that?