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When Noah visits Mikkel in 1986 and talks about god with him. Mikkel is at first skeptical, saying his dad views it as a tool to brainwash people. But later, he's seen examining the picture Noah has tattooed on his back. Fast forward to 2019, he willingly hangs himself, saying, "God doesn't err; he has a plan, for each of us"

So is it possible that Adam sent Noah to 1986 to begin Mikkels' faith? Thus ensuring he would hang himself and that everything would go as it did on that fateful day on the 20th of June 2019? Why would Noah even bother visiting Mikkel unless there was some kind of purpose?

I recently watched the whole of Dark not to long ago. Sadly it was years after the show ended so i didnt get to enjoy the anticipation of each new season. Please share any theories you found interesting in the comments.

theres a lot to choose from but for me its probably "two boats and a helicopter"

I recently had a thought about the trolley problem, which is, "What if my mom, best friend, etc were on the second track instead of some random guy? Would I be evil for not pulling the lever (from a utilitarian standpoint, of course)? Then I thought about why I would choose a loved one over five strangers. The best answer I can offer is that it was MY family member, while the other five people aren't. So it's because I VALUE this person's life more than abstract concepts like pleasure and pain. Must it be the other way around too, right? If you would choose to pull the lever even if it were someone you knew, you would still be making a value judgement, but this time it would be because you value the doctrine of utility more than a loved one. It wouldn't be right or wrong it would just be about preference. Then I thought, "What if one person has a different set of values to another? Does that mean there are no objective rules about which values should be prioritised over others? Would that mean any philosophy or belief that claims to be objective is just using logic to disguise their individual preferences"

I know this idea is very similar to emotivism and that Nietzsche has had very similar ideas but I haven't stopped with just the motivation. I've thought about WHY we choose to value things, which I believe is because we want these things to be as important as we wish they were. This is when we get into the topic of the absurd. Because there are millions of other people who value different things than we do and the universe is indifferent to our existence, the things we care about can never be as meaningful as we want. We are stuck in the absurd.

I've read some of Camus' work, and I know about existentialists like Sartre, but I want to know if any other, maybe less-known philosophers would have something to say about this idea.