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Why is it saddening? Only to us as social intelligent animals. Stop projecting your clinging to your continued existence onto nature!
by joeberon 6y ago
Why is it saddening? Only to us as social intelligent animals. Stop projecting your clinging to your continued existence onto nature!
- ganzuul 6y agoA billion years of instinct must lead to uncertainty and mixed feelings. We great apes are a strange apparition in the cosmos, capable of glimpsing the absurdity of our own existence. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"