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The Nonexistence one is what often gets me. If and when I ever give it more than a passing moment's thought, I have to take care lest it put me into an unsettli
by apmee 18y ago
The Nonexistence one is what often gets me. If and when I ever give it more than a passing moment's thought, I have to take care lest it put me into an unsettling trance-like state of bewildered and bemused incomprehension and planar disorientation.
Saves money on jazzy cigarettes let me tells you.
- paulgb 18y agoI can relate to that. I used to feel a bit of a high when I was a young kid just trying to contemplate what would exist if nothing existed. Not nothing as in no matter, but no dimensions or time either. Thinking about that still puts my mind into a weird state.
- apmee 18y agoSome people, including (I suspect) most theists, seem terrified by this, whereas I find it exhilarating and immensely humbling. Funnily enough, it was actually while I was sat in church with my family when I was younger (I've since lapsed profoundly and comprehensively, of course) that my mind first began to wander to and wrestle with such concepts.
- jodrellblank 18y agoThe scale one gets me whenever think of it. Reading Clarke and imagining being in a spaceship in orbit around Jupiter and seeing it dominate the exterior view. Trying to imagine a ball of fire as big as the Sun. Seeing the solar giants in images like these: http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm or videos like this: http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/_WEL117xXpw http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/_WEL117xXpw Antares is huge, lol. Well, not lol, more ... scared. Hubble Deep Field. It's awesome in the literal sense of awesome.