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Scary as well though. All those cosmic powers, and here we are, not even ants standing on a hilltop.
by greenleafone7 2mo ago
Scary as well though. All those cosmic powers, and here we are, not even ants standing on a hilltop.
- Insanity 2mo agoOn the flip side of scary, it can put your problems in perspective and offer some kind of solace. I guess it's a bit of both :)
- NetOpWibby 2mo agoDoing this in my early 20s helped me out of a depression. The perspective shift is massive.
- jibal 2mo agoI find this sentiment so bizarre ... scared of what, exactly? There are real threats that people ignore, like rip tides, global warming, RFK Jr., and fascism, but those "cosmic powers" aren't coming to get us.
- engineer_22 2mo agoLove how you throw in RFK Jr. His muscular tone is certainly impressive!
- jibal 2mo agoI referred to real threats, and he is one. His muscles aren't relevant.
- steve_adams_86 2mo agoThey are if you ever try to take his raw milk away
- smolder 2mo agoOr measles
- greenleafone7 2mo agoNeither is 'fascism' or 'rip tides'! Some of us find the beauty and power of nature awe-inspiring, regardless of our day-to-day problems.
- folkrav 2mo agoKnowing how precious the current state of Earth is at human scale makes me fear the asshats acting like everything revolves around “progress” a lot more than knowing how insignificant we are at cosmic scales.
- greenleafone7 2mo agoExactly. "We did ruing the only planet we ever knew, but at least for a brief moment in time we made a lot of value for Musk and his friends"
- ahazred8ta 2mo agoThere's a diagram of the size of everything in the universe from quarks to the whole observable universe. https://www.universetoday.com/163927/everything-in-the-universe-fits-in-this-one-graph-even-the-impossible-stuff/ https://www.universetoday.com/163927/everything-in-the-unive...
- epistasis 2mo agoI honestly find it extremely comforting. Having something so much bigger than oneself in the world is calming. All my worries, all my loves, everything that goes well, everything that goes poorly, just a tiny blip in the hugeness of it all. To me, it makes the good things better, and the worse things less meaningful. I watch DESI animations every few months for a reminder.
- gigatexal 2mo agoYeah ... for all our accomplishments there's still a decent amount of people globally (though it's falling) living without basics (food, clean water, safe living conditions), and we still fight over fossil fuels despite having clean energy like wind, solar, nuclear and others. I'd give the human race a C-. Let's see if in our lifetimes we can improve on this.