raw_thought
Well-Known Member
Regardless of your religion, or lack of religion isn't reality weird?
Consider the mind boggling size of the universe (over 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy and over 100,000,000,000 galaxies). Creation is awesome ( I hate how "full of awe" became a stupid word. Similarly, "sublime" meant beautiful,grand and terrifying, like a volcano or the vastness of space.* Unfortunately, the spiritual is constantly being co-opted by the mundane.).
Quantum mechanics is so weird and beautiful as is the big bang. Evolution,is amazing! Billions of years of struggle creates a living being whose brain is more complicated than the entire world's telephone system! That brain sorts over 100,000,000,000 nerve messages a second! What is the result of such an engineering marvel?. To worry about such things as the price of toilet paper!!
Imagine the big bang, the elements being formed, galaxies and planets. The outcome of all that? An episode of Jersy Shore, rubber poop for playing jokes, Bobby Sherman lunch pails...That such comically mundane things can have such an illustrious pedigree is weird!!! One can draw a direct line of cause and effect from the big bang to such silly objects.
Ironically, such absurdity adds to the surreal sublimity of the event called our universe.
* Now people use the word in such sentences as "isn't that chocolate sublime?"
Consider the mind boggling size of the universe (over 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy and over 100,000,000,000 galaxies). Creation is awesome ( I hate how "full of awe" became a stupid word. Similarly, "sublime" meant beautiful,grand and terrifying, like a volcano or the vastness of space.* Unfortunately, the spiritual is constantly being co-opted by the mundane.).
Quantum mechanics is so weird and beautiful as is the big bang. Evolution,is amazing! Billions of years of struggle creates a living being whose brain is more complicated than the entire world's telephone system! That brain sorts over 100,000,000,000 nerve messages a second! What is the result of such an engineering marvel?. To worry about such things as the price of toilet paper!!
Imagine the big bang, the elements being formed, galaxies and planets. The outcome of all that? An episode of Jersy Shore, rubber poop for playing jokes, Bobby Sherman lunch pails...That such comically mundane things can have such an illustrious pedigree is weird!!! One can draw a direct line of cause and effect from the big bang to such silly objects.
Ironically, such absurdity adds to the surreal sublimity of the event called our universe.
* Now people use the word in such sentences as "isn't that chocolate sublime?"
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