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When I look up at the sky at night, and see the stars...
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Ride the damn lightning!
Ben Dhyan
Veteran Member
There is this paradox I become acutely aware of when I am in a state of awe in the presence of the night sky, otoh I feel as you say insignificant, but there is also simultaneously and unambiguously, an inner source of my being 'saying' non verbally that all this is what and who you really are!
Most people can't recognise the world map (not immediately) (Mercater projection) if it's turned the other way around.
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
I am the universe. And I know nothing.
I am the universe formed into a creature with senses and a mind.
I look inward at myself, and outward at myself, and know nothing.
So I make myself a cup of tea, and contemplate my death.
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
always nicer....enjoy.
Howard Is
Lucky Mud
Hmmm...someone put mushrooms in the honey, and it has turned blue.
Oh well, I’m sure it will be fine. It looks pretty.
‘The Socratic Paradox Honey Company’
Never tried that brand before ...they call this blue stuff ‘Kykeon’.
You’ll never ever know if you never ever go.
Tastes OK...
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Isn't it a non sequitur fallacy to look at the size of the universe and then claim that we are insignificant because of how small we are in comparison to it? What does size in relation to the universe have to do with value? What's the link between the two? Unless of course you are subjectively using it as a personal standard for how you measure value, which in that case it makes sense
Gargovic Malkav
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I heard that mankind knows more about outer space than they know about the bottom of the ocean. I see a sign in this irony.
Heyo
Veteran Member
Yes, looking at the universe does make me feel insignificant.
F*** you, universe.
MNoBody
Well-Known Member
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There's a commonality to all people, cultures and times in looking up and wondering.
YoursTrue
Faith-confidence in what we hope for (Hebrews 11)
I am small and very insignificant in relation to the physical aspects of the universe, but God exists and knows little ole me.
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
I love looking up at the sky at night, but folks like Professor Cox have made me lazy because I can see and understand so much more by watching his programs.
My wife and I used to lay on the grass in the darkness, looking upwards in the hope of seeing shooting stars. But that always seemed to lead to other activities........ I was a bad lad, back in the day..... and night.
My wife and I used to lay on the grass in the darkness, looking upwards in the hope of seeing shooting stars. But that always seemed to lead to other activities........ I was a bad lad, back in the day..... and night.
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Who says life has value to the universe? Just ask it and wait for the answer.
Who says we (humans) are even valuable to our own planet? Certainly in recent (few hundred years) we seem to be doing our best to destroy it
Life is only valuable to itself and in the scheme of things (the universe) meh!