Am I the only one who finds comfort in being insignificant in the grand scale of the universe?
I’m just a speck my problems don’t matter in the grand scale of things I don’t want to be significant I want to be forgotten.
You are stardust.
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yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
whelk@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
This is why I get a lot of comfort stargazing at night. So much stress or worry melts away when the realization hits that nothing really matters anyway. I don’t think this is quite what Tolkien was going for with the scene where Sam sees a star up through a small opening in the gloomy sky when he’s struggling, but it’s how I took it.
I think the tricky part for some people is trying to figure out why living life should matter at all, then, but it’s always worked for me. Just because a moment ends doesn’t mean that the moment shouldn’t matter to you, if you find it fulfilling or meaningful.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
in fact, living in interesting times (or interesting situations, or interesting lifes) is considered a curse in china, because of all the responsibility and stress that comes with it.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I like their expression “the nail that sticks up gets hammered down”.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The rest of it is just rocks in space.
Rocks don’t have problems eitherItemWrongStory@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t get why people want their problems to have cosmic importance, but the scale of the universe just makes me feel like there is so much I’ll never get to see. And if there is no other life in the universe, then all those amazing worlds with utterly unique phenomena will never be observed.
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
you didn’t exist much longer than you’ve been alive by a very large factor
Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I can do both of these flipping back and forth. Existential dread, awe, and purpose at the same time.
Also, Stardust takes on new meaning after Rogue One.
Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
saimen@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yeah it should be “star-stuff” refering to this quote of Sagan:
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I am nuclear waste.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
A star fart.
A cosmic anxiety generator.
A sexy machine that took 14 billions of years to produce.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My body is a machine that transforms childhood trauma into profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Pretty metal
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
\m/
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Forged in the heart of a dying star
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Ste41th@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It was the other way around for me lol
don@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
“I am the waking universe looking back at itself.”
The waking universe: huh, no floaters this time. (flush)
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Still insignificant though!
Absurdism FTW!
WeebLife@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And I ended up being a gooner weeb…
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Truly the pinnacle of evolution 🥹
Rooskie91@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Ishmael would like a word.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I don't get it.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You should call him, then
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
humans are buildings, and just like buildings have plumbing and wire, humans live not alone: we have a huge number of parasites in our intestines and a large number of ideas in our brains that join us in our journey. i wonder how much of our actions are actually our own, and how many are caused by our circumstances.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And what really controls our consciousness.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Jellyfish
ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
You might like the book Determined by Robert Sapolsky. It’s very dense and I haven’t gotten far into it yet but it’s about the science of free will.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
duh it has 500 pages, i’m not reading sth that long. if you can’t put your thoughts into a short summary, you haven’t truly understood much of anything, i say.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The top panel is just the human ego speaking volumes. This is why we have main character syndrome, and some people think the universe owes them if they feel disappointed.
plyth@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Not the other way round?
I would say the top panel can accept own insignificance while bottom panel creates a vision of grandiosity to protect the main character illusion.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
My brain added an 'n' to the first word of "waking universe" and I think it still works
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The universe created life just so it could finally have a wank.
Checks out.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why can’t they both be chads?
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Both perspectives are equally valid. The universe has no right answer. There is no correct way to live, experience or perceive anything.
You don’t owe the universe anything, it doesn’t owe you anything. It may very well be inherently unknowable at some levels. Live your life the best you can, everything you experience, from joy to despair, pleasure and pain, it’s all just experience and it’s all you’re here to do.
Chakravanti@monero.town 3 weeks ago
Debt is an illusion because Mani Mani was never real. It’s not just an illusion. It’s a delusion of the illusion but the profusion of pollution is real!
Wolf@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I was going to say I am column A and B, but I don’t cry about it.
We ARE miracles, we ARE “The Universe experiencing itself” and we are insignificant on the cosmic scale. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Did…did I make all of this!?”
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Top pic: average nihilism enjoyer
Bottom pic: average character on Invincible
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Am nihilism enjoyer, am bottom pic
the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Significance is just a concept humans made up to make ourselves feel bad.
Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
And here I am sat drinking beer, watching tv. The pinnacle of the evolution of the universe.
Thank you, and goodnight!
eelectricshock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“You are not the centre of the universe!” Is just another person tells us that there aren’t me’s
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Most of the atoms you’re made of were born in stars long dead; the rest were born in the big bang.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is the star truly dead if it lives on in us?
Scientist: Yes.
oh. well ok then.
omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You are golden.
It’s quite the songwriting feat. (Joni Mitchel, but CSNY great interpretation with gospel Organ part)
“And we got to get ourselves, back to the garden”
unifies gospel of bible and humanism. The 60s, being a period of extreme oppression of US men with draft for US empire domino absurdities, had many “principled songs”. This is the best one, not just specifically anti-war. Woodstock as a “principled humanist” gathering gained significance from this song.
the_q@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ah yes cosmic coping…
klemptor@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
You are golden
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Wanna feel as old as a star?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I need Burialgoods to read this meme.
troybot@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.”
the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Welcome, to Nightvale
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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Valmond@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you know someone actually believing this kind of stuff (matter is created by me experiencing, everything is “vibrations”, where are my drugs… Jesus is the saviour, aliens built the pyramids, etc etc) how can you help them out of it, and shall you try?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I hate to tell you this but all matter actually is vibrations aka waves, solidity is the illusionary result of quantum forces and you are in fact made of star dust.
baines@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
more shrooms
Redfox8@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
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