Wanna feel as old as a star?
You are stardust.
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 months ago
My brain added an 'n' to the first word of "waking universe" and I think it still works
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
The universe created life just so it could finally have a wank.
Checks out.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I need Burialgoods to read this meme.
Valmond@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Still insignificant though!
Absurdism FTW!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Did…did I make all of this!?”
Slovene@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I am nuclear waste.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
A star fart.
A cosmic anxiety generator.
A sexy machine that took 14 billions of years to produce.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My body is a machine that transforms childhood trauma into profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Forged in the heart of a dying star
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Pretty metal
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
\m/
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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.
ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 7 months 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 7 months 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.
Valmond@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And what really controls our consciousness.
silasmariner@programming.dev 7 months ago
Jellyfish
yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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.
ItemWrongStory@midwest.social 7 months 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 7 months ago
you didn’t exist much longer than you’ve been alive by a very large factor
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The rest of it is just rocks in space.
Rocks don’t have problems eitherwhelk@retrolemmy.com 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
I like their expression “the nail that sticks up gets hammered down”.
WeebLife@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And I ended up being a gooner weeb…
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 months ago
Truly the pinnacle of evolution 🥹
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Why can’t they both be chads?
Wolf@lemmy.today 7 months 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.
ameancow@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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!
Redfox8@mander.xyz 7 months 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 7 months ago
“You are not the centre of the universe!” Is just another person tells us that there aren’t me’s
the_artic_one@programming.dev 7 months ago
Significance is just a concept humans made up to make ourselves feel bad.
the_q@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Ah yes cosmic coping…
klemptor@startrek.website 7 months ago
You are golden
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Ste41th@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
It was the other way around for me lol
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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 7 months ago
Is the star truly dead if it lives on in us?
Scientist: Yes.
oh. well ok then.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Top pic: average nihilism enjoyer
Bottom pic: average character on Invincible
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Am nihilism enjoyer, am bottom pic
troybot@midwest.social 7 months 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.”
Valmond@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
more shrooms
Redfox8@mander.xyz 7 months ago
the_artic_one@programming.dev 7 months ago
Welcome, to Nightvale
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
schhwwwwwwzzzhhhhhwwwshhhghhsszzzwwwwrrrrrrrnnn
don@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
“I am the waking universe looking back at itself.”
The waking universe: huh, no floaters this time. (flush)
omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 months 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.
saimen@feddit.org 7 months 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.
Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Rooskie91@discuss.online 7 months ago
Ishmael would like a word.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 7 months ago
I don't get it.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
You should call him, then
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 months 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.