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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

i can never comprehend these

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You're nothing and nothing matters and that's ok. It's beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

the scale is absurd for my monkey brain, its impossible for me to "get" it at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Man, I think about that all the time. We aren't even a drop in the bucket, not a blip in the history of the universe. To me that makes life immeasurably precious. We get to experience and explore a small moment of infinite vastness

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We are stardust, we are golden

We are billion year old carbon

And we got to get ourselves back to the garden

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Spatially small =/= doesn't matter. You can't just jump from physical characteristics to values like that. What happened to being scientific?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yes, and you are very correct.

It's not really possible with our minds.
Much like with numbers, anything beyond small numbers/points our minds just turn into representative idea (a meme) which we tend to perceive on a logarithmic scale (like how people tend to think a thousand, a million, and a billion are apart by about the same-ih or only a bit differently). Thats even how our biosensory bits work, along with how we interpret/perceive information from them.

It's great for achieving practical stuff, but it's not real.