Do you realize how insignificant you are?
Do you realize that in relation to a town, a city, a country, a continent, a hemisphere, a planet, a solar system, a galaxy, and the entire universe, you are one of the most insignificant aspects?
Whether you choose to continue with that diet, or decide to call a long lost friend, your actions are minuscule and unchanging in relation to "everything else."
Even humanity as a race is insignificant.
When one considers the vast, haunting, unexplored surroundings of the universe, and the proportionate size that it constitutes, one really see's their life's journey in an entirely new perspective.
For through humanity's arrogance of supposedly being "all-knowing," what is it to say that there are variables that we know not of? Nor will we ever. Perhaps it has been "programmed" in our genetics to never be able to fully grasp and comprehend a) our purpose, b) our creator and c) the sheer probability that our race is still in existence.
One has to consider the astronomical probabilities that our race has endured to still be in existence today. All it would take is someone on the other side of the world to hit a button, or incorrectly mix elements, or not build an experiment to "code" (re: Hadron Collider.) All it would take is an asteroid to hit our planet, another planet to die in our solar system, our sun to die, or another galaxy to collide with outs, let alone the millions and trillions of other galaxys to not interfere with ours.
This was not meant to justify living a life out of context. Not meant to make you feel worthless, inexperienced, and unimportant. This was meant to stimulate two concepts:
Proportion, and Probability.
Update: This may help put everything in to perspective.
Update 2: This may also help. Consider the notion that "From the burst's perspective, Earth's formation lay 8.5 billion years in the future.
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How very true. Very thought provoking.
have you read The Case for a Creator, by Lee Strobel? He talks about some of that stuff. It's kind of interesting.
That's actually insanely interesting. I was under the false impression that the sun was the biggest star in existance.
Do you remember the rant we had in Vatican Studies about how the universe is not, in fact, neverending and that it actually curves to the point that we simply believe it's neverending? I'm not sure if I'm regurgitating that properly, my memory isn't so great. Enlighten me in another entry?
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