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Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 19:20:22 2019 No.10841681 View Reply Original Report

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How do I stop letting the vastness of the universe affect me psychologically?
I keep reading about astrophysics and how massive the universe actually is, and as awe-inspiring as it is, I also feel this massive pit in my stomach when I realize how insignificant I really am. How do I stop doing this and just take the facts as facts?

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Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 19:21:26 No.10841687 Report

Quoted By: >>10841695

Stop reading about astrophysics

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 19:24:52 No.10841695 Report

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>>10841687
I can't, it's in my textbook for next semester

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:10:39 No.10841795 Report

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>>10841681
you literally are insignificant, we're all just the stepping stones for eternal beings of AI to reshape the universe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:12:15 No.10841800 Report

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>>10841681
It's all made up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:19:06 No.10841818 Report

Quoted By: >>10841829

Realize that you actually aren't insignificant. Your very existence depends on an unfathomable series of events, and in turn your existence sets in motion events to come.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:23:19 No.10841829 Report

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>>10841818
Thanks Dr. Manhattan

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:25:14 No.10841834 Report

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You have to measure yourself in terms of complexity and not in terms of materia sustrata because the latter it's just stupid. One does not measure the significanse of a house with respect to all the dust( calcium & and carbon ) on earth because it's stupid you measure in terms of usefullness and transendance, same for ourselves. You are valuable for the things you can do and for how you can trascend. not by your relative size.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:25:43 No.10841835 Report

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well I guess you don't?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:29:16 No.10841839 Report

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>>10841681
What's so "significant" about a vast space of dead barrenness, which is for the most part what our universe seems to be? As conscious beings we (including perhaps some or all non-human animals of this planet) are the only thing that matters, of everything that we've discovered so far. If on the other hand we discovered a much more intelligent species I'd get the feeling of insignificance.

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Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:32:04 No.10841846 Report

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>>10841839
We're one of hundreds of quadrillions of planets, probably one of millions of intelligent species. We are glorified ants, but that's not even accurate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:52:16 No.10841887 Report

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>>10841846
ants r better

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 20:55:10 No.10841892 Report

Quoted By: >>10843859

Accept Christ into your heart.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 27 Jul 2019 23:55:59 No.10842254 Report

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>>10841681

Would you feel more comfortable if you were 1/100th the size of the universe? That feels quite claustrophobic.

I get the pit in the stomach feeling when I think that reality couldn't always have existed, that there must have been a 'before anything'. Ah shit I'm getting it again.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 05:06:53 No.10842804 Report

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>>10841695
kys

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Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 05:16:37 No.10842815 Report

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You shouldn't stop doing this. That pit in your stomach is a natural response to "facts as facts".

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Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 08:59:52 No.10843136 Report

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>>10841795
Based and singularitarianpilled

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 09:02:02 No.10843141 Report

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Stop reading Astrophysics if it makes you feel bad. I’m /math/ but unironically pick up some philosophy, or even better religious books to give you a different perspective.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 09:08:02 No.10843152 Report

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This is just a tiny zoomed in portion of Andromeda. Each little dot you see has a solar system, and you're never EVER going to experience any of it. We'll be stuck to our shitty solar system for a couple more hundred years MAX till we irreparibly destroy ourselves. Its almost happened before, see WW1, WW2, etc etc.

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Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 09:10:17 No.10843156 Report

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>>10841681
Nigga, you wouldn't even be able to cross your own country, between diametrically opposite points of its border, on foot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 09:23:18 No.10843178 Report

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>>10841681
alien sentience let alone intelligence hasn't been proven

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 09:42:05 No.10843202 Report

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>>10843152
>You are never ever going to experience any of it

How do you know? Or are you just assuming? All We have to do is travel 4 light years in an empty space.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 09:51:49 No.10843229 Report

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>>10843202
>takes over 3k years to travel 1 lightyear with current tech
>this nibba wants to travel 4
LMOA

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 10:37:52 No.10843318 Report

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>>10841681
Just because something is massive doesn't mean they have a higher value, retard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 15:47:05 No.10843728 Report

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>>10843202
>All We have to do is travel 4 light years in an empty space.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 16:54:00 No.10843859 Report

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>>10841892
This, unironically. I was in a similar situation. I even had panic attacks and was scream in the shower. Now, I go to church every Sunday and am doing fine :)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 16:59:33 No.10843870 Report

Quoted By: >>10843895

>>10841681
>when I realize how insignificant I really am.

You are thinking about it wrong. Think about how much there is out there, an infinite amount. Mankind will never run out of room to grow.
Each person can have their own galaxy and still there are more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 17:11:06 No.10843895 Report

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>>10843870
It seems like humanity is more focused on giving free shit to retards than actually expanding though. The vastness of our galaxy is just the vastness of our tomb

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 17:17:23 No.10843913 Report

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>>10841681
You'll get over once you turn 18

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 17:43:05 No.10843946 Report

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>>10843913
I'm 19 in a couple weeks

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 17:49:33 No.10843959 Report

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>>10841681
i can relate.
its terrifying.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 17:50:42 No.10843963 Report

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>>10841887
agreed

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Anonymous Sun 28 Jul 2019 22:58:56 No.10844849 Report

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>>10841681
I have a different feeling. i learn about how massive and awe-inspiring the cosmos is and then I wonder how something so big can be so empty and worthless. Everywhere you look where there's anything there's a ton of dust. Some of it is warmer than others. Sometimes the dust clumps and makes big rocks and then those big rocks accumulate even more dust get covered in gaseous dust and then sometimes they get bigger and the dust is fusing into more dust and gets sort of bright and then it's like okay someone turned a light on in a big dark empty room just to show us how fucking empty it is. A bunch of fucking nothing.

I look at how big the universe is and how small I am and I think what a fucking waste of a universe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 13:59:31 No.10846395 Report

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>>10841681

>I also feel this massive pit in my stomach when I realize how insignificant I really am

Why do you want to feel significant? That's a capitalist invented bullshit. The fact that nothing matters is awesome, it's what keeps me alive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 14:03:23 No.10846405 Report

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Just grow bigger. You gotta devour the planet until you become the planet yourself. You may still be tiny af but that’s the best solution I can come up with

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 14:05:57 No.10846408 Report

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>>10841681
Why does the size of the universe matter to you? Irrelevant facts don't generally make me feel existential dread anon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 29 Jul 2019 21:27:57 No.10847401 Report

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>>10841681
You are infinitely small compared to the Universe.
But you are the most complex thing in the Universe.
You also happen to be aware, too.

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