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RE: I am insignificant.
June 28, 2015 at 12:29 pm
Everyone is insignificant. The entire human species is insignificant. When we're gone, the universe will not mourn us, we'll be, at best, a curiosity for some alien archaeologist. We need to stop being so full of ourselves, we don't matter in the larger scheme of things, we only matter to ourselves.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
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June 28, 2015 at 12:53 pm
(June 27, 2015 at 11:31 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Some people do change the world for the better.
Even that means nothing in the end, just ask the dinosaurs. Oops, can't.
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June 28, 2015 at 1:23 pm
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(June 28, 2015 at 4:55 am)Alex K Wrote: On cosmic scales, well, everyone is insignificant.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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I am insignificant.
June 28, 2015 at 1:33 pm
(June 28, 2015 at 12:09 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Insignificant ?!?!?!?!?!
Piffle, you twits, piffle I say !!!
What of kudos and post count here ??
Huh? Got you there, don't I !!!
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RE: I am insignificant.
June 28, 2015 at 5:43 pm
(June 28, 2015 at 12:53 pm)IATIA Wrote: (June 27, 2015 at 11:31 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Some people do change the world for the better.
Even that means nothing in the end, just ask the dinosaurs. Oops, can't.
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June 28, 2015 at 6:12 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2015 at 6:13 pm by Aroura.)
Realizing you are insignificant in the grand scheme of things does not necessarily lead to nihilism, which some here seem to be suggesting. I think it brings a truer sense of humility and humbleness, (something Christians SAY is a virtue, but few of them actually possess, due to thinking they are all loved by the creator of the universe no less!).
I like what Spooky said, there is a certain beauty to knowing we are insignificant in the universe. The whole Pale Blue Dot thing. But while we are here, we get to experience so much. Do "I" really matter, 14 milllion years from now, or even 1000 years from now? Probably not. Do "I" matter right now? Absolutely, if only a little.
Our insignificance is,kind of ironically, insignificant. It does not matter, really, that we do not matter, except to make us humble (and I think, better people for it).
I matter right this moment, to myself, to my husband, to my kid, to my cats. I will try to make a positive impact while I am here. Humanity may die out someday, so that my ripples die with it, but for all that, I'm glad for the brief existence that I do have.
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June 28, 2015 at 6:36 pm
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June 28, 2015 at 7:35 pm
(June 28, 2015 at 6:36 pm)Cinjin Wrote:
We're all just mice in a field man. Mice in a field.
And when you get eaten by the owl the other mice don't even notice or care.
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June 29, 2015 at 11:19 am
(June 28, 2015 at 5:02 am)Neimenovic Wrote: Significance is relative. On a cosmological scale, we barely appear. From the point of view of your cat, you're pretty darn important.
We think you're significant c:
I don't know about that. Cats often seem to regard the people around them with contempt and indifference. You might want to change the example to "your dog."
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RE: I am insignificant.
June 29, 2015 at 11:49 am
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I'm the center of my universe. How much more significant could I hope to be?
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