That same enlightenment moment came to me as well long ago as an Intro Geology student
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Eldritch insanity level enlightement.
Imagine, you’re a medieval serf (or something like that) and you learn that you’re a mere moving something among billions others, that accidentally came to be on a spek of dust in the vast emptiness of the universe.
geogle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Same except it was on acid
flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Isn’t that a form of outmost torture in the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series? That you have to experience how tiny and insignificant you truly are.