Excellent band, by the way.
Explosions in the Sky
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TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.org 1 month ago
I had very similar thoughts at my last Explosions in the Sky concert while tripping on acid and mushrooms.
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Absolutely. I saw them back in the day. A+ performance.
Caesium@lemmy.world 1 month ago
yess, I’ve seen them live twice and I still hope they’ll tour again
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve got tix to see them in Seattle on Sept 30!
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
First band I ever saw live.
Still have the smarties they threw to the crowd after the last song.
Toronto… 07 or 08ish?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What a great first concert, good for you!
EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Amazing band, and lovely people too. I saw them in Bristol about 5-6 years ago, and met them after their show. I told them that I owe them my Computer Science degree since they’re basically my study playlist, and apparently they get that from fans often.
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ve got tix at the end of the month!
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is there a word for this type of hypersimplification to evoke wonder? If not, can we coin one?
Roldyclark@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Awendering
blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A few simple words that just turned my reality upside down? I’m sure Germans have one
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
abgefickt?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Ein aha-erlebnis
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Vorshtein?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Verwunderung?
Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 month ago
Realitätsverschiebung?
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Saganumenousness.
CrazM13@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My suggestion: Simplificatio Adstupefaciendi - A simplification with the purpose to astonish.
On top of sounding cool it is already astonishing to remember and to be able to spell it!
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Too much like a Harry Potter spell tho
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Releasing the kraken
AShadyRaven@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
2Deep4Me
banazir@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl Sagan.
jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This Carl guy sounds pretty smart. Maybe he should study physics or something.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Maybe he should try his hand at teaching too, it seems like he’s got a unique skill for simplifying complicated concepts.
Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Holy shit. That was pretty profound.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love the line “when an explosion explodes hard enough, dust wakes up and thinks about itself”
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d condense the whole post down to:
The universe is an ongoing explosion. Sometimes the exploded dust becomes haunted.
That’s us.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
No u.
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 month ago
An explosion is pure entropy. It’s high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner
We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order
The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Perhaps another way to think of it is that we’re a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Or perhaps more eloquently: we’re the standing part of a harmonic fart
birdbrain5381@lemmy.world 1 month ago
rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
(apparent deadlink BTW). In answer to the question: slow and steady Hawking radiation from all the black holes, perhaps?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
But are we actually creating order? To maintain life’s order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.
Life is but an entropy maximization machine.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
On the overall scale of the universe? No, not even remotely close. On the local scale of the Earth, generally yes.
jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
A single human may look organized, but collectively we are chaos
myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
…just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence…
zante@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Meditate
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.
You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It’s more like that.
portuga@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The buddha explained this 2500 years ago
buttfarts@lemy.lol 1 month ago
According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.
portuga@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking
MadBob@feddit.nl 1 month ago
The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to “I’m not reading this”.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.
Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.
MrSoup@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Jiggling. It’s about wiggling and jiggling.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
What is “sensing” or “growing” or “respiring” or “excreting” or “eating”?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I would define those terms, but you would just ask me to define the terms I used to define them, wouldn’t you? Eventually, language is known by other people without being defined in terms of language.
troybot@midwest.social 1 month ago
I heard Bill Wurtz voice while I read this
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Even crazier space dust!
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But it wasn’t really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume via regular ol’ relativistic expansion.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Reminds me of a Pete Holmes bit.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 month ago
and then downvotes it
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Mind that textbook we did in school?
I’m still tripping
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Actually I live in a skip but thanks for the pep talk.
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You wanna get together later and rub our dust together?
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Sounds dirty. Will there be cheese?
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What, are you crazy? Of course there will be cheese.
I can’t believe you would even ask me that