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Might be time to put your life in perspective

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Both of these pictures are pretty much exactly the same compared to actual infinity/eternity. Entropy might also like to have a word about whether or not eternity is even possible.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eternity: vast and unsympathetic, big but meaningless, awesome in scope but profoundly empty

    My life on Earth: just for me, connected to many others of equal specialness, meaningful because of its finite nature

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  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this some religious bullshit that I’m too woke to understand?

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    • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s just that eternity is a long time, especially towards the end

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    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, it’s basically the same thing as Carl Sagan’s cosmic calendar

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    • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It does have that religious understanding of eternity.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Think of that from another perspective.

    Assuming human lifetime to be 70 years:

    • 0.4 lifetimes ago, the term “smartphone” was first used

    • 0.5 lifetimes ago, Internet became a thing

    • 1.7 lifetimes ago, first airplane rose in the sky

    • 3 lifetimes ago, we got the first Turing-complete computer

    • 6 lifetimes ago, we started discovering electricity

    • 8 lifetimes ago, Middle Ages came to a close

    • 20 lifetimes ago you’d be at the end of what we now as antiquity.

    • 75 lifetimes ago you’d be at the beginning of Ancient Egypt and the early Bronze Age.

    • 105 lifetimes ago you would witness the beginning of first human civilizations.

    • 150 lifetimes ago people invented agriculture

    • 4300 lifetimes ago humans as we know them appeared

    History is speeding up, and today one human life is enough to witness a change our ancestors wouldn’t see in a millennia.

    Sure, we are, as always, grains of sand in the desert of eternity, but we are grains that matter. That make a change. Every day.

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  • Alloi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    kill me so i can rejoin the eternity desert please, i hate waiting for the apocolypse and still having to pay bills in the meantime.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    *approximate eternity

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imagine how grand and rewarding a task it would be for us to reach out and grab more than a few grains of that desert.

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