“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.”
You are stardust.
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troybot@midwest.social 1 day ago
the_artic_one@programming.dev 1 day ago
Welcome, to Nightvale
Valmond@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If you know someone actually believing this kind of stuff (matter is created by me experiencing, everything is “vibrations”, where are my drugs… Jesus is the saviour, aliens built the pyramids, etc etc) how can you help them out of it, and shall you try?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 hour ago
I hate to tell you this but all matter actually is vibrations aka waves, solidity is the illusionary result of quantum forces and you are in fact made of star dust.
baines@lemmy.cafe 1 hour ago
more shrooms
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
schhwwwwwwzzzhhhhhwwwshhhghhsszzzwwwwrrrrrrrnnn
Redfox8@mander.xyz 1 day ago
yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Am I the only one who finds comfort in being insignificant in the grand scale of the universe?
I’m just a speck my problems don’t matter in the grand scale of things I don’t want to be significant I want to be forgotten.
baines@lemmy.cafe 1 hour ago
you didn’t exist much longer than you’ve been alive by a very large factor
whelk@retrolemmy.com 23 hours ago
This is why I get a lot of comfort stargazing at night. So much stress or worry melts away when the realization hits that nothing really matters anyway. I don’t think this is quite what Tolkien was going for with the scene where Sam sees a star up through a small opening in the gloomy sky when he’s struggling, but it’s how I took it.
I think the tricky part for some people is trying to figure out why living life should matter at all, then, but it’s always worked for me. Just because a moment ends doesn’t mean that the moment shouldn’t matter to you, if you find it fulfilling or meaningful.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
in fact, living in interesting times (or interesting situations, or interesting lifes) is considered a curse in china, because of all the responsibility and stress that comes with it.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I like their expression “the nail that sticks up gets hammered down”.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
The rest of it is just rocks in space.
Rocks don’t have problems either
Slovene@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
I am nuclear waste.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 17 hours ago
A star fart.
A cosmic anxiety generator.
A sexy machine that took 14 billions of years to produce.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
My body is a machine that transforms childhood trauma into profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Pretty metal
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 17 hours ago
\m/
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Forged in the heart of a dying star
Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 day ago
I can do both of these flipping back and forth. Existential dread, awe, and purpose at the same time.
Also, Stardust takes on new meaning after Rogue One.
Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
saimen@feddit.org 12 hours ago
Yeah it should be “star-stuff” refering to this quote of Sagan:
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Valmond@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Still insignificant though!
Absurdism FTW!
tiredofsametab@fedia.io 12 hours ago
My brain added an 'n' to the first word of "waking universe" and I think it still works
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
The universe created life just so it could finally have a wank.
Checks out.
WeebLife@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And I ended up being a gooner weeb…
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Truly the pinnacle of evolution 🥹
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Ste41th@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It was the other way around for me lol
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
“Did…did I make all of this!?”
don@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“I am the waking universe looking back at itself.”
The waking universe: huh, no floaters this time. (flush)
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 23 hours ago
humans are buildings, and just like buildings have plumbing and wire, humans live not alone: we have a huge number of parasites in our intestines and a large number of ideas in our brains that join us in our journey. i wonder how much of our actions are actually our own, and how many are caused by our circumstances.
Valmond@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
And what really controls our consciousness.
silasmariner@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Jellyfish
ProfessorHoover@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
You might like the book Determined by Robert Sapolsky. It’s very dense and I haven’t gotten far into it yet but it’s about the science of free will.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
duh it has 500 pages, i’m not reading sth that long. if you can’t put your thoughts into a short summary, you haven’t truly understood much of anything, i say.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 day ago
Ishmael would like a word.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 day ago
I don't get it.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
You should call him, then
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The top panel is just the human ego speaking volumes. This is why we have main character syndrome, and some people think the universe owes them if they feel disappointed.
plyth@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Not the other way round?
I would say the top panel can accept own insignificance while bottom panel creates a vision of grandiosity to protect the main character illusion.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Why can’t they both be chads?
Wolf@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
I was going to say I am column A and B, but I don’t cry about it.
We ARE miracles, we ARE “The Universe experiencing itself” and we are insignificant on the cosmic scale. Those things aren’t mutually exclusive.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Both perspectives are equally valid. The universe has no right answer. There is no correct way to live, experience or perceive anything.
You don’t owe the universe anything, it doesn’t owe you anything. It may very well be inherently unknowable at some levels. Live your life the best you can, everything you experience, from joy to despair, pleasure and pain, it’s all just experience and it’s all you’re here to do.
Chakravanti@monero.town 1 day ago
Debt is an illusion because Mani Mani was never real. It’s not just an illusion. It’s a delusion of the illusion but the profusion of pollution is real!
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Top pic: average nihilism enjoyer
Bottom pic: average character on Invincible
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Am nihilism enjoyer, am bottom pic
the_artic_one@programming.dev 1 day ago
Significance is just a concept humans made up to make ourselves feel bad.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I need Burialgoods to read this meme.
Redfox8@mander.xyz 1 day ago
And here I am sat drinking beer, watching tv. The pinnacle of the evolution of the universe.
Thank you, and goodnight!
eelectricshock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“You are not the centre of the universe!” Is just another person tells us that there aren’t me’s
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Most of the atoms you’re made of were born in stars long dead; the rest were born in the big bang.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Is the star truly dead if it lives on in us?
Scientist: Yes.
oh. well ok then.
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ah yes cosmic coping…
klemptor@startrek.website 1 day ago
You are golden
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Wanna feel as old as a star?
youtu.be/x1rFAaAKpVc