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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah but what about the economy?

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It needs to constantly go up or I'll literally shit my pants and cry like a baby.

the economy says that you generate jobs if you develop and push forward spaceflight ...

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Martians say: "Fuck off!"

Yes, they speak English. They speak every Earth language and more.

[–] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

Wow, big shelf though!

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Years ago I was on 2C-B and lounging about in my brother's room, staring at a big glowing plastic moon I had bought for him as a joke, when somehow the word and concept of it sent me spiraling down a rabbit hole of cosmic realization. At first the moon (or perhaps my thoughts surrounding the moon) began to rotate like a planetary body, becoming a parent star in a galactic arm, and eventually the central mass of a galaxy itself, ever turning with long tendril arms orbiting around its perimeter.

As the question of it grew, it became the universe itself, on a profoundly metaphysical level, and I came to the realization that every single living organism, both here and elsewhere in the cosmos, are not so much a part or some greater plan or design, but are instead just individual cells and appendages of recently awakened universe. One that has blinked its eyes from a deep sleep and has slowly become self-aware. And just as a child born blind will at some point use their hands and discover they have a body for the first time, we are tiny (but not insignificant) appendages of that universe discovering and exploring itself, trying to make sense or what it even is.

I found immense comfort in the idea that there is no greater meaning to everything than that. We're just a part of something bigger that is at this very moment trying to make sense of itself, and I don't need more than that.

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

The 2C family is quite something. I love this thought though, I mean why the hell not

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah but I get to be pretty and kiss girls how much more significant could life be

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

And everyone wants to kill each other over a few grains of that dirtball

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Some little pebble thought too much of itself.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

And yet we are the only conscious beings on any of these heavenly bodies that are aware enough to give their existence any meaning at all.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

bigger than I thought, tbh.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

That's fair.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

No reason to be so mean to J'onn J'onzz you bully.

[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

and I will mean infinitely more than them, for I am their creation. The end of their efforts, the unique, the observer and the changer. I am their meaning and they my guarantor.

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