• troybot [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    50·
    5 months ago

    “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.”

    • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      5 months 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.socialEnglish
        5·
        5 months 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.

        • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Yeah I hear you, but “vibrations” isn’t a thing in itself right I mean what’s vibrating? QM is just a theory like Relativity is, trying to explain the world, not what it actually is.

          I see us more like holed up on a speck of dust in complete emptyness, hold by a gravitational rope by a continuous thermonuclear explosion, grilling us so hard we’d die if we didn’t rotate like a chicken in a rotisserie…

          But your analogy is nice too 😁

  • yourgodlucifer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    5 months 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.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      5 months 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.

    • ItemWrongStory@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I don’t get why people want their problems to have cosmic importance, but the scale of the universe just makes me feel like there is so much I’ll never get to see. And if there is no other life in the universe, then all those amazing worlds with utterly unique phenomena will never be observed.

  • don@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    “I am the waking universe looking back at itself.”

    The waking universe: huh, no floaters this time. (flush)

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    5 months 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.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    5 months 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.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months 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 your own qualia and it’s all you’re here to do, so you might as well try to live in those moments instead of always looking for what’s next or what the meaning is.