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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Martians say: "Fuck off!"

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

[–] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Wow, big shelf though!

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

actually I don't care. I don't have to be the star of the show, I just want to be happy and I'm hot enough to be my own star (or sun to be specific).

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago
[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

ACK ACK ACK!

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That's fair.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sun is actually pretty small. Do a comparison between the sun and some of the bigger stars, then we'll see just how insignificant we really are.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

why does the existence of larger things have any bearing on our significance?

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

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

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

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Some little pebble thought too much of itself.

[–] Una@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago

No, I am THE ENERGY I am everywhere but nowhere

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

bigger than I thought, tbh.

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