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14670574 No.14670574 [Reply] [Original]

Why in this grand universe shouldn't I feel small?

>> No.14670583

God...easy on the stars

>> No.14671322

>>14670574
How big you are is nothing beyond a conceptualization of yourself compared to something else. Seems meaningless.

>> No.14671326

>>14670574
>why in this grand universe,
Because you exist. Existence is the highest form of being, and when you are born, you never fade. The soul is immortal, for the body is just material chains!

>> No.14671335

>>14670574
you should, now back in the pit.

>> No.14671340

>>14670574
scale is nothing. The greatest obscure the smallest. The smallest obscures the greatest. The dawn is the greatest greeting of the heavens but lowest mountain hides the new day to those climbing

>> No.14671351
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14671351

>>14670574
Because to those in whom the will has turned and has denied itself, this very real world of ours, with all its suns and Milky Ways, is — nothing.

>> No.14671354

>>14670574
Compared to unconscious, inanimate matter, you have the gift of experience and the ability to participate in being more fully than anything else. I'd say it balances out.

>> No.14671757

>>14671354
>participates by watching netflix and going to work

>> No.14671765

>>14670574
yu should feel funky, bitch!

>> No.14671935
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14671935

You are the universe, anon!

>> No.14671942

You should feel small, but relative to your peers.

>> No.14671971

>being some sad homo because stars so far away they're of no consequence to you are greater than you in size

>> No.14672264

>>14670574
>he thinks he lives in an infinite universe
>he thinks space is real

>> No.14672312

>>14671757
Can you imagine how horrified our successors are going to be when they realise that 99% of the population of Earth spent most of their days toiling away to uphold some meaningless system which almost drove the species to extinction? In the future, working will be seen as not too different from slavery.

>> No.14672339

>>14671326
>The soul is immortal, for the body is just material chains!
Whatever yoda

>> No.14672351

>>14672312
Retard, work is part of what gives us meaning.

>> No.14673485

>>14670574

What is the meaning of size?

>> No.14674844

>>14671340
God bless you, keep preaching truths. You know the outcome.

>> No.14674920

>>14672312
I get where you're going with this, but people will never stop "working." I'm pro-work and anti-employment if you catch my drift