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I just had this epiphany. We really are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. As the only intelligent life in the universe we've accomplished so much yet none of it matters. Every piece of literature written in glory and triumph was done so in vain. If we went extinct tomorrow all of it would evaporate

>> No.15321937

>>15321929
Wait till you realize there is no grand scheme. It impossible for anything to matter.

>> No.15321944

how silly is it that we must now all consider where trans people take a dump

>> No.15321958
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15321958

Snap out of it.
This is why some of thirst for life and exploration of the stars.
What a marvelous and challenging adventure that lies ahead!
We decide what matters in our lives.

>> No.15321987

>>15321929
That's not true anon, everything we do matters, every small action, every decision, none of it was in vain, its the way it is. Not even the smallest ant is insignificant, certainly not the average human - even if they aren't aware of it - there's nothing else they could possibly be. To say we are insignificant is a cop out.

>> No.15322008

>>15321929
Humans are special, aliens aren't real, and God is watching over us. Repent, tranny.

>> No.15322009

>>15321929
We are the grand scheme.

>> No.15322014 [DELETED] 

>>15321958
Where do you live so I can crack your fucking skull with a wooden bat?

>> No.15322025

Everything is a dream within a dream
https://youtu.be/6OrxRk1AOzM

>> No.15322030

>>15321929
>I just had this epiphany. We really are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. As the only intelligent life in the universe we've accomplished so much yet none of it matters.

That's literally a nickle for every single time I hear that about human accomplishments.

>Every piece of literature written in glory and triumph was done so in vain. If we went extinct tomorrow all of it would evaporate

I don't know about EVERYTHING. I think aliens would be interested in the Bible, The Qur'an, and Hamlet of all things.

>> No.15322042

Our accomplishments are significant to us, and that's all that matters.

>> No.15322087
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15322087

>giving a shit about what happens on the other end of the universe
holy shit cunt

>> No.15322118

>>15321929
cringe, we are the only things that matter in this universe and we ought to act like it.

>> No.15322123

>>15322008
BASED

>> No.15322159

>>15321929
I've been thinking of OP's post for the last 10 minutes and I want to derail a bit while hoping it puts things into perspective.

What are ant hills? What are bees nests? Are the colonies organisms themselves? The workers don't reproduce, yet they understand their purpose in the "grand scheme" of the colony, and they do their duty. I've heard them described as super-organisms. A collection of organisms each with their own genetic code, but serving a specialized function that serves only a high caste of reproductive organisms, they themselves having nothing to do with reproduction.

Humans see themselves as individuals, and organisms. But are we not also super-organisms? Our physiology is largely carried out by specialized cells (microscopic organisms) that have no direct role in reproduction. Our physiology is also regulated by other types of micro-organisms. Are we not then a colony of organisms?

What is an individual then? You might say it's an organism with consciousness and awareness that it is a part of a whole. Might it be possible that we are not only individuals, but also organisms as a part of a larger colony than the ant colony or the human colony? I think that it's true. I wonder if this colony/super-organism that we humans are a part of is conscious of itself on a level that we can't comprehend.

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15322161

So what?

>> No.15322169

>>15321929
So? Why does it matter that nothing matters?

>> No.15322273

>>15322159
It's strange. There's a high probability that I'm interacting with some sort of dimensional being rn and I'm not even cognizant about it

>> No.15322281

>>15321929
>i waste my time doing meaningless shit, therefor everything is meaningless
maybe stop being a bugman.

>> No.15322289

>>15322159
>Humans
your opinion is worthless if you think of yourself as a human.

>> No.15322378

>>15322289
it's how we're taught to think anon. maybe you don't think it now but you did at one point.

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>>15322378
so? it just means you're still brainwashed and a tool of satan

>> No.15322525

>>15322384
You're using a jewish search engine to (((scientifically))) infer that using a word is decadent. You are demonstrably a tool of satan

>> No.15322538

>>15322525
A religious search engine, well I never...

>> No.15322550

>>15322525
fallacious.

>> No.15322565

>>15322538
Very low mental capacity to reduce the jewish world-spirit to a religion. Read a history book

>> No.15322574

>>15322550
jew

>> No.15322599

>>15321929
the pointlessness of it all is astounding... the Nothing of it. After all, what is Something but the One itself? A monopoly of meaning. But, all things are analyzable as nothing. Say: their is no dog, there is no roof, no house. Nothing is not just pluralism; it is Infinitism. :)

>> No.15322601

>>15322574
bugman

>> No.15322653

>>15322601
bugmen are spiritual jews, like you. spend some more time on 4chan and you will understand :)

>> No.15323104

I once had an epiphany in which I decided that the only truly worthwhile thing any living being could aim towards is the absolute and irreparable destruction of the universe and reality

Im not a doomer, I want to live and make the children of my children reach the heat death of the universe, I still believe it be true

>> No.15324374

>>15322281
ur a bugmen

>> No.15324424
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15324424

>Ctrl+f "Ecclesiastes"
>Zero results

>> No.15324442

>>15324424
It's 1 now :)

>> No.15324504

>>15321929
It it's all insignificant, why be sad about it? Why add significance to insignificance?

>> No.15324506

>>15321958
Kys faggot tranny

>> No.15324523

>>15321929
Baby’s first existential crisis

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15324546

>>15321929
We have a chance to colonize and conquer space; and you're gonna whine like a bitch? Pathetic

>> No.15324578

It’s like this, there is no point in trying to understand. Time is unimportant. We are dust from the stars. We are nothing at all. Whether you die at age 15 or 79, in a thousand years there is no significance to it. So fuck off with your worries.

>> No.15324843

>>15321958
based mommy milky

>> No.15324923
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>>15321929
>In endless space countless luminous spheres, round each of which some dozen smaller illuminated ones revolve, hot at the core and covered over with a hard cold crust; on this crust a mouldy film has produced living and knowing beings: this is empirical truth, the real, the world. Yet for a being who thinks, it is a precarious position to stand on one of those numberless spheres freely floating in boundless space, without knowing whence or whither, and to be only one of innumerable similar beings that throng, press, and toil, restlessly and rapidly arising and passing away in beginningless and endless time.

>> No.15325734

>>15321929
>As the only intelligent life in the universe
Not even on the planet, but nice try.

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15325749

let me show you fear in a handful of dust

>> No.15325821

>>15321958
Do you actually frequent [s4s]?

>> No.15325851

>>15321958
Nice, this, yes.
I want to create the most durable item possible, some kind of indestructible monolith, and jettison it on the fastest trajectory to the emptiest blackest space. So that in 20 billion years it's still out there, in cold black space and nothingness, merely existing.

>> No.15326251

Unironically just try to enjoy your time here. So what if we are meaninglessly insignificant in the grand scheme of things? That doesn't mean what we do isn't meaningless. Meaning is a human fabrication and we exist on the universe's terms, so you might as well reconcile this while you're ahead.

>> No.15326301

>>15321958
What is that imagine you post so much? And "WE" don't decide what matters, there is no "WE". There is no I, there is no you. These are egotistical ideas. When we find ourselves and find out what we really are, the concept of "matters" is one that escapes us. After all, as long as it is an idea in our head we don't have the "real thing".

>> No.15326492

>>15326301
>What is that imagine you post so much?
lol, newfag

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>>15326301
We do.
I do.
You are confused.