/sci/ - Science & Math

Highschool student here. Which e-books should i read to get "enlightened"?

you guys are all fagots

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>>1781191
In the sense that we're just 1 planet, 1 solar system, out of trillions? Yes. In the sense we're visited by aliens?, Possibly, but would they even register us as valuable, or intelligent? FUCK NO!. They would be more likely to study whales then us. Damn sure they'd NEVER make contact with us. Sorry, any aliens visiting us, is for the sake of a zoo attraction. Not to help us.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

>>1422668
Awesome idea.

Also cool pic

That blue dot there, that is earth.

>>955053
This isn't Orwell's 1984, I agree, but Jesus wasn't one of a kind. What of Buddha?
I just get the impression that the world is a bit too quiet for the creation of an omnipotent deity.