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[gargoylekitty]

/co/ got all astronomical today so... my room- 1 my house- 4 my neighborhood- over 1,000(exact no.: unknown) Virginia Beach - 440,415 Hampton Roads - 1,795,015 Virginia- 7,769,089 The United States of America- 306,101,000 North America- 528,720,588 Earth- 6,706,993,000 The Solar System- ... The Milky Way- ... The Universe- ... 1 person = approximately .000000001% of the global population and is smaller than an atom in comparison to the universe itself. pic only goes up to Pollux--->

Scale is a lovely and mindfucking thing. On one hand you're so small and insignificant that nothing you do really matters to the universe. On the other hand you, as yourself, are so unique and one of a kind that there is nothing out there that is exactly like you nor will there ever be again once you are gone. You are special, don't let it go to your head.

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[silly-izzy-me.livejournal.com]

Despite all of that, I still feel that we're not so insignificant. I mean, we're all here, aren't we? We're all here, in the universe, and that counts for something.

[gargoylekitty.livejournal.com]

I think it's more we're an insane fluke. For life to exist there are so many things that have to be so exact that it may very well be possible there aren't other multi-cellular organisms out there which is actually kind of more awesome than believing there is when you think about it, given just out vast the universe is. I mean the universe is big enough that there are things out there so gigantic that they break the laws of physics. Our reality simply can't understand how big they are. Yet, what if Earth really is the only planet with life on this level. So we are something, we count.

Yet at the same time a wondering black hole, a comet, or millions of other things I'm just not considering could easily come along from space and wipe us out and the rest of the universe would be largely uneffected. If our sun died, slamming into us as it expands, nothing else would care or notice for longer than the history of humanity itself.

So we're a special anomoly because we exist yet at the same time our existance is hardly a spot in the history/scale of the universe. I have such a love/hate relationship with astronomy.

[silly-izzy-me.livejournal.com]

Ha, yeah, I've thought about all of this before. And while I do technically acknowledge the truth to that, I still have my religious beliefs which tell me that the Earth and the solar system and the entire universe are not just accidents, you know? Not that I believe in Creationism or think we are the center of the universe etc etc.

[gargoylekitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can respect that. :)

[silly-izzy-me.livejournal.com]

Heh, thanks :).

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

LOL! "you are here" at .0000000001% XD