• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Eldritch insanity level enlightement.

    Imagine, you’re a medieval professor, believing in geocentrism as the bible says, world is ours to take, human important and all that.
    And then you learn that you’re a mere moving something among billions others, that accidentally came to be on a speck of dust in the vast emptiness of the universe.

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      3 hours ago

      Isn’t that a form of outmost torture in the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series? That you have to experience how tiny and insignificant you truly are.

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      6 hours ago

      A very similar enlightenment moment came to me as well long ago as an Intro Geology student

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      44 minutes ago

      If you had all the knowledge in the world, you’d also know how to be happy, or maybe even how to generate electricity. After all, knowledge is power.

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    20 hours ago

    This is just propaganda from Satan’s PR team, they just don’t want it widely known that he accepts good soup as an alternative payment!