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[Tatzel]

Biology is always such a thing for me, it is awesome how it manages many things, but it also is a horrible trainwreck. I mean, immune system and surpressing substances are a smart solution, but when the body fails to make the substance stronger so it doesn't get easier for the immune system to fight the unborn, this is just derp.


The deeper I look into the materia, the scarier nature actually is. Like, let's say from organs to micro organisms, and then on molecular basis. I could write tons of lines how I see it or feel towards it, but I try not to think of it too much because I always end up exhausted because the whole topic is so mindblowing.

[Decker]

I just take pleasure in pretending that if we keep zooming in we will find our own universe inside our cells.

Likewise, if we keep zooming out.

[Karilyn]

I just take pleasure in pretending that if we keep zooming in we will find our own universe inside our cells.

Likewise, if we keep zooming out.

You totally got that from a book you read as a child. I should know, I read that book when I was like, 10 or whatever.

Or not, and then I'll look foolish D:

[Decker]

One of The Simpsons' intros actually.

[Karilyn]

One of The Simpsons' intros actually.

Simpsons did it. Simpsons always did it.

Now I am curious if Simpsons got the idea from the book I read, or the other way around. Probably the former.

[DoNotDelete]

I just take pleasure in pretending that if we keep zooming in we will find our own universe inside our cells.

Likewise, if we keep zooming out.

I believe in infinite micro, and infinite macro.

I'm open to the possibility that what we know as planets and suns are like atomic equivalents (neutrons, protons and electrons) - building blocks for much grander beings which operate at a level of reality we can't even perceive.

And in turn, the matter in their reality functions as building blocks for grander. even more complex realities.

And so on, and so on...


Wheels within wheels.





I kinda get a kick out of the fact these different realities are/would be completely unaware of each other.

[Crawfish]

I'm sort of late to the party, but on the topic of what a "theory" is....We just went over this like the first day of my Honors Ecology lecture this semester. The word theory has just been messed up in day-to-day language, so we tend to assume it means "idea/hypothesis." While all theories obviously start out as hypotheses/predictions, the word theory is synonymous with "model" in science. It is not guesswork, it is a fact continuum. It's just called a theory as opposed to law as you can't actually measure it. We can't measure evolution, and I know we can measure gravitational pull somehow, but I know there's a catch to it...

Basically, since you can't actually measure God's supposed influence, evolution is fact. No statistical measurements exist to disprove it.

[Deiphobus]

I'm open to the possibility that what we know as planets and suns are like atomic equivalents (neutrons, protons and electrons) - building blocks for much grander beings which operate at a level of reality we can't even perceive.

And in turn, the matter in their reality functions as building blocks for grander. even more complex realities.

And so on, and so on..

it makes you contemplate the meaning of life.

[Karilyn]

the meaning of life.

Eat
Fuck
Die

[Miss Starseed]

Breathing, pissing, and shitting should be in that list too.

Edit: somehow I got eating from pissing, wow.

[Karilyn]

Breathing, eating, and shitting should be in that list too.

Oh daisies, you are right, those are important.

But I did include eating. And that post wasn't edited for the first time in my history of making posts

somehow I got eating from pissing, wow.

If you think about it hard enough, and have a Philosophy Major, you will eventually see that pissing and eating are the one in the same thing.

[Miss Starseed]

Yeah, I just editted my post.

I don't know how I go to type one word and end up somewhere else completely.

[DoNotDelete]

I'm open to the possibility that what we know as planets and suns are like atomic equivalents (neutrons, protons and electrons) - building blocks for much grander beings which operate at a level of reality we can't even perceive.

And in turn, the matter in their reality functions as building blocks for grander. even more complex realities.

And so on, and so on..

it makes you contemplate the meaning of life.

I kind of accept what we know of as life to be a complete accident and that we should just do the best/most we can with it while we have the chance.

Contrary to what people might think, this view doesn't devalue life in my eyes - it makes it more precious.

[Karilyn]

I kind of accept what we know of as life to be a complete accident and that we should just do the best/most we can with it while we have the chance.

Contrary to what people might think, this view doesn't devalue life in my eyes - it makes it more precious.

I agree. As sarcastic as my response to "The Meaning of Life" was, I still value life heavily.

I think you have to; if you don't believe that "Oh hey, it's okay, whatever you do in life, cause you get a pop flyin' magic playground in the sky when you die if you were a good person"

Since life is the only thing you really have.

[Plasma]

I think you have to; if you don't believe that "Oh hey, it's okay, whatever you do in life, cause you get a pop flyin' magic playground in the sky when you die if you were a good person"

Okay, you should really be banned from talking about religion on this forum.