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You're a set of stories you tell yourself, and habits revolving around these stories. We all are. We're fiction. There's no "real" you - just the stories.
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1gnoirents posted:I mean physically, literally, who am I. I was seeing the road while driving a car. A road? Car? It's incredible to be thinking these things at all based on what we truly are, but it also makes me wonder if we're all incredibly unintelligent too. I mean how would we know. An ant doesn't have the capacity to understand the world as a human can see it. The universe is so ridiculously huge and complex (to us) that it is likely we're just inherently incapable of understanding it You're literally atoms that were either forged in a star or a star's death or at the very beginning of the universe.
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Jul 7, 2014 18:57
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Kayle7 posted:What waits for you? Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:03
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We are atoms and atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons, though it's hard to say the electron actually exists since it doesn't really inhabit physical space in the manner we think of, but sure, it's there, and protons and neutrons are made up of quarks which "change color" constantly and exchange "virtual particles" with each other and it is the "color" combinations of these quarks that represent the fundamental foundation of our reality. For now - until we find out String Theory is accurate, or some other theory. As collections of trillions and trillions of atoms, we exist as "conscious" life forms residing on a planet spinning around a a dwarf star that in turn spins around the center of a galaxy containing 300 billion and more other stars with planets and moons, and this galaxy in turn spins around a shared point in space with the galaxy Andromeda, which contains 300 billion and more stars, and together, along with dozens of smaller galaxies, we orbit an even more distant point in space that is shared with hundreds of other galaxies, which, in turn, orbit other collections of galaxies, so on and such until there are clouds, great sheets and knots and oceans of galaxies in orbit with each other, and this great sea - our Universe of billions and billions of galaxies - might be just an atom in a larger multiverse. And yet, you've still got road rage.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:18
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1gnoirents posted:Im pretty chill on the road. I secretly am proud of this Don't be secretly proud, be proud, my man.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:20
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