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Originally Posted by xelasnave
On the positive I remember after being reminded.
The stick with out ends is like an exercise to imagine the difficulty of grasping the unimaginable enormity of the universe.
Last night I sat outside under a perfect sky thinking about what was before me.
Thinking of the Hubble Deep field knowing everywhere there are so many galaxies.
Makes the problems of the day trivial.
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yes indeed xelasnave,
.....a humble reminder of how "universally trivial" life is on this planet.
It's astonishing to see the huge numbers of people who place the Earth at the center of "everything" in terms of importance. In fact this arrogance and ignorance extends to spiritual and moral importance. Is it any wonder that the behaviour of humans collectively and individually is sometimes so self destructive and cruel?
A stick without any ends may well be an imaginary artifact of the mind, but it appears that this does not apply to human arrogance and ignorance. If you divide the actual knowledge that humans claim to possess by the "absolute truth" and total knowledge out there, you would get something approaching zero. Not a bad approximation of zero. That Socrates chap was one clever bugger
