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Life is fucking absurd man

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We're all made up of trillions of atoms that make up billions of cells that somehow became cognizant of themselves and think of themselves as a single entity and now I'm reading up on theories that all of this is just some bloody simulation of an even more complex universe. And I wanna understand absolutely everything but the sons of bitches in charge make it so I'd have to learn more than this entire stack of books

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Just to start because we still aren't even close to unlocking all the secrets. I DEMAND LIFE STOP BEING SO FUCKING ABSURD.
 
Lotto

Lotto

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yeah, i just looked at my fish tank and i'm keeping fish for entertainment value, wild.
 
Kamek

Kamek

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that campbell and reese bio text is probably one of the best textbooks i've ever read.
 
pechorin

pechorin

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our species understanding of the world doesn't surprise me that much, this is just how we interpret our reality with the tools we were given. what really gets me is that we'll never be able to think beyond our limits, even if we interacted with more intelligent lifeforms we'd never be able attain their knowledge. just like how an ant can never do basic math.
 
Aftervirtue

Aftervirtue

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HooAmEye said:
It stands right after Crime and Punishment and The Trial as the best existential novel for me.
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Dostoevsky is my favorite author. I really need to check out the Trial.... i'm slacking on Kafka. Have only read The Metamorphosis. What do you think of Hesse? Steppenwolf is up there with anything by Dostoevsky or Camus.
 
Ultimate Bear Cub

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Sounds like a challenge. I accept.

I'm gonna out absurd life so hard that it will reflexively cringe into folding space into itself. Even the doomers will confusedly cheer me on.
 

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Aftervirtue said:
Dostoevsky is my favorite author. I really need to check out the Trial.... i'm slacking on Kafka. Have only read The Metamorphosis. What do you think of Hesse? Steppenwolf is up there with anything by Dostoevsky or Camus.
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Hesse was a genius and one of my favorite authors. However, he is far more positive than other authors already mentioned. I would really recommend The Glass Bead Game
 

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The center of the universe is not a matter of where, but of when.

Which enables us to consider the when of "then". Contextually, when will then be now?

The answer is academic, but where will then be now? It can be close or still so far away, even though it may be imminent.
 
Aftervirtue

Aftervirtue

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HooAmEye said:
Hesse was a genius and one of my favorite authors. However, he is far more positive than other authors already mentioned. I would really recommend The Glass Bead Game
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Will add it to my list, have heard its one of his best. I'm actually currently reading Demian by Hesse and have already read Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, both were phenomenal.
 
ZackieChan

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Just read Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, where you'll get a workable overview of all the important stuff and be a better person for it.
 
Chopchop

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Dude my hands are huuuugee man

Seriously though, I've learned to turn off part of my brain when reading anything about deep space or quantum physics. That stuff just makes my head hurt.
 
XMonkey

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It's pretty crazy to think about, ya.

Wonderment said:
The center of the universe is not a matter of where, but of when.

Which enables us to consider the when of "then". Contextually, when will then be now?

The answer is academic, but where will then be now? It can be close or still so far away, even though it may be imminent.
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Woah.
 
astroturfing

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trillions of atoms lol buddy you sure about that..? so called scientists havent even found any where close to that, there are maybe 10 million atoms max
 

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CrimsonCrescendo said:
We're all made up of trillions of atoms that make up billions of cells that somehow became cognizant of themselves and think of themselves as a single entity and now I'm reading up on theories that all of this is just some bloody simulation of an even more complex universe. And I wanna understand absolutely everything but the sons of bitches in charge make it so I'd have to learn more than this entire stack of books

TDqq3JUBGMvgwT6MQ7a10EEJZAxhQnT4_yiSMZ2H8TtzDc6zupIQXaj55fvAxngPrUjxteBz2mJ7BC5rTWysc2Kk


Just to start because we still aren't even close to unlocking all the secrets. I DEMAND LIFE STOP BEING SO FUCKING ABSURD.
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Don't undersell it by saying "trillions". Avogadro's number is the scale we're talking about, so something on the order of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. So billions of trillions of atoms.
 
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