What does that mean? A century ago, Albert Einstein taught us: everything is relative. The way you see the world depends on your point of view and context. What is hot for you might be mild for me, what is a success for me might be a failure to you....
When we listen to stories of humans, of life and of death, we fail to fathom the complexity of the stories of all those who have lived before us. We tend to forget the hundreds of generations of humans that lived, worried, loved, and died prior to you being where...
What does that mean?
A century ago, Albert Einstein taught us: everything is relative. The way you see the world depends on your point of view and context. What is hot for you might be mild for me, what is a success for me might be a failure to you. There’s no black and white, there’s only the perspective you choose to look at things. Everything can change in a snap when you provide context.
It’s impossible to be born into heaven. You cannot understand light without understanding darkness, you cannot know what hot is unless there is something colder, you cannot be born into heaven. Therefore to be born into utopia you would... (read 1717 more words →)
When we listen to stories of humans, of life and of death, we fail to fathom the complexity of the stories of all those who have lived before us. We tend to forget the hundreds of generations of humans that lived, worried, loved, and died prior to you being where you are now. You forget you are a miracle of chance experiencing a sliver of infinite possibility on a rock with all these other carbon units, a vast majority you've yet to meet.
Sometimes I think about humanity in the same way I think of pointillism, which is the artistic technique of painting thousands of microdots on a canvas, that contrast and compliment... (read 722 more words →)
The theory that makes the most sense to me is the idea that we are in fact in a galactic preschool.
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