• habanhero@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Shouldn’t this awareness of our insignificance be unbearable?

    Why would it be? I personally find it humbling.

    • fiah@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      some people find it incredibly depressing to realize that nothing they do matters at all, when considered in the context of the entire the universe

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        1 year ago

        Those people need to check their ego and recalibrate to find contentment. Or double-down on their preferred alternative reality.