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“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.”
Welcome, to Nightvale
If you know someone actually believing this kind of stuff (matter is created by me experiencing, everything is “vibrations”, where are my drugs… Jesus is the saviour, aliens built the pyramids, etc etc) how can you help them out of it, and shall you try?
I hate to tell you this but all matter actually is vibrations aka waves, solidity is the illusionary result of quantum forces and you are in fact made of star dust.
Yeah I hear you, but “vibrations” isn’t a thing in itself right I mean what’s vibrating? QM is just a theory like Relativity is, trying to explain the world, not what it actually is.
I see us more like holed up on a speck of dust in complete emptyness, hold by a gravitational rope by a continuous thermonuclear explosion, grilling us so hard we’d die if we didn’t rotate like a chicken in a rotisserie…
But your analogy is nice too 😁
Energy
Still insignificant though!
Absurdism FTW!
I am nuclear waste.
Pretty metal
“I am the waking universe looking back at itself.”
The waking universe: huh, no floaters this time. (flush)
“Did…did I make all of this!?”
Ishmael would like a word.
And I ended up being a gooner weeb…
The top panel is just the human ego speaking volumes. This is why we have main character syndrome, and some people think the universe owes them if they feel disappointed.
Significance is just a concept humans made up to make ourselves feel bad.
You are golden.
It’s quite the songwriting feat. (Joni Mitchel, but CSNY great interpretation with gospel Organ part)
“And we got to get ourselves, back to the garden”
unifies gospel of bible and humanism. The 60s, being a period of extreme oppression of US men with draft for US empire domino absurdities, had many “principled songs”. This is the best one, not just specifically anti-war. Woodstock as a “principled humanist” gathering gained significance from this song.
Wanna feel as old as a star?
“You are not the centre of the universe!” Is just another person tells us that there aren’t me’s
I need Burialgoods to read this meme.
And here I am sat drinking beer, watching tv. The pinnacle of the evolution of the universe.
Thank you, and goodnight!
