Current Events > it makes you crazy to think how earth has just been sitting here for so long

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100 years from the human perspective is already a long time, imagine 1,000,000 years and even much longer than that. its not even counting possible parallel universes, other planets and dimensions, and possible afterlife.

its absolutely terrifying.
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http://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH

I love these kinds of thoughts. The best is when nobody understands why they're mindblowing.
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I don't see how it's mindblowing or terrifying. I can leave a rock in the fridge for a year, it'll still just be a rock in the fridge

AlternativeFAQS posted...

http://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH

too much overload for me.

DevsBro posted...

I love these kinds of thoughts. The best is when nobody understands why they're mindblowing.

is this all real? and what is real?

Darklit_Minuet posted...

I don't see how it's mindblowing or terrifying. I can leave a rock in the fridge for a year, it'll still just be a rock in the fridge

what created the rock? what is the universe contained in?
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Awesome posted...

100 years from the human perspective is already a long time

That's true enough; but the thought if our male ancestors all managed to father children at the age of 60, then we'd only need to go back 16 generations to have an ancestor who lived a thousand years ago -- now that blows my mind. Well, a bit.
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I guess it's never really hit me
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100 years is a long time for humans because humans do things. They have a story to tell. The Earth has a story, but geologic time doesn't tell it quickly.

Awesome posted...

what created the rock? what is the universe contained in?

Random chance, and nothing

and if its true that what we see is a virtual reality, what is it for? theres a belief that we are all beings of energy with countless lives and memories that we cant remember or just barely remember once we are in these bodies. so we are born over and over again to learn from our mistakes and discover. so this thing we see is just a reality that our souls go into for new experiences. but what area are our souls relaxing in before we choose or get sent into this known reality?
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If we have an infinite succession of lives but have consciousness and memories of only the one we're currently experiencing, then I feel short-changed -- because to me, that seems pretty much like having only one life.
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Funkdamental posted...

If we have an infinite succession of lives but have consciousness and memories of only the one we're currently experiencing, then I feel short-changed -- because to me, that seems pretty much like having only one life.

thats why theres also the belief about twinflames and soulmates.
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Surely the biggest logical argument against human-to-human reincarnation is that unless the rates of births and deaths are equal, there are either too few or too many bodies to go around to be occupied by transmigrating souls?
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Space isnt even real
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Surely the biggest logical argument against human-to-human reincarnation is that unless the rates of births and deaths are equal, there are either too few or too many bodies to go around to be occupied by transmigrating souls?

Nah there are lots of logical resolutions to this. Maybe old souls are reincarnated but new ones are still constantly born, or maybe they split at each reincarnation, or maybe they're actually shared between multiple bodies.

But

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.biblegateway.com/passage/%3fsearch=Hebrews+9%253A27&version=NIV&interface=amp
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6000 years isn't that long
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Gunpo posted...

Space isnt even real

If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
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