Ever felt insignificant?

[Serial_Apologist]

such sights do not make me feel that i am insignificant .... but do fill me with awe and wondrous joy

on t'other hand a wrong look from she who must be obeyed has me feeling like the cube root of nowt in milliseconds

[Resurrection Man]

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Mme V has pointed out that our age ( lv in her case; lx in mine) we simply become invisible to most people below the age of thirty...

Oh, I know the feeling only too well. Or as Mrs RM says "You're not rich enough to be a Sugar Daddy and too old to be a ToyBoy". Like to think there's a compliment hidden away in there. Not found it yet.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh, I know the feeling only too well. Or as Mrs RM says "You're not rich enough to be a Sugar Daddy and too old to be a ToyBoy". Like to think there's a compliment hidden away in there. Not found it yet.

Being among friends on this forum is some compensation isn't it, RM?

(Lights touch paper and scarpers...)

[Resurrection Man]

Being among friends on this forum is some compensation isn't it, RM?

(Lights touch paper and scarpers...)

LOL

[Thropplenoggin]

I fear this "beginning of the universe" is a mere mathematical myth propagated by certain shallowish moderns. Truly thoughtful and imaginative people, to whom everything remains a mystery, have never been able to bring themselves to believe in it.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Thropplenoggin,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

I wasn't espousing a particular philosophy, merely pointing to the current scientific cosmological model. I'm more drawn to Nietzchean idea of eternal recurrence, or Greek ideas, or those of the Buddha, or Brahma (like old LvB!) which, of course, have striking similarities. Some scientists have also mooted the cyclical theory: alternating between expansion and contraction. Then there's the multiverse hypothesis, which would explain the seeming unlikelihood of all those very, very finely-tuned laws that allow life to exist (gravity is 'x', so and so 'y', etc.) in our universe, which seem to require a Fine-Tuner. If there are millions of universes, then those laws aren't so special after all. Of course, these same 'scientists' (Martin Rees et al) say that we may never be able to prove this theory, but instead will have to just take it on, er, faith.

[Serial_Apologist]

I wasn't espousing a particular philosophy, merely pointing to the current scientific cosmological model. I'm more drawn to Nietzchean idea of eternal recurrence, or Greek ideas, or those of the Buddha, or Brahma (like old LvB!) which, of course, have striking similarities.

As I was in effect saying in #15.

(Word of advice based on personal experience, Thropplenoggin: only mention Buddhism on this forum if anticipating no answer. ).

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yep abandon desire all who enter etc .... [this may come as a surprise to such as Caliban ...]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

such sights do not make me feel that i am insignificant .... but do fill me with awe and wondrous joy

- I'm just so grateful to be alive at a time when such images are both possible and accessible to everyone.

on t'other hand a wrong look from she who must be obeyed has me feeling like the cube root of nowt in milliseconds

Yep: been there, too!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

I'm just so grateful to be alive at a time when such images are both possible and accessible to everyone.

yep me too but the thought of what remains to be discovered after i am gone leaves me with an angst and a regret at my not knowing .... and the only feassible justification for an extended life span, scratching the curiosity eh ...

[Serial_Apologist]

yep me too but the thought of what remains to be discovered after i am gone leaves me with an angst and a regret at my not knowing .... and the only feassible justification for an extended life span, scratching the curiosity eh ...

"Whereof you will be unable to speak, thereof you will be silent" - Wittgenstein, misquoted.

[Bryn]

Beats me why matter that has evolved to the stage of thinking, self-awareness and philosophising should feel insignificant just by looking back into its unthinking history.

[Dave2002]

Mme V has pointed out that our age ( lv in her case; lx in mine) we simply become invisible to most people below the age of thirty...

Wait until someone offers you a seat on a tube train. You refuse, then have to apologise later as you might have seemed rude to the younger person. Agggh!

In another ten years I might just accept, either gracefully or grumpily, as befits my then age!

[Serial_Apologist]

Beats me why matter that has evolved to the stage of thinking, self-awareness and philosophising should feel insignificant just by looking back into its unthinking history.

Ah but is the universe intelligent?

[Bryn]

Ah but is the universe intelligent?

Some of it, in this vicinity, is, I reckon.

[Resurrection Man]

Wait until someone offers you a seat on a tube train. You refuse, then have to apologise later as you might have seemed rude to the younger person. Agggh!

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I know exactly what you mean as it happened to me, for the first time, on the way to the Proms. It was very embarrassing.