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by pixdamix 5683 days ago
How not to feel sooooo small and insignificant after that !?
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Some people get depressed when they find out how huge the universe is... What is the big deal about bigness? A cow is much bigger than you, but it is a ridiculous animal and you are a valuable person. You know it's a cow. It doesn't know anything. it just stands there eating grass (grass!) and mooing. And if it were bigger, that would only make it more ridiculous.

- David Deutsch

David Deutsch, while making valid philosophical/metaphysical points, exhibits symptoms of a serial cow-tipper.
By looking at the smallish end of the scale, of course. I am so much bigger and more signifigant than a cilliate protist!
"You're really only very small, and life flows on within you and without you."
Your only hope is powerfully mindbending chemicals.
It's inspiring.