The Universe And You

[m]

Have you ever looked into the night sky and wondered what it was all about? Do you feel small and insignificant? Pegasus, the belt of Orion, Betelgeuse, the Magellanic Clouds, the Southern Cross, Polaris, the Big Dipper; all these constellations that have fascinated us for so long. On Earth we have mountains, vast deserts, the oceans, and big storms.

Do you feel like you’re part of a huge plan, or even an important part of what is happening around you? There is a bigger part of life for all of us than what we see. I believe that we are all not just part of the universe, but an important part. I’ll go as far to say we all have a Divine plan in that universe. Do you feel like part of it all, or not? Or do you feel small and insignificant, because of the sheer size of the universe, a galaxy. You know our galaxy, counting the dark matter that helps make up its mass, is speculated to be about 100,000 light years across.

To write that out in miles would be a ridiculously large number! That’s why I think there’s more to us and our lives than the daily boredom that is inflicted upon us. Indeed, there is more to it all than school, and work. Even the work we all eventually want to do. Some of us have the ability to create beautiful works of art out of materials. Others of us can write poetry, songs, write or play music or both, of figure out complex questions and seeming mysteries. Life is a journey and all of us have a hand in it if we ignore evils, informercials, bad TV, and fashion magazines. What do y’all think?

[paradoxPanda]

I think that maybe OVERALL what we do is insignificant, but it obviously matters to the people around us, so I try not to overthink it.

[m]

So what you're saying is, an analogy: There is a huge brick wall being built and everyone has to put one brick in. You think it's insignificant that you only put one brick in there, but it is significant because it makes up part of a much larger system. Even better, your single brick is at the bottom. Without that support, the whole section would not be able to support its own weight because of the absence of that brick.

Am I close?

[strangelilboi]

Well when I start thinking about it, I really do give myselof a headache!

Erm... but when you do like heavy physics and stuff they actually encourage you to look at your position in the universe from a scientific point of view. That is pretty mindblowign itself.

Sometimes I wonder if like the earth and other planets are jsut subatomic particles in a bigger universe

I've also thought, ever since I was a kid, that we are possibly a little video game or playset that God controls and that He could possibly be a little boy. I dont know why but thats always been in the back of my mind.

Either way I belive that every single thing in life happens for a reason.

[m]

Well when I start thinking about it, I really do give myselof a headache!

I do that too. If the universe ends, what's outside of it? And what is the "end" of the universe, an energy field, or does it bend you back to where you started? But if it doesn't end, how far does it go?

Sometimes I wonder if like the earth and other planets are jsut subatomic particles in a bigger universe

I hear that alot too, to some variation that our solar system is just a molecule in a much larger object, and that the galaxies and such are just larger molecules. I don't beleive so, but I like to ponder the possibility. I've given myself a headache thinking like that. ;D

[strangelilboi]

Argh head rush!

Erm yeah its actually quite strange. Its almost more than a coincidence sometimes how thinkin about what the world is that it gives us headaches. Brr shivers

I didnt actually know there were theories on that the universe could be jsut a part of a bigger picture.
But then the evidence is almost there. Size and definition is all relative.

For the lonely ant, the littlest bit of dust is a massive boulder. Heck for the smaller creatures, they are almsot mountains. Hopefulyl we're the most intelligent life forms around...

Has anyone seen the episode of the Simpsons where Lisa grows a whole miniature civilisation from a mould?

[paradoxPanda]

There is a huge brick wall being built and everyone has to put one brick in. You think it's insignificant that you only put one brick in there, but it is significant because it makes up part of a much larger system. Even better, your single brick is at the bottom. Without that support, the whole section would not be able to support its own weight because of the absence of that brick.

Am I close?

I appreciate the try, but no. I'm just saying that on a large scale, what we do DOESN'T matter, but it matters to a few other people, and that can impact them a lot.

[m]

Kinda like the saying, "To the world, you may mean nothing, but to someone else, you mean the world?"

I'm not sure I buy that, because to replace me, or you, would be a huge task. In fact, it's impossible, and the hole left, personally, spiritually, or what have you, would be such a loss.

[strangelilboi]

fine then ingore me ....lol

Erm id like to discuss this but can anyone break it down for me because i really dont seem to get the posts.