I don't get why people want their problems to have cosmic importance, but the scale of the universe just makes me feel like there is so much I'll never get to see. And if there is no other life in the universe, then all those amazing worlds with utterly unique phenomena will never be observed.

you didn’t exist much longer than you’ve been alive by a very large factor

This is why I get a lot of comfort stargazing at night. So much stress or worry melts away when the realization hits that nothing really matters anyway. I don't think this is quite what Tolkien was going for with the scene where Sam sees a star up through a small opening in the gloomy sky when he's struggling, but it's how I took it.

I think the tricky part for some people is trying to figure out why living life should matter at all, then, but it's always worked for me. Just because a moment ends doesn't mean that the moment shouldn't matter to you, if you find it fulfilling or meaningful.

in fact, living in interesting times (or interesting situations, or interesting lifes) is considered a curse in china, because of all the responsibility and stress that comes with it.

A star fart.

A cosmic anxiety generator.

A sexy machine that took 14 billions years to produce.

Forged in the heart of a dying star

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?

The universe created life just so it could finally have a wank.

Checks out.

Yeah it should be "star-stuff" refering to this quote of Sagan:

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Truly the pinnacle of evolution 🥹

You might like the book Determined by Robert Sapolsky. It's very dense and I haven't gotten far into it yet but it's about the science of free will.

And what really controls our consciousness.

Not the other way round?

I would say the top panel can accept own insignificance while bottom panel creates a vision of grandiosity to protect the main character illusion.

I was going to say I am column A and B, but I don't cry about it.

We ARE miracles, we ARE "The Universe experiencing itself" and we are insignificant on the cosmic scale. Those things aren't mutually exclusive.

Both perspectives are equally valid. The universe has no right answer. There is no correct way to live, experience or perceive anything.

You don't owe the universe anything, it doesn't owe you anything. It may very well be inherently unknowable at some levels. Live your life the best you can, everything you experience, from joy to despair, pleasure and pain, it's all just your own qualia and it's all you're here to do, so you might as well try to live in those moments instead of always looking for what's next or what the meaning is.

I don't get it.

Am nihilism enjoyer, am bottom pic