Life, the universe, and beyond

[PhantOS]

its hard to wrap your head around the logistics of our complicated life.

instead i wrap my head around a Phanto (tm) Signature Scarf, keeping my head AND neck warm throughout the entire winter

and if you call now we'll throw in a second one for free! the deal doesn't get any more astronomical than this!

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[bestguy22]

wow!! so phylosiphical! we're living on one round ball and we're so small and insignificant ooh so interestings.
Have you tried going outside

[Becquerel]

time to quick ruin:
Proved by S C I E N C E someday the dark energy will either run out and the entier universe will crunch into a black hole or the dark energy will stay the same or get higher and everything will go as fast as light and the universe cannot create matter.

Thing is, this depends on the density of all the matter and energy in the physical universe and the universe's actual geometry of spacetime IE is it curved or flat, which is defined by the constant Ω

And we still have to prove whether or not Dark Energy and Dark Matter exist

[Mega-Bear]

wow!! so phylosiphical! we're living on one round ball and we're so small and insignificant ooh so interestings.
Have you tried going outside

Why are you offended?

[DestroyerOfBlocks]

we were made to eat, reproduce, and die, just like all other life forms on earth

i'd argue our intelligence and self awareness let us transcend that natural cycle and strive for something greater but i dont have any proof

[Rigel]

comics like this make it even harder, what if we're all just some kind of practical joke on another godly being?

[The Resonte!]

aaaahhh... yes....

i remember MY first universe...

[Nonnel]

I do sometimes wonder how I landed on the astronomically lucky chance to be a human (1 in an unimaginably high number of a chance) in the upper-class of a 1st-world country instead of a bacteria on a roosterroach in Rwanda.

i mean technically you are the result of a specific combination of a specific sperm and a specific egg so any other person or organism at any other time wouldn't be "you"

[Count]

no you got the """"""""""""right"""""""""""" answer

i mean if there even is a "right" answer for this but yeah

also wow dang i didnt know u actually dissected brains

Yeah I'm a senior pre med student and it's really really awesome doing it. I recommend you take an anatomy class sometime, it's so incredible knowing more and more about the body. The thing about our brains is that we still don't know a lot about them. They are so complex that top neurobiologist researchers are constantly coming out with new studies on the inner workings of the cerebral cortex.

wow!! so phylosiphical! we're living on one round ball and we're so small and insignificant ooh so interestings.
Have you tried going outside

Im 22 years old and about to graduate college and go to med school, I can't go outside homie :)
I know it's scary to think about these things, but we adventurous sort of people wanna find out anyway. I am just a learning youth, and don't really know that much relative to how much information there is out there, but I hope to one day gain some understanding as to why I was born and what I should be doing.

[AndroFox]

if you put an entire boat apart and then rebuilt it somewhere else with the same pieces, would it still be the same boat

your cells multiply and die over the years. at some point all your original cells of when you were born have been replaced with new cells. does that mean you're a completely different person than from when you were born? how did your consciousness prevail?

[Rigel]

if you put an entire boat apart and then rebuilt it somewhere else with the same pieces, would it still be the same boat

your cells multiply and die over the years. at some point all your original cells of when you were born have been replaced with new cells. does that mean you're a completely different person than from when you were born? how did your consciousness prevail?

From google: Do brain cells replace themselves?
Skin cells live about two or three weeks. Colon cells have it rough: They die off after about four days. Sperm cells have a life span of only about three days, while brain cells typically last an entire lifetime (neurons in the cerebral cortex, for example, are not replaced when they die).

[Mega-Bear]

if you put an entire boat apart and then rebuilt it somewhere else with the same pieces, would it still be the same boat

your cells multiply and die over the years. at some point all your original cells of when you were born have been replaced with new cells. does that mean you're a completely different person than from when you were born? how did your consciousness prevail?

My knowledge of Buddhism is very weak but one of the highest truths, if I understand right, is that there is no one inherent "self."
We have different selves which we assume when we are at work, at school, with family, with friends. Our identity is subdivided into various other identities depending on the setting. I am very different with my friends than I am in a professional setting. Couple that with the fact that our bodies are ever changing, always containing a different quantity of certain vitamins and elements, and the fact that our cells are constantly being replaced, and it suddenly becomes obvious that we as individuals are incredibly dynamic.
Your question about being a completely different person reminded me of that.
I forget where I learned this, it might have even been on this forum. But I've read short snippets of Buddhist texts at school too. fug.