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Gregory's avatar

I love reading and thinking of ideas like this. I was quite the amateur astronomer as a young adult and teen because of my fascination of this subject.

I started attending churches a couple months ago and the idea of god or a god is something I can’t wrap my head around. I enjoy thinking of ideas like we’re some kind of computer simulation, or that we have been visited before and maybe have had knowledge passed on to us from other beings (imagine all we’ve lost in the library of Alexandria, technology and building methods we couldn’t even replicate with modern tech).

It’s really crazy. We’re not here for even a blink of an eye - let a group alone humans who can pass along accrued knowledge long enough to come to an understanding of all that exists.

Loads of interesting things to think and contemplate on.

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Ælþemplær's avatar

This was a great overview of the matter and there's nestled in there the embryo of a neupolitik: The Spaceman's Burden

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