#cause like look at it from the perspective of a sodium ion channel embedded in the membrane of a neuron

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idk, i never really understood/was never really bothered by the popular “oh we’re so tiny in the wider universe and that means we’re insignificant” current of thought that you see in any comments section on that voyager pic of earth as a tiny speck of light. i don’t get it. yeah there are things in the universe much bigger than us. there are things in the universe much smaller than us too. i don’t really see how that changes the fact that what we do on our little planet matters to each other, which is the only type of mattering that exists. like      zoomed-out pictures of the earth and talking about how we’re just dust on a speck of rock doesn’t change any of the joys and pains we experience in our dust lives and societies, the need to try to increase joy and lessen pain on this speck of rock, or the complicated forms that trying to increase joy and lessen pain can take, i really don’t understand that kind of perspective

#size is all relative! you can't even objectively claim that earth being tiny is The true size scale of the universe #cause like look at it from the perspective of a sodium ion channel embedded in the membrane of a neuron #that's just as real a size scale