Tag: mystery
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Loving the Mystery
There’s a lyric that’s been trapped in my head for nearly a decade. It’s from the song “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel. The lyric is this: “Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all.” It’s the last line in the song. The reason it’s stuck in my…
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The Two Most Important Truths I Know About the Universe
Here’s something I know: both of the following seemingly contradictory statements are profoundly and undeniably true. I am utterly inconsequential to the universe. It is so incomprehensibly large and vast, its time scale so unfathomable, that it is utterly certain that I don’t matter. Everything in the history of the universe, this entirely galaxy, this…