Tag: wonder
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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 […]
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The Ultimate Question
What is this? Alternatively: What is this? Or: what is this? Maybe: what is this? Each of these variations are deep, profound, and everlasting questions. They’re relevant in literally any situation. And they’re each different in pretty clear and distinct ways. And any other questions that we might suggest as the ultimate question can pretty cogently be reasoned into […]
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The Joys of Life, the Moon, and Reading
Source: eye of einstein Last Wednesday evening, as I got up from the computer, I looked out the window. There in the sky, fragile and held aloft by what seemed to be nothing was a sliver of the moon. The horizon I could see over the nearby houses was an enchanting shade of mild orange, […]