#human arrogance
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Here we are, like mites on a plum. And the plum is this little planet and it goes around an insignificant local star, the sun.
And that star is on the obscure outskirts of an ordinary galaxy, the milky way, which contains 400 billion other stars.
And this galaxy is just one of something like 100 billion other galaxies that make up the universe.
And it is now beginning to look, this universe is one of an enormous number, maybe even an infinite number, of other closed off universes.
So the idea that we are central, that we are the reason there is a universe is… pathetic.
We have to simply come to grips with the real universe that we really live in. And if some of our myth and some of our religion is inconsistent with it, it's time to change the myth and the religion.
#Carl Sagan#science#infinite universe#human arrogance#Sun#Earth#Milky Way#universe#religion#mythology#myths and legends#religion is a mental illness
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I feel like if humans came into contact and formed alliances with aliens and the aliens discover “humans are space orcs” on tumblr, they will share the same reaction we do to flat-earthers.
That’s it. That’s my ted talk.
#earth is space australia#earth is a deathworld#humans are space orcs#humans are weird#I swear I really like this tumblr section#it’s just that I gives me white-saviour vibes with some of these posts#like not literally but y’all get it#human arrogance#why are we always the superior species#when there are possibly millions of life on millions of planets#just why man#shut up pea-se
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The current state of the caste system is wildly misinterpreted and implemented unofficially/officially in South Asia and the whole entire world.
I blame colonialism and the arrogance of humanity
It’s honestly a disgrace that people think you’re born into something by blood and not by who you intrinsically are
#an opinion no one asked for#caste system#Hinduism#spirituality#outrage#human arrogance#healing#queer#love#self love#meaning of life#life purpose#caste
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The Wisest Words I’ve Ever Read
I wanted to share these words from Carl Sagan. As a Stoic, these words put in perspective our worries and how pathetically small the worlds dictatorships truly are.
Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of…
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students in the social sciences can’t explain it either lol. “people in this country see no merit in studying any subject that cannot go on a resume” that’s because they go to school to get a job! I wonder what larger structural factors contribute to this widespread relationship people have to higher education. maybe this guy can use his big beautiful humanities degree to explain it to us
#‘this country’ I’m assuming this person is American also which is doubly laughable#I wonder why people going into tens of thousands of dollars into debt want to focus on shit that will get them a job. impossible to know#also profoundly arrogant & self serving. I’m sure this is a humanities person because they all believe art is inherently revolutionary#and artists are the most oppressed special and uniquely capable labourers on the planet
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#politicians#corruption#ignorance#arrogance#poverty#homelessness#democrats#demons#planned destruction#human rights activists#crimes against humanity#speaktruth#fight for justice#standup#speak up#truth#please share#wwg1wga#MAGA
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Something something both A and N engage in self alienation (from one's nature/past) to cope with trauma
#i was going to make a joke about how funny it is that A is living in the self delusion of thinking that in no longer being human they can#abandon all that they associate w their humanity (emotions and the trau#trauma* associated w them) when theyre STILL like that. still arrogant and self assured and all thats changed is that youre telling#yourself a story that allows you to ignore any possibility of change and remain in stasis forever <3#ONLY for me to realise N does a very similar thing. notably#they try very hard to reconcile humanity to their current vampiric self and arent so much alienated from HUMANITY as they are from their#past and the person they were. theyre extremely alienated from the person they once were on account of tragic backstory#where A purposely alienates themself from identifying w the nature they believe brought ruination to the people they loved#N alienates themself from the person they once WERE and in doing so can never truly move forward from it#the wayhaven chronicles#tunes talks wayhaven#the brainrot i have for this series....unreal
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Thing about Rescue Team DX I don’t like is that it’ll tweak small visual things about the original and it’ll take away some really neat little things about the original
#like i might be wrong abt this tbf but the bit on xatu’s lookout when gengar is spying#and when he goes ‘’who would have thought hero was human?’’ he gets this frown on his face w the upset blue background in his icon#and its not like a massive shift but its the first time you see him frown and lower his arrogant guard#and its not something you linger on too much but is interesting once you see the plot twist and you wonder what was going through his head#but in the remake he just has his default expression. so its the same moment but that little hint and interesting replay value is gone#its so little but it adds a lot#tbf i could be confusing this with a similar bit when hes pitting pokemon square against you#and he gets that same expression when he says something like ‘’who can trust someone that vile’’ or something#but iirc the remake removes that as well??#also eve said this too but they removed the townsfolk trying to attack hero in the square BOOOOOOOOO#where is the DRAMA!!!!! the FLAIR!!!!#echoed voice#pmd posting
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regulus would only be known for his death. for the bodiless casket lowered into the ground, for the betrayal, for the letter. for three letters — rab.
what he had once been would be forgotten. a boy with a lisp and a gap between his two front teeth, a young man, his father’s hand on his shoulder, his fingers digging in his throat.
a boy who hid in the garden with his brother, and with whom he read stories. a boy and his brother, always more talented, always more intelligent, always more interesting, always better. few were the people in the black family, a family of shadows and aristocracy and screams that died in the back of one’s throat, that looked for the light. sirius did, and regulus stayed in his shadow, bitter and resentful.
a young man, his father’s son. quiet conversations of little importance held into ballrooms. dark ink staining parchment, and eyes that look up to the sky, his only escape, really. stolen glances, faux superiority that not even he believes in, and a waltz of imminent death. a boy made of glass — to shatter, to die. it had been his destiny from the start, hadn’t it? the spare.
a betrayal. a locket, a last letter, a quiet cave, a seemingly unimportant death. fingers sank into his body, torn flesh and spilled blood.
death — it had all been reduced to that.
#gore tw#tw gore#just to make sure#thinking about regulus again. and about how i see him#hes bitter and arrogant and selfish and#and he’s not a good person but he’s. he’s human#regulus black#regulus black angst#my writing
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That's here. That's home. That's us.
On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of our joy and suffering. Thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines. Every hunter and forager. Every hero and coward. Every creator and destroyer of civilization. Every king and peasant. Every young couple in love. Every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer. Every teacher of morals. Every corrupt politician. Every superstar. Every supreme leader. Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there.
On a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel, on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings. How eager they are to kill one another. How fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance. The delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.
Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image.
To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot. The only home we've ever known.
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gale voice here feel the pulse of the magic in my heart that will eventually be the end of me. im on my knees before you like an animal showing its belly. im in excrutiating pain bc of the contact with the magic in my heart but please dont take your hand away please dont stop touching me
#gale of waterdeep#paydja plays baldur's gate#the relationship a lot of the companions have with their bodies is fucking fascinating#but gale and karlach's relation to their heart and to human contact is particularly compelling#i cant say who has it worse bc thats a stupid comparison to make when they both have hearts that could literally detonate at any moment#[ik that karlach cant do human contact at all and gale cant but im talking abt emotionally significant contact which is smth they share]#but rn im focusing on gale ill talk abt karlach later#hes so interesting like hes initially played as arrogant but i think that whole thing with mystra#really fucked him up bc he talks abt himself like hes. not a means to an end per se but u get the gist#you can see the way he talks abt sense and sensuality and emotional connection but as soon as you actually offer it via flirting or just#genuine compliments hes always surprised and always changes the subject#partially out of like. emotiona damage and partially bc he doesnt want to go boom#ANYWAY WHAT IM SAYING IS hes in pain bc of the contact being made with the magic that makes up his heart but#by god please dont take your hand away. please dont stop touching him. please#i hate this fucking game i hate it so much#chattering#sorry for the analysis it WILL happen again#im talking abt gale rn bc hes my favourite and currently the character i know the most about via gameplay#but there is PLENTY i can say abt everyone#god i keep saying this but its like why are you so good sometimes and also so bad. fucking Larian.
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 332
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i can very clearly tell that moffat is writing eleven from a place of "he's such a cool and smart and powerful guy and you should admire him so much" but every time this happens in an episode i just roll my eyes. i know that maybe there's people out there that like the doctor being like that but nine and ten sold me on the idea of the doctor inherently being this hundreds-y/o alien being that's lived for so long but still heartbreakingly down to earth and it's just hard. to hook up the wires of my brain. w eleven's era. when this is what drew me to the show
#dr who#ironically enough ppl say ten's arrogance is what turn them off from him#but like this just makes him more resonant to me#besties there is nothing more human than hubris i hope you all can recognize that#i wouldn't call eleven arrogant bc it feels like the narrative 99% of the time backs him up whenever he says smth like#I'm the doctor and the most special boy in the world#i got annoyed at 3x13 first time i watched it but not anymore actually bc the REASON ten gets the jesus powers is bc of MARTHA#bc of ALL OF HUMANITY believing in not his power but more his goodwill. how much he cares and is willing to give himself up for them#and the episode ends not w ten triumphant or super reveling in the world being saved at all. bc the master dies in his arms#and jack and martha both leave him#idk like. it's just. idk. hhhg.#even if this gets subverted in a future episode it doesn't change how deeply eleven is established as Otherworldly Fearsome God#11 era
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It truly is a sin to be ignorant.
― Concubine Gyokuyou (The Apothecary Diaries)
#anime#anime quotes#ignorant#arrogance#life#life quotes#the apothecary diaries#the apothecary diaries anime#concubine Gyokuyou#dark academia#quotes#relatable quotes#dark academic aesthetic#book quotes#novels#Natsu Hyuga#be a human#humanity#truth
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The Fuhrer’s son loves the sea.
Merperson/Sea dragon Envy
Mermaid Lust
Merman Greed (+his loyal bodyguard)
#I RETURN.#this is a bit of a departure in color scheme from the rest of this series but I couldn’t see depicting him underwater lol#glad to be back at this though! now I’ve gotta figure out how to design sloth and gluttony and wrath#also pride’s human body is semi-aquatic and he can breathe underwater. it’s basically a puppet body which can summon the kraken powers#the teeth on this thing killed me btw. my god#fma#fullmetal alchemist#fmab#fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood#fma:b#pride the arrogant#pride fma#fma pride#selim bradley#mermaid au#my art#giant win! I remembered to design this in cmyk instead of srgb!
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