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Thinking Humanity in Space and Time: two comments and a response
Read the original post here. 1. Response to Nathaniel’s comment thank you very much for sharing this. It is profound and thought-provoking. I think you are right that contemplating our insignificance in space is far easier than doing so in time. And I think you are right that we are conditioned to take time for…
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Thinking Humanity in Space and Time
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Pensees, Blaise Pascal https://academyofideas.com/2016/03/blaise-pascal-the-infinite-spaces-alienation-and-the-wager/…
While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer