Random Ramblings

[Lithorn]

So, I live in a dorm with around 25 other people.
The other day my roommate used some milk from the refrigerator for her cereal. She said "I'm just taking a tiny bit. They'll never notice"

But that's the thing. She doesn't know where it started out. Twenty people could have taken just a tiny bit, but now the whole thing is gone because nobody could know how it was before. And of course this tiny, insignificant interaction sent me spiraling into a scary philosophical tangent *facepalm*
Nobody can ever know what was going on right before they arrived. They can guess, but what if it was something completely unexpected. Or rather, the present is completely unexpected from before.
What if we're all walking around having missed some vital piece of information?
This really scares me.

 

[Mello]

Just buy more milk.

 

[Sparrow]

Just buy more milk.

 

[Hawkeye]

So, I live in a dorm with around 25 other people.
The other day my roommate used some milk from the refrigerator for her cereal. She said "I'm just taking a tiny bit. They'll never notice"

But that's the thing. She doesn't know where it started out. Twenty people could have taken just a tiny bit, but now the whole thing is gone because nobody could know how it was before. And of course this tiny, insignificant interaction sent me spiraling into a scary philosophical tangent *facepalm*
Nobody can ever know what was going on right before they arrived. They can guess, but what if it was something completely unexpected. Or rather, the present is completely unexpected from before.
What if we're all walking around having missed some vital piece of information?
This really scares me.

How do you think the Dodo became exstinct? "One more won't affect the population"

We do it everyday. "One more Doughnut won't hurt" ^^


We're also destroying the planet with this ignorance.

 

[Lithorn]

But think beyond just the "running out of stuff" implications.
Think about the fact that there might be some piece of knowledge out there, the nature of which we can't even guess at, that would change everything.
What if every single thing we do just serves to massively fuck things up because of one tiny misunderstanding?

^This is a perfect example of when I let myself get completely freaked out by my own thoughts. Does this happen to anyone else?

 

[Hawkeye]

But think beyond just the "running out of stuff" implications.
Think about the fact that there might be some piece of knowledge out there, the nature of which we can't even guess at, that would change everything.
What if every single thing we do just serves to massively fuck things up because of one tiny misunderstanding?

^This is a perfect example of when I let myself get completely freaked out by my own thoughts. Does this happen to anyone else?

You mean like when we create gods because 'someone/something' had to have created us and the entire Universe?

 

[Lithorn]

[MP3][/MP3]

You mean like when we create gods because 'someone/something' had to have created us and the entire Universe?

I don't understand the connection.

 

[Hawkeye]

I don't understand the connection.

I was linking it to this

What if every single thing we do just serves to massively fuck things up because of one tiny misunderstanding?

 

[Lithorn]

So is the idea that something Must have created the universe the misunderstanding?

 

[merzbau]

you mean - just to pull an example at random - the possibility that every time we start our car engines, were burning the remains of ancient atlantians?

number one misinterpretation - the "word of god." appalacian snake handlers follow their beliefs due to a literal interpretation of the bible telling them to take up serpents ...and that's just the tip of the godberg.

 

[Lithorn]

Kind of like that. But bigger. And so inconceivable that nobody (even INTPs in all their questiony-ness ) has thought to wonder about it.
What if humans are constantly and collectively making themselves look like idiots to the rest of the universe, like when someone uses a word almost correctly, but is just so wrong it's sad?