I am not alone in citing Earth's insignificance

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RR

A short reality check…

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My two pals, poet-philosopher Bryan Sentes and academic Zoam Chomsky, take issue with the posting right below this one. (See their comments.)

Bryan thinks – and acts it out on Facebook and in life – that life and personal, everyday activity are significant, really significant.

Zoam, who thinks UFOs do not exist, as all, anywhere in reality, wrote that among all the obnoxious explanations for the phenomenon, the ETH, remote as it is, is more acceptable to him than the idea(s) that UFOs sneak in from other universes or dimensions or time.

Let me straighten these two guys out:

In the long history and pre-history of mankind, Bryan, me, you, and everyone else now extant or long dead are insignificant, no matter what accomplishments they have achieved or what greatness they seem to have or had.

They and we, all humans, pass on to the eternal darkness of death, where nothing – not fame, greatness, achievement, wealth – matters.

In the context of the cosmos, as I answered Bryan’s comment, we humans are nothing, no matter how hard it is to accept that. It’s the objective reality.

In the here and now, we are inconsequential; how much more so in the evolutionary scale of things?

Zoam, who praises science rather often, seems inclined to distrust the suggestions of science’s practitioners that there appears to be alternative dimensions, multiverses, and even the possibility of time-travel.

That non-existent UFOs may sneak in from those alternative realities makes more sense to me than the idea some advanced alien species is cavorting around Earth in rather massive numbers, and has been doing so for millennia.

Alternative realities exist – ask a semi-coherent schizophrenic or Jung acolyte.

Ask a sane man, looking into the night sky, and seeing our galactic Milky Way if he feels significant and you’ll have your answer, about how we count in the great scheme of things.

I love these two guys, I really do. But they are both giddy with human madness. That’s the real reality.

RR