Fucking Watchmen

Laurie: "Jon, what about the war? You've got to prevent it! Everyone will die."

Dr. Manhattan: "...And the universe will not even notice."

That is life. Minuscule. Meaningless.

Unless of course, viewed from a perspective relatively small itself.

This is beyond faith and religion. It's a fact of life. YOUR life is one of many, a meaningless piece of a puzzle so big you can't truly imagine.

The idea of nothing is scary, but the idea of everything is actually much more frightening. Peep this...


"Right now, on your computer screen, are approximately 10,000 galaxies.

Each of those galaxies contains anywhere from ten million to one trillion stars.

The average star is roughly a million times the size of Earth.

And yet, with all that junk, the Universe is more than 90 percent empty space.

All of that, in this tiny photo. A photo that took 400 orbits and 800 exposures to take.

And the kicker? The photo covers one thirteen-millionth of the entire night sky."



Not even close to done...

"So all that shit we just said about how big the universe is (at least 90 billion light years)? Forget it. That’s small beans. The Cosmological Horizon is here to make your day a whole lot more complicated. Since we can only observe stellar bodies that have had some effect on us (usually bombarding us with light), there is an outer limit to what we can see of the universe. Hence, the “observable universe.” What about the rest? The parts of the universe beyond our Starcraft-style fog of war? Well, according to some math we have no interest in going into, the size of the “actual” universe is so large that if the universe we just described (the impossibly, mind-bogglingly large one) were the size of a quarter, the actual universe would be the size of the Earth. Daaaaaaaamn."

So basically instead of having to imagine being nothing, just imagining how big everything else is, you damn near become nothing. To put that into perspective even I'M too intimidated to put that into perspective. That sentence totally made sense lol.

So what's the point of living? You live to find it I guess. In the end we all fall into our places, and see things from our seemingly HUGE perspectives that are, in all actuality, obsolete. But you live, and you learn, and one day you die......hopefully having learned something nothing.