I've read a lot of speculative answers to the Fermi paradox (why can't we find extraterrestrial intelligence?), but "we're living on its skin" has apparently never been proposed
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What Lovecraft imagined was that there exist things that are to humans as humans are to ants. Extend the metaphor: Gut flora, viruses, molecules
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My guiding philosophy is that the portion of total reality that can be perceived or even apprehended by human cognition is vanishingly small & to believe otherwise is dangerously naive.
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I've been leaning this way for a while and the more exploration I do, in any realm, the more probable this seems.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @OpinionBroker
Meditating, I once tried to contain as much multi-layered info as I could, as much context, space, ideology, meta-complexity, experiential data.. Books, their words, ppl, their experiences, my place in the expanded universe, the limits of above and below.. Almost passed out.
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So there's a number of myths I've noticed where divinity shields itself from us for our benefit/people behold divinity and suffer terrible consequences.
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My analogy is that the spiritual world is like some micro-nutrient that is absolutely essential in small doses (we die or experience a long, slow failure to flourish without it) but also toxic at high doses.
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