I confess I can't even truly wrap my mind around it. Recently--like for the past couple of years--I've been amazed by how actually diverse "diversity" is here on Earth--whether we're talking about types of grass or organisms in a biome (even a "boring"-looking biome; let alone one that's known for diversity) or human cultures. When people say "there are many points of view," they are usually thinking of only two! Or at best three! And yet there are so many. It's like being in Leticia, and there aren't just one local indigenous people, or two, but five or six--all with their own languages. And on and on. And this "many-ness" is everywhere we look, here.
Somehow this relates to the grandness of cosmic scale, I think, right? There is so much muchness, so much more than we think. And similarly, when we say time is long or space is wide, it's not just a little long, or a little wide. It's inconceivably long and wide.
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Date: 2023-05-14 10:48 am (UTC)Somehow this relates to the grandness of cosmic scale, I think, right? There is so much muchness, so much more than we think. And similarly, when we say time is long or space is wide, it's not just a little long, or a little wide. It's inconceivably long and wide.