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My recurring "what if" deep thought.... what if our solar system is just an atom and our galaxy just a giant collection of molecules in some huge universe above the one we know?



Reminds me a little of something I read once while studying some Neo-Confucianism philosophy; that nothing exists outside of our own minds.

But the way that the philosophy looks at it is not that nothing else is real, just that each individual and their individual mind has their own unique universe.

For example, I can tell you all about the beautiful lilac bush out in my back yard. I can tell you how it gets dozens of beautiful, deep purple blooms almost covering it just about every spring. How the smell of lilac will waft in through the nearby windows and make the whole house smell of it. But...none of that exists in your world. Only my description of it would exist in your world. Because you have never seen the bush, smelled the bush, touched the bush, etc..etc... it doesn't exist in YOUR world. Only my description of it does.
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If only I could grow a lilac bush in my tent... Love the way those things smell.
The part about everything is subjective to our own minds is actually true... I don't view it as a philosophy. I mean, come on now, we've all seen the people with pretty haggard looking partners/husbands/wives/pets, and they just totally adore them and think they're the best thing in the universe.*insert redneck accent "Well ain't that just the cutest snaggletooth ya' done seen on your cousin-wife? C'mon now, who cares if we've had to repaint the front door six times this year 'cause she scrapes it off with her tooth every time she opens it..."

"My recurring "what if" deep thought.... what if our solar system is just an atom and our galaxy just a giant collection of molecules in some huge universe above the one we know?"
I think that, sometimes, Except it's more like "What if we're just some microscopic bacteria under some other being's microscope, And they're trying to find a use for us?"
 
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