My epiphany.

[Outright Villainy]

'Holy shit I'm fucking tall'

Had that one in the car, looked down at my legs & it just hit me.

The only time I notice my tallness is the fairly odd time when I meet someone taller. And then I just feel small. I can't win really...

My epiphany of sorts was becoming agnostic:
"Do you believe there is a god?"
"How the fuck would I know?!"

Oh, and that tea is great. Can't forget that one. Mmm, tea...

 

[mattiboi24]

My epiphany was that people shouldn't share their epiphanies. Especially when they're so aggressively disillusioning. Everybody is unique, that's not something you can argue with. A lot of people might be boring, mean or stupid, but they're still doing it in their own special way. -_^

 

[thejdcole]

My epiphany was that people shouldn't share their epiphanies. Especially when they're so aggressively disillusioning. Everybody is unique, that's not something you can argue with. A lot of people might be boring, mean or stupid, but they're still doing it in their own special way. -_^

You read my mind. Although particularly life changing epiphanies (life changing in a good way) could be shared as they could cause epiphanies in the people who read about them.

Although i do agree i dont like disillisioning or very depressive thoughts/opinions/epiphanies or whatever, i like to think i'm a very optomistic person

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

I had one about, since time is how we perceive it, that if we die, we could technically just relive the same life again. Not existing is something you couldn't imagine, but imagine your own little time bubble. You live your life, die, then go back to the beginning of that.

Of course, this implies that there is no such thing as being able to choose your own destiny, but if I'm going to get all pissed about that I'm not going to succeed anyways, so I might as well give it a go.

This was already extrapolated on by Nietzsche, this idea, from someone else's origination of it, and he wasn't sure whether he should be joyous or lament he'd be living his life over and over again. Though, since it's Nietzsche, I can very much understand why he'd be so ambivalent.

It made me far less depressed about the idea of death anyway. In fact, I'm rather curious to know what happens. Sadly, I'll never know if I'm right, but that still doesn't mean I can't be curious.

 

[Kurokami]

Hey guys, as none of you know, I'm 15. And I just had, what I would like to call, my very first epiphany.

I mean, today was just a normal day, but I was listening to music when, suddenly, I realized that no one's special. Not me, not you reading this, not anyone. I mean, this planet is [sub]small[/sub]. Compared to every thing else in the universe, its like 1 pixel on a 60' HD television. The chances that there are more planets like earth, with maybe an even more advanced civilization, is almost assured there are like 4,000 others.

Well that was my 2 cents. Discuss if you want. [sub]Please do [/sub]

Discussion guidelines:

1.Have you had an epiphany?
2.What was it?
3.How did it feel afterward?

That's not even an epiphany in my world, that's a single thread of thought and a flawed one at that. Sorry to be an arse about it, but really?

First of all, everyone's special because no one can be the same, otherwise they wouldn't be defined. An atom is not the same as another atom, the only proof you need is the fact that I said another. I believe what you meant to say was that we're insignificant, which is true, but only depending how far through you go. In truth there's nothing beyond your own perception which means your world is all there is, so you literally are EVERYTHING.


So once again, sorry to be an arse about this, I think its cause it reminded me back of the horrible trauma of watching Wolverine Origins when I was actually expecting to see Wolverine's origins.

 

[JokerCrowe]

I think I had an epiphany when I listened to Jonathan Coulton's "A Talk With George".
Now time to go off and live life!

Oh, by the way:

 

[Darren20]

That may be.
Each of us live in a house/apartment/etc.That is part of a street.The street is a part of a city. The city is part of a county or state. That state is part of a country. That country is part of a continent. That continent is part of our planet. Our planet is part of a galaxy.
Our galaxy is part of the universe and it could go even further. While were just insignificant specks on the planaet earth.

However.
I can't count the number of cells that come together to create us.
We have won the first race in our lives with the odds of around 6 million or billion to 1 against us against all the other sperm cells.
We've also weathered the storms that assault us on the road to being born.
And out of all the planets in the universe we live on this one.

So we are both insignificant and the very significant.

Soory for the philosophy.

I can has cookie now.

 

[Kurokami]

Hey guys, as none of you know, I'm 15. And I just had, what I would like to call, my very first epiphany.

I mean, today was just a normal day, but I was listening to music when, suddenly, I realized that no one's special. Not me, not you reading this, not anyone. I mean, this planet is [sub]small[/sub]. Compared to every thing else in the universe, its like 1 pixel on a 60' HD television. The chances that there are more planets like earth, with maybe an even more advanced civilization, is almost assured there are like 4,000 others.

Well that was my 2 cents. Discuss if you want. [sub]Please do [/sub]

Discussion guidelines:

1.Have you had an epiphany?
2.What was it?
3.How did it feel afterward?

Noone is special in the sense no1 deserves to stand above all the others, but all are special in the sense all are unique.

I had too many epiphanies to even bother to remember, they obviously changed me in a sense, made me see things in a diferent way.

No one stands above from the rest?
You don't believe that some peoples' lives are greater than others? That some people have greater worth than others?

 

[Booze Zombie]

"I'm not special" is pretty standard, it would seem.
Of course, you are looking at the situation through your own eyes, but it's not like you can use anyone else's.

For me, understanding common sense was quite amazing, the idea that you should just sit down, think for a minute and then do what you were going to do.
Of course, I was a lot younger when I learnt that one, but regardless, it was valuable.

No one stands above from the rest?
You don't believe that some peoples' lives are greater than others? That some people have greater worth than others?

Ideas like that are what promote the stagnation of human society.

 

[literallyanythingelse]

Once I went into a shop and I was like, "Holy shit there are so many colours." You don't realise it normally but if you think about it you see that there are so many mind-boggling colours and your senses just get massively overwhelmed.

Did I mention I was super high?

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Have you had an epiphany?
Yes, indeed I have.

What was it?
I was depressed, reflecting on how much better my life was when I was younger, wishing I could have the old me back.
And I thought: why can't I? The only thing standing between me and the man I wanted to be was myself. So after however long, I finally got over myself. I realised that life was worth living, and as long as there were people I believed in, I would never, ever give up.

How did it feel afterward?
For the first time in ages, I felt good about myself. I've never looked back since.

 

[Mr Thin]

Yeah, I've had an epiphany.

It was about the fact that aliens have to exist because of the sheer number of planets there are out there. It sort of tied in with me turning Atheist. It felt liberating, like my Wisdom score had just increased slightly.

And don't bash my somewhat obvious epiphany; we all come to these realizations in our own time, you're not some kind of hard-bitten narcissist because you got to it a bit earlier than me.

 

[yoyo13rom]

Some people are "special".
I do believe I'm unique though

OT: I had an epiphany, while listening to the beards and bees in a park in front of a school, where I was planing to do something really, really sick and stupid, and wrong. And suddenly after realising that one part(well the whole plan was crap and stupid and sick) of my plan was wrong(the right person wasn't at the right time at the right place), it hit me that what I was intending to do was horrible. then I felt good about my epiphany.

I'll leave all the details out so you can make your own imaginary "this guy's a sicko" story.

 

[Tidenburg]

Your Epiphany was just a basic form of Nihilism. It's a great way to view the universe and shit but don't let that make you think that nothing has meaning. You're part of society as well so you and your actions DO have meaning in that context - just not really in the universe.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

No one stands above from the rest?
You don't believe that some peoples' lives are greater than others? That some people have greater worth than others?

I first need to know what you mean by worth. But if you mean great leaders, activists, human right defenders, dont forget society works like a filter in a way chances and opportunities dont allow everybody to shine out. Take for example a revolutionary who leads a coup to free his country from a cruel, opressive government. You are tempted to think he was better then everybody else, but could he succeed without the support of thousands or millions?! He couldnt, but a leader had to rise and not all could be appointed as leaders or things wouldnt work. What about the millions of nameless heroes who contribute daily for the good of mankind?! And for them thats nothing but their duty.
I think when we praised someone for their good deeds we always forget that their good deeds dont come on its own and are due to other people that tend to be neglected.
If you are thinking about activists, great personalities like Gandhi or Martin Luther King I would point out the irony that if they believed their lives were greater then the rest of the people, they would not have done what they did to improve human society, would they?! And to be fair they didnt achieve what they did without respectively the Indian and the Afro American people support.

When we speak about wars against how often do we remember the ones who fall, sacrificing themselves, or the johny doe who ran to the frontline and with many others fought with teeth and nails to win the battle?! We give them little to no credit at all. Most movies and videogames actually, in a side note, don't do better as they portray these soldiers like rather incompetent or disposable, even silly.

I think its more a need we have to look for role models to look at some people and admire them. Thats my opinion. So to answer kurokami, I dont believe that there are people who have greater lives then the others.

And ok there might be people who are just plain awful and probably deserve to be ignored, but I want to believe they are a minority (sadly a minority that often gets through the filter and climb to privileged places to spread havoc among the society).

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I mean, this planet is [sub]small[/sub]. Compared to every thing else in the universe, its like 1 pixel on a 60' HD television.

It's not that small. It is far far smaller than you can possibly imagine.

The visible universe (what we can see) has a volume of 4.1 x 1034 cubic light years. That's 41,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 light years

The volume of the Earth 260,000,000,000 cubic miles. That's 4.4 x 10-11 light years.
0.000000000044 light years. My calculator just exploded working out that percentage.

Have a nice day.

 

[SloshedUberman]

My epiphany was realizing that god made no sense
So then i became atheist

 

[Eagle Est1986]

Driving home the other day, it finally hit home that I will grow old and die like everyone else.

Even more reason to live life to the fullest. So that you leave somthing awesome behind when you are gone .

Don't get me wrong, the thought didn't really make me feel that sad, it just kinda gave me a kick to the temple and shouted "do something with your life already". It was a nice feeling, in a strange way.