Why does my brain almost physically hurt when I try to contemplate something that I know to be true, but is unfathomable none-the-less?

Or like trying to think of you grandparents, and your great grandparents, and you great-great grandparents…..after about the great-great-great-great grandparent I get dizzy!

Our brains evolved to understand a particular scale. Understanding large numbers, such as stars in our galaxy, the size the universe, or the number of organisms in our intestine would have served no evolutionary advantage.

Because, despite all the cars and Iphones, you are still apes.

@ragingloli You? Not WE??
But that does explain why most people can’t drive worth a crap.

Probably we should wonder about the people, and their brains, who aren’t perplexed by those things.

I don’t know anyone who isn’t perplexed.

When I was going through that awful, shitty time with my idiot,shitty boss, I just kept telling myself, “She is nothing more than a big monkey, making shit up.”

Because real epiphanies are painful nasty things.