What's the craziest realization you've ever had?

Pa2k

Here's a couple that got me thinking:

You think faster than you think you can think.

History isn't really history, it's just your interpretation of someone else's interpretation.

I’m an adult now and it turns out we are all just as confused as the kids.

"I often try to remember my first moment of consciousness and I believe it was when I was 7. I remember distinctly thinking, "I am here and in control." Everything before that was a blur of random action without thinking of the consequence and not feeling guilt. I didn't care about making friends up until that point either. I would just wander around on my own. Weird."

Sir Arthur Daley

That the world is not round.

xLisaBx

That I'm an atheist

That Longford is in Leinster, man!
Leinster!!

jester77

Pa2k wrote: »

Here's a couple that got me thinking:

You think faster than you think you can think.

History isn't really history, it's just your interpretation of someone else's interpretation.

I’m an adult now and it turns out we are all just as confused as the kids.

"I often try to remember my first moment of consciousness and I believe it was when I was 7. I remember distinctly thinking, "I am here and in control." Everything before that was a blur of random action without thinking of the consequence and not feeling guilt. I didn't care about making friends up until that point either. I would just wander around on my own. Weird."

I got a letter in the post this week with details of my private pension. At the top was my retirement date, 2042. I then thought of all the hours of work there is between now and then.. if I make it that far

Artful_Badger

There is no such thing as free will. We're all just aware of the thought process rather than directing it.

gg2

Not exactly crazy but... My oh and I just turned 30 and 25 respectively. We both finally realised that we should be growing up a bit more and we need to start making plan for the future, we've lived the high life for the best part of 5 years but just realised we'll never have the money for a wedding, house, children plus holidays and a nice life if we don't start "maturing". Was a bit of a kick in thr arse for us both as we've both gone through life not seriously thinking about these things. We've given ourselves 5 years to save and do all of the above.... Wish me luck ye feckers!

hairyprincess

That hair do I just got was crazily expensive

PrzemoF

That life is way too short to do everything I want to do.

Sir Osis of Liver.

That ads are no longer free on Adverts.

Muise...

THOSE WOMEN WERE IN THE NIP!

xLisaBx

Time is but an illusion, created for human convenience

The Backwards Man

That I (and you) will be alive for less than .000000000000000000000000001% of the existence of the planet. Time to mske the most of it eh?

Knex*

That you have to be a little bit mad to be sane.

Muise...

The Backwards Man wrote: »

That I (and you) will be alive for less than .000000000000000000000000001% of the existence of the planet. Time to mske the most of it eh?

You mean the existence of the planet to date, right? Or do you know something about the apocalypse?

When people say "he was going ape-****", it's just a funnier way to say "he was going bananas", because ape - **** presumably smells of bananas.

kneemos

Artful_Badger wrote: »

There is no such thing as free will. We're all just aware of the thought process rather than directing it.

Me and my mind should agree more.

Caliden

The first time I saw an interactive graphic of the identified universe and how absolutely tiny we are. Zoomed out to fit a 21" monitor we aren't even 1 pixel anymore.

I think about it whenever I'm stressed/annoyed/sad and instead of making me feel lonely/insignificant it just makes everything else seem like a drop in an infinitely large ocean.

Even typing that out relaxed me.

The Backwards Man

Muise... wrote: »

You mean the existence of the planet to date, right? Or do you know something about the apocalypse?

To date. It took me all morning to calculate those figures.

Jonny Blaze

You can't please everyone ever..

and sometimes you can't please anyone!

gg2

The Backwards Man wrote: »

To date. It took me all morning to calculate those figures.

How did you know this thread was going to surface????

He has The Gift!

The Backwards Man

gg2 wrote: »

How did you know this thread was going to surface????

He has The Gift!

Na, no gift, I just used the poster above me's illusion of time.

Barely There

That we're either the only intelligent life in the Universe or we aren't.

Either way, it's pretty amazing.

iDave

Those were the droids we were looking for

donegal__road

In a universe of infinite possibilities, we are sitting here posting to this thread on boards, an infinite number of times.

Also, in approx 5 million years, the planet is going to overheat and explode, so nothing really matters, really..

elefant

I once wasted a lot of a weekend in my cousins' house when I was quite young playing some football game on the Sega Mega Drive. I won the world cup with Ireland after many, many attempts.
At the time I wondered why my Irish team was all black lads. I put it down to some strange, overlooked error in the game.....



Years later my mind, for some reason, wandered back to that weekend, and I realised I had been playing as the Ivory Coast.

GenieOz

donegal__road wrote: »

In a universe of infinite possibilities, we are sitting here posting to this thread on boards, an infinite number of times.

Also, in approx 5 million years, the planet is going to overheat and explode, so nothing really matters, really..

Quite easy to justify eating that whole pizza now isn't it

o1s1n

Deleted User wrote: »

When people say "he was going ape-****", it's just a funnier way to say "he was going bananas", because ape - **** presumably smells of bananas.

Mind = blown.

What do bats eat?

donegal__road

GenieOz wrote: »

Quite easy to justify eating that whole pizza now isn't it

there is an infinite number of pizzas out there you know..

Barely There

donegal__road wrote: »

Also, in approx 5 million years, the planet is going to overheat and explode, so nothing really matters, really..

Our future is in the stars.

Muise...

Barely There wrote: »

Our future is in the stars.

MY GOD! IT'S FULL OF STARS!!

Maximus Alexander

Barely There wrote: »

Our future is in the stars.

So is our past, literally. We're made out of supernovae.

Daveysil15

It takes many millions of sperm to fertilise one egg, because they don't stop and ask for directions.

Renegade Mechanic

That you are actually always in the sh*t. Its just the level that varies:(:D

Karl Stein

That there was a glitch in the matrix.

o1s1n

o1s1n wrote: »

Mind = blown.

What do bats eat?

Fruitcake?

Gambas

donegal__road wrote: »

Also, in approx 5 million years, the planet is going to overheat and explode, so nothing really matters, really..

Come out from under the table everyone, it's billion, not million.

Karl Stein

That there was a glitch in the matrix.

Duggy747

That the flying dog in Never Ending Story was actually a dragon.

eamonnq

That it is not possible to know everything.

Pumpkinseeds

That what many people see as community spirit, I see as suffocating small town mentality that stifles creativity and progress.

Jonny Blaze

Karl Stein wrote: »

That there was a glitch in the matrix.

Karl Stein wrote: »

That there was a glitch in the matrix.

I see what you did there!

suffering golfer

I am not as good looking as I think I am

Pa2k

Without light there is no color so at night the trees are black. not green

I Heart Internet

That we all actually exist. Or maybe that I am dreaming all of this. Or that we're all sharing the same dream.

We exist man! Me - the guy in my head, I exist in this huge, huge, huge universe, bigger than I can even fathom.

This thought comes to me every so often and makes my stomach flutter a little. Then I go back to my life.

Pa2k

Boards people didn't realize much!

Adamantium

I don't know how people walk around with little to no imagination.
My imagination is me.

As a previous poster said it was like as kid I was suddenly just became aware or control at 4 years old, and this seemed to wax and wane, drop in and out until I was fully turned on at age 7 or so and still am

Yet its those moments in between that feel like I WAS dreaming and were I was almost downloading instruction manual for the life ahead in terms of what I was reading, watching,hearing. I loved nature and space/dinosaurs as a kid and those memories feel like me at my truest/strongest, even today years later. I still feel like a child when I talk about those things, despite the fact they're other things I love since. Its a pure, good sort of feeling



Faith is believing despite all the evidence to the contary. Saying I believe despite the fact there is ZERO proof. I'm ok with that, if people are honest and keep it private, but realise how tenuous it is.


Hope is the more true, useful, necessary form of the emotion. I hate how people have perverted the use of the word "hope" as well.

Call Me Jimmy

Artful_Badger wrote: »

There is no such thing as free will. We're all just aware of the thought process rather than directing it.

I spend half my time thinking this and the other half thinking that we are not directing the thought processes in the present but we can influence the future ones. It's a toughie alright.

The Diabolical Monocle

Knex. wrote: »

That you have to be a little bit mad to be sane.

Yeah, I suppose we're never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.

Call Me Jimmy

Yea so what we up to tonight on the crazy front? I'm browzin' couple more minutes and then getting an early night meself

The Diabolical Monocle

That insects are born, eat, sht, breath, mate, fight, seek out food, operate in a little society, die.

They may even be top of the local food chain. King of their environment.

And they can do this in some distant jungle without ever encountering a human.


Or may even encounter a human yet they're several levels of cognition below ever recognizing or perceiving what it is.