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* I'm just posting it here because I don't know where else it fits, but here I go. Why are there people find us being just a small part of something much larger...''terrifying?'' Being an extremely narrow minded person, I don't understand those kind of people; we can't (correct me if I'm wrong) even correctly understand every minute things that happens around us (I mean, for the love of god, we don't even know how consciousness work) and they are worried about ''what?''

** That we're a tiny, tiny, ''tiny'' part of something incomprehensibly large scares a lot of people because it challenges their worldview. Think about it: all of the major religions (or most, anyway) try to explain how Earth got there, its relationship with the sky, and what humans need to do to survive. Basically, religion teaches that humans are major players in the universe, just a step or two below the gods (or just one god), and basically only applies to humans. Religion says nothing about the vast amount of stars and galaxies and the possibility of other life-supporting planets; that all came MUCH later than most religions, and not without a considerable fight.