What hurts your brain, scientifically/philosophically/theologically?

Just thinking about the Universe (stars, black holes, infinity, darkness) trips me out. Then again, I love it!

Five years of engineering school…lots of subjects made my brain hurt. lol

What hurts my brain? Thank you for asking. The Laws of War hurt my brain, among other the many other things it hurts. That humans have spent countless hours meeting, in conference, writing treaties and conventions outlining, making laws and rules, codifying how civilized people go about slaughtering one another in a civilized fashion. That hurts my brain, yes it does. It really does.

I literally get headaches when I try to understand all the fools on this planet. Racism, sexism, fighting over a drawing over an old ass human…...it’s all asinine. Do religious conservatives in power not realize that what they are doing to the homosexual community is not very different from what happened during the civil rights movement? Of all the things we should be concentrating on, people are wasting time and effort trying to keep things in the past when we should be progressing.

Raving ideologues who accuse all who fail to walk in absolute lockstep with their every utterance of being closed minded and obviously blind to the truth.

As Draconess touched on, the universe. The earth is nothing in comparison to our sun. Which is in turn nothing compared to other stars. And yet there are over 100 BILLION stars in just our galaxy. Which is part of this universe containing something like 170 BILLION other galaxies. I and everything I know is truly nothing in the grand scheme of things.

The fact that if you were on the south pole with a giant drill, and drilled down, in actual spacial relativity, you’d be drilling up. We are so tiny that depending where you are on the planet, down can be up.

Also, this, this, and last, but not least, this.

Ahh, fascinating stuff!

That everyone and everything is made out of the exact same thing. I am made from Atoms, wood is made from atoms, the stars, my blanket… Everything looks and feels so differently but everything is all just atoms.

Adviata Vedanta…non-duality, far more brain strain than mere emptyness! lol

Material concepts in ancient philosophy took some serious digestion time, being totally alien to the stuff that we’re raised with. More generally, spending too much time mulling over the ramifications of infinity can shut the ol’ thinker down.

Free will.

Infinity.

Nothingness.

20,000 men, women and children starve to death every single day of the year, which means with every breath you and I take some one else just took their last one.

So much! Time travel and the resulting paradoxes. That Utopia could exist but for that old bugger, human nature. (I was massively depressed when I finally figured that one out.) The fact that I can type this, here, and you can read it, there. That one tiny egg and an even tinier sperm together have all of the information necessary to make a complex human being.

why first bothered me more than the how…. now its the lack of questions that bothers me…and the strain to accept that math is a part of science even though its a totaly different subject in school.

Life. Realistically I am past the halfway point in my life of functional living and knowing that gives me a monster brain cramp. So much to do and so little time….

Astrophysics: black holes, quantum mechanics, string theory, nucleosynthesis, quarks, gluons…..... boggles my mind.

The ignorance that interprets the simplicity of life.

@Cruiser

Here, here….you are in your PRIME….!!! :-)

I don’t know what ‘they’ say about middle aged guy’s…but ya know….a woman in her prime could kill a man! lolololol

@Coloma You may be right about a woman in her prime KSA but if I knew a fraction of what I know now in my 20’s and 30’s it would be no contest. ;))

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The fact that the Catholic Church would rather let a woman die than have an abortion to save her life.

Things that are very small or very large. Which is to say, quantum mechanics and relativity.

The mathematical concept of infinity—particularly the different “levels” of infinity—also makes my brain hurt.

When I think about infinity—either space or time—I get upset and feel oddly sick to my stomach. We human beings live finite existences; our lives have beginnings and endings, and every tangible thing—even the atmosphere and the oceans—is contained. Infinity is too much for me to ponder.

Human nature, the human race!