#i need to stop microediting this im JHBKNM

[gerrydelano]

Do you think time is a part of the vast? We can't imagine eternity or even long stretches of time, the most maybe a few thousand years. The rest just becomes imcomprehensible. How there was so much before us and so much will be after us and in the grand scheme of things we are completely insignificant again. And honestly I am terrified of the concept of immortality.

it for sure gets utilized by the vast! but i definitely like looking at this sort of thing as kind of an example of the fears taking advantage of a tool we unwittingly gave them in our attempts to understand the world around us, and fight back against the press of their influence. less something that was already innately in place and more something that we created in response to it, and never really had control over in the first place. we like to bite off a lot more than we can chew.

because “time” is generally just a measure of our position in space/an overall totally relative human construct. it’s mostly our attempt at understanding all that empty space/making things Matter, which Yeah, absolutely Vast at its core, but also lends to plenty of overlap with the other ones, too. all of them play around with it but the vast, the buried, the spiral, the web, and the end especially are all out here like, “haha nice job idiot.” 

so we did some of the work for them by creating that sort of framework. all we managed to do was heighten our own awareness of its magnitude and we still can’t comprehend it all. now we have a baseline of comparison to highlight the gravity of what we’re facing when they decide to fuck around! 

human beings: i think there are hours in a day the entities: