Death

Why so SERIOUS!?!?!?!?!

When I was in the military I volunteered to work for our bases honor guard. I worked with around 30 other soldiers. It was a very difficult job involving many funerals. Because the job involved so much death, every single other member of the group prayed many times a day in groups/circles.

I was basically an outcast from that group because I let it be known that prayer was shown to do absolutely nothing when tested with experiments. People treated me as if I was an evil person. Polite but ever so cautious and distant.

I never realized how scared and unsure people are of death before this time. You see what I really saw was not that people cried for the deceased, they cried for themselves knowing they too would be guaranteed to die as well. They cried because we humans live a short life and a very short time in comparison to the minimum estimates for the age of the Universe. We realized there was so much time that was passed before we first existed that we have missed out on. But even worse, we realize there might be a lot more time that happens after we die that we will miss out on.

Basically we get fucked with a mere 100 years if we are very lucky. 100 years is 100 rotations of our planet (Earth) around our Star (Sun).
100 years and then complete memory failure, followed by total memory loss with a 0.0 percentage chance of recovery. Little fucking primates spinning around on a planet that is rotating on it's axis at 1,040.4 mi/h, is moving around the sun at 18.5 miles/sec. Of Course the Sun we are attached to itself is moving around in our galaxy at a speed of 155 miles/sec so that means the Earth is also. AND of course lets not forget about the fact that our entire Galaxy is itself moving throughout the Universe at a speed of 185 miles/sec. And our little galaxy lives in a tribe of other galaxies. 30 of them to be correct. 30 galaxies sticking together they form something called the Local Group. This group is moving at a speed of 540,000 mph.

AND of course our little group of galaxies called the local group belongs to something called the Local Supercluster. The Local Supercluster that we are a part of contains our little group plus about 99 other groups. This Local Supercluster is moving at a speed of 1,570,000 mph towards a gravity anomaly that is called "The great Attractor". Something that is pulling the shit out of super clusters towards it. Trillions upon Trillions of stars heading towards a giant fucking gravity well at ridiculous speeds, but you are going to have a conversation with the supreme being about a rotting decaying corpse being put into the ground?

It eventually goes on to where super clusters form giant walls, or sometimes called sheets. Until you pull back far enough and we see what is known as "End of Greatness" where everything just looks homogenized and mixed together. But keep praying for comfort regarding compost.

The curious thing is the size of our Universe is rarely associated with the estimated age. The Age is estimated to be 13.4 Billion years. But that does not mean we see for 13.4 Billion years when we look through our most powerful telescopes. Indeed if we look North or South from the Earth we can see for a Minimum of 45 Billion light years in either direction.