Posted by Michael83 on December 13, 2006, at 22:14:13
In reply to Re: I need to stop reading Wikipedia..., posted by Meri-Tuuli on December 13, 2006, at 12:02:16
Thoughts like that are the ones that used to really scare me.
But what makes the 1000 year seem more thought-provoking than the 4 billion, is that I cannot really relate to the 4 billion, but these people who lived 1000 years ago seemed like they lived not that long ago. They may have ate with forks and lived in houses shaped the same as the ones we live in today, yet it was still over a 1000 years ago. That's sort of what hits the "wow" hotspot. I can relate to them.
But yeah I've spent my time reading about space and the "billions of years" and "lightyear" business and reading about the incredibly large starts and galaxies far away. Nothing will quite disconnect you from reality that reading that stuff. Scary. I really really really tend to avoid reading anything to do with outerspace, or anything pre-homosapien. It's just too frightening for me.
But the Middle Ages I've always been fascinated with. It's "safe" enough for me that I can read it (for the most part) without totally freaking out every time. =)
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