People Online List 30 Mind-Blowing Facts That Completely Changed The Way They See The World

I've held onto this image for close to 20 years. pale-blue-...da82e6.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnOdQ5WNZJk&t=1580s (A beautiful presentation of the Sagan quote with gorgeous music. Starts from the part with the quote, but I highly recommend listening to the whole thing!)

Everyone should read that

I wholly agree. There is one particular video "The best speech about humanity- Carl Sagan" a must watch

The "Pale Blue Dot" was also the final image taken by Voyager 1. After it was sent, commands were given to purge it's systems of all imaging software and shut down the camera forever in order to conserve dwindling power.

Actually, I think it's the opposite. If they are imagining your pain while not being able to relate to it (goldfish example), they are just being sympathetic. When they can actually put themselves in your place and feel to some extent what you are feeling (dog dying), that's empathy. This is a false statement: "True empathy means acknowledging and valueing emotions, even when you do not understand them." Definition empathy: "Empathy is the ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of view, and imagine yourself in their place. Essentially, it is putting yourself in someone else's position and feeling what they are feeling." If you can't imagine being super upset by a goldfish dying, then you won't be able to empathize, even if you can intellectually or sympathetically understand that other people can feel things that you wouldn't.

The downside is that people who regularly experience true empathy often find themselves extremely emotionally overwhelmed. Sympathy, and the ability to calibrate our response to the plight of others, is what allows us to maintain some sort of emotional stability. One who is themselves overwhelmed, cannot very well care for another person in the same state.

This is no quite right. Empahty is fundamentally relating to the human emotion regardless of experience. I have never had a dog but feel the fundamental loss and sadness of someone who loses one. People lack empahty (as the post implies) when they decide not to share the fundamental feeling of loss when they deem the loss unimportant to them. Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone with no fundamental connection, like the "sucks to be them" feeling, but there is a disconnect. Empathy often creates an action response, like a hug or a feelng of injustice. With sympathy you keep eating.

My empathy scope is very small I think everyone is different

I think they just misunderstood how rare true empathy is in humans. It's the same with unconditional love, a lot of people get it from someone so they don't realize how rare it is.

...and this is why bears are often hanging outside your door by the porch light yum-moths-...7d-png.jpg

I really don't like moths (and a large amount of people), can I adopt a grizzly bear?

That is the most teddyest of bears I have ever seen. The urge to run and hug it is strong. I fear I know how I will die now.

I wanna squishu-mushu-wushu my whole face on that tummy..... Oh! The bliss before a very gory death... Every bit worth-it!!

now my favorite animal

This is incorrect. While originally the classification was only for members of the Panthera family with something special about the throat bone (I can't remember what, but I'm sure you could look it up), meaning they could 'roar'. The original list only contained 4 cats; Lion, Tiger, Leopards, & Jaguar. However, as things progress and we learn new things (such as the snow leopard being a different species from Leopards), the list changes. The current list of big cats now consists of 7 members of the cat family. Lions, tigers, Leopard, snow leopard, Jaguar, Cougar, and Cheetah.

They get bullied constantly in the wild. I watched a documentary about them and it really changed my perception of this animal.

They meow and purr. Hard to not think that's precious, no matter how intimidating their stature.

For those who are interested; how to tell is that small cats can’t roar, big cats can’t purr.

They have dog paws.

Can't think of billionaires without thinking about all the people who could benefit from their taxes if only politicians had any balls to crack down on them.

The meaning of a billion always confuses me, because in school I was taught a billion = a million million (1,000,000,000,000), but in the US and calculating finance a billion = a thousand million (1,000,000,000). So which billion are we counting to in the above?

And a trillion seconds is 31,709.79 years...

If you spent $86,400 a day, it would take 31.5 years to spend a billion.

The goverments of the world don't realize for $1000000000000 I can buy your military from out under you and take all the bases and equipment with them then just take the country, because most people in the military will take less then 3x thier pay to flip to my side.

That is very confusing - parthenogenesis usually is female all the way down

Still the picture clearly shows a male turkey. No eggs from this specimen at all.