• Maeve
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    228 months ago

    We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.

    Joni Mitchell

  • MF_COOM [he/him]
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    228 months ago

    Wait till this person finds out about basically every other element they’re made of

    • @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      98 months ago

      This made me look up what the actual ratios of elemental composition in the human body are, and I learned we’re 67% oxygen by atomic mass, which makes sense, with only 9.5% hydrogen, but I still find that idea that we’re mostly oxygen oddly upsetting.

  • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    198 months ago

    dont tell emos that there is a dead star inside them, they are already having a difficult time as is

  • Windows_Error_Noises
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    158 months ago

    Shit, dude. My iron was at 2 after my last blood test. They keep pumping me full of star stuff–pow, straight in the veins–and I just keep burning through it. Why, stars, why! Why does thou forsake me! I am very tired, stars.

  • @Num10ck@lemmy.world
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    58 months ago

    i remember hearing that this was an ancient native american lesson long before it was understood by science. how they could have known this? are they a remnant of a previously more developed society?

    • Øπ3ŕ
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      138 months ago

      Tell Lemmy you’re high as balls without saying you’re high as balls.

    • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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      108 months ago

      They probably meant something entirely different - as in not so much that we are literally made of elemental materials forged in a burning sphere in space (a “reductionist” viewpoint) but rather than we contain an “aspect” of star-stuff, i.e. we may be animals that come from the earth, but we also contain within us an aspect of even the stars (more “holistic”?).

      And perhaps beyond, if you believe that aspects of our Minds transcend physical reality itself - e.g. if we were a computer game but like, we could have been talking butterflies rather than talking apes, yet we were modelled after a “higher” world, to have five fingers on each hand and to be able to write our own stories, even make our own computer simulations “below” us.

      Anyway there is no need to presume that they would have meant it in such an extremely literal manner as is common today.