Why is Learning Astronomy a Character-Building Experience?
Hi, dear Steemians!
Men of considerable wisdom and venerable esteem have often talked about the beauty and magnificence of learning astronomy and how it can be a humbling experience for those who embark upon the journey.
Why is learning astronomy a character-building experience?
“There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming.
And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.” – Carl Sagan
When we seek the knowledge held in the sky and the infinity of the deep and dark space, we begin to realize how small and insignificant we are, compared to the vastness of the existence.
Galaxies are born, and within them hundreds of millions of stars shine against the blackness that engulfs them. Stars live and die by the millions, and every atom of this infinity tells stories of how wonderful and unlikely the whole of universe and creation is.
All the while this pestilent creature in existence capable of will and thought looks out to the skies in the middle of a calm and peaceful night, and thinks about his place among these bright stars.
When we see the world and life from a larger scale, that of a distant dying star, so far away that the Earth looks like a speck of dust, we begin to realize how unimportant and ludicrous our difficulties seem compared to the greatness of existence.
Every struggle, every fight, every compulsion to hate or hurt, every motivation to have power upon people, every urge to inflict cruelty and cowardice unto others, and every blissful and toxic relationship or experience of any kind appears to be insignificant from that vantage point.
If you saw your life through the space time continuum and realized how limited your chance is to live for a while, and how momentary your life is compared to the age of the universe, would you still be eager or fervent to make the same mistakes that you have always made? Or hurt other people to meet your own ends?
No, studying the deep and endless space will only bring one thing out of you; the humility to understand the value of life and live every moment as best as you possibly can.
Our pride, insecurity, hatred, and prejudice all seem to disappear when we embrace the humility that comes with seeking the knowledge of the stars and studying them to understand the truths of existence.
You do not have to be a scientist to consider learning about the stars and our universe.
The Earth, as complicated and vast as it might seem from here, is nothing compared to the infinity of the universe.
Learning about our universe can greatly affect your outlook on life and give you perspective beyond anything you can imagine.
Let us give ourselves a chance to speculate about our place in the endless cosmos!
A BIG HUG!
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I am not exactly sure why "min-maxing" seems to have a negative connotation to you, or you feel the need to call it "optimizing", but the term min-maxing literally comes from minimizing some aspect that you don't care about to maximize an aspect that you do, which is exactly what you're doing here (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially in a computer game). Some people take issue to it in a role-playing game because the character is unrealistic in a world-view sense. Every fighter having a 8 intelligence and a 21 strength isn't very realistic and makes some people groan. However if you want to be the most effective fighter, that's likely how you're going to build them. Those that are opposed to min-maxing are also opposed to always making the most effective character. Min Maxing taken to extremes is something that's generally done in games that have a flaw system or some way to get more points, where you take any negative thing you can that won't have much impact to get better at the thing that you care about most on the character. For example, "I'll take color blind, no sense of smell, paranoia so I can get another +1 to hit and damage with my sword". In pathfinder your options are to tank certain stats you don't care about to maximize stats you do, and then select feats and class abilities that continue to further whatever your maximizing, and that is the definition of min-maxing.
very good friend, keep it up!
i agree that Character-Building Experience can be found by learning about universe as it majestic compared to us, it's a realization about who we are within the universe mades we conscious of how precious our life is.
sadly.
in the present, the character building experience for people in this modern era mostly determined by how theirs social media's interact within smartphones, worried about how the crowd react to his/her thought by comparing how many 'likes' we have everyday.... never to realise how short our lives compare to time within cosmic calendar by try to pleased everyone but not improving ourselves.
yeah, good point. I guess we are mostly living in bubbles
Well Yeah I Agree with that thought. Its sometime improving ourselves really matter.
Yes. Life is short!
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Oh yes @chbartist, the study of the cosmos and the universe has always been interesting to mankind, because the stars attract us and our imagination. We are always trying to aspire to the stars, to understand the nature of the universe and our place in it, which makes us strive for something and achieve certain goals. Understanding the universe and our place in it can be a great motivation for action!
Great post thanks for writing this. I think we are getting close to knowing the value of life. We may be so small but worth so much.
You are right. We all look at the starry sky more often to remember that life is a moment and you don’t have to spend it on evil. Thank you for sharing
Learning astronomy is a character-building experience because we could compare and analyze it in our own character and experience in life.
Sometimes we think we're superior to others and tends to be boastful that lead us to pride.
We could not see how small we are compared to others because our eyes are covered by ignorance.
We are limited and we couldn't know everything, and so we must be cautious in dealing ourselves and to others.
Remember, when we die, we become dust and soon will be forgotten, unless we've done our best to love and serve for others that will make them remember us for all eternity.
I totally agree with you. Cosmos is something amazing ... The giant flywheel of our life is aimed at self-maintenance; we all run aimlessly on the squirrel wheel of our civilization. We have no time to raise our heads, look at the stars, think about the eternal ... Only space gives our flat life a new dimension; only the starry sky allows us to take our eyes off the earth and direct them into the distance. To understand how unstable that we don’t have to waste time on wars and evil, that there’s very little time for us
All people have mixed feelings when they peer into a starry sky on a clear night. All the problems of an ordinary person begin to be seen as insignificant, and everyone begins to think about the meaning of their existence. Then the worldview changes and people become different.
but do they? I would actually question this. I think we become different for a period of time, but by tomorrow when the next bill comes we forget about this experience. Why?
We must look more often at the starry sky. To think about the eternal and be kinder to each other, no matter what bill is published
The size of the universe always gets me...
To think that from a certain perspective (in this case a deep-field image in space from a telescope) all points of light are not stars but galaxies is truly a humbling experience.
The mind can literally not imagine this vastness, this infinity.
So the question I would have is why humans even after having such an insight are still so closed-minded.
Great sense resounds in every word of this article. I will like to chip in this: "No matter what humans do during their stay on Earth, they can never stop TIME" This serves as a reminder that we should embrace every moment of our lives like it is our last. Nobody is invincible. We all should do right always so that the world can be a safe Haven for every soul. I join @chbartist in giving you all a BIG HUG.