Hey everybody I hope you're enjoying your Thanksgiving weekend here in the United States.

I just wanted to express my gratitude for all of you for coming along in this audio extra

with me the past few years of pandemic podcasting and give you what's commonly called an

in-between episode in the biz. Just a little tidbit to slake your thirst or wet your appetite on this Thanksgiving holiday here in the US.

Just some meditations on gratitude on meaning and the biggest picture

existential questions of all. Hope you'll enjoy it. Let me know what you think. And to all

of you out there, wherever you are, know that I'm grateful and thankful for you being a part of

this into the impossible mission. Now let's go into the impossible.

So let's talk about so-called cosmic insignificance theory. This is a notion

promulgated in bucks such as 4,000 weeks, which postulates that the human existence is so inconsequential and insignificant in the grand sweep of the universe that there is essentially nothing to get upset about.

And it's taken to its extreme, and by the way it's been promulgated by people like Tim Ferris and Neil degrass Tyson

to some extent almost every secular thinker including those names and people like Scott Galloway who's put forth a similar sort of

claim that he gets solace and comfort from his atheism that knowing that there is

no from his atheism that knowing that there is no existence beyond this realm gives

him comfort and that he says when he'll look at his kids eyes on his deathbed

he'll replay all his memories and somehow it's not quite clear he

claims that will give him great comfort and I would just like to question

these thinkers all of whom I respect and listen to, that the notion that somehow

your physical size or your lifespan gives you an added measure of significance that even such a thing is necessary

that you need to have you know kind of multi-sigma deviations from some standard is kind

of ludicrous in my mind.

And that what first of all defines size,

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