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I grew up a Jehovah's Witness and disabled. I constantly heard how once the "new system" came by disability would be healed. My grandmother would constantly talk about how terrible everything is from all the "worldly people". My parents divorced when I was a teenager. They quickly shunned my mother and us. Then again after our grandmothers death (who went to the church.. religiously), we heard nothing from them. They don't care about anyone but themselves.
Anyway, once I started Earth Science in high school and learned how old everything really is, how large space is and how truly small and insignificant we are to the universe. It put it all into perspective and now I'm pretty much an Atheist. I know I don't truly know what is out there, or who created us. But I know it wasn't some dude that did it just to set us up to fail. So why should I have any belief in that?
Sorry about that. Did you see the latest kurzgesagt video about us possibly living in a black hole?
I have now! Thanks for the recommendation. That's pretty crazy to think about.
Also if you haven't yet, be sure to check out quantum mechanics. Personally I enjoy the Everett interpretation.
Funny thing, I've been saying for decades that "space expansion" would be effectively undistinguishable from "particle contraction", so falling into a black hole and getting crushed/compressed by it, would look like... the universe we see, with the singularity being somewhere around the Planck's length, several orders of magnitude down from where we are (assuming Plank's length would remain constant).