Explain to me the secrets of Calculus

I will not take a Calculus class, but I know it contains a multitude of mind opening secrets, creating a sort of enlightenment wherein your perspective of the world and everything you know changes, but like a psychedelic drug, you can never describe it unless you make someone else go through it.  I refuse to go through the experience, but try to explain to me, a mere mortal, what these mind opening secrets and changed perceptions are.

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Coffee cups just don't equal donuts, no matter how you look at them.

Topology freaks me out 0_o


anyway, to answer OP's request, no.

For God's sake, learn calculus, even if you just do basic differentiation and integration along with a few applications of both, you really understand where a huge amount of knowledge can be calculate mathematically.