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Old 01-18-2017, 12:09 PM   #42549 (permalink)
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To give an example

We can derive that we are tiny in comparison to the cosmos. An Unfathomable level of tiny. And we are around for an equally Unfathomable small amount of time.

From one perspective this must mean we are insignificant. But science does not tell us that we apply a human perspective of significance to the situation.

The Eastern way of looking at things would not understand such a perspective because they do not see humans as separate from the universe itself indeed from their perspective we are the universe experiencing itself
But... science doesn't tell us we're separate from the universe. Quite the opposite, since being separate is more of a Western religious concept.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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