Deep Thoughts part I

[evil_puffball]

There was something written in my girlfriend’s astronomy textbook that didn’t strike me as being very profound when I first heard it, but has since been floating back up into my conscious thoughts. “There is no place in the universe that is any more important or significant than another place - there are no special places in the universe.” I

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[boshjowman]

I know this goes against the American ideal of Rugged Individualism, but...

Do we have to be that different and special? Are we really separate from our surroundings? Or is the division between ourselves and everything else simply a mental concept that helps us view the world?