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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
we are all individually distinct in so many ways.
No one has ever had the same set of atoms as another human. No one has ever had the same set of thoughts. No one, not even identical twins raised exactly the same have the same set of inner and outer experiences.
we are all individually ORIGINAL, from our atomic make-up, to our genetic structure, to our experiences.
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nah. this is just post christianity. we cant say god created us but we're all 'individual' - distinctly created. we're all special snowflakes!
guess what, the last time you drank liquid you were drinking molecules that were once millions and millions of different now dead people.
your dna is a bunch of recycled junk and i have shitloads of it in common. you and i are AT LEAST 1/100th cousins as is every human on the planet. you're straining to preserve the vestiges of your dying religion in a disavowed secular form, but its not universal and hopefully less and less people are interested. as far as im concerned christianities only redeeming feature is laying the foundations for science. lets stop trying to mangle science with all these smuggled christian assumptions - it can only be holding us back.
everything you do in life, from the people you meet, the places you go, the things your body is programmed to do by its dna, all of it has very little to do with some sort of individual essence you have. its all externalities working through you. you are inside a world you did not create. your thoughts are memes and sense impressions and ego patterns that all come from the outside. you can pretend that your desperate reactions to things outside of your control and your grabbing onto any possible scrap of sustenance and safety constitutes an 'individuality' but it doesnt really.
everything that makes you feel unique is just the outlines of the cage you and all the other individuals are trapped in, which is the same for everyone. post christians seem to hold onto some hope that either sharing or speaking about or trying to commodify or consume this experience can some how allow people to 'connect' but it won't. we are all stranded islands and the most you ever get is glances at passing ships you will never truly know.