Posted by Partlycloudy on October 30, 2013, at 15:27:44
In reply to Re: Thinking we are special » Partlycloudy, posted by SLS on October 30, 2013, at 15:07:13
> Hi PC.
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> How do you define the word "special". I really don't understand your usage of this word.Special means we don't need to be treated differently. We are genetically the same just about, to all the other people on this earth. It means that I gain nothing to be thought of as special, or to think of myself as special. I am a human.
And at the same time, we have these egos who demand that we are different. Of course we are!! We've been neglected, we've been mistreated, we've been traumatised! And there are a lot of people who go through these events unscathed. There are those who emerge scarred, unable to cope without help.
It's our egos who demand that we be told we are special.
But we are not special because of that.
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> I think that it would be difficult to argue that each human being is not a unique individual. Most pertinent is the fact that individual brains are biologically different, not to be replicated anywhere else on Earth - whether as a product of genetics or the epigenetics that result from the exposure to different environmental conditions. Having said that, I don't know how special any one of us is since we are all unique. How can anyone be special if they are no more unique than anyone else. I tend to enjoy the thought that there is something intrinisically special about being unique.
>Are we not genetically almost identical to almost all the other people in this world? Experience shapes us, Scott. But at the core, we are more similar than we are different.
I take great comfort in that.
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> - ScottPC
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