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Phillip McCleod

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48. lots of religions *do* have end of world ideas.

Thu May 2, 2013, 09:31 PM

May 2013

it's natural in ignorance to project one's archetypes onto the cosmos. the world was flat because *we* were 'flat'. the cosmos must die because *we* die..

..as above, so below.

WRONG.

not to anthropomorphize too much, but 'nature' is more creative than that.. the behavior of the extremely small is so different from that of the larger-than-a-half-atom that we still need two different theories to explain them both adequately.

..doesn't change our collective yearning for an ultimate theory of everything, which 'unifies' the utterly utterly complicated.

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