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Feeling anxious? It's not just you, it's our philosophical era of neuroexistentialism.
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Being agnostics or atheists, I think a lot of us have dealt with this.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.As a geologist, archaeologist and paleontologist by training, I've never thought of humans as anything exceptional. We evolved a complex neural capacity that allows us to think abstractly.
The eagle can see a small object a mile away, the cheetah has speed. They adapted to fit the requisite requirements of their environment, as have we. We can go extinct just as easy as they can.
Why is so important for humans to need to feel that we are special? I teach science and I would be incredibly remiss if i taught that. We are just another organism in a very long chain of organisms, and will go the way of many organisms.
t1nick
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Varn:
“As a geologist, archaeologist and paleontologist” damn - New Mexico.. I’d love to tag along.. But am becoming anchored to Virginia’s blue ridge 
...naturally agree with the rest, but man, those credentials are ..magnificent ~
True. And I understand that. It's just that people seem to need meaning, and suffer unnecessarily when they don't have it.
@tnorman1236. Agreed
Seems to be so much pressure from every angle.
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