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[quote=Anonymous]Think about the fact that you are only here because of the people who survived being born, childhood, into adulthood. Think about the fact that this really, really does go back thousands, and tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands, years back, and then even further to pre-modern humans, further back to pre-hominid forebears, further and further to weird gloppy creatures oozing over mud flats or in oceans, and even further back. Think about ALL the organisms that had to survive long enough to reproduce so you could be here, and what they experienced and endured. It's mind blowing. Ancestors of yours survived plagues, famines, battles, didn't fall into holes in the ground into deep caves, didn't get sacrificed for religious purposes, didn't end up with a festering infection from a minor wound, didn't get lost as a child never to be found by anyone, didn't drown while fishing from a dugout. Seriously, how damned lucky are we??!!

To digress: if we get to see everyone when we die and go to heaven, does that mean we get to meet Lucy and also our yeast cousins? That would be one wild reunion. [/quote]

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