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Q:What is your favorite fact about the Universe?

A:That is will never end. That it's on a one way trip of expansion. Something that many find to be philosophically unsettling. My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

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That's nice and all, but most humans in the world (including the western world) don't have the luxury of being able to let themselves be unsettled daily :/

Most of them could have this luxury. They pick other luxuries first.

Which is, in my view, a mistake. Those who seek out challenge tend to end up with a lot more luxury than those who don't.

This is probably a privileged viewpoint which is only possible in certain cases, i'm guessing (i'm not saying that you or me are privileged, necessarily...just that it's still a 'luxury' to some extent)

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