I agree, Jim. The unspoken premise that bigger is better or more important simply isn't true. Would we humans feel more important if we occupied an additional hair's width on the timeline? I certainly wouldn't. That's the thing about being finite creatures in an infinite universe. No matter how big you are, you're still finite, and finite always looks puny compared to the infinite. But our physical presence isn't the whole story. It's what we are that counts, not how much space we take up. Otherwise you'd have to say that our houses matter more than we do, and people are less significant than large boulders. The good Dr. Seuss had it right: a person's a person no matter how small.
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