QotD
"This notion religion has of humans as the be-all end-all of
the universe is as immature and self-absorbed as a baby who feels
itself to be the center of existence. We're still in the baby stage,
we humans. Probably the vast majority of us. Everything revolves
around us, it's all for us. Aren't we just so special.
"I wonder how long it'll take us to grow out of this illusion
of central position."
-- JohnB
2008-06-18
"Well if it took humanity 200,000 years to mature to the age
of a two-year-old, then we can conclude that one humanity year is
roughly 100,000 person years. So it'll be another 1,600,000 to
1,900,000 years before humanity as a whole reaches anything like
an adult level of empathy and impulse control, and we will have to
wait until humanity has been existence 2,500,000 years before our
cosmic car insurance rates go down."
-- ndt,
2008-06-18 (replying to above)