First it was The Solar System that revolved around the Earth, now it is The Universe that centers around ....?

Question

humanity; when will we finally stop being so full of ourselves?

Answer 1

I've never been so full of myself - perhaps that's the "problem".

Answer 2

What fools we mortals be. Such pomposity. We consider ourselves superior to all creatures. What would happen to the (weak) ego, if we didn't claim to be the center of everything? I wish I could remember how very long ago it was, that an astronomer was almost executed by the church by proclaiming that the SUN & not the EARTH was the center of the solar system. Because this implied God had placed mankind somewhere "other" than at the center of his universe! What arrogance. I honestly don't believe people will ever stop being "full of themselves." It is their scaffolding. What a wonderful fantasy, if further evolved, & benign aliens decided they needed to shake us out of our stupor?

Edit: I'm compelled to say that looking at the answers, I was delighted with shahbarak & his wisdom--yet again.

Answer 3

I love what Emerson said about those of us (not me!) who are "full of ourselves'. "Get your bloated sense of self out of the way!" I may be paraphrasing a bit. :)

There is a mysterious 'quality' that keeps us feeling pretty much at the center of things, no doubt.

The questions we form here on Y/A and the answers, too, come from this same curious place...wanting to know, to relate, to be at the center of something wonderful. When a great question comes up, we all jump right in the middle!

Unless we give up in deep depression, drugs or die, we keep driving to be FULL and satisfied.

Answer 4

That's the question of the decade!
Even the scientists who claim to be objective and rational, yadda yadda, et al. place human beings as the greatest of all possible creatures, at the top of the evolutionary chain of being... after they were supposed to be breaking humanity free from the chains of dogmatic Western religious biases and ignorant local folk beliefs and traditions...
Ha!
So we went from being the point of the creation vis-a-vis YHVH, to Descartes, to Manifest Destiny, to Globalization... to being the center of "an ever expanding universe" vis-a-vis neo-darwinian, anti-religion dogma, dogmatists of the SCIENTISM route.
When will we stop being so full of ourselves?... some of us already have... the rest just have to wake up to realization...
Finally, tell those people who believe "it is in our nature" that they are full of @#$%^&*!
There's no such thing as [human nature]!!!

Answer 5

Perish the thought. I hope you will always be full of yourself, it's about time. So many are so full of somebody else. From your perspective the universe does revolve around you, you have to be clear about that. Do you realize that teleologically without you the universe would collapse like a ballon with a pin hole in it, no explode? It would start a chain reaction. Please, keep up your end of the bargain. Socially it probably has truth to it also. With so many sagging I'm getting worried.

Answer 6

Oh, if only! But we're incredibly slow, aren't we. Why do we even suppose there is a centre to anything at all. When I was about 12, learning basic nuclear physics with atoms etc, it occurred to me that everything was a model of everything else (atom/universe/relationships). A little while later I decided the problem was that we only ever see anything in models (I suppose we'd call them constructs now). And once a set of models is learned we project them onto everything we can in order to feel we comprehend it. Of course my science teacher was appalled at my wasting time with such questions and gave me a good caning. Such is education. No wonder we remain at the eyepiece of the kaleidescope and learn little from it.

Answer 7

thought.

Humanity in of itself is what it is, full of itself. It is so powerful and purposeful that it can not separate itself from the Ego or Id, and until it does than it will not understand that it humans do nothing of themselves without the ideal and direction of the Supreme Being....but the belief that it is the ego and id, keeps the searching in a viscous circle of self defeatism

Answer 8

The narcissim will stop when we discover a transmitter on the back of a astroid, a repeater, that is sending a narrow signal to the center of this galaxy, to those who know us, but of whom we know little.

Answer 9

Curiously enough, according to Newton and Einstein, any reference frame you can draw is EQUALLY valid.

It is just as true to say that a car passes you at fifty miles an hour as it is to say that you pass the car at fifty miles an hour in reverse. In physics, the two situations have the exact same consequences and describe the exact same events.

So the only advantage to describing the Earth as rotating around the Sun is that it's a simpler model. But it is equally valid to describe the Sun as rotating around the Earth.

And to describe the whole universe as rotating around ME! ( :

Answer 10

And I was beginning to think the universe revolved around Paris, what's her name....

Answer 11

Since the universe has no center, we might as well be it. We can only view from our eyes which makes everything center on us. Whether it does or not, it appears that way.