Some philosophy student was hanging out with me and my friends and I heard this question. Now it's hurting my god damn head and I have to study for a Calc III exam...-blam!-! So it went like this:
[quote]Why am I me and not you? [/quote]
And I said: chance, maybe a God(s), complex chemistry...no -blam!-ing clue
[quote]"[Insert rambling about Jesus and our Lord and Savior here]"[/quote]
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[quote]just kidding[/quote]
And then the subject matter changed, and then we got lunch, Earth continued on it's elliptical orbit around the Sun, etc.
But then I thought about it..."why am I me and not you?". Why are we perceiving the world around us through the pair of eyes and ears through the body in which you are in [i]right now[/i] and not through let's say the person sitting behind you? Or why am I perceiving this life through a Human in the first place? Why not a lion, or some other alien on another planet? Why am I living in this time frame, in this century and not during the Roman Empire? Bloody hell...I think I'm rambling now...blah blah blah philosophy...
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You're a beta. I am an alpha.