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For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some 'organic element' since I couldn't accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is about 8.1 billion people in the world. Assuming romantic cliches to be true and that we all have exactly one soulmate out there, we would have a very hard time sifting them out. If you were to use exactly one second at meeting a person it would take you 257 years to meet everyone alive on earth at this moment, which due to human life span being significantly shorter and the influx of new people makes the task essentially impossible without a spoonful of luck. Moral of the story: If you believe you have found your soul mate, be extra kind to them today.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, you should be extra kind to most people most of the time. Comunism begins at home.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soul mates are made, not found. You get with someone compatible to you, and through the sharing of experiences and affection, if nothing goes excessively wrong, they become unique for you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely agree and beautifully put :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you were to use exactly one second at meeting a person it would take you 257 years to meet everyone alive on earth at this moment

Well I don't need to meet everybody. There's no need to meet anyone who doesn't match my sexual preferences, so that's half right there. Then we can also cut everyone who's sexual preferences I don't meet, as well as anyone outside of a given age range (most of the people on earth are much younger than me and would be inappropriate for me to date). We can probably get that down to about 50-60 years. (At one second per person).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thought experiment was just an attempt to show how hard it is to wrap our minds around big numbers. Even a tangible number such as the amount of people in the world.