Count yourself lucky! Not everyone can say they were present at the moment humankind’s conception of itself changed. But you can.
Since the dawn of history, humans have built whole civilizations around myths and fables linking our existence to a mystical celestial realm. And yet in the end it took less than a lifetime to overturn that whole framework and replace it with something radically different: real answers.
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