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I'm not the center of the universe.

Actually, you are. Or at least I am now that I am in Missouri.

I could observe the round pond out my window and the fact that is has a water pipe in the center for a fountain, and so conclude that not me but the water pipe is the center, but I would be deceived by appearances.

God gave you eternal soul, and He took on human body, so yes, man is pretty much the center of the creation.

me: I'm not the center of the universe.

you: Actually, you are. Or at least I am now that I am in Missouri.

LOLOL!

Truly, though, Alamo-Girl is not the center of the universe.

I use this example to remind myself of where I am in this universe (quoting myself.)

Visualize a fly in your car going 5 mph. That is his speed from his perspective as the observer.

But your car is speeding down the road at 65 mph. So for the guy watching you from the roadside table, that fly is going 70 mph.

But the road you have taken is on the equator and the circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,901.55 miles and the earth rotates once every 24 hours. So that fly is now going 1,100 mph + 70 mph = 1,170 mph.

Moreover, the orbital length of earth traveling around the sun is 149,600,000 miles, traveled in 365.25 days. That is 67,000 miles per hour. So add that in, and the fly is going 68,170 mph.

The sun orbits the Milky Way galaxy at a speed of 486,000 miles per hour. Add that in, and the fly is now going 554,170 miles per hour.

All of this and we haven’t gotten to the accelerating expansion of the universe, i.e. space/time itself.

Space/time doesn’t pre-exist – it is created as the universe expands.

A galaxy 1 million light years away would seem to be moving away from us at a rate of 60,000 miles per hour. For every 3.26 million light years further out that we look, the galaxies seem to be moving away from us at an additional 162,000 miles per hour. In sum, the universe is currently at least 156 billion light years wide.

And that is looking at motion from the fly’s perspective.

If we go in the other direction as "observer" – the quantum – the cumulative velocities are even more mind-boggling.

So, no, Alamo-Girl is not the center of the universe in a physical sense much less in the spiritual sense.

It's not about me, it's about Jesus.

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all [things] he might have the preeminence.

For it pleased [the Father] that in him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, [I say], whether [they be] things in earth, or things in heaven.– Colossians 1:15-20

To God be the glory, not man, never man.

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