sear
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a) Thank you. I spent some time in Rheinland Pfaltz (spelling?) in the mid-1970's. I wasn't there long enough to learn much German, just long enough to appreciate the culture. I haven't been back since "The Wall" fell, and the Germanys reunited.a) I remember Albert Einstein said this: "Das Universum erkennt sich im Menschen selbst" - "The universe recognizes itself in the human being" (my own verbally translation). Another man of his time, [the] Mahatma Gandhi, said something like: "Recognize yourselve and you will recognize the universe". Both ideas are somehow combined in the "anthropic principle". Short: If someone has a mathematical idea about the universe, where he himself is not able to be born, then something is wrong with this idea.
b) Ingrate? ... I have not really a good idea what you like say with this word to me. Sounds not as if this would be a characteristicum of my own person.
b) An ingrate is one who is deficient in appreciation. What's the point in living if you don't appreciate it? You seem to appreciate your own good fortune. Excellent.