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The desire to escape is one of the most powerful themes which resonates throughout the tapestry of human experience....... It permeates the spectrum of recorded literature, religious scripture, political ideology, and spiritual reflection....... from ancient mythologies and oral traditions, right up to present day pop culture, this broader idea plays itself out again, and again, and again..... there seems to be something about the human condition, which instinctively recognizes this underlying incessant need, to escape...... Somehow our individual experiences, which innately reject confinement, restriction, and oppression, seem to connect us all, to the larger human story, a larger quest, a deeper need...... and of course our perspective on …show more content…
or....... the Earth is the center of the universe, fixed and immovable............ now before we just dismiss this idea as crazy or out dated, let 's investigate...... you see, as for the observed motion of the heavenly bodies in the universe, the current Copernican heliocentric model of our solar system claims that the Earth is spinning at 1k miles per hour, it is also orbiting our sun at 64k miles per hour, we are also spiraling in a vortex being pulled by the sun through the galaxy at 483k miles per hour, and, the entire galaxy is moving through the universe at a mind numbing 1.3 million miles per hour...... and somehow, not only is all this motion undetectable to our senses, but the stars, the stars somehow remain in fixed positions relative to the Earth despite not only our motion, but their proposed motions as well........ you see if we really dig into this, we will find that there is just as much evidence for the idea that the Earth is stationary, and positioned in the center of the universe.... even Einstein himself said that all his equations would be just as relevant if the Earth was fixed and motionless..... And know this, it is absolutely impossible for science to make a factual claim, stating that the Earth is not the center universe.... when they discovered the universe was expanding, they came to that conclusion based on the fact that all points of light in the heavens were moving away from

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