On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:55:45 -0700, Conrad Hodson <conradh@efn.org>
wrote:

It is indeed, but it runs afoul of two emotional shoals that
generate lots and lots of rationalizations.  First of all, the
distinctly American fetish that endless expansion would
automatically appeal to everyone, everywhere.  And secondly to the
much more widespread need so many people have to be so very special,
the center of the Universe, right there under God's eye.

In some of the spaces studied by mathematicians, every point of a
sphere is a center.

"There seems no center because it's all center." --- C.S. Lewis

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