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Henry David Abraham
Oct 27, 2024
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I don’t want you to get a big head over this, but there are likely as many brain cells there as there are stars in the Milky Way. How’s that for an upper? Yep, the human brain is the most complicated matter in the universe. Cool!  It’s given us science, law, poetry, art, even imitating the stars and inventing nuclear power and atomic bombs. Did I say bombs? In your home office of your mind, file that under Big Mistakes. How could we have been so dumb to come up with nuclear weapons? Why with so many brain cells do we still make so many mistakes, or in other words, how is it that we are so wonderful and dangerous?

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