Is it possible that no one is unique?

Each person's life is shaped by unique causes and conditions.

That's why some people have red hair and others have brown hair, and why some people are responsible while others are irresponsible. We differ in our inheritance and conditioning.

But each person's mind functions in very similar ways.

Each of us has unmet desires that lead to anguish. Each of us believes that if only we could get X, then our lives would be wonderful. And each of us believes that if only we could get rid of X, then our lives would be wonderful. (Such beliefs are false, although persistent.)

Each person experiences anger, and the great suffering that comes with it. We rage against anything that undercuts our sense of entitlement. We act out of great righteousness, which is really just our attachment to anger. Because we persistently believe that our anger is justified, we create great harm - not only in our own lives, but in the lives of others.

Each person is deluded about the actual truth of the world. We believe that our actions have no consequences. We continue to behave as though we will live forever, despite the obvious fact of the matter. We think other people are different from us - only we are so unique and special. But, as your question indicates, such beliefs are only delusions.

The interesting thing is that when we understand (really, really understand) that all people experience desire, anger and delusion in exactly the same ways, then our heart can soften a little. We can live with a little more grace and kindness. I think that's pretty important.

law of large numbers - (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics

example:

You are not the only person alive that has your birthday (time, date, and year) - since there are billions on the planet, expect a few million at least (I think it's about 6 million people share it)

You are not the only one with the full name you have (I believe that's around 500,000-1mil) - yes, even in different languages. I met a female once from China that had the same name as one of my teachers, once it was converted to English.

Someone will win the lottery, get shot in the eye with a bb-gun, and will get struck by lightning.

They say the chances of it happening to one person are a million to one (well, how many people are on the planet?)

Someone right now is having this exact same discussion with someone else. Maybe not on a website, but I can guarantee, it is happening.

When you sneeze, there are over 4 million others sneezing with you

there are some incredible things about this world.

I love the fact that when I'm in the shower, I'm showering with over 20million people... and my husband doesn't even get jealous!!! LOL

You're wrong. While the superficial experiences are the same, the differences lie in how your heart got broken, what you studied in school, where you traveled, and all the people you have met along the way and how they touched you. I have always believed that every person's life would make a great novel, because we each have lived and experienced life differently. Our personalities are unique, we all had different family dynamics, economic situations, and demons to overcome. I disagree with you entirely.

The question can only be answered from a particular perspective. When we look at a sandy beech we see only sand! It all looks the same. But if we study each grain separately we discover a multiplicity of diversity.We are human , that we have in common. Life stories can be similar , but only from a particular perspective. From a spiritual perspective we are all one. From that perspective differences are choices of how we wish to manifest. Like identity packages. But since we are all part of life the differences are really just illusions of difference. No one is better than another, no one is a mistake.Every sinner has a future , every saint has a history.Namaste, amen , inshala, om.

In all the experiences of humankind, there is but one difference that makes each unique. It is that none other has experience the same thing from the same vantage point. As Vivekananda used to say, "If there are a thousand people there must be a thousand religions because every persons relationship with God is unique." Every thing that is the same about people is unique, as unique as every snowflake that has ever fallen upon the earth, never repeated in all of time or space.

I think we're all connected, and in some ultimate sense, I think we all are one -- individual waves in one great ocean. But inevitably, each wave -- while it persists -- is a little different from all the others, the same way that no two snowflakes are supposed to be exactly alike.

If you mean to ask, "Is it important to transcend our individual entities, and to recognize our close kinship with all other humans and all of creation besides, " I think the answer is yes.

Or you might say, "Are we like the lilies of the field, as Jesus suggested, and are the suffering and dreams of each individual flower rather minor compared to the life of the field" -- again, I think the answer is yes.

So you are special, unique -- but you're exactly like everyone else in being special & unique. And you're likely everyone else in terms of being mortal, born to experience a good deal of suffering."

I hope you've already begun to heal from your heartache. I'm sure it will take a long time, but I hope it's already beginning to abate a little.

No, each one is unique, it is the defining point of each being. Two rose plants whose seed taken from the same genetic strain, reared in the same environment,- same water, earth, air, sun, manure and so on - and yet each is different in some respect than the other. It would be even more in the case of human beings.

i've got self belief you ought to refine your question. There are 40 six chromozomes, i do no longer understand what proportion nucleotide pairs according to chromozome. yet, a number of those mixtures will finally end up putting your nostril on your elbow. have you ever seen Alien, Resurrection? think of of that lab scene the place Ripley is going in and sees all those mutation variations of herself. a great (and ill) scene. There are hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of gene pairs that are non-survivable, hundreds of thousands the place (think) the middle sits exterior the ribcage or the innovations is a bubble exterior the buttocks. those editions won't stay to tell the story - so can we care approximately those? The question is, what proportion unique gene pairs are there which will yield a residing human? What subset of those (returned, like in Alien) will yield a residing human that the human community will think of is "known"? (i.e., a residing human organism, yet no longer joined on the pinnacle like siamese twins). as quickly as this question is widespread, then it is going to propose that the entire human DNA chain would have been mapped. BioEngineers will understand that "this" sequence of nucleotides leads to pink hair, and "that" sequence on chromozome 8 makes you left exceeded ... etc. The map will must be complete to declare what proportion editions can stay and be "known" in society. All practicable editions would be defined: you would be able to desire to have the potential to %. each and each of the features (blue eyes, blond hair, long legs) which you particularly prefer on your offspring. Frightful. be careful what you ask for. finally, as quickly as all of us understand this variety, we are going to have the potential to understand how long it is going to take in the previous we would have duplicates. What do I propose? think there are over eighty trillion conceivable practicable mixtures of DNA. think that for the period of the twelve months 2009, the eighty trillion and universal human (in the time of all time) would be born. which will propose, that the variety "eighty trillion plus a million" human would have non-unique DNA, it is going to be a reproduction with somebody who became born earlier (or, easily, it potential that someplace in the eighty trillion and universal line of people, there ought to have been a reproduction). which would be very cool. (And with any luck it only isn't a Hitler - or a Hillary!).

you one of a kind their is no one exactly like you. You may find people with similar life experiences this is called friendship, But if you get deeper they did not see things exactly as you. Life is what we do with the experiences to we make things better or worse. If you want true meaning in life love others help others. live life to the fullest it is short. For me my life began when I began believing in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior, he had brought great meaning to my life.

Heart broken: Not yet. And not interested.

I excelled in my studies: what sort? I completed my GED ;-b

Traveled the country: Only a few states. and by foot, and vehicle of course.

Everyone is unique. This is elementary, my friend.