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How replaceable are you?

We are all replaceable

Stoic Teacher
2 min readApr 26, 2022
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* I am unique therefore I am irreplaceable. So are YOU

* In what sense? Nobody is replaceable in the sense that there’s no other individual exactly like you. People are replaceable in the sense that you can find someone else to *act* as another individual. In other words: Sure, nobody is indispensable, but nobody is replaceable either.

* Both replaceable and irreplaceable.

* There is not another like me. I realize tho, there a millions of others that can take my place.

* Depends on who’s doing the replacing.

* No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a…

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