Some people prefer to feel superior to the beings/people around them. Maintaining this illusion is, I guess, a way to maintain a sense of control. By telling themselves they are unique and miraculous they become the masters.
Miracle
1: an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs
2: an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment
I don’t know about the first one. The “divine” question is a can of worms I’m not opening right now. But the second one…. yeah I see myself and all other human beings as fitting that definition, as miracles. But the thing is under that definition I also see an orangutan as a miracle, or an elephant, or an anaconda. I see my little puppy dog as a miracle. Hell; I see bacteria as a miracle, both the ones making my armpits stink and the ones currently digesting my dinner for me. Not miracles in the sense that God wrinkled her nose and they appeared, but miracles in the sense that when taken against the cold silence of our observable universe, against the backdrop of all that empty space, they are every one of them extremely outstanding and unusual.
Life itself is a miracle. As is its only known cradle and mother, earth.
But those are big concepts, aren’t they? It’s a lot simpler to believe that you have a leg-up in the miracle department; that you are especially miraculous and need not concern yourself with the not-miracles around you. Makes you feel powerful, in control, and safe.
Rank. Explicit. Blasphemy. And much worse: by any reality-based standard it is total nonsense. Nonsense which, instead of ceding you control, actually makes it easier for you to be controlled.
The Hammershop 