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Into the Void
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Eater of Futures
In tens of thousands of years, plate tectonics will have turned the entire face of the planet under, and some new species will walk in the world. We will likely be reduced to an archetype – the Eater of Futures, perhaps? The best we can hope for is that when we become a vague racial […]
On Madness and Identity
“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?” — William Saroyan (American writer, 1908-1981)
Kosmic Konsciousness
I’ve been listening to Ken Wilber’s Kosmic Konsciousness on SoundsTrue the last couple of days, and am trying to sort out levels and lines. This isn’t what he wanted me to get out of it at all. It is my understanding that a spirit can be limited by the vessel it finds itself under some […]
Halloween
Halloween, in case you aren’t a history freak, is a remnant of pre-Christian rituals – a night when the spirits came back to walk among us, and a chance to make up for the wrongs we committed against them when they were alive. “All Hallows E’en”. It seems that the urban folks were converted to […]
Spirituality
Spirituality doesn’t have to take the form of a belief in a god, or even in an intelligence. It especially doesn’t equate to organized religion. In fact, churches have to discourage religious epiphanies in the general membership, lest their god tells someone outside of the power structure something the church elders don;t want to hear. […]
On the question of animal intelligence
I believe that the answer is to treat all animals as humans and to provide vocational rehab for those who have trouble functioning in human society. – me, 25 Apr 88 20:03:56 GMT in sci.bio Are Animals Patentable?
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