In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a paragraph and murdered religion.  Sure, it was a slow death but a death it was.  He wrote:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet [...]

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I finally became so fed up with the amount of junk lying around my house that last week, I arranged for a 15 cubic foot dumpster on SUV wheels to be delivered to my house. This past Saturday I hauled hundreds of pounds of useless junk up my basement stairs and threw it into [...]

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At the time this letter is being written, the farthest named planet of our solar system, Pluto, has not revolved once around the Sun since the United States of America has been a sovereign nation. The word sovereign has several meanings, three of which are:

above or superior to all others
of or holding the position [...]

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Is there such a thing as a completely altruistic act? Is it possible for someone to act in a manner that is completely selfless and totally giving? I personally don’t believe there is. And I know some of you will likely throw icons at me like Mother Teresa or Ghandi but I [...]

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What does it mean to live “between the points?” What are the points? Are they science and religion? Are they conservative and liberal? Are they men and women? Are they childhood and old age? Are they intellectual and physical? Are they quantum physics and cosmology? Are [...]

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“Kill or be killed!”
That is the underlying mantra of human society today and it is being hummed in the boweled troughs of scale as well as at the high pitches where angels supposedly sing.
The mantra today is to distrust your neighbor and if he comes after you, you’re supposed to say, “Fuck you and die, [...]

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War is the final divorce of humanity from reason and the spiritual aspirations of our highest ambitions.
War is the final three count of the human animal over the human spirit.
War is the moment of inception when the worms of hell finally burrow into the holy of holies in the human heart and begin to [...]

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The human mind is a funny thing–it works in metaphors. Metaphors are conceptual images that reference observable and unobservable phenomenon in the natural world and the metaphysical realm of human thought.
Normally, metaphors are very handy tools in the arsenal of human evolution. For example, in science–I can scratch the symbols: T-R-E-E onto a [...]

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Everyone knows the soundbite. Kennedy’s sharp New England accent peaking crisp–”Ask NOT what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
This is one of the most deceptively evil sound bytes in history because it has gone down in popular history as a statement of social duty for the [...]

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