But that is not the full story. Not even close.

"In Times of Material Darkness...   The Greatest Feat God ever Performed   ... was to Convince You that He Exists."       God Poet Transmitting.......   In The Midst of Times of Material Darkness; the greatest feat God ever performed was to convince you that he exists. Hmm... that sounds like something else I heard once. Doesn't that remind you of something? Heh heh... oh well, it was worth a shot, Kobayashi....

academyofideas.com 1984 vs Brave New World     – How Freedom Dies     The following is a transcript of this video.   “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” George Orwell, 1984   George Orwell’s writings have experienced a spike in popularity over the past several decades and for a good reason – modern societies are becoming ever more like the dystopia Orwell...

The Modern Myth of Health

Do not comply

    www.self-inflictedphilosophy.com     The Ache of High Humor By Gary Z McGee “The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.” ~Mark Twain   In the face of an absurd universe, we have the choice to balk, to fear, to ignore, or to laugh at the absurdity of our finite condition within a seemingly infinite precondition. Of the four, only laughter has the power to get us out of our own way. Only...

In many ways, the news functions like these electric shocks. We are continually bombarded with distressing reports that provoke stress

There’s nothing much left of the original species (the human)

Intuition is a process that works below the threshold of conscious awareness.

Knowing that everybody is insane, you won’t be able to go higher than that to sanity.

Delighted by Death’s Details

The Shadow of Mortality       “The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.” ~Ernest Becker   We are uniquely cursed with the awareness of our own mortality. This knowledge casts a shadow over our lives, a quiet dread that philosopher Ernest Becker described as the root of...