"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice..."

The wildfires and hail in LA suggest that the answer is "both."

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Luigi Mangioni is pleading not guilty? What's his defense? "It was my evil twin, Waluigi!"

One of the many problems with uploading the brain to a computer to achieve immortality is that the body is not simply a meat car toting around an all-important brain.

The body stores memories, emotions, trauma, and other essential components of self. It is an inextricable part of you.

Is anyone else spending the rest of December preparing for the apocalypse?

Instead of discarding spirituality as an illusion, we must endeavor to update our understanding of it, so it can evolve and grow as a living system instead of being used as a tool of authoritarian oppression.

Science and spirituality are not enemies; they are complementary opposites.

Atheists like to say that science would be recreated by an alien civilization because it's objectively true, but humanity's sacred texts would not be because they are arbitrary.

But they are not arbitrary. They are maps of the spirit world--an attempt to understand and map subjective experience.

Blue Sky YouTube video by Allman Brothers Band - Topic

It's time for a fresh start, a different approach, and a renewed perspective.

Let's find the common ground underneath our fractured collective identity, so we can move towards the blue skies of a new horizon.

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