In the science fiction classic “2001, A Space Odyssey,” HAL, the all too human-like computer, malfunctions and kills the hibernating crewmembers, and then snuffs out the life of one of…
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thoughts on life
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Perhaps the most trenchant spiritual question that’s haunted the hearts and minds of people over the ages is: “How can there be a God that would allow the terrible suffering…
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An implicit and unexamined premise has crept into the minds of thinking people. It is that science is the highest act which human beings are capable. It is not. That…
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The “Omega Point” is a term that was used by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest, to describe the aim towards which consciousness supposedly evolves…
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When I was 17 I asked a heretical question in America: What is all this wealth for? I grew up in Michigan when Detroit was still the car king of…
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Humans have begun “The Sixth Extinction.” The American media, even the progressive media, have been promoting the idea that most of the life on Earth has been wiped out many…
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There is no such thing as ‘higher thought.’ That’s a misnomer humans have given the evolution of symbolic thought. The crisis of human consciousness boils down to the question: Can…
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This is the second “hinge of history” in my lifetime. I didn’t think I’d live to see another, after the simultaneous collapse of the USSR economically and politically, and the…