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What Your Amazing Self Can Do with New Information

Your amazing self can notice a thing in this world and: Meanwhile, your same amazing self can also: The same mind can treat one matter with high honesty, rationality, and responsibility, and another quite differently! It’s somewhat like the way … Continue reading

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Gorillas in the NFL as Linemen

Let us suppose that someone were to figure out how to train Silverback Gorillas to play football. And let us suppose that the gorillas were very good at it—especially, say, at the lineman positions—and outperformed their human counterparts at these … Continue reading

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“The One True Church”

I used to belong to The One True Church, but as good as that may sound, it was actually better than that. The One True Church was its informal name, the formal one being The One and Only True Church. … Continue reading

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The Thing & The Questions

(Regarding narcissist impostors and the church, respectively) I’m going to tell you a thingThat you may not like at first,But which you can surely acceptIf you are willing both to lookAnd to admit what you see. And after that, I’m … Continue reading

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There Is the Truth

There is the truthAnd then there isThe whole truth. And there are thoseWho do not see the differenceAnd then there are thoseWho do.

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Is There a Way to Fix Stupid?

Is there a way to fix stupid? Yes! But there’s a catch,Because it’s the stupid guyThat has to fix it.

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The State of the Art

The state of the art in technologyHas been improved since you started reading this,While the state of the art in humanityHas not been improved since the creation.

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The Rest of the Story

It is anathema to the good sense of mostThat God would preserve wicked Cain—Or wicked Satan, for that matter—That they should go on for even an hour after their sin. But he had his reasons—And they’d have to studyThe rest … Continue reading

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The Story of One’s Life

It is the story of one’s life—What he will push through And what he will not.And his years will be reckoned By the mosaic of it all—Some tiles being by natureMore important than others—And that nature being All too often … Continue reading

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Does God Think You Need To Think More Than You Think You Need To Think?

You wouldn’t know it by what you see in the churches today, but the original religion of God was to be one of deep and careful consideration—as a way of life! Consider this list of example passages from the Bible, … Continue reading

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