If you've ever seen this video clip from the movie The Fifth Element, you too may have been awestruck by the dizzying vertical life depicted of city dwellers in the future.

 

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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction." -- Blaise Pascal (Pensees, 1670)

The notion that men could somehow be licensed to commit mayhem against their fellows in the name of religion or by any other supreme order of higher…

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“This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.” -- Orson Scott Card

The title of the eBook A View Beyond the Stars cuts right to the quick of that which clings ever so persistently, fiercely beneath our every conscious thought. That we are, each… Continue

An immortal being living in a timeless continuum does not eat, breathe or sleep. They do not require anything of a physical nature to exist. Their existence does not derive from anything material in nature and there are no material byproducts created by their existence. They are completely alien to a material universe or physical plane. They cannot be detected or measured by any physical means. If they choose to create something, move or alter anything… Continue

It depends on your perspective, but since we are fairly sapient beings, meaning having higher awareness of self than say, field mice, we have to tune out a lot in order to live peacefully within ourselves.



For instance, unlike dogs and cats, we contemplate our existence, our mortality and even our place in the broader Universe – routinely. That is, before the all-ness of it all presses in on us and we quickly divert our attention to more… Continue