(from here)
“Praying for the health of strangers who have undergone heart surgery has no effect, according to the largest scientific study ever commissioned to calculate the healing power of prayer.
In fact, patients who know they are being prayed for suffer a noticeably higher rate of complications, according to the study, which monitored the recovery of [...]

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Everywhere I look, affectation smiles back at me politely. Conversation sticks to the teeth like saccharine. Forced smiles all around.
Is this the bad-conscience of empire? We rival dying Rome in hollowness. On both sides of every argument: grinning hyenas, wolves in the clothing of clowns. Democracy! [...]

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Why, then, in the forest of the truth
do we grope darkness for a path?
There is nowhere to go.
Each exit is an entrance and a trance
of new illusions thrown into the dance,
wild now and egoless and free –
yes, she who made the snake
made me to breathe.
She pinched this body
from the animate clay
I press between my thumb [...]

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(from www.theonion.com)

Wow . . .

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?Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.?
–Joseph Campbell

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No one, and I repeat, no one really understands the meaning of life, the origin of the universe, the nature of god, or of consciousness.
Ok. Let’s just take a breath here.
Now, the simple fact that no one legitimately knows about any of these things (despite countless authoritarian claims to the [...]

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“If I have excluded God the Father, there must be somebody to invent values. We have to take things as they are. And moreover, to say that we invent values means neither more nor less than this; that there is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is [...]

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