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"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! " ~ Robert Burns

Saved from nothingness. Saved from meaninglessness. To contribute positive energy to the momentum of positive human endeavour (now and into the distant future). Momentum has direction. Energy is indestructible (and is therefore eternal).

I'm going to admit up front that I am rushed here. I'm still in the office. Haven't read the previous comments. I go to church irregularly. Haven't read the Bible in the last year. You get the picture. But of course, I have an opinion on this particular matter. It is simply this. It is not...

"Too soon" is a function of "readiness to leave". Wll death be viewed as a completion in the circumstances or a cruel trick of fate? Here is a story about someone who if she had died at 84 would have been deemed to have gone too soon...

It appears there is a fair bit of objective evidence that your view is too pessimistic. https://www.google.ca/amp/www.vox.com/platform/amp/science-and-health/2016/12/22/14042506/steven-pinker-optimistic-future-2016

What would a post-Christian religious culture look like? A form of God-talk and God-consciousness truly inclusive of human experience? Here is a link to a blog by Stan Johannesen Professor Emeritus (History) at University of Waterloo. Stan is always searching for answers and making...

"Al-Qaeda wants to mentally colonize French Muslims, but faces a wall of disinterest. But if it can get non-Muslim French to be beastly to ethnic Muslims on the grounds that they are Muslims, it can start creating a common political identity around grievance against discrimination."...

The first time I saw elf-on-a-shelf I became tired ...

Michigan has always been full of bumpkins. It still is.

So now you have to go to a café to hear a really good pensée on the subject of death? Great! Churches used to do that didn't they? On the other hand, a cup of coffee and a Danish pastry are far more economical than clergy and a church. Then again, seeking solace and advice on the subject of...

What a wonderful thing, Seeler

When I was studying for my MBA[FONT=Open Sans, sans-serif] I participated in an exercise designed to demonstrate what happens when an individual or committee is appointed to parcel out scarce resources in manner which maximizes efficiency. Several groups of 5 or 6 were charged with building a...

There are a lot of these dichotomies ... between facts and information ... between information and knowledge ... between knowledge and wisdom. I have no doubt that the differences are real but I am not sure the words mean the same things to different people. Notwithstanding that, in my own...