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Hypothetically: It becomes possible to give humans an energy source that is effectively infinite and neither consumes fuel nor pollutes. Does this ‘resolution’ of ‘our energy needs’ actually contribute to a peaceful, humanitarian and...

001458

“[Redacted] is wearing the metaposition of clothing out of a kind of modesty. To ‘veil’ — ‘the organ of generation’. This is not precisely a sexual organ. What it generates is … minds. Billions of forms of them. Like the sun makes...

001459

“Which came first — is a mode of causality — that, in the case of the Chicken Question … is like drinking the bitter, back-barn moonshine of causality. That’s what the question is trying to get you to see, directly, personally. You have to question...

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“Language, you see, is a lot like a bow, in that if you don’t bend it, it doesn’t shoot. But it’s also like Russian Roulette. Because any damage that the bend does … or failing to bend it properly … results in it shooting you in the...