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"As they sat in traffic, we slowly rolled past the long line of luxury cars they had in their caravan, looking into each one until we pulled up to the front vehicle and found who we were seeking."
    -- Duane Keith Davis
"They want to put me in jail for life? That is just something I got to do."
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"I sang because they promised I would not be prosecuted."
    -- Duane Keith Davis
"I would rather be poor than do anything besides YouTube."
    -- Jimmy Donaldson

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"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen."
    -- Alice Walker
"They better expand that stadium to 175,000 by Saturday if they're going to get everyone in there that thinks they're going to get in."
    -- Louis Holtz
"The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace."
    -- Bhagavad Gita


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We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.Get Image

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.Get Image

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.Get Image

My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when wGet Image

To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.Get Image




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