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Glorious Contingency 5
"When I stood inside Chartres Cathedral with my soul mate, lit
candles, and promised each other our eternal love, it was a more
sacred moment than any I have experienced. Skeptics and scientists
cannot experience the numinous? Nonsense. You do not need a spiritual
power to experience the spiritual. You do not need to be mystical to
appreciate the mystery. Standing beneath a canopy of galaxies, atop a
pillar of reworked stone, or inside a transcept of holy light, my
unencumbered soul was free to love without constraint, free to use my
senses to enjoy all the pleasures and endure all the pains that come
with such love. I was enfranchised for life, emancipated from the
bonds of restricting tradition, and unyoked from the rules written
for another time in another place for another people. I was now free
to try to live up to that exalted moniker--Homo sapiens--wise man."
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Review of Robret Wright's NONZERO
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Review of Sober and Wilson's "Unto Others"
This is a thoroughly disappointing book, start to finish. It is alternatively aggressive and defensive, promising too much and achieving too little. It is entirely too willing to indulge in asides, to consume time with trivial matters, to postpone gratification and to confuse semantic obfuscation with theoretical advance.
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Review of Sober and Wilson's "Unto Others"
This is a thoroughly disappointing book, start to finish. It is alternatively aggressive and defensive, promising too much and achieving too little. It is entirely too willing to indulge in asides, to consume time with trivial matters, to postpone gratification and to confuse semantic obfuscation with theoretical advance.
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