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Old 02-07-2012, 03:40 PM   #31
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The awareness that death is an inevitability.
Understanding one`s own mortality is a necessary step, of course. Without that century in meatspace, how do you learn the true value of life?
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Ask the pope how he does this.
Ask that bloody Teuton idiot? No, ask a Farnese.
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Old 02-07-2012, 07:02 PM   #33
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The awareness that death is an inevitability.
This is one of the things that I think intelligent people can be made not to believe
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Old 02-07-2012, 09:11 PM   #34
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This is one of the things that I think intelligent people can be made not to believe
Yes. There is protection. But you know, a population wants its myths, you have to cast the figures and explain.

Solace is pretty important. Like a cake has layers, quantum consciousness does.

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Understanding one`s own mortality is a necessary step, of course. Without that century in meatspace, how do you learn the true value of life?
Yes!
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Old 02-08-2012, 07:10 AM   #36
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I do admit to getting terribly distracted by a well-formed female posterior.

Other than that...
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