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“You are easy to explain – even to you. You may call yourself a soul if that pleases you, but what you are is a nexus of electromagnetic forces, so arranged that all the interconnections and interrelationships are exactly imitative of those of your brain in your Universe-existence – down to the smallest detail. Therefore you have your capacity for thought, your memories, your personality. It still seems to you that you are you.”
― The Last Answer
― The Last Answer
“They disregarded the Torah — either willfully, or because the knowledge of the laws regarding handling of the Ark was not properly taught generations to generation. They suffered the consequences for such disobedience. The Philistines are not beholden to our laws. They have no such sacred responsibility. However, they still were cursed because of their foolish boast that they’d been victorious over Yahweh — a notion that the pharaoh in Mosheh’s day learned by suffering his own plagues.”
― To Dwell Among Cedars
― To Dwell Among Cedars
“Everyone is so nice.
I love working here!
The sparkles of gold. The streaks of silver. The diamonds glitter at me as I fly.
I feel so at peace.
I don't mind coming into work every day.”
― Last Night, When I Prayed
I love working here!
The sparkles of gold. The streaks of silver. The diamonds glitter at me as I fly.
I feel so at peace.
I don't mind coming into work every day.”
― Last Night, When I Prayed
“Scriptures do have a role in society, but only as literature, like any other literature, nothing more.”
― Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
― Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“The Bible is spectacular in the sense that it is full of analogies that can be conveyed to any situation and a history of recorded life choices that are simple yet as profound as trading prosperity for soup.”
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