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Years ago (1977) in a conversation I had with the author I talked about an article I read in Playboy magazine that brought light on the state of affairs of detective work in Ja ...more "

“He felt a psychosomatic rush of emptiness before he spoke. “Since we are getting to the real point, I am not stupid John. And it would be foolish to think me ignorant. Isn’t this about the Science Nation interview? Isn’t this because I mistakenly used the word “soul?” Isn’t this about you and the others thinking somewhere along the lines, I had gained an imaginary soul? We all know when you gain a soul, you lose a mind. Don’t we john?”
John hesitated briefly staring at Roma. “I believe so yes. Souls are luxuries for speculative minds. Real scientists can’t afford such luxuries. They have the world to save.”
Roma narrowed his eyes. “Or destroy.”
― Roma&retina
John hesitated briefly staring at Roma. “I believe so yes. Souls are luxuries for speculative minds. Real scientists can’t afford such luxuries. They have the world to save.”
Roma narrowed his eyes. “Or destroy.”
― Roma&retina

“A brick could be used as a floatation device. But only use it if the person drowning is a politician.
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― Brick
― Brick
“Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.”
― The Rudeness of Soul
― The Rudeness of Soul

“We live in one global environment with a huge number of ecological, economic, social, and political pressures tearing at its only dimly perceived, basically uninterpreted and uncomprehended fabric. Anyone with even a vague consciousness of this whole is alarmed at how such remorselessly selfish and narrow interests - patriotism, chauvinism, ethnic, religious, and racial hatreds - can in fact lead to mass destructiveness. The world simply cannot afford this many more times.”
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“Flow, I must remind you here is a being-systemic process. Depression is a being-systemic deregulation that affects the neurophysiological.”
― The Rudeness of Soul
― The Rudeness of Soul

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