Pascal’s Wager II: in the near future, with AI driven discovery, immortal life may actually be possible. Should you spend the rest of your efforts, thoughts, and valuations toward that aim, just in case?

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Precluding mechanistic interpretation from philosophical concepts makes a choice out of stages necessary to a cycle.

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Put the geometrical border on nongeometrical terrain and territorial instinct will come up with negotiable abstractions.

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“Strategic silence, the alpha and omega or intelligibility. The last intelligible character, a punctuation mark.” How Jesus really wanted to answer Pilate.

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Civilization is not built on violations of grammatical non-parallelism, but on what survived the attempt.

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Anything both you and I need becomes an intelligible character.

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“Emotionally” attached is really a matter of proximity to a stimulus and not of a “mind” being at the mercy of a “self” in a tortured “thought process.” With a powerful stimulus comes the call for a lifelong training in emotional detachment. To be fair though, there are legitimate times when practiced detachment is useful and even life-saving. But preferring the cognitive discipline when a little strategic movement in the real world precludes a problem is due to emotional attachment to the esteem of demonstrating emotional detachment.

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Those who are the most concerned with truth know better than to rely on it.

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I am never my center, but I have a center. I am here, not there, but there is what told me that.

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Love is also made up of the differences that delight you.