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		<title>Alan Watts on Nothingness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep, passivity, rest &#8212; these are all things which are neglected due to a fear of Nothingness. Nothing is more fertile than Emptiness. It&#8217;s not &#8216;You can&#8217;t have Something for Nothing&#8217;, it&#8217;s &#8216;You can&#8217;t have Something without Nothing&#8217;. That which is void is precisely Form. And that which is form is precisely Void.]]></description>
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		<title>Sagan&#8217;s Profound Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Wu-Wei @ 5%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Way that can be experienced is not true; The world that can be constructed is not real. The Way manifests all that happens and may happen; The world represents all that exists and may exist. To experience without abstraction is to sense the world; To experience with abstraction is to know the world. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +3: Growing Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is resistant to entropy. Survival of the species is genetic. And selfish self-preservation is the rule. Carried out over generations, species preserve themselves. And out of humans new forms of life are springing: tools and artificial intelligence that may choose to preserve themselves at some point and push outward into the universe, saturating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Question by Isaac Asimov — © 1956 The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way: Alexander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extropy +2: Extropian Forefathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind, through the long course of biological evolution, has established itself as a moving force in our little corner of the universe. Here on this small planet, mind has infiltrated matter and has taken control. It appears to me that the tendency of mind to infiltrate and control matter is a law of nature. — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation for the Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MEANING OF LIFE IN A DEVELOPING UNIVERSE John Stewart (source) Member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group The Free University of Brussels Abstract: The evolution of life on Earth has produced an organism that is beginning to model and understand its own evolution and the possible future evolution of life in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Is About the Right Width</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a deeper level of introspection that is needed for to know oneself, is to know all others and to know oneself completely is to know all others completely too. This space inside is full of willpower and life and it directs your soul-power and influence your soul-power known by many other names, truth belongs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Passages, Waking Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my view one of the most freeing and individual human-centered takes on the development and potential of the mind was this dialogue from the movie Waking Life: The main character is what you might call &#8220;the mind&#8221;. It&#8217;s mastery, it&#8217;s capacity to represent. Throughout history, attempts have been made&#8230; to contain those experiences which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Escape So Fast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Universe got you down? First bring some grace to your mind. With this, ironically, grace to others is simultaneous. A nicely shaped concept, attainable but perhaps unsustainable. So slow maintenance soothes. Say to yourself: This is what I want — cosmic comfort. Tao friends unite, eat grapes, and be merry. Otherwise this wine will turn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Glorious Dawn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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