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Quit speaking as if you were dead.

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Unless...you know...you are actually dead. Then that's kinda cool. Or creepy. Ok, it's damned creepy, but I'd still want to know. Just not, like, while I'm in the loo or something.

to end all wars.

The always enlightening daoistraver presents this article:

"Is it possible for us to discover how to be an American – or an Australian, Norwegian, or Egyptian – without attaching existential importance to that fact? If so, we will likely end the divisions between ourselves and others and end our contributions to the war system that is the state. We will then be able to embrace our children and grandchildren with the love we have hitherto given to the nation-state, and no longer be willing to sacrifice their lives in the playing of this insane game." - Butler Shaffer

To which anansi133 added:

"Besides our nationality, we could make the same kind of choice about our skin color, gender, sex, and age. I think it would mean making no compromise in our own choices of how we define ourselves: not just accepting what's handed us by those with agendas of their own, but being proactive in our self-definition."

Add everything. It all matters.

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". . . . Soul and body, body and soul—how mysterious they were! There was animalism in the soul, and the body had its moments of spirituality. The senses could refine, and the intellect could degrade. Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the psychical impulse began? How shallow were the arbitrary definitions of ordinary psychologists! And yet how difficult to decide between the claims of the various schools!

Was the soul a shadow seated in the house of sin? Or was the body really in the soul, as Giordano Bruno thought? The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery, and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also. . . . ."

"(he) who separates body and soul has neither"

-Oscar Wilde.

Woo :)