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I staggered up the stairs of a succulent courtyard as if I were irreversibly intoxicated. The luminescent sunbeams poured into my sun-sick eyes, which caused the rustling verdant leaves to subsist as an incessant shapeless blur. Before my eyes were able to fully adjust to this mystification, my ears were pierced with the most deafening and shrill ( Read more... )

Was the universe and life in it planned and created by a thinking entity with mysterious and magic powers? Anything is mysterious when we don't understand it. But when we study something, we learn, and the mystery disappears. Is it wise to assume that anything is unknowable when we have solved so many of life's mysteries already? Should we believe ( Read more... )

The word capital in "capital punishment" refers to a person's head. In the past, people were often executed by severing their head from their body. Clearly, this discussion will be about the death penalty and the view that this practice is necessary for the deterrence of heinous crimes ( Read more... )

Fool enough to almost be it; Cool enough to not quite see it ( Read more... )