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Many Americans aren't rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.
We don’t understand why loneliness is bad for us if all we can say is that it hurts.
Your very own "Conspiracy Detection Kit."
Is history decided by discernible laws or does it unfold based on random, unpredictable occurrences?
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Satanic cultists don't even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
It might seem petty and shallow to get upset over a bad gift, but there's often a deeper reason behind the feeling.
After 10,000 years of civilization, have we figured out what virtue is?
Every Christmas could be the last Christmas.
We could even benefit from more whataboutisms — if they're used properly.
Think you should speak about 40% of the time in conversation? How about 70%?
To be successful at bonsai cultivation, you must acquire the perseverance and unconditional kindness normally reserved for devout monks.
Why, exactly, don't you trust that person's opinion?
Do our thoughts have any meaning whatsoever?
Some animals were even assigned their own lawyers.
Is it deliberate fraud or just bad research?
Be famous within five miles.
What's the point of all that money?
We're still using 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid a year, but burials are becoming far less common.
Why, exactly, should you die for your child?
Nietzsche both wished he was as stupid as a cow so he wouldn’t have to contemplate existence, and pitied cows for being so stupid that they couldn’t contemplate existence.
People tend to underestimate how much a friend they’ve lost contact with would enjoy a simple note saying "hi."