Distant Earth
Somewhere out there right now is someone seeing light from a distant planet Earth and assuming there is no intelligent life because it is light from thousands of years ago.
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God's Image
So many say we're created in God's image, yet act more like the shadow that merely follows. We call Him the Creator, yet so few carry on the work of actually creating.
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Sound is Just a Concept
Sound is just a concept, a label to a group of molecules moving together in tandem. There is no "thing" called sound that actually travels. It's just a domino effect.
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Destroying What Was There
If your only way to improve things is to destroy what was there before, then you're not trying to improve anything but yourself.
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Social Engineering
Social engineering - big words to sound like you were the victim of something ominous when actually you were just tricked by another human being.
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Starving Paradox
Humans - the only species that can be fat and starving at the same time.
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4D Quantum Superposition
Time travel is quantum superposition in 4D by existing across multiple points in time instead of space. And as soon as you witness one, the others disappear.
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Perpetual
Everything is perpetually falling - the moon, the stars, planets... And perpetually dying.
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Different Night Skies
That feeling of knowing we see the same night sky, the same stars and constellations, no matter how far apart we are, will one day be replaced by the feeling of realizing we might not even see the same moon.
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Death is Only Natural
Death is only natural... That is, until you find a cure. Then they'll kill you to have it.
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World Without Senses
Imagine having no sight, no hearing, no senses. The world exists but you wouldn't know it. Your body depends on this place outside your reality, but you aren't even aware of having a body, of its actions from your thoughts, of others who see you and perhaps try to interact with you. God probably thinks we're in a coma.
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The Average is Not Real
The average is not a real number. If one fish is fresh water and the other salt, optimizing for the average kills both.
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Shaping Dreams
Some let the world shape their dreams. Others let their dreams shape the world.
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It Only Takes One
If you drop a book a thousand times and just one of those times it doesn't fall, then that is the one datapoint worth looking at. (inspired from "I Origins")
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What No One Else Wants
Why put effort into something no one else wants? Because I want it. Is your life dream just to serve everyone else?
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Time of Night
The music was playing faster, yet the tempo was the same as before. No, in the dead of night, time was just moving faster. Asleep and awake becoming one and the same.
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Stretch of Mind
Your body can only stretch so far, but your mind can stretch forever.
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Butterfly at the Windowsill
A butterfly lay dead at my windowsill this morning, inside, having been unable to escape to the world just beyond the glass.
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Arc of Life
In the comfort of youth, I long for the worlds beyond. In pursuit of the unknown, I yearn for the older, simpler days of familiarity. In realizing the world I seek does not exist in reality, I run away into my dreams, only for them to fade into memories of what I tried to leave behind. Hence, God created death.
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False Modesty
Calling yourself pathetic is not being humble. It's actually being pathetic.
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