Death Is, In Some Ways, Unacceptable. It's

Almost All Our Suffering Is The Product Of Our Thoughts. We Spend Nearly Every Moment Of Our Lives Lost In Thought, And Hostage To The Character Of Those Thoughts. You Can Break This Spell, But It Takes Training Just Like It Takes Training To Defend Yourself Against A Physical Assault.

I Think It [getting A Gun] Should Be Like Getting A Pilot's License. I Think You Should Require Training To Get A License To Have A Gun.

Any Conception Of Human Well-being You Could Plausibly Have, The Taliban Patently Fails To Maximize It.

My Concern With Religion Is That It Allows Us By The Millions To Believe What Only Lunatics Or Idiots Could Believe On Their Own. That's Not To Say That All Religious People Are Lunatics Or Idiots. It's Anything But That.

Life Is A Continuous Flux. Our Nonhuman Ancestors Bred, Generation After Generation, And Incrementally Begat What We Now Deem To Be The Species Homo Sapiens - Ourselves. There Is Nothing About Our Ancestral Line Or About Our Current Biology That Dictates How We Will Evolve In The Future. Nothing In The Natural Order Demands That Our Descendants Resemble Us In Any Particular Way. Very Likely, They Will Not Resemble Us. We Will Almost Certainly Transform Ourselves, Likely Beyond Recognition, In The Generations To Come.