Story Of Our Species...everyone Knows It's Coming,

Morality Must Keep Up With Technology Because If A Person Is Faced With The Choice Of Being Moral And Dead Or Immoral And Alive, They'll Choose Life Everytime.

The Experience Of Climbing Kilimanjaro Affected Me So Powerfully That, For A Long Time Afterward, If I Caught Myself Saying, "i'm Not A Person Who Likes To Do That Activity, Eat That Food, Listen To That Music," I Would Automatically Go Out And Do What I Imagined I Didn't Like. Generally I Found I Was Wrong About Myself - I Liked What I Thought I Wouldn't Like. And Even If I Didn't Like The Particular Experience, I Learned I Liked Having New Experiences.

The Characteristic Human Trait Is Not Awareness But Conformity, And The Characteristic Result Is Religious Warfare. Other Animals Fight For Territory Or Food; But, Uniquely In The Animal Kingdom, Human Beings Fight For Their 'beliefs.' The Reason Is That Beliefs Guide Behavior, Which Has Evolutionary Importance Among Human Beings. But At A Time When Our Behavior May Well Lead Us To Extinction, I See No Reason To Assume We Have Any Awareness At All. We Are Stubborn, Self-destructive Conformists. Any Other View Of Our Species Is Just A Self-congratulatory Delusion.

Do You Want To Understand How To Swim, Or Do You Want To Jump In And Start Swimming? Only People Who Are Afraid Of The Water Want To Understand It. Other People Jump In And Get Wet.

In A Media-saturated World, Persistent Hype Lends Unwarranted Credulity To The Wildest Claims.