We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were.

Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.