religion
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Wholly Man
I am a restless man, a wannabe holy man my mind churns over the meanings of God’s word it deconstructs the messages into pieces that can be weighed and measured held up to the light and examined closely, like a doctor with an x-ray. I find them to be great and daunting and confusing and…
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Incorruptible
The incorruptible saints lay still under glass canopies lovingly covered with silk burial gowns they lay there dry as bones as bones they are their skin tight around the curves of chins and eyes sunken in and dark. They see nothing as flesh once did but they aren’t really there, if there is a place…
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Welcome to the Machine
It was a red-letter day in the history of science. They had come to the Artificial Intelligence laboratory by the dozens; each of them one of the greatest minds from nearly every field of human intellectual endeavor. Here they congregated to participate in the penultimate Turing test of the Google Omni-Device™, the world’s most advanced…
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Pity the Stones
Pity the stones that stand to see here, where once was the cradle of civilizations, the toddlers that have walked away for a few thousand years and have grown to be adults of renown. Multiple times men have come out of the desert to claim a god has spoken to them. Saying that they had…
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The Unlived Ones
The fear. It’s a striking piece of information that lands in your lap and causes more obscene gesturing than would a cup of scalding hot coffee. People go through life with the deeply held notion that there is somehow meaning behind it all. The sharp, full bodied scent of life fills the nostrils and…
The Numinous Cosmos 