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I am a mendicant student of the arts, an unrepentant freak and dedicated adherent of the Goth culture, eclectic spiritualist and rationalist, politically extropian and socially liberal. I make my way through this universe searching for transcendence and meaning,

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Health & Fitness > Substance Abuse Should marijuana be legalized?: 1 of 111

Question: would you rather pay less taxes, be personally safer from violent crime and terrorism, get more benefits from government programs, and enjoy the rights you are due as a citizen in a democratic nation? Or would you rather keep marijuana illegal? There are a multitude of reasons that the prohibitionary 'war against d...
Sciences > Sciences (Other) The social implications of transhumanism: 1 of 10

Transhumanism is a social and political movement for the information age and beyond, fusing activism and moral philosophy to cutting edge scientific and technological advances. The transhuman movement grew out of the humanist movements of past centuries, and is more lately influenced by the writings of thinkers such as Teilh...
Hobbies & Games > Video Game Reviews Online video game reviews: Great Tree: 2 of 11

The Great Tree is a fun action-adventure game in which the player controls a faerie who must collect magic pollen to save the life of their mystical home. You must move the mouse to control the direction and speed of your winged pixie, chasing glowing pollen grains and returning them to a central star for transport back to y...
Sciences > Anthropology (Other) Predicting the next phase of human evolution: 4 of 18

Every form of life is continually evolving, being shaped by the feedback loop of variation, selection, and retention of complex characteristics. Human life is no exception to this universal law. People have a tendency to think and act as if the human form has never changed and never will change, even those who profess to bel...
Religion & Spirituality > Religious Concepts (Other) Bridging the gap between science and religion: 3 of 12

A great problem that has afflicted much of global society over the last few centuries is the widespread perception of a 'rift', or 'war', or otherwise incompatibility between the knowledge gleaned from science - that is, the evolution of theories about the universe gained from the exercise of inductive experiment - and the e...
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) The Church of Satan: 1 of 4

The Church of Satan is a humanist, hedonist, egoist, and rationalist religion and the leader of the modern Satanist spiritual movement. The distinct religious body known as the Church of Satan was inaugurated by Anton Szandor LaVey in San Francisco, California on Walpurgisnacht (April 30), 1966. Other Satanic organizations o...
Religion & Spirituality > Religion & Spirituality (Other) The truth about the 80s satanic panic: 1 of 4

Throughout human history, there have been stories and rumours regarding groups of evil-doers dedicated to destroying social and moral order. These rumours can sometimes lead people to do terrible things to their fellow human beings. During periods of historical turmoil, when rapid changes in society are taking place and the ...
Entertainment > Music Business P2P: The ethics of music file sharing: 1 of 4

I'm old enough to remember when the only 'file sharing' one could do was copy a commercially released magnetic audio cassette tape onto a blank slave cassette. (Ancient, eh?) There was a small levy on blank tapes then, but beyond that nobody cared. There were no industry lawsuits; the idea that people could get in trouble fo...
Style & Beauty > Fashion Trends & Styles Personal style: Goth: 1 of 4

The iconic fashion ideology known as Gothic or Goth has its roots in several different style trends, which coalesced during the last decades of the 20th century around a memeplex of social and aesthetic ideals known as the Goth counterculture. These fashion trends include the decadent fashions of the European upper classes d...
Society & Lifestyle > Mythology & Folklore The possibilty of the existance of mythical creatures: 3 of 11

Many centuries ago, there was a trend among medieval intellectuals to compile what was known as a 'Bestiary' - a purportedly authoritative compendium of all animals known to man the world over. In the days before naturalism or taxonomy, when even a place as close as India might seem like an alien land, European scholars had ...