Hm. The agents of the Atheist Apocalypse are older, whiter, and manlier than I had imagined them to be....
But I like how the New World will use the metric system.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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