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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Great stuff, thanks. As you suggest: the biosphere tries to teach us how to be naturally cooperative humans. But we usually reject its ancient sapient counsel in favor of rootless fables and carelessly fabricated half-truths.

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Riff McClavin's avatar

I find religions' attempts to explain humaning to have failed miserably, and here in the West, where Christianity dominates, the idea of original sin atoned by human sacrifice to be a ghastly case of moral extortion blotting out what should be a beautiful mystery.

Naturally, as l picked up my phone to write this, l managed to spill hot coffee all over the sofa. Pretty damn human of me, l must say.

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