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Culture, Race & Economy

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  1. WHOOOOOO! WE'RE NO 1 USA! USA! USA! http://www.golf-talk.co.uk/news/st-louis-most-dangerous-city-in-the-us/12457501

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  2. Started by Delano,

    https://www.rawstory.com/how-19-hollowed-out-a-generation-of-young-black-men/

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  3. My name is Porscha LaDonna Garner (maiden name Johnson). I am a tutor teacher professional of all grades (K-12) normal and special education. My college education was financed with student loans that I was encouraged (by all) to use to a total of $60,000. In my ignorance I did not factor in fees or interest or bad advice and my debt now exceeds $82,000. For the next 15 weeks (see count down) I am going to tell my story here in 15 parts (with weekly video chapter updates) while I ask for donations to liquidate my debt. With your help by the end of this 15 weeks, I will be debt free. It occurs to me that student debt is benefiting banks, schools, etc... every one except the…

  4. Started by harry brown,

    I WONDERED WOULD THE U.S. HAVE GOTTEN INVOLVED WITH WW 2 IF PEARL HARBOR WAS NOT ATTACKED.THE U.S. HAD NO IDEA WHAT HILER WAS DOING WITH THE JEWS../IT AMAZING THE U.S. GOT INVOLVED IN THE NUREMBERG TRIALS, SAYING HOW BAD HITLER WAS,THE U.S. AS VILE AND EVIL, MURDEROUS AS HITLER....U.S. BLACK SOLDIERS , TREATED LIKE THEY WERE NOTHING , I BELIEVE SOME WERE KILLED AFTER RETURNING ROM WW2...BLACK CHURCHES BOMBED, BURNED, LYNCHING AND HANGING OF BLACK PEOPLE, SCHOOLS SEGREGATED, ,COMMMUNITIES SEGREGATED...IT AMAZES ME HOW U.S. GOVERNMENT WAS AT THE NU…

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  5. Pro Football Owners an To Give 100 Million Dollars For Social- Justice Organizations . Football Owners Want The Kneeling Down,To Stop. 100 Million Dollars For Social Justice. Former ,NBA Players Magic Johnson And Jamal. Mashburn Who Have,Business Should Give Their Advice. Black Football Players,Should Get Together . Not The Preachers,NAACP,Politicians . They Will Be Jackals,Hyenas ,Snakes And Vultures With Money. Preachers Only Care About,Money . Believe Jesse Jackson Jr. Was Behind Bars For Stealing Campaign Money....Black Police Mouths Shut With Racist White Police Fired For Being KLAN Members,Or Getting,Away With Murdering Unarmed Black Males.. .NAACP-Do ,Not Want …

  6. Started by bookfan,

    The investigation of peace activists in Minneapolis and Chicago is part of a new push by the Department of Justice to undermine support for organizations the federal government has designated as “foreign terrorist organizations.” This strategy involves prosecuting even those American citizens who merely support the legal activities of such organizations. The targets of this strategy, naturally, are often vocal opponents of some aspect of the U.S. government’s foreign policy. This strategy got a big boost from Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project, a 2010 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled 6-3 that it was not unconstitutional to punish Americans who sought to pro…

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  7. IN SOUTH FLORIDA , 9 STUPID BLACK MEN ARRESTED FOR GAMBLING ON YOUTH FOOTBALL GAMES.GAMBLING ON YOUTH FOOTBALL GAMES..JUST WHEN I THINK BLACK MEN CANNOT GET ANY STUPIDER..GAMBLING ON YOUTH FOOTBALL GAMES...IN GREENVILLE,TEXAS, MISSING BLACK GIRL BODY FOUND IN STORAGE TRUNK....KLAN POLICE DID NOT PUT OUT A AMBER ALERT TILL AFTER THE GIRL WAS MISSING 3 DAYS..WHEN BLACK CHILDREN ARE MISSING, THE BLACK CHURCHES, NAACP AND BLACK POLITICANS DO NOT LLOK FOR BLACK CHILDREN... THEY ARE AS BAD AS THE KLAN POLICE..... GIRL NAMES WAS ALICIA MOORE....WHERE WAS THE TEXAS NAACP, BLACK CHURCHES AND POLITICIANS IN TEXAS....////

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  8. Started by Gibran,

    As soon as I got busted for the robbery, I immediately went to work piecing together an alibi since I knew that I had not robbed the place, but let me give you the back story. After getting out of the feds for bank robbery, I got a gig at a Pizza Hut where the wife of my co-defendant on the bank robberies work. I was cool with working and I worked every day, and since I was trying to stack up a lil paper, I worked any time anyone wanted to take a day off. I eagerly filled in. I was still in the federal Halfway House and though I could come and go pretty much as I pleased, I had a 10:00 curfew. During the spring, a white regional manager from VA came down to Ch…

  9. Last First Kiss by Julian Winters Published: January 27, 2026 Imprint: St. Martin’s Griffin View Book Details → The publisher just emailed me promotional info about this book today, but I was already aware of it and had added it to the site some time ago and forgot about it. When I saw the email at looked at the book's cover I could not help but think of @Pioneer1 and what he would think about this one. I could not help but laugh to myself. Of course, I'm part of the conspiracy to feminize the Black man 🙂

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  10. Started by boitumelo,

    IN,FLORIDA,17,YEAR,OLD,TRAYVON-MARTIN,WAS,DELIBERATELY,KILLED..THE,TRASH, THAT,KILLED,TRAYVON,SAID,TRAYVON,WAS,BLACK,AND,SUSPICIOUS.THE,TRASH, THAT,KILLED,TRAYVON,IS,NOT,ARRESTED,YET..SOUNDS,KLANISH...REV.AL,SHARPTON,IS, INVOLVED,,THERE,MAYBE,A,FEDERAL,INVESTIGATION..BLACK,PEOPLE,IN,FLORIDA,, PROTESTING.....ALSO,IN,FLORIDA,BLACK,MOTHER,TRIES,TO,KILL,HER,11,MONTH,OLD, BABY,IN,THE,HOSPITAL...IN.ORLANDO...FLORIDA...BLACK,PEOPLE,PROTEST,TIME,TO, PROTEST,IRRESPONSIBLE,AND,MURDEROUS,VIOLENT,PARENTS,IN,THE,COMMUNITY... REASON,FOR,COMMAS,SPACE,BAR,PROBLEM,WILL,FIX,PROBLEM....SOON....

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  11. Join the fight for independence on the Web. Learn how and why it is important:

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  12. Started by Cynique,

    i am becoming more and more into visual images that excite my focus and illustrate silence. So much better than the empty words of shallow minds.

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  13. Started by Troy,

    When I tell you it was a party y'all trust me the whole audience was getting down! More photos from the celebration

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  14. Started by Cynique,

    It was Monday, a new work week and maybe a new beginning Carole thought as, spotting an opening, she decided to go for it. Why not? Troy Briggs had no problem invading her space during break-time. So, she’d return the favor, using the occasion to try and smooth things over between them. Glad she had decided to glam-up while getting dressed that morning, she was an appealing sight in her black leather knee-high boots and the snug little red skirt that was set off by a flower-printed blouse with frilly sleeves and scooped neckline. Strutting her way through the congested cafeteria, she approached the table where her antagonist sat reading a newspaper, looking rath…

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  15. How American Antiwar and Solidarity Movements in 60s Impeded an Effective Invasion of Cuba Fair Play for Cuba and the Cuban Revolution by BILL SIMPICH July 26, Cuba’s most important holiday, is the commemorative date in 1953 when Castro and his forces unsuccessfully stormed the government stockade at Moncada and ignited the Cuban revolution. On a day like today, it should be noted that Americans made a successful Cuban invasion impossible with a campaign of determined resistance. Antiwar and solidarity activists came together to protect the Cuban revolution during the era of 1960-1963 – the era of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and the JFK as…

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  16. Anytime data is involved, people will game the system. I remember at least two different editors from "big 5" publishing houses saying that they consider how many Twitter followers someone when deciding whether they will publish them. One even mentioned a threshold, saying they look for 10k followers minimum. I thought that was the silliest criteria for determining whether an author would get published that I ever heard. They reasoned that having 10K followers means you have a platform. I always thought this was just another hoop they made Black authors jump through. In fact, I wrote an article saying writers don't need Twitter, based on the simple premise that the…

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  17. While I heard mentions of various connections between astrology and philosophers, I felt most were apocryphal. Currently looking at Porphyry, Iamblichus and Plotinus.

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  19. He Named Me Malala Film Review by Kam Williams Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements involving disturbing images and threats) Genre: Documentary Directed and Written by: Davis Guggenheim In Theaters: Oct 2, 2015 Limited Runtime: 2 hr. Malala Yousafzai was named after a girl who spoke out and was killed for speaking out. That folk hero was a flag-bearing teenager who perished in 1880 while rallying fellow Pashtun resistance fighters to an unlikely victory over British invaders in a pivotal battle of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. After settling on the very meaningful moniker, Malala's father inscribed it into his genealogy because no females were mentioned in his fa…

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  20. 5th Day of ‪#‎BlackHistoryMonth African American History Month Quizzes This is always a popular page on my website each February.

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  21. I'm feeling the effects of both the digital divide and net neutrality. Are you? I teach at one of the colleges of a major university; all the university's classes have been converter to online. Many of the students simply cannot easily engage in online courses, because they simply do not have own a computer with high speed access to the internet. Most access the internet with a smartphone. The closure of schools, libraries, cafes, and other venues that provided free internet access has effectively eliminated all sources of alternative access. Given the 3 million+ new filers for unemployment. those with access will be under increased dif…

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  22. Started by ProfD,

    Nevermind the fact that SCOTUS Justice has a job for life that pays over $255k annually. Apparently, Justices are also allowed to sign book deals while sitting on the bench: https://www.sent-trib.com/news/justice-barretts-425k-tops-among-supreme-courts-authors/article_ef630d86-e8e7-11ec-ab16-4fa20f798a88.html Justice Amy Comey Barrett appointed in 2020 has already received a $425k advance on a book deal worth $2 million. This is just an example of how public officials rake in a lot of dough beyond their salaries. It might also influence, er, explain their politics. Watch their hands. Follow the money. 😎

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  23. THE KILLER OF TRAYVON MARTIN IS BEING PROTECTED BY WHITE POLICE..IF THE KILLER HAD KILLED A WHITE BOY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED OR SHOT BY POLICE..REV. SHARPTON IS PROTESTING,PEOPLE ARE ON THE NEWS...WHAT ABOUT INNER BLACK MALES SHOT DOWN BY STREET GANGS,DRUG GANGS../NO PROTESTING FOR THEIR JUSTICE..WHERE IS THE BLACK CHURCH /ONLY THING BLACK PREACHERS CARE ABOUT, IS MONEY MOSTLY WHITE POLITICAL MONEY..WHERE ARE THE RICH BLACK ATHLETES, ENTERTAINERS/THEY CAN SHOW UP FOR AWARDS BUT NOT PROTEST,.THIS TRASH THAT, KILLED TRAYVON MARTIN LOKS HISPANIC,THE WHITE PEOPLE SUPPORTING HIM, WOULD, NOT BE IF HE GUNNED DOWN A WHITE PERSON....EVERY B…

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  24. "Cuba was always represented as a black child." I'm not a big fan of Louis Gates Jr., but this documentary actually tells much more about Cuba from the days of slavery to the days of the Cuban revolution than what is usually told.It even shows how the United States tried to import American style apartheid to Cuba. It goes into how Europeans were imported to Cuba to "whiten" Cuba. It talks about how the battleship was sent to Cuba to protect American interests long before Castro. It goes into the many years of American intervention, how America's colonialism replaced Spain's colonialism in America. The United States of America tried to impose a Jim Crow state in Cub…

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  25. Started by harry brown,

    A NEW MOVIE, SON OF GOD/ ANOTHER WHITE CHRIST MOVIE/WONDER HOW MANY BLACK IDIOT CHRISTIANS WILL CRAWL AND GO SEE IT///BIBLE DOES NOT SAY JESUS AND GOD IS WHITE/WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE BELIEVE IT//BLACK PREACHERS CONTROL THE FLOCK/TELL THEM JESUS IS WHITE THEY WILL BELIEVE IT..../PREACHERS ARE AS BAD AS PIMPS,DRUG DEALERS AND GANGS HAVING BLACK PEOPLE SLAVED AND CONFINED......DO BLACK CHRISTIANS READ THE BIBLE OR JUST LISTEN TO THE PREACHER TELL THEM WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS...../////

  26. Widely hailed as a landmark project, Zun Lee's monograph is at once documentary photography and personal visual storytelling. Through intimate black-and-white frames, 'Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood' provides insight into often-overlooked aspects of African-descended family life.The reader gains an intimate view into the daily lives of black men whom Lee has worked with since 2011 and who are parenting under a variety of circumstances - as married fathers, single fathers, social fathers, young and older, middle class and poorer. Lee brings into focus what pervasive father absence stereotypes have distorted - real fathers who are involve…

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  27. Started by Delano,

    Has any one seen Fruitvale? Also interested in your opinion even if you haven't seen it.

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  28. Started by Delano,

    https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/03/news/companies/cfxolin-kaepernick-nike-just-do-it/

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  29. Started by harry brown,

    STRANGE MAN CLIMBS THE WHITE HOUSE ,FENCE,,GETS TO THE WHITE HOUSE DOOR WITH A KNIFE...PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS FAITH IN HIS SECURITY,WHY//////PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY FEAR A MIDDLE EAST TERROR ATTACK..NEWS SAYS, ISIS TERROR GROUP MAY HAVE TERRORIST IN THIS COUNTRY...BUT, A STRANGE MAN CAN JUMP CLIMB OVER THE WHITE HOUSE FENCE AND GET TO THE WHITE HOUSE DOOR WITH A KNIFE....//IS PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SAFE.//////NEXT TIME MAYBE THE NEO NAZI MIGHT TRY IT.. 2008, THE NEO NAZI WAS PLANNING TO ASSASSINATE CANDIDATE-BARACK - OBAMA...//THEY WERE ARRESTED WITH WEAPONS./////

  30. Rodney. Reed. Will. Be. Executed. Before. Thsnksgiving..He. ,Was,Sent,To. Death. Row. Found. Guilty. Of. Murdering. A ,White,Woman. . He. Says. He. Innocent. Jury Was. White... The,White,Woman He Accused Of Murdering,Was A Girl Friend,Of ,A Ex White Police Officer. When The Ex White Police Officer,Was,A Police Officer He Served 10- Years For Kidnapping-Sexual Abuse.. When He Was In Prison He Told A Racist White,Man,His Girl Friend Was Involved With A Black Man,He. Was,Angry. About. It....People. Think. Ex. White. Police. Officer. Murdered. His. Girlfriend. ,. People. ,Celebrities. Are. Protesting. ,To,Stop. Rodney. Ree…

  31. Please Fam please read, share you must go to the site to comment help it move up the search ranks. This is a warning we are sending to black folks. Posting this everywhere we can please read!!! https://rootsofblack.com/blogs/news/semiconductor-shortage-farming-food-shortages-and-droughts-paying-farmers-to-destroy-food Semiconductors are any class of crystalline solids intermediate in electrical conductivity between a conductor and an insulator. Semiconductors are employed in the manufacture of various kinds of electronic devices, including diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits. This is the simple way of understanding; semi…

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  32. Started by careycarey,

    I am wondering if we will see any black faces on Oscar night? It does not look good, does it? Well, I want to get Thump's opinion because that man don't miss. For those of you thats been following this site, you know Thumper picks the winners as if he has a crystal ball. So, if anyone happens to see my guy, tell him to hit me. Here's my big head... in review. http://www.youtube.c...DAeNxu8&index=2 Yeah, that's me behind the mic. Eat your heart out, Kola. :-)

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  33. Hill Harper discusses his latest book, "The Wealth Cure," with Miss Black America Baltimore 2011, Alexandra Morton. Also featured in this episode is Tananarive Due's "My Soul to Take." Go to http://www.TheBookLook.com to view the show.

  34. In Mexico and Peru Professor Gates explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black people—the two countries together received far more slaves than did the United States —brought to these countries as early as the 16th and 17th centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru. Watch full episode. Another Louis Gates documentary: Also, Dr. Ivan van Sertima, author of "They Came Before Columbus" (about African Presence in Ancient America) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nceKy72vV0

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  35. The works of 25 African-American Master Artists and their Contemporaries will be on display for the Black Art In America™ at The Faison Firehouse Theater Art Show and Sale October 3rd - 6th. The public is invited to attend. The Faison Firehouse Theater is located at: Six Hancock Place, NYC 10027 (124th Street between Nicholas & Morningside Avenues).

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  36. No Way!—100 degrees Fahrenheit in Siberia in June 2020! Global Warming!? Temperatures in an Arctic Siberian town hit 100 degrees, a new high Wow! Some reports state that this has never happened in recorded history. Also it has been reported that the average temperature in Siberia during the month of June would be around 68 degrees, but 100 degrees Fahrenheit!? Man! These are the last days before a new ‘day’! This is what some of the article states: An unprecedented heatwave in one of the coldest places on Earth just reached a distressing milestone. Temperatures in the small Siberian town of Verkho…

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  37. Started by hen81,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bd47CRbS2Q

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  38. ON CNN NEWS LAST NIGHT...A 5 YEAR OLD NAMED JHESSEY SHOCKLEY IS MISSING IN ARIZONA..I THINK HER MOTHER WAS BEHIND BARS FOR CHILD ABUSE....MOTHER SAYS SHE DOES NOT KNOW WHERE CHILD IS....WHEN BLACK CHILDREN ARE MISSING, DOES THE BLACK CHURCH, BLACK POLITICIANS AND NAACP GO OUT AND LOOK FOR BLACK CHILDREN WHO ARE MISSING///PREACHERS CARE ABOUT MONEY, POLITICIANS WANT MONEY AND TO CONTROL VOTES,NAACP CARES ABOUT GIVING AWARDS TO THE BLACK RICH AND FAMOUS......

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  39. Started by Chevdove,

    I Saw the LUNAR ECLIPSE! Actually, I had no idea that I was looking at a Lunar Eclipse initially. I had become very tired and laid down and fell asleep late in the evening on July 4, but when I woke up, it was after Midnight and I went outside to get some fresh air. So, in the wee hours of the morning on July 5, when I opened my door, I was surprised to see the sky lit up so brightly that I gasped and step outside on my porch to gaze at the night sky. Oh, the moon is full, I came to realize but for some reason, it seemed strange to me that the sky looked so bright and clear. I could see a few clouds gathering but nevertheless, it see…

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  40. remember to have fun

  41. Started by Troy,

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  42. Two different visions. Which do you like?

  43. Started by Stefan,

    Scotland's Sunday Post and a couple of U.K. newspapers have published a news story that reported that Prestwick airport, near Trump’s Turnberry golf course resort, has been told to expect a U.S. military Boeing 757 on January 19th. The aircraft has occasionally been used by Trump, the paper reported. There are two Boeing VC-5 aircraft that are used as Air Force One. But Trump will not be using them for this Scotland trip. The trip will allow Trump to avoid being in D.C. for the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden.

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  44. enjoy two articles and snippets Single Status Update from 06/13/2022 by richardmurray - AALBC.com’s Discussion Forums

  45. Started by richardmurray,

    Have you heard of Black whiskey blender Eboni Major and her brand Dread River https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2207&type=status

  46. In my view, his choice was honest or true, even if it cost him and Deep Space Nine having even one film, afterwards.

  47. You know the gal who starred in Spike Lee's "She's Gotta Have It"?

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  48. Started by Troy,

    My new favorite website: kentakepage.com now in Huria Search and the blogger database

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  49. Guest Gene Alexander Peters
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    Greetings Bro. Troy- (Gene Alexander Peters , the African American Artifacts Collector here). Just a quick question.... I recently came across an ORGINAL single-sheet, double-sided newsletter from the "NEGRO BOOK CLUB, INC" from 1963. Do you have ANY knowledge of this club/organization?? (I can scan a pic, if needed). Tks. 'Gene. (email= gene.peters@farmingdale.edu)

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  50. Started by Delano,

    Spirituality is the counterbalance to our body, personality and all that is tangible. The body is a ship and spirituality is our anchor in the higher realms. You could exhange spirituality with world view or existential contemplation of essence. Religion is a lower order manifestation of spirtuality. Analogous to the word apple and the object. So your spiritual approach defines and informs your actions personality, thought process, and emotions. All of the later terms are constructs or a way to embody the intangible essence. These constructs are what make life feel real. Its easier to argue religion or spirituality. Than the reality of your body. Yet you…

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