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I can name 8 for sure and for 2 more I have a guess.

The sadism in Book Two was tough to read, and I felt buried under a mountain of technical terms whose definitions kept changing. But once I realized that some characters in the book struggled with that, too, I just went with the flow and enjoyed the story. I recommend it!

Another plus: a YKarma-like currency, which I made one trivial pull request to: github.com/rezendi/ykar...

Nominally a sci-fi novel, Exadelic morphed into a tale of demons, daemons, sadism, romance, and cyberpunk futures. Some tech sounded familiar (like Google-ish mega-corporations) and sadly familiar (like "propaganda warfare"). In the end, it asked the question, what does it mean to be human?

Congratulations! After educating and challenging and enlightening the minds of so many people throughout your career, you've earned a little (a lot!) of "me time." May this change open up your schedule and mind and heart to many new, rewarding connections.

What’s not clear to me is, are we headed toward a King, or are we headed toward a Mob?

However, when I’m not being a people pleaser, say, when I want to win an argument, I can go too far. In both cases, the first gate (“Is it true?”) should keep me from harming myself and others.

California has the heft to do good, to do more than virtue posture. It has the ability to help keep the House a bit more representative.

“States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.” In 1947, when Robert Frost wrote this, he was referring to post-WWII nation states. But it’s a pretty apt description of present day US states.

I liked this poem because it reminded me how at times I can be a people pleaser without even being aware of it.

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I just listened to an NPR interview of Pete Buttigieg. He said "The only antidote to a politics of fear is a politics of courage." It made me think of your post here.

I’d honestly love to hear where you think we should go. A start toward what?

I'm skeptical because of America's loss of widely-shared values, labor's loss of economic heft, and humanity's loss of the ability to pay attention to anything longer than a few days. Plus, we still remember all the problems of pre-Trump America.

I really liked how it suggests that national borders or governments are irrelevant to my responsibilities as a compassionate human.

From yesterday's service at www.youtube.com/watch?v=goM2...

"Well, we just have to wait for someone who has more power than us, and they'll fix it for us." But waiting for elections and waiting for people in power to fix things for us is an abdication of our responsibility as people of God.