Aliens seeded or significantly influenced the development of the human race, a la 'Prometheus'.
So who created the aliens?
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#12That love really does exist, and will save us all.
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#13when you die, nothing happens. You cease to exist and there is no soul, heaven, hell, - nothing is revealed, you do not become one with consciousness, etc.
But I hope I'm wrong
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#14Self-driving cars are potentially the greatest threat to human freedom since the advent of the internet.
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#15That people should care that their children's required Google-docs stored (and other methods) essays written in school are also being scooped up and subject to government algorithmic analysis with unknown present and future consequences. This isn't paranoid, it's the current state of things, and no one in either teachers' organizations or parents (or grandparents, uncles, aunts, etc.) seems to care at all about their own children. Apparently no one agrees that it's a problem, since the subject is never brought up or discussed.
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#16Peter Thiel loves asking this question to startups. What's funny is that writer Sarah Lacy posed it to him once (and uses it regularly at Pando Monthly events), and his answer was apparently, "That's a really hard question to answer."
http://pando.com/2012/04/19/peter-thiels-pointed-questions-t...
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#17Humans have no right to exclude others from areas of land larger than their house and a small garden.
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#18I believe a happy person would be made poorer (in the ways that matter) by winning the lottery. I'm the only person I know who doesn't want to win the lottery.
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#19The only meaningful measure of skill is the amount of pain experienced acquiring it.
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#20Science has convincingly shown that consciousness and perception of "self" is an illusion, and thus acting as if "you" are real, or matter to the universe, is as fallacious and irrational as believing in a supernatural creator or ghosts. "You" are a short-lived perturbation in the block-universe. This reality, in combination with the nevertheless undeniable subjective experience of my own self, narrowly privileges selfish pleasure-seeking over all other moral codes, which themselves are utterly devoid of rational justification.