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North Wind People

“It’s hard to discriminate against outsiders when you identify with a power that’s thoroughly indifferent to human affairs. Individuals can be skilled or unskilled at dealing with the North Wind; groups can strive to stay in right relation with it, or take their chances. But if we live in its domain, we’re all subject to its rules.”

From R.G. Miga

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Soap Has Always Been With Us, and Longer Still

Soap is timeless, or rather a thing which reminds us that what we consider as time now is never linear, never a march from “primitive” to “progress.” Soap has always been with us, and longer still.

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Anti-Bodies

“You cannot transcend human nature, because there is no human without nature and no self without a body.”

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We F°cked Up Church

From R.G. Miga:

Despite all the engineering prowess we've learned in the intervening centuries, nothing we build today can match the elemental power of light and space and sound and stone, joined together to put humanity in touch with the Divine.

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There Goes the Neighborhood

Even if the literal floodwaters don’t come for us, the rushing currents of cultural and political instability will leave almost all of us washed out of our comfortable materialist worldviews.

From R.G. Miga

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Masses and Murder

Perhaps it is precisely the idea of “mass” itself which causes us to become morbidly fascinated with such rare mass murder events to the exclusion of the many, many, many other murders in the United States.

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