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The Chalice or The Blade

… a collaborative effort between Ife Aziz (http://www.youtube.com/PepperMintLIfe) and Aaron Moritz made possible through the internet, which allowed us to reach out, empathize, and share ideas with one another. On many fronts, the fact that this video exists is a testament to the reality of what it puts forth; ultimately, a challenge to the theory that humans are hardwired for competition and aggression, rather than co-operation, and empathy.
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it’s times like this that make you question who the fuck you are.

I just walked home from work. I’m used to passing homeless people, it’s usually the same ones by the hotel I work at. I know their faces, but not their names. I don’t make eye contact, usually, because that would …

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do we have free will?

My gut is saying no, but, really, what the fuck does my gut know? The more I learn about the structure of the human mind, about the technicalities of our thinking processes, the more I start to see consciousness as …

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it could maybe be that

Or say, a revolution is brewing on the internet. Say billions of completely peaceful people are organizing to come together and take back their planet from the scared individuals with too much money and too many guns. Say every phone …

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Shambhala — music fest/spiritual retreat

Shambhala music festival has been my yearly escape for quite a few years now (I’m gonna say 6). It’s nearly a week long, camping in the forest next to some big ass stages and loud music. There are people high …

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retrospective

When I first posted I Refuse to be Terrified, I didn’t even know I’d make it into a video: let alone that making these video’s would become an obsession of mine: Some are better than others, some are more popular than …

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the impossibility of non-transparency on the internet?

People get very riled up about privacy issues online, and I always have to wonder, who are you hiding from? You, when you said your Facebook profile to ‘private’, what information are you protecting? And who are you protecting it …

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is it really spiritual if it doesn’t do anything?

“I embrace my desire to feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow, to feel inspired, to fathom the power, to witness the beauty, to bathe in the fountain, to swing on a spiral, …

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believe nothing and understand as much as possible

I think I’m gonna make that my motto, or a mantra or something. Step 1: -Don’t believe what’s in the papers. -Don’t believe what’s on TV. -Don’t believe what’s on the internet. -Don’t believe activists. -Don’t believe special interest groups. …

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EVERYTHING IS OK

Why? Because when everything is ok, parents don’t send their children to die in Iraq and Afghanistan. When everything is ok, people aren’t scared of terrorists or swine flu. When everything is ok,  people don’t need to mindlessly consume and buy things because …

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