“Can a Bot go beyond its programming and our inputs to devise unique solutions to novel problems - solutions that exhibit Justice as their determinative Value?” 

”…We are proposing a new model of causality - one that is super strong locally (Laplace) and vanishingly weak everywhere else (Hume).”

“God is our fellow traveler. He suffers along with us; we are simpatico… like Bill Clinton, God feels our pain.”

“…There was once a time (ah, the ‘60s) when such a proposition was a serious topic of conversation…”

“…Kabbalah offers a systematic philosophy that includes cosmology and ethics as well as metaphysics.”

“…We owe our adulthood to others…our species…our families, our sources of income, our communities. Adulthood is being-for-others; childhood and seniority are, potentially at least, being-for-ourselves.”

“We engage in spiritual practices and so does God…we both seek the Unity that underlies Plurality…but so does everything else!”

“The Illuminati prefer their 19th century ideologies to science’s 20th century discoveries… the ‘sin’ of heretics, then and now, is narrowness of vision.”

“Instead of preventing all wars, or at least all nuclear wars, we’ve decided to focus on surviving one.”

“Marxism’s stated goal is to transfer ownership of the means of production to the producers. Dare I say, Mission Accomplished?”

“The centralization of political power in Rome killed polytheism. Will the decentralization of intelligence spark its return?”

“Thank God we don’t really live in a world like that! Fortunately, it’s all just a bad dream, a media special effect, a trick of language. Now…if only I could just wake up!”