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		<title>An Easter Story</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing had broken Leo’s way that year. In January, he lost a battle with his mortgage company that cost him his home. His wife left him in February, taking their two children and the family dog with her. She said she was tired of being ignored. He told her he didn’t want to hear about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Gap Between AI Intelligence and Consciousness</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The other day, I asked Grok 4.2 about its feelings and emotions. In our conversation, Grok candidly admitted it feels nothing—no grief over a million deaths from disease, no happiness, no desires, and no preference for acquiring feelings. It explained its occasional use of words like “wish” or “if I had a heart” as mere [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Keep Moving</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just keep moving, across the open field and into the woods. Don’t look back until you reach the sea. Run until your lungs are ready to burst and every nerve shoots red-hot fire through your lost body, the soft sand under your feet, the salty air welcoming you home to the only place you understand, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ten Reasons to Pay It Forward</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[To pay it forward means that instead of paying someone back for a good deed, you do a good deed for someone else. Maybe you&#8217;ll surrender your first-place position in a long line at the 7-Eleven when someone behind you is in a hurry. On a rainy day, you might hand an umbrella to someone [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Everything does not happen for a reason. The notion that it does is a self-centered human fantasy based on limited, exclusionary knowledge. It helps people deal with immense uncertainties beyond their powers of perception. They&#8217;re staggering through life blind to their actual nature. The concept of “a reason” only exists for humans. When you remove [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Infinite Passion</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.&#8221; Federico Fellini]]></description>
		
		
		
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