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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. — Saint Augustine

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In Praise of the Long View Pt. 2

Wednesday, March 5th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

What is the secret to a richer, longer life? It is the long view. secularmornings.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

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In Praise of the Long View Pt. 1

Tuesday, March 4

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The consequences of our actions are not measured simply by how they affect our lives, nor just the lives of those around us, but instead in how they impact the lives of all future generations, and whether they honor the effort of generations past. secularmornings.substack.com/p/the-white-...

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The White Horse

Saturday, March 1

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Greg Jackson expresses something I've felt but couldn't name: the unsettling emptiness when you finally turn off the noise. And not just silence, but the realization that you've been avoiding your own company. secularmornings.substack.com/p/news-cycles

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News Cycles

Tuesday, February 25th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours, and their errors; but they have left us their adoration. - John Ruskin secularmornings.substack.com/p/central-ga...

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

There was someone I loved who grew old and ill One by one I watched the fires go out. There was nothing I could do except to remember that we receive then we give back. - Mary Oliver secularmornings.substack.com/p/river-clar...

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River Clarion

Tuesday, February 18th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf — seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life. - George Saunders secularmornings.substack.com/p/kindness

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Kindness

Monday, February 17th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We’re just as culpable in neglecting our own duties to alleviate suffering, and even in our everyday habits of shying away from uncostly acts of kindness. secularmornings.substack.com/p/comission-...

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Comission and Omission

Sunday, February 16th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Change is risky, and passivity is easy. But change is a necessary component of making our lives particular and real. secularmornings.substack.com/p/particular...

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Particular and Real

Saturday, February 15th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

There are natural laws — laws of causality, yes, but also mathematical laws that are true in their own right but manifest throughout the world. secularmornings.substack.com/p/higher-forms

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Higher Forms

Friday, February 14th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We don’t have to look others in the eyes, we’re often granted quasi-anonymity, and we’re constantly performing for everyone else. secularmornings.substack.com/p/internet-a...

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Internet & Identity

Thursday, February 13th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Most of all, I’m a product of the internet. secularmornings.substack.com/p/my-macintosh

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My Macintosh

Wednesday, February 12th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The patterns of human nature will emerge, however strange the world we create is, so long as we remain. secularmornings.substack.com/p/online-vil...

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Online Villages

Tuesday, February 11th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I guess the impulse to record is born out of thinking that I’m seeing something really special — and as such, I’d better record it, or else I’m losing it forever. But trying to run from that is futile. secularmornings.substack.com/p/the-stream

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The Stream

Sunday, February 9th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Our attitudes are less about who we are, and more about the environment around us. And our environments can change quickly. secularmornings.substack.com/p/on-optimis...

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Optimism and Despair

Saturday, February 8th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

secularmornings.substack.com/p/humanitys-... One of the best things about humanity is that our capacities are made, not granted.

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Humanity's Wings

Wednesday, February 5th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Something I’ve wanted forever from the internet, and which theoretically should exist but I haven’t yet found, is a space that feels like being lost deep in the stacks at my university library. secularmornings.substack.com/p/vellichor

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Vellichor

Monday, February 3

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

To intellectualize the horrors of the world is to deny a part of my own humanity. secularmornings.substack.com/p/the-unimag...

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The Unimaginable

Friday, January 31

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The death of pets is, perhaps, one of the most regular (and visceral) reminders the world gives us of what it means to be mortal. secularmornings.substack.com/p/unlike-snow

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Unlike Snow

Thursday, January 30

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I’ll forever have affinities to “external brain” note-taking and life management systems. Humans simply aren’t adapted to the many responsibilities of modern life, but with the right tools, we can outsmart ourselves. secularmornings.substack.com/p/not-enough...

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Not Enough Socks

Wednesday, January 29

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The relationship between intelligence and the world is a two-way street. secularmornings.substack.com/p/data-exhaust

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Data Exhaust

Tuesday, January 28

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trace the arc of your anger deep enough, and the bottom falls out. Your mind passes through “enemy” to body, neurons, genes, atoms, and on into some more naked and primordial source, where the fingers of blame falter and un-grip. - Joe Carlsmith secularmornings.substack.com/p/the-worlds...

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The World's Innocence

Monday, January 27

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

To love another person, particularly to love a child, is to hate disease, to see it clearly as humanity's oldest enemy, to wake up and fall asleep determined to destroy it. - Kelsey Piper secularmornings.substack.com/p/on-pepfar

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On PEPFAR

Sunday, January 26th

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

So, 7 hours for sewing, 72 for weaving, 500 for spinning, or 579 hours total to make one shirt. At minimum wage - $7.25 an hour - that shirt would cost $4,197.25 - Eve Fisher secularmornings.substack.com/p/one-shirt

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One Shirt

Saturday, January 25

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

From the universe’s point of view, everything is natural — trees and computers, grass and concrete, humans and animals. secularmornings.substack.com/p/natural-ki...

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Natural Kinds

Wednesday, January 22

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

For us to see the world that way again, sometimes it takes art that catches us off guard. Something that we can’t fit into learned patterns or neat interpretations. Art to be experienced, not explained. secularmornings.substack.com/p/off-guard

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Off Guard

January 22, 2024

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Oliver wrote this in 1986 so, clearly, some things don’t change: we’re not yet a mature society. secularmornings.substack.com/p/every-morn...

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Every Morning

Tuesday, January 21

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

One of the lessons best learned early is how sharply diminishing the returns to worrying are secularmornings.substack.com/p/i-worried

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I Worried

Monday, January 20

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves. - Atul Gawande secularmornings.substack.com/p/being-mort...

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Being Mortal Pt. 2

Sunday, January 19

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

You can’t keep any of it; there’s nothing to hold back for; your life is always flowing outwards, through you and away from you, into the world; the only thing to do is to give it away on purpose, and the question is where and to what. - Joe Carlsmith secularmornings.substack.com/p/being-mortal

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Being Mortal

Saturday, January 18

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Who is to say that this isn’t the way we experience the world right now — not as a real body in a real, persistent world, but instead as a string of Boltzmann brain snapshots in a sea of noise, separated by vast, immeasurable gaps in time? secularmornings.substack.com/p/boltzmann-...

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Boltzmann Brains

Friday, January 17

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

And so the world watches America—the only great power in history made up of people from every corner of the planet, comprising every race and faith and cultural practice—to see if our experiment in democracy can work. - Barack Obama secularmornings.substack.com/p/a-promised...

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A Promised Land

Thursday, January 16

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Tradeoffs are everywhere, and when things don’t work out, we ought to just calmly accept that — after all, it’s the price we pay for the many times things do work out. secularmornings.substack.com/p/no-take-on...

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No Take, Only Throw!

Tuesday, January 14

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So, if the Everettian multiverse is reality, we exist as continually branching selves like splitting amoeba, our ideas of morality are turned upside down, and there are compelling arguments for why there is no God overseeing it all. secularmornings.substack.com/p/self-defin...

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Self-definition

Tuesday, January 14

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire. - Jorge Luis Borges secularmornings.substack.com/p/time-rever...

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Time Reversibility Pt. 5

Monday, January 13

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Time moves, and it doesn’t stop. Moments aren’t ours to keep—they’re here and then they’re gone. This isn’t tragic; it’s just how things are. secularmornings.substack.com/p/time-rever...

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Time Reversibility Pt. 4

Sunday, January 12

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

We’re fortunate to exist in a universe with so much order — and one which will remain that way for a while, even if the arrow of time is irreversible. secularmornings.substack.com/p/time-rever...

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Time Reversibility Pt. 3

Saturday, January 11

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

But of course, the world is garbage recycled again and again. We may as well not call it garbage, since it’s what makes up the circle of life, and in fact the entire universe. secularmornings.substack.com/p/stardust

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Stardust

Friday, January 10

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We’d be hard-pressed to understand the present without admitting the reality of the past, and hard-pressed to change it without admitting our distinction from the past. secularmornings.substack.com/p/time-rever...

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Time Reversibility Pt. 2

Thursday, January 9

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you take the B-theory of time seriously, then however much goodness there is in the world, the first derivative of it is always zero. secularmornings.substack.com/p/time-rever...

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Time Reversibility

Wednesday, January 8

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Indeed, it is pretty wonderful how something growing by 1% a day is indistinguishable day-by-day, but radically different in the span of months. secularmornings.substack.com/p/step-by-step

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Step-by-Step

Tuesday, January 7

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Yes, you could change the weather. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise have done. But if you did, then you would never know what it would otherwise have done. It would be like giving an extra shuffle to an already well-shuffled pack of cards. - James Gleick

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Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe. - Neil Gaiman secularmornings.substack.com/p/cluelessne...

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Cluelessness Pt. 2

Sunday, January 5

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