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When Someone You Love Dies, Your World Goes With Them
Reflection on my mom's death and how it distorted my sense of time and space
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Identity Reveal: I’m Jesus Christ
After being afraid of dying during an earthquake, I figured it was time for me to say this.
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A Contest in Which All of Us Lose
"The Death of Ivan Ilyich" teaches us that the body's death can give birth to the soul, but it seldom does.
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In The Arms of Morpheus is rebranding to Microcosm.
From a science-only study of human behavior to one that invites literature, personal experience, and spirituality.
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Good Dancing is About Good Communication
Having a transcendental dance and a noteworthy conversation are hard for the same reason. Everyone wants to talk, not listen.
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Digital Swords
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Total Immersion
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In 2022, I Discovered I’m (Not) Enough
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Single Young Men
They are exhausting.
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Where Did Scientists Go, and Why Are They Licking Their Lips?
We haven't noticed the switch because they also have unkempt hair, red glasses, and match checks with stripes.
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Total Immersion
What a hundred bed bugs made me realize about my relationship with chaos as a high orderliness person.
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Young Men Aren’t Fucking, and We Are Just Laughing About It
How is it funny that men who don't fuck are were more depressed, anxious, lonely, and less satisfied about life than those that do?
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Sinning Because It Is Fun
Why you could hate being evil and still lust for it
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Digital Swords
On "first-world" digital nomads ignorantly forcing their own ideology and presence on others
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Farewell, Young Love
Most 20-year-olds who are or will be in a relationship will break up with their partner. I think you can be the exception.
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Microcosm is the only newsletter researching literature, science, and spirituality to understand nuanced human behaviors that science alone can't explain.
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