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“This place is wonderful. And I love you for trying to provide it for [us]. But there’s nothing here but existence.” – Lauren Olamina, in Parable of the Talents, by Octavia Butler “…We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny gives us of ourselves as a growing, purposeful species. We need to become the adult More

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