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The following is a list of topics on which I have had opinions for quite a while, and I thought that it would be nice to compartmentalize my thoughts into a small collection of essays. Responses are welcome.

Computer Technology and the Future

Robots and Mind Uploading

The near future will knock your socks off, the far future will be incomprehensible

Synthesized Voices

Hollywood's impending death

Unbreakable Encryption

Why aren't people using this stuff yet?

Digital Photography

Photography is an extraordinary example of the pace of modern technological change

The Carbon Age

Civilization is about to evolve a step

My Religion

A facetious, yet gripping, notion

Superhuman Intelligence, Super Absurd?

I posit that it might be impossible to be smarter than a human

Genetic Technology

Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research

People don't have a clue

Genetically Modified Foods (not completed yet)

Hippies and new-agers don't always make the right call

Science and Exploration

Aliens, UFOs, and SETI

A complete and total waste of time guaranteed to utter failure

Mars vs. Europa (not completed yet)

Where should we be looking for life

Politics

Death Penalty

I'm against it, but you better read why before drawing any conclusions

Abortion and Men's Reproductive Rights

Vehemently pro-choice, but with some side-thoughts about men's reproductive rights

The Abortion Debate

Pro-choice, with an explanation you probably haven't heard before

Religion

God's Existence

I'm adamently agnostic, but have an interesting thought experiment

Organized Religion (not completed yet)

How it helps, how it hurts

Separation of Church and State (not completed yet)

Good for all sides

Evangelism (not completed yet)

The truest evil

Religion's Impending Death

Most forms of religion will be completely dead within a hundred years

Secular Morality and Dreams

Why religious people who think they are so right are so wrong

Miscellaneous

Ruminations of an Insomniac

I am an insomniac, through and through. This essay is an analysis of its effects on my life for better and worse, my theories on its causes in my case, and experiences battling and/or embracing it.