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Nipple rings and genital piercings were once a symbol of the Victorian upper class
Nipple and genital piercings may seem like a new fad, but they have proven to withstand the test of time. Dating back to at least the Victorian era, intimate piercings have been the symbol of choice to demonstrate some societies’ most intrinsic values. Today, we tend to associate intimate piercings with unfavorable qualities like drug…
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Bhutan Creates Gross National Happiness Metrics to Gauge a Nation’s Well Being
Have you heard of Bhutan’s unique way of measuring national progress? The United States use GDP as a measure to gauge national progress, but nations all over the world are realizing how narrow-minded it is to measure a nation’s progress by how much it can produce. There has been growing interest in this concept all…
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Part 2: History of the Soul
If you just joined us, you’ve happened upon an attempt to cover the vast ocean of contributions to what we know as the ‘soul’ today. Quick recap: initial consideration of the soul began circa 200,000 BC, which lead to organized religion circa 9831 BC. Earliest written records date to around this time, and the first…
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Part 1: History of the Soul
Do you believe you have a soul? That all living things have souls (Animist religions)? That all living things have souls, but only human souls pass on to an afterlife, like supporters of Christianity and many—if not all—Abrahamic religions? That all things have souls resurrected within different forms depending on their karma, like Buddhists, Hindus,…