A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds..this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics. Michael Crichton
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People are so important to our world, especially nowadays. Our religions have made us fear ourselves and one another, causing us to do many bad things to one another. It's so wrong, but at the same time, it is news. Who among us has not done something that we should be ashamed of? If people believe that there are no evil people in the world, then why do they keep on doing things that are evil? There are many different types of bad people out there that exist, but evil is a common term used to describe them all.

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