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A Look Into the World of Vlogging

May 9th, 2016

Remember when online blogging was the newest thing? Well these days it’s all about video blogging, or vlogging, for short. Online vloggers make videos on a whole range of topics and offer their opinions.

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How to Become Immortal

April 29th, 2016

The fountain of youth is a long sought-after legend. But scientists may have found a new means of immortality; Downloading our consciousness to a hard drive, so our personality can live on after death.

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The God in our Pockets: Are We Guilty of Phone Worship?

January 15th, 2016

Our attention is focused on our screens. Our ancestors worshiped golden statues, but are we guilty of idolatry with a new object? Are we committing the 21st century sin of phone worship?

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Google's Artificial Intelligence Engine is "Dreaming"

July 29th, 2015

Google sorts information from all over the internet and organizes it for us. The site's programmers have recently given it a new way of using all of this data; to learn concepts and create original images.

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ULC Ministers Join in “Robot Wedding” Trend

January 31st, 2014

How would you like your wedding officiant to be C-3PO, the saucer-eyed bronze-plated android from Star Wars? Perhaps you would prefer to have his counterpart, the garbage-bin-shaped R2-D2, as your ring-bearer. The concept is not as far-fetched as it may seem.

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Computer-Brains and Life after Death

October 7th, 2013

What would it be like to live as a computer? Can computers preserve the consciousness of the human mind after death? Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking recently suggested it will someday be possible.

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Technology May Be Good for Religion After All

June 4th, 2012

Technology has definitely left its stamp on religion. Some have argued that technological advance will ultimately lead to the decline of religion, but it is also possible that tech will change the way religion works.

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Finding a Goldilocks Planet

April 10th, 2012

A NASA scientist recently announced that an Earth-like planet may be found as soon as 2014, given the rapid advances in planet-detection technology. And such a discovery may even yield signs of life

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Dodging Obstacles in the Online Ordination Boom

March 20th, 2012

Online ordinations have been booming in the last couple of years due to changing ideas about what a wedding looks like, with more people than ever becoming wedding officiants to marry their friends and family.

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Called to a Higher Purpose

March 15th, 2012

The Universal Life Church endorses a planetary defense system in case of a Near Earth Object - NEO - is discovered to be on a collision course with our planet. Such a tool would make us much safer.

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The Universal Life Church proudly welcomes all who feel called to get ordained, regardless of creed. We enable all faiths; Christian, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, Pagan, Wiccan, Atheist – and more – to join our growing non-denominational congregation. Underlying everything we do is a simple core belief: that we are all children of the same universe.

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