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The Ghost of Carl Sagan Is a Rhetorical Device
People keep on discovering it. You can't chase it away. It's there. Well, I guess that's why we have so many words for it in English now. And part of that is because there's so many people out there who have done martial arts or some of the other practices, they've felt the stuff. Right. Exactly. When you actually feel it yourself, it becomes painfully clear that it's sometimes very painfully clear, depending on your choice of martial art, that this thing is a reality. There are billions and billions of reasons. Even the talking about the ghosts of Carl Sagan is a little rhetorical device simply. He would have turned so fetchingly purple to hear it