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There can be no intellectual, spiritual, or emotional life without the substratum of memory. Without cognition and awareness of beauty and appreciation of our limited time on planet Earth, humankind’s sojourn would be a colorless collage composed of the base acts of a biological mass endeavoring merely to survive. Without the ability to recall striking memories, our emotional life would be stillborn. Absent authentic memories, our life struggles would seem purposeless: human beings would exhibit no capacity to reflect awe when witnessing the bounty of nature’s plenitude or be able to take in and express intense reverence for all that is sacred. Without memory, there would not be a dais to support faith or any ability to imagine a God; the concepts of good and evil would be nonexistent; and the past and the future would become less relevant than the choice between salt or pepper, and paper or plastic.
There can be no intellectual, spiritual, or emotional life without the substratum of memory. Without cognition and awareness of beauty and appreciation of our limited time on planet Earth, humankind’s sojourn would be a colorless collage composed of the base acts of a biological mass endeavoring merely to survive. Without the ability to recall striking memories, our emotional life would be stillborn. Absent authentic memories, our life struggles would seem purposeless: human beings would exhibit no capacity to reflect awe when witnessing the bounty of nature’s plenitude or be able to take in and express intense reverence for all that is sacred. Without memory, there would not be a dais to support faith or any ability to imagine a God; the concepts of good and evil would be nonexistent; and the past and the future would become less relevant than the choice between salt or pepper, and paper or plastic.
Approximate author period: c. 2016 AD · contemporary
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- Kilroy J. Oldster
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- Approximate author period: c. 2016 AD · contemporary
Approximate historical context for attribution to Kilroy J. Oldster, based on documented writing activity in 2016. Author blog section: Why I Created a Blog, published 27 July 2016. The evidence is the dated original post, not the user-submitted quotations or account-registration date. Source: Why I Created a Blog — original author post, https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15511708.Kilroy_J_Oldster (checked 2026-10-09). This does not establish the composition date or authenticate the attribution of these words. Source: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15511708.Kilroy_J_Oldster (accessed 2026-10-09).
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