Excellent questions.
The exploding pagers story is significant on a number of levels.
On a purely cold-hearted military tactical level, it was a brilliant ploy.
On a human level, it was a horrific new form of terrorism pretending to be counter-terrorism.
On a technological level, it exposes the vulnerability of supply chain attacks, and the novel ability to weaponize everyday communications devices.
Be careful who you buy your tech from. 
“The mystical state is no more incompatible with form and matter than a mirror is incompatible with the images which it reflects. The mirror transcends, is other than, its images, and for this very reason is able to reflect them perfectly and clearly. As Eckhart says, ‘If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from colour.’”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
Interesting to see Zoomers become non-negligible participants in the Hegelian dialectic.
Wealthy people call themselves “middle class.” Upper middle class people call themselves “middle class.” Middle class people call themselves “middle class.” Working class people call themselves “middle class.”
And yet the middle class is disappearing. Curious.
“I and my Father are one”
— John 10:30 KJV
Have you forgotten the trinity?
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one.
"In this very moment we are looking straight at God, and he is so clear that for us complex human beings he is peculiarly hard to see. To know him we have to simplify ourselves, and the mind is so dominated by the complexity of pride that it will resort to every conceivable subtlety to resist and avoid a truth so wholly simple."
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
“God became man that man might become God.”
— St Athanasius, On the Incarnation 
“Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being.”
— Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
Close your eyes.
Do you envision yourself from a first person or third person perspective? 
“‘What is the real meaning of religion?’
‘A refreshing breeze is stirred in the blue sky.’
‘What is the Tao (i.e., God, Reality)?’ ‘Walk on!’
‘What is Realization?’ ‘Your everyday thoughts.’
‘What is the one ultimate word of truth?’ ‘Yes.’”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
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“Who sees not God everywhere sees him truly nowhere.”
— Meister Eckhart, Sermons 
"Let me ask you to remember some day that I have told you that the hatred of evil strengthens evil, and opposition reinforces what is opposed. This is a law of an exactitude equal with the laws of mathematics.”
— Ronald Fraser, Bird Under Glass 
"This is intellectual suicide—the total destruction of thought—to such a degree that even the rationalist's own concepts of mechanism, unconscious process, statistical necessity, and the like, also become purely arbitrary and meaningless terms. To hold such a view of the universe consistently, one must separate oneself, the observer, from it. But this cannot be done, for which reason a contemporary philosopher has complained that man's subjective presence constitutes the greatest obstacle to philosophical knowledge!"
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
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"Either the living God is, or he is not. Either the ultimate Reality is alive, conscious and intelligent, or it is not. If it is, then it is what we call God. If it is not, it must be some form of blind process, law, energy or substance entirely devoid of any meaning save that which man himself gives to it.”
— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit 
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