We are all special in our uniqueness so there is no particular need to 'play special'. :-)

No matter what relativists say, some truths truly are absolute; like me having written and posted this and you reading it now. :-)

Appreciating and complaining takes the same time and energy but produces very different results.

It's all about consciousness, not (given or chosen) labels.

It is not intelligence but ignorance and insecurity that causes arrogance and other delusions of superiority.

We can defeat our adversaries without having to hate them.

Religion is about experiencing, not believing; spiritual realities are either personally experienced, or not (yet). The word religion says it very well in its Latin roots: religare, or 'to reconnect' – i.e. re (again) + ligare (connect, unite, tie together).

The truth does not require anyone believing it (for it to be true; it just is).

1) Every cause produces a corresponding effect, so an intelligent effect is likely caused by an intelligent cause. 2) It is statistically impossible that every of billions of intelligent effects is caused by dumb luck. 3) Even if half of all intelligent effects were caused by dumb luck, who where or what is the intelligence behind the other half?

Non-reductive physicalism is the very widespread philosophical view that mind and consciousness cannot be reduced to matter but are still caused by matter; essentially it is Machine Man believing in magic without admitting it.