The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logicall.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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