Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINIf 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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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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