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?
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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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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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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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