You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINIt’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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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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