The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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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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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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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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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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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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