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.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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