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 MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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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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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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