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It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

Daniel Dennett

Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Evolution Internet Organization Phone Revolution Selection
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
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Imagination Live Mystery Ourselves Philosophy
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Chain Death End Philosophy
Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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Clear Detail Mistake Risk Time Yourself
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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Assumption Freedom Lying Philosophy Science
Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason
It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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Brain Ourselves
No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Easy Smart Way Yourself
Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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Competition Consider Mindset Possible
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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Color Criticism Deny Experience Myself Pain People Repeat
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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Different Enjoyment Goodness Love Myself See World
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk

It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

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