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From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

Sam Harris

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Control Lost Storm Yourself
You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
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Pretend Worth Yourself
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Collaboration End Evidence Human Open Ourselves Security World
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
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Freedom Love Point View
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It’s really no more inflammatory than that.
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Health Moral Science Social
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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Freedom Himself Love
When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe as you do.
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Belief Believe Difference God Impossible Name Respect Right Suffering
Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
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Difficult Endurance Faith Life Reason
Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
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Conscious Freedom Ourselves Simplicity Thinking Willing
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
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Believe Ourselves Perfection Religion True
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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Correct Faith Human Ignorance Possible Religious
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.
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Habit Mercy Moments Ourselves Wake Up
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
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Abusive God Kill People Name Oppression Reading
The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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Current Hold Holy Thinking
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Atheist Noise Reason Religion
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
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Activity Education Fast Man Survive Woman World

From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.

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