Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINIf 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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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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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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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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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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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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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