Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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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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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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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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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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