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.
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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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