You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHINWho’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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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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If 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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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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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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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