Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
TIM MINCHINHow does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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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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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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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
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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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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Love without evidence is stalking.
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