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.
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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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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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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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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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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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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