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.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief.
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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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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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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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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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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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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