Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINEmpathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
TIM MINCHINWe must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
TIM MINCHINOnly a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
TIM MINCHINScience 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.
TIM MINCHINTake them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
TIM MINCHINFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
TIM MINCHINThroughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
TIM MINCHINBe demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
TIM MINCHINA famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
TIM MINCHINThere are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
TIM MINCHINRespect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
TIM MINCHINIsn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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.
TIM MINCHINLove without evidence is stalking.
TIM MINCHINYou know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
TIM MINCHIN