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.
TIM MINCHINThe 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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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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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Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid and damaging idea.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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Love without evidence is stalking.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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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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