It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
TIM MINCHINA famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?
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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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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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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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Define yourself by what you love.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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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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Science is awesome. The arts and sciences need to work together to improve how knowledge is communicated.
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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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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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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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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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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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