"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
— Richard Dawkins
Musings, Missives, Meanderings from the Open Minded, Thoughtful, Skeptical, Philosophical & other working thinkers of a more rational realm.
Discuss your beliefs, or lack of them. Ask me anything.
I need to hear you too.
August 23, 2012
August 1, 2012
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
— Charles Bukowski
July 26, 2012
"Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I’m sure we’ll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and that it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked and if it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn’t withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn’t seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That’s an idea we’re so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it’s kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is ‘Here is an idea or a notion that you’re not allowed to say anything bad about; you’re just not. Why not? - because you’re not!"
— Douglas Adams
July 25, 2012
"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing “Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!” If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept."
— Dan Barker
July 16, 2012
"Belief is the death of intelligence."
— Robert Anton Wilson
July 15, 2012
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
— Voltaire
July 12, 2012
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
July 10, 2012
"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
— Douglas Adams
February 4, 2012
"To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."
— Christopher Hitchens
September 17, 2011
"Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety."
— Baruch Spinoza
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“Voting for the president these days is a lot like cheering on WWE. You probably won’t change the outcome but you feel good doing it anyway.”
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Just signed up for Spotify- Let’s start this shit up.
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I felt bad about giving the KY Creation Museum money, but this shirt was so hilariously awesome.
This is an awesome T-shirt....
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“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
