"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
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.
February 4, 2012
February 3, 2012
"Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with."
— Christopher Hitchens
February 2, 2012
"Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake."
— Christopher Hitchens
February 1, 2012
"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you."
— Christopher Hitchens
January 31, 2012
"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."
— Christopher Hitchens
January 30, 2012
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."
— Christopher Hitchens
January 29, 2012
"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
November 11, 2011
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Nihil humanum a me alienum puto.
Nothing human is alien to me.
"— Roman Poet Terence, as read in Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens.
September 4, 2011
"It is a pity there isn’t a hell for you to burn in."
— Christopher Hitchens
April 23, 2011
"…the pattern and original of all dictatorship is the surrender of reason to absolutism and the abandonment of critical, objective inquiry."
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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
