"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
January 21, 2013
September 9, 2012
"And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man."
— Thomas Paine
August 26, 2012
"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy."
—
Anaïs Nin
(Thanks Pamela Lloyd)
August 12, 2012
"Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god’s infinite love."
— Bill Hicks
July 5, 2012
"Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man … living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
— George Carlin
May 30, 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
February 19, 2012
"I live in the States, a very puritanical place, full of superstition and ancient, ancient religions that no longer serve their function on this planet because they’re based on fear instead of love."
— Bill Hicks
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
September 11, 2011
"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
— Walt Whitman
August 30, 2011
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
— Jorge Luis Borges
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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
