November 2010
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“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the...”
– William James
October 2010
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Argument from Faith
(Argument I formulated for a debate. The word ‘axiom’ can often be replaced with the concept of faith.)
Being is evidence for something but not everything. Just me ‘being’ here talking to you doesn’t mean that you exist or that my material body even exists. Having faith in this sort of thing is illogical because we have no reason other than perception to follow it....
“Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking.”
– Religulous (Documentary)
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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to...”
– Plato
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“Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”
– Plato
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“Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. Our problem is that people are...”
– Howard Zinn
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“Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the...”
– Michel De Montaigne
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“My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m...”
– Jillian Medoff
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“A genius is the one most like himself.”
– Thelonious Monk
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“A human being is part of the whole, called by us “universe,” limited...”
– Albert Einstein
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“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not...”
– Richard Dawkins
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“Now now, my good man. This is no time for making enemies.”
– Voltaire on his deathbed being asked by a priest to renounce the devil
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in...”
– Winston Churchill
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“I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am,...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Skepticism is the first step toward truth.”
– Denis Diderot
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“If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able
Then He is not omnipotent.
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– Epicurus
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“All it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.”
– Edmund Burke
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“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
– Philip K. Dick
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Keep Prayer Out of Soddy Daisy High School →
I’d like to request the support of the tumblr community to help rid my county’s schools of prayer. Please show your support by simply clicking like on the page linked above.
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National group demands end to prayers at...
A Wisconsin-based “freethinking” group is demanding that local school leaders quit allowing prayer at public events.
The organization’s staff attorney, Rebecca Markert in Madison, Wis., demanded in the letter that the school system begin an investigation into the allegations and take steps to “remedy this serious and flagrant violation of the First Amendment.”At the request of students from...
Anonymous asked: What do you think of this? http://sknh.tumblr.com/post/1289020549/the-argument-from-evil-why-it-actually-proves-the
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“Science is the only way of knowing - everything else is superstition.”
– Robert Park
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“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind — even if your voice...”
– Maggie Kuhn
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“Faith” is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to...”
– Bertrand Russell
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Statistics comparing Homosexuality to... →
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WatchSam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
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“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“When God gives you lemons, find a new god.”
– Unknown Author
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“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your...”
– The Buddha
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“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
– Albert Einstein