October 2011
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Corruption
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
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what happened?
Before the Big Bang, what happened? what was there? I think there was a universe similar to ours.. Maybe just like ours. and once it ended, there was an emplosion just to create a Massive explosion thus the birth of our universe..
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“Is your god really God?
Is my god really God?
I think our god isn’t God,
If he fits inside our heads.”
- Come Now Sleep, As Cities Burn, “Clouds”
“…does the thought haunt your head
That you’re really, rather small?
If there’s one thing I know in this life: we are beggars all”
- Beggars, Thrice, “Beggars”
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Center For Inquiry - Carl Sagan Day →
Please join us this November as we honor Carl Sagan and celebrate the beauty and wonder of the cosmos he so eloquently described. Carl Sagan was a Professor of Astronomy and Space Science and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, but most of us know him as a Pulitzer Prize winning author and the creator of COSMOS. That Emmy and Peabody award-winning PBS...
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What reason means to me.
To me, reason is about what’s true. To me, reason is about what’s real. To me, reason is about what it is to be human. To me, reason is about what it means to love. To me, reason is about what it means not to hate. To me, reason is about what it means to be free. To me, reason is about the whole world, coming together, in solidarity, for the common good. To me, reason is the ony way. ...
thatbeardedatheist-deactivated2 asked: To me, reason is beauty. The sheer complexity and difficulty of deducing things down into simple syllogisms is staggeringly ornate. To know something is so wonderful, but to use reason to learn something is the one of the most fulfilling things in this life.
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“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” - Steve Jobs
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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life -...
What Does Reason Mean To You?
About a month ago I asked the question, “what does reason mean to you?” Today I start posting what all of you have sent me. There will be one post made a day till all of your submissions have been posted. If you want to be included in the queue you can still submit what reason means to you.
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“If by renouncing a lesser happiness
one may realize a greater happiness,
let...”
– Dhammapada 21.290
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“One by one, little by little, moment by moment,
a wise one should remove...”
– Dhammapada 18.239
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“The fool thinks one has won a battle
when one bullies with harsh speech,
but...”
– Saṃyutta Nikāya 1.189
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“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded,...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy,
or a foe to a foe,
the ill-directed...”
– Udāna 4.33
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“Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Should a seeker not find
a companion who is better or equal,
let one...”
– Dhammapada 5.61
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“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some...”
– Carl Sagan
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“The good renounce (attachment for) everything.
The virtuous do not prattle with...”
– Dhammapada 6.83
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“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us....”
– Carl Sagan
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What is "Reason" to you?
I want everyone who regularly visits this blog - or at least anyone who has an interest to do this - to submit a quote, photo, video, or some article related to something that you find to be of philosophical, religious, spiritual, or scientific importance!
Just about anything that you guys submit will be posted in the next few weeks.
You’ve seen what I find to be “reason,” now...
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“In every virtue all-accomplished,
with wisdom full and mind composed,
looking...”
– Sutta Nipāta 1.176
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“The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. … Recently,...”
– Carl Sagan
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“The wise are controlled in bodily action,
controlled in speech and controlled...”
– Dhammapada 17.234