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01-17-2022, 02:52 PM
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“I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.”
― Muriel Barbery
“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?”
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03-21-2022, 06:48 PM
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"God, A Poem
'I didn't exist at Creation,
I didn't exist at the Flood,
And I won't be around for Salvation
To sort out the sheep from the cud-
'Or whatever the phrase is. The fact is
In soteriological terms
I'm a crude existential malpractice
And you are a diet of worms."
“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?”
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03-21-2022, 10:23 PM
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Love the "diet of worms" line.
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03-22-2022, 02:21 PM
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“I do not believe in any religion. I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating on another.” (Lord Byron)
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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03-22-2022, 09:01 PM
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"The reason the tempter went to Eve first, was that the light of reason shone less brightly in her".
Saint Thomas Aquinas
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03-23-2022, 12:06 PM
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“When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.” (Robert G. Ingersoll)
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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03-23-2022, 07:28 PM
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(03-23-2022, 12:06 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: “When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.” (Robert G. Ingersoll) 
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03-23-2022, 09:44 PM
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(03-23-2022, 07:28 PM)Percie Wrote: (03-23-2022, 12:06 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: “When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.” (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Yeah, contemporary atheists are much less likely to make that mistake.
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03-23-2022, 09:53 PM
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(03-23-2022, 09:44 PM)Alan V Wrote: (03-23-2022, 07:28 PM)Percie Wrote: (03-23-2022, 12:06 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: “When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and the bolts and bars and manacles became dust.” (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Yeah, contemporary atheists are much less likely to make that mistake.
Unless they have predictive text.
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03-23-2022, 10:12 PM
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"Soul" ... definition.
"1. the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.
2. emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance.
"their interpretation lacked soul"
3. The essence of a being".
Fundamentalists take literally that which everyone else understands as metaphor.
They're like literary infants and toddlers.
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03-24-2022, 11:47 AM
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“Atheism is what happens when you read the Bible. Christianity is what happens when someone reads it for you.” (Bertrand Russell)
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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06-26-2022, 05:55 PM
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I rather like this:
Natural Selection
BY ALAN R. SHAPIRO
proceeds by chance
and necessity
becomes nonrandom
through randomness
builds complexity
from simplicity
nurtures consciousness
unconsciously
evolves purposelessly
creatures who demand
purpose
and discover
natural selection
And I *really* love this one:
A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
Stephen Crane (the one who wrote The Red Badge of Courage)
“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?”
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06-27-2022, 01:17 PM
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“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.” (Thomas Jefferson)
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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10-11-2022, 11:22 AM
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“We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?”
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10-11-2022, 12:02 PM
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“Christianity is not in accordance with the cultivated mind; it can only be accepted by suppressing doubts, and by denouncing inquiry as sinful. It is therefore a superstition, and ought to be destroyed.” (W. Winwood Reade)
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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“Faith is belief without evidence or reason; coincidentally that’s also the definition of delusion.” (Richard Dawkins) [ty Gwaithmir]
Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ.
Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies.
Vivekananda
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02-11-2023, 10:30 AM
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“The word of god is for me nothing but the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) ever change this.” (Albert Einstein)
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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11-03-2023, 03:57 PM
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"Gracias a diós y nuestro señor salvador, fue el diablo el que me enseñó a tocar violin."
"Thanks to God and our Lord Savior, it was the Devil who taught me how to play the violin"
Felipe Ibarra, violinista
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Las amas de los violines 'negros'
Dr. Paloma Muñoz (Anthropologist)
PDF: Las almas de los violines negros (unicauca.edu.co)
You could, of course, if you liked, say that there was a superior deity who gave orders to the God who made this world, or could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up—a line which I often thought was a very plausible one—that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
Bertrand Russell
Why I am not a Christian (1927)
Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell - The Bertrand Russell Society (drew.edu)
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11-04-2023, 12:51 AM
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(11-03-2023, 03:57 PM)pythagorean Wrote: You could, of course, if you liked, say that there was a superior deity who gave orders to the God who made this world, or could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up—a line which I often thought was a very plausible one—that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
That's actually historically correct, mythologically.
Yahweh was the 40th (or was it 70th) son of El Elyon in Babylon.
No one really knew where Yahweh came from, until the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal was discovered (near Nineveh) in the 1850's .
In Deuteronomy, it actually says Yahweh was given Israel by a higher god.
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Quote:In Deuteronomy, it actually says Yahweh was given Israel by a higher god.
and Israel was such a shithole that Yahweh must have been the ancient equivalent of Eric Trump to warrant such a worthless province!
- “The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” ― H.L. Mencken, 1922
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(11-04-2023, 12:51 AM)Bucky Ball Wrote: That's actually historically correct, mythologically.
Yahweh was the 40th (or was it 70th) son of El Elyon in Babylon.
No one really knew where Yahweh came from, until the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal was discovered (near Nineveh) in the 1850's .
In Deuteronomy, it actually says Yahweh was given Israel by a higher god.
De ahí que, para algunos el diablo a veces es malo y a veces es bueno. "El diablo me da risa", nos comentó Lola Grueso, la maestra de la escuela Dos Ríos de Galíndez, Patía (2013), pero a medida que avanza en la conversación va modificando los conceptos:
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Hence, for some, the devil is sometimes bad and sometimes good. "The devil makes me laugh," said Lola Grueso, the teacher of the Dos Ríos de Galíndez school in Patía (2013), but as the conversation progresses, she modifies the concepts:
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Las almas de los violines 'negros'
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Here's Dr. Paloma Muñoz with Lola:
Con la maestra Lola Grueso- de Patia
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"Doesn't your New Testament say that if your enemy strikes you on the right cheek, offer him the left?"
"Why...I...uh...think that perhaps the phrase was used metaphorically."
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"I know a Christian. She drinks blood."
Gandhi (Second train scene)
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“When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn’t a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I am capable enough to handle any situation. There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.” (Brad Pitt)
“I expect to pass this way but once; any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” (Etienne De Grellet)
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