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im currently reading the chapter "why there almost certainly is no god" and got an "aha" experience about the upside down map, with the south pole on top: north has no monopoly on "up"
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
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“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.”
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.”
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
― Letters to a Young Contrarian
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.”
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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