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psycho_jak
Eugene, OR
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I found a few interesting quotes. Annie Wood Besant:"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
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| 1/2/2010 3:43:57 AM |
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psycho_jak
Eugene, OR
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H. Havelock Ellis:"And it is in his own image, let us remember, that Man creates God."
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| 1/2/2010 10:46:26 AM |
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skiwino
Redford, MI
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From one of my all time favorite authors:
Quotations of Mark Twain
"Faith is believing something you know ain't true."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Following the Equator / 1897)
"There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is -- in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree -- it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime -- the invention of Hell. Measured by our Christianity of to-day, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the Deity nor His Son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Reflections on Religion / 1906)
"Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / in Mark Twain: A Biography, of Albert Bigelow Paine / 1912)
"O Lord our God, help us tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it..."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / The War Prayer)
"[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Mark Twain and the Bible)
"Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Letters from the Earth)
"If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Notebook)
"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Notebook)
"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Autobiography / 1959)
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / in The "Wit and Wisdom, of Mark Twain of Alex Ayres / 1987)
"Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910 / Letters from the Earth)
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910)
"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910)
"There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910)
""In God We Trust." I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910)
"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910)
"[The Bible] has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."
(Mark Twain / 1835-1910)
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lefty247
Swartz Creek, MI
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"If I believed in Hell, I should imagine it as one vast gymnasium with the wicked perpetually engaged in physical training. Spending an eternity upon the parallel bars." Rotund, triple chinned English actor Robert Morely -1908-1992
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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G. K. Chesterton:
I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
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| 1/2/2010 11:03:49 PM |
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psycho_jak
Eugene, OR
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What do you get if you combine an agnostic with an insomniac and a dyslexic? Someone who stays up all night wondering if there's a dog.
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| 1/2/2010 11:44:05 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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What do you get if you combine an agnostic with an insomniac and a dyslexic? Someone who stays up all night wondering if there's a dog.
Good one.
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| 1/6/2010 3:52:24 PM |
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psycho_jak
Eugene, OR
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Charles Bradlaugh: "Evil is either caused by God or exists independently; but it cannot be caused by God, as in that case he would not be all-good, nor can it exist hostilely, as in that case he would not be all-powerful. If all-good he would desire to annihilate all evil, and continued evil contradicts either God's desire or God's ability to prevent it."
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| 1/6/2010 5:56:28 PM |
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mojo_pin
Chicago, IL
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"No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth."
Richard Dawkins
"There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true."
Richard Dawkins
I love this guy. Almost as I love taffy. And I'm a man who loves his taffy...(someone please get that joke)
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| 1/6/2010 7:01:01 PM |
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logic66
Union Grove, AL
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all thinking men are athiest,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ernest Hemingway
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freezinoutside
Scotts, MI
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I never met a god I didn't like.
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vielofmaya
North Highlands, CA
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But when Zarathustra was alone, he spoke thus to his heart: "Could it then be possible! This old saint in his forest has not yet heard of it, that God is Dead
~ Friedrich Nietzsche "Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I would only believe in a god who could dance.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche "This Spoke Zarathustra
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| 7/19/2010 5:40:23 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Seneca.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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| 8/4/2010 2:14:29 PM |
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psycho_jak
Eugene, OR
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"Atheism is a requirement for a complete human being. Religion is a crutch that is shackled to you, one you never really needed in the first place, but were convinced by others that you couldn't live without. Once you discover it's only an illusion, that it's not even a real crutch, you discard it gladly."
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vegaspearl2
Las Vegas, NV
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"Religion has actually 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 special list of ten things he does not
want you to do.
And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full
of fire and smoke
and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live
and suffer
and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end
of time...
But He loves you!" -George Carlin
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| 8/7/2010 5:39:32 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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unknown Don't pray in my school, and I won't think in your church
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sprawl4life
Lexington, SC
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I don't remember who said it
Give a man a fish he will eat for a day give a man religion and he will starve to death praying for fish
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blonderay123
Salt Lake City, UT
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"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?" ~ Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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mistresschris
Sacramento, CA
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I think I love you ALL! Fantastic quotes! 
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| 12/24/2010 10:31:25 PM |
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sprawl4life
Lexington, SC
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I think I love you ALL! Fantastic quotes! [/quote
I think I love you too haha]
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| 12/24/2010 10:34:52 PM |
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sprawl4life
Lexington, SC
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call god; this saves mush wear and tear on brain tissues.
- Edward Abbey
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| 12/24/2010 11:05:32 PM |
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sprawl4life
Lexington, SC
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Ex Jew for Jesus: "I don't believe in Santa"
Bill Maher: "of course not one guy flying all over the world in night, that's ridiculous. But one guy hearing everybody murmur to him at the same time... that makes sense"
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| 12/27/2010 12:57:28 AM |
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brock_hardwood
Fairfield, CA
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One that I wrote...
Show me a god that can forever escape disproof, and I will show you a god that has willfully abstained from causality or any claim thereof.
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| 12/27/2010 12:29:13 PM |
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organizedartist
Van Nuys, CA
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George Carlin was the B E S T !!!!
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| 1/1/2011 8:31:47 AM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Seneca the Younger 4 b.c.- 65 a.d.
""Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.""""
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muldoon1959
Vallejo, CA
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online now!
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Doug McLeod
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
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codym0n
Spring, TX
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I'll flip through my copy of "the Atheists Bible" and type whatever I happen to stop on... yes I am bored. Here goes...
"What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchary with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchary is called faith."
Thomas Paine
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| 1/10/2011 11:01:48 AM |
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logic49
Union Grove, AL
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Emo Philips,,,,,, When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
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| 1/14/2011 4:44:25 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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| 1/14/2011 5:26:24 PM |
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logic49
Union Grove, AL
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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, and christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
NOW your not using your brain. what if he got in the bathtub with the hair dryer?
that might do a word of good.
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| 1/14/2011 6:37:34 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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NOW your not using your brain. what if he got in the bathtub with the hair dryer?
that might do a word of good.
no comment...
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stuck_here
Mansfield, OH
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"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
— Steven Weinberg, Conference on Cosmic Design (April 1999)
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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""Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities"" Voltaire
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| 1/15/2011 3:30:30 PM |
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tercium
Hemet, CA
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the last sentence of "Why I am Not a Christian" circa 1923 By Lord Bertrand Russell (he hated the title lord) Jesus was wise but not superlatively wise"
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Justin Brown
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist believes that deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished...
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| 1/15/2011 3:56:35 PM |
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tercium
Hemet, CA
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I like that quote duchessa. i had a history professor who passed away now but concentrated on the early middle ages, and felt that if they hadn't put so much effort into building the cathedrals they could have better fed and educated the people. honestly, how many people today have ever heard of the town Aachen? It was the biggest city in europe at one time.
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| 1/15/2011 4:16:51 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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I like that quote duchessa. i had a history professor who passed away now but concentrated on the early middle ages, and felt that if they hadn't put so much effort into building the cathedrals they could have better fed and educated the people. honestly, how many people today have ever heard of the town Aachen? It was the biggest city in europe at one time.
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One little problem with your history professor's feeling; The religious institutions DON'T WANT EDUCATED PEOPLE AROUND. No, they want lambs.
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| 1/15/2011 4:21:55 PM |
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tercium
Hemet, CA
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Good point duchessa, and unfortunately the evidence for it is building. Here's a snippet, when i went to college it was 300 a semester, when I left a thousand. during Arnold's stewardship, it went up to 4,000, then 11 thousand a year, making it completely out of reach for a working class person without loans and or grants!
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| 1/18/2011 8:39:45 PM |
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enrique_86
Albemarle, NC
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Good point duchessa, and unfortunately the evidence for it is building. Here's a snippet, when i went to college it was 300 a semester, when I left a thousand. during Arnold's stewardship, it went up to 4,000, then 11 thousand a year, making it completely out of reach for a working class person without loans and or grants!
well said man! And not just the religious sector but also the wealthy elite... they don't want opposition to their ends and will bribe and lobby the government to their cause. Meanwhile the lay man is completely oblivious, concerned only with what Snookie said on last night's episode of jersey shore.
Sorry to get off topic... here's my fav quote:
"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
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enrique_86
Albemarle, NC
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an addendum to my post, I meant to congratulate Duchessa on saying how the church wants lambs and not educated people. But still, well said
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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an addendum to my post, I meant to congratulate Duchessa on saying how the church wants lambs and not educated people. But still, well said
muchas gracias...se agradece....mucho, mucho.........lol
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juicyjay91
Mishawaka, IN
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"Religion keeps the poor from killing the rich." - Napoleon Bonaparte
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sinfulshane
Johnson City, TN
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Carl Sagan
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| 2/5/2011 2:47:51 PM |
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tercium
Hemet, CA
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here's one more from Sagan: "The Cosmos is all there was, is, or ever will be"
and another: "We are all made of star stuff"
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| 2/12/2011 6:30:38 PM |
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tercium
Hemet, CA
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"Give the clergy your sympathy; Don't give them anything else" Benjamin Jowett 1817-1893
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| 2/16/2011 4:29:28 PM |
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Richard Lederer (Anguished English) There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
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skiwino
Redford, MI
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here's one more from Sagan: "The Cosmos is all there was, is, or ever will be"
and another: "We are all made of star stuff"
A little off topic but does anyone know if Sagan wrote that before Joni Mitchell wrote "we are star dust"?
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| 2/16/2011 6:19:02 PM |
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logic49
Union Grove, AL
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A little off topic but does anyone know if Sagan wrote that before Joni Mitchell wrote "we are star dust"?
HEY YE RASCAL,, have you got layed yet?? LMAO!!!!!
i don;t understand why one of these ladies won't help a brother out.lol,,jk ladies
don't shoot me........
i really don't have the answer to your question.
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| 2/17/2011 12:03:21 PM |
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skiwino
Redford, MI
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HEY YE RASCAL,, have you got layed yet?? LMAO!!!!!
i don;t understand why one of these ladies won't help a brother out.lol,,jk ladies
don't shoot me........
i really don't have the answer to your question.
Hi Logic,
I did get laid once upon a time when you prayed for me correctly and did it all by the proper regulations so that it counted.
 Why did you stop?
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laurenc42
Arden, NC
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Isn't it enough to say the garden is beautiful without saying there are fairies in the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams
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ahmattix
Livonia, MI
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"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark." - Stephen Hawking
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linuxd
Jonesboro, AR
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At the very minimum, a god is defined as an eternal being which exists independent of material form and detectable energy, and which usually possesses the rather enviable attributes of omniscience and omnipotence.
First of all, we know from biology that even if an eternal being could exist, it would be the simplest being conceivable. An eternal being could never have evolved, since it does not die and reproduce, and therefore biological evolution could never have layered levels of increasing complexity over its initial simplicity. We all understand that the human eye did not pop into existence without any prior development; and the human eye is infinitely less complex than an omniscient and omnipotent god. Since gods are portrayed as the most complex beings imaginable, they may well be many things, but eternal cannot be one of them.
Secondly, we also know that consciousness is an effect of matter – specifically biological matter, in the form of a brain. Believing that consciousness can exist in the absence of matter is like believing that gravity can be present in the absence of mass, or that light can exist in the absence of a light source, or that electricity can exist in the absence of energy. Consciousness is an effect of matter, and thus to postulate the existence of consciousness without matter is to create an insurmountable paradox, which only proves the nonexistence of what is being proposed.
Stefan Molyneux
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Richard Lederer (Anguished English)
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
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azmetalfan
Mesa, AZ
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Richard Lederer (Anguished English)
There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.
 but it is true. 
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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but it is true.
Could you imagine "destryrides" reading what we post here?
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duchessa
Yonkers, NY
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Robert G. Ingersoll said: The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it.
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