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A voice for reason
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Re: A voice for reason
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Re: A voice for reason
Neil Tyson,
What is the meaning of life?
What is the meaning of life?
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Re: A voice for reason
Tyson's comments remind of one of my own goals: To learn something new each day, no matter how trivial others may view what I have learned.
Love what you do, and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. -Ray Bradbury
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. -Robert A. Heinlein
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. -Robert A. Heinlein
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youkrst
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Re: A voice for reason
It's fascinating to me how people including Hitch, Vidal, Sagan, Dawkins and so on, when I first encountered them illicited such a negative reaction in me, then later when I had carefully listened to them many times I found I was deeply in their debt.
to me they were like an emetic that disagreed with my comfort but once they had done their work and I had thrown up some poison I came to be most appreciative, and remain so.
What I had perceived as arrogance was in fact "sure footedness" these were gentlemen who knew why they weren't backing down on certain points.
To put it another way, I don't mind how arrogant you are if you have some substance to back it up, or perhaps to coin a phrase
Faint heart ne'er won fair maiden.
Roll on down the highway freeman, damn the torpedoes...
Omg two Tom petty references in one post, and a bto tune for good measure
to me they were like an emetic that disagreed with my comfort but once they had done their work and I had thrown up some poison I came to be most appreciative, and remain so.
What I had perceived as arrogance was in fact "sure footedness" these were gentlemen who knew why they weren't backing down on certain points.
To put it another way, I don't mind how arrogant you are if you have some substance to back it up, or perhaps to coin a phrase
Faint heart ne'er won fair maiden.
Roll on down the highway freeman, damn the torpedoes...
Omg two Tom petty references in one post, and a bto tune for good measure
