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knightmare
New Member
USA
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Posted - 07/26/2009 : 08:09:30 [Permalink]
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I found these written in an old notebook of mine.
"For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain."
-Gene Roddenberry
What is it the the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith."
-Thomas Paine
I'm sure I've got more written down in other notebooks boxed up around the house. Growing up, I was always collecting interesting quotes and rarely tossed anything in the trash (a trait I inherited from my dad and grandpa).
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/26/2009 : 10:49:24 [Permalink]
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. ~~ Karl Marx
And:
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. ~~ Karl Marx
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13476 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2009 : 12:17:22 [Permalink]
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"All laws defining and punishing blasphemy — making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures."
Robert G. Ingersoll-1879 |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
Genetic Literacy Project |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 07/26/2009 : 17:51:25 [Permalink]
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If you want to have sex, the kids will have to leave. If you want it to be good, then you will have to leave. ~~ Al Bundy
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2009 : 19:00:11 [Permalink]
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| The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder. |
-Richard J. Daley (Da Mayor) |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
435 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2009 : 19:36:19 [Permalink]
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As quoted by Karl Kassel on NPR's "Wait Wait"
Freudian slip by Mayor Daley there? |
“In a modern...society, everybody has the absolute right to believe whatever they damn well please, but they don't have the same right to be taken seriously”.
-Barry Williams, co-founder, Australian Skeptics |
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
275 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2009 : 06:23:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by @tomic
There's always the ever-popular, and ironic, anti-quote quote:
I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.
(Dorothy L. Sayers)
And of course, this whole page:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quotations
Ah, the irony of the anti-quote quote!
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Many people like quotes because they are similar lines of thoughts as one´s own, but better worded!
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"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
275 Posts |
Posted - 07/27/2009 : 06:36:48 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by jakesteele
GOD is DOG spelled backwards
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Revenge Of The Nerds II? hehehehe!
Said by that hairy jock who was cast-away with them |
"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
Posted - 07/29/2009 : 13:13:41 [Permalink]
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I think that on the balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil. But for good people to do evil -- that takes religion. |
Steven Weinberg |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2009 : 07:56:00 [Permalink]
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A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. ~~ Joseph Stalin
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2009 : 08:53:21 [Permalink]
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
"As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know. " - Donald Rumsfeld |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/31/2009 : 10:56:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by astropin
"As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know We don't know. " - Donald Rumsfeld
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So wouldnt that make unknown unkowns, known unknown unknowns, since we know that we don't know that we don't know them? |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
2102 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2009 : 19:43:50 [Permalink]
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| France will only be free when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Voltaire |
...no one has ever found a 4.5 billion year old stone artifact (at the right geological stratum) with the words "Made by God."
No Sense of Obligation by Matt Young
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying and vile!"
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
They (Women Marines) don't have a nickname, and they don't need one. They get their basic training in a Marine atmosphere, at a Marine Post. They inherit the traditions of the Marines. They are Marines.
LtGen Thomas Holcomb, USMC
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1943
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/31/2009 : 21:33:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Trish
France will only be free when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Voltaire
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Damn. The priests have outlived the kings by centuries. Typical.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 08/01/2009 : 03:01:28 [Permalink]
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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. ~~ Bertrand Russell
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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