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A place to post favorite quotes about atheism and other significant topics
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I have been a quote collector and quote monger for at least as long as I have been an atheist, and likely much longer. There is a fascination in me of those who are sufficiently skilled in language that they structure words into concepts and ideas and proposed actions which grab my attention and interest, whether it is John F. Kennedy's unabashed statement: "We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," Robert A. Heinlein's blunt expression: "If you've got the truth, you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it. SHOW people," or Captain Kirk's subtle yet important tactical observation, having encountered and been challenged by the dauntingly huge First Federation vessel: "Not chess, Mr. Spock ... Poker!"
Certainly, atheism has had its share of skilled spokespeople, whose words have inspired and driven us, whether it was Madalyn Murray O'Hair, saying: "An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church," or Sam Harris, who noted that: "The only problem with Islamic fundamentalism are the fundamentals of Islam," or Aron Ra's far more succinct: "If you can't SHOW it, you don't KNOW it."
Consciously or unconsciously, I suspect all of us have learned and grown from such words and many others, becoming stronger and more mature, not just in our atheism but in ourselves, having heard such words as these, and that is the point of this group: not to just deal in quotes which praise and promote atheism but which advance the cause of knowledge, self-understanding and self-ownership. Each of us have likely heard someone say something and think, "Wow!" and resonated to the significance of what they heard.
That's what I want to do here: share, learn, and grow, not just from THEIR words, but our own.
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One suggestion for the main comment area of the group: Please keep your quotes to under 20 lines or 200 words. That way, one entry won't dominate a given page of the comment area. If you have a longer quote or speech which you think is significant, create a separate post in the group.
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Liz Cheney's Opening Statement to the January 6th Committee Public Hearing
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Mrs.B Jun 11. 2 Replies 1 Like
Since there has been such interest in the comments Liz Cheney made during the first public hearing held by the House Select January 6th Committee, I thought I would post it here for those of you who…Continue
Tags: Trump, hearing, insurrection, "Donalld, committee
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow: “We will not let hate win”
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Andy Stout May 4. 5 Replies 3 Likes
Lately I have noted an increase in rants, diatribes, and otherwise potent and declamatory statements by Democrats, in the defense of the LGBTQ+ community, responding to overblown claims about…Continue
Tags: LGBTQ+, Critical Race Theory, sexualizing, grooming, Mallory McMorrow
George Carlin - On Why Our Species Is Failing (1992)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Mrs.B Apr 22. 5 Replies 3 Likes
Besides being a brilliant comedian and practiced public ranter, George Carlin was a adept student of humans and humanity – likely among the reasons why he was so accomplished at those first two…Continue
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Brandi Carlile almost dies -- 7/30/21 (Delanceyplace.com)
Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Andy Stout Mar 28. 8 Replies 4 Likes
To be honest, I have NO idea who Brandi Carlile is (though I suppose I could Google her), but the following brief story of her illness, coma, and recovery are pretty striking. As my friends from…Continue
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Comment was by Loren Miller on February 9, 2022 at 6:08am
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
-- Dylan Thomas
Life is precious because it is short, and sometimes made shorter by unforeseen or untoward circumstances. The best we can do is grasp it and wring the joy we can from it and share that joy, because NOW is all we got ... and in the final analysis, that's quite a bit.
-- me
I've yet to see any believable evidence that there is a life after this one. Therefore, I invest my time and energy in the HERE AND NOW and not in some pie-in-the-sky-bye-and-bye. The believers can keep that crap. I want no part of it.
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The pattern and original of all dictatorship is the surrender of reason to absolutism and the abandonment of critical, objective inquiry.
-- Christopher Hitchens
As an engineer, I find that concept of “absolutism” particularly rankling. Believers want a simplistic reality, characterized by absolutes, in a reality where not even the speed of light is fixed and invariant, regardless of medium. Reality is COMPLEX, like it or not.
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Comment was by Grinning Cat on February 7, 2022 at 2:12pm
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Thanks to our GOP, a political party that hasn't won the presidential popular vote since 2004, we've been able to conquer the Supreme Court to impose our minority religious views... on the entire country.
-- Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian™ (written by Andrew Bradley), in "Just Because Jesus Forgot About A-B-0-R-T-I-0-N Doesn’t Give You th..."
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However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Seems as though even Nietzsche knew about the Dunning-Kruger effect back in his day!
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Comment was by Stephen Brodie on February 7, 2022 at 12:46am
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And the fact that our brain has to adjust the upside-down pictures our eyes see and put them right side up
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So you know first hand.
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I'm certain of that after the surgery I needed just to be able to wear hearing aids.
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Our family dr. said the ear was very poorly designed too.
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To any engineer worth his salt, the reality we live in looks about as "designed" as a hole in the head ... and so long as we're talking about holes:
- That hole on our mouth into which we put both air and food ... and if both go in a the same time, a problem tends to occur. Dolphins and other cetaceans don't have this problem, thanks to their blowhole. Why do we?
- As the wag once said, why locate an entertainment center in the middle of a sewage farm?
There are plenty of other examples, but you get the drift!
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