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100% free of superstitious bullshit.
" An organism at war with itself is doomed" -- Carl Sagan
The trouble with governments is that they are full of politicians -- me
To deny what we have learned about ourselves is to deny one's humanity --me
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Wizards
There's many a proud wizard in Araby and Egypt
Can read the silver writing of the stars as they run;
And many a dark gypsy, with a pheasant in his knapsack,
Has gathered more by moonshine than wiser men have won;
But I know a Wizardry
Can take a buried acorn
And whisper forests out of it, to tower against the sun.
There's many a magician in Bagdad and Benares
Can read you for a penny -- what your future is to be;
And a flock of crazy prophets that by staring at a crystal
Can fill it with more fancies than there's herring in the sea;
But I know a Wizardry
Can take a freckled egg-shell
And shake a throstle out of it, in every hawthorn tree.
There's many a crafty alchemist in Mecca and Jerusalem;
And Michael Scott and Merlin were reckoned to be wise;
But I know a wizardry
Can take a wisp of sun-fire
And round it to a planet, and roll it through the skies,
With cities, and sea ports, and little shining windows,
And hedge-grows and gardens, and loving human eyes.
Alfred Noyes
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If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. Aleister Crowley
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~Voltaire
If atheism is a religion, then health is a disease - Clark Adams.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger
Faith means not wanting to know what is true. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. -- George Bernard Shaw
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -- Douglas Adams
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. -- Isaac Asimov
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -- Anonymous
Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. -- Woody Allen
The world holds two classes of men -- intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. -- Abu'l?Ala al Ma'arri
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. -- Richard Dawkins
On the first day, man created God. -- Anonymous
Movies:
The Trap (1966), The Third Man (1939), Letter to Brezhnev, Fright Night (original), The Shawshank Redemption, Highlander,Being John Malkovich, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Donnie Darko, Kill Bill, The Matrix, Mary Poppins, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, Toy Story (particularly the last one).
Music:
Bach, Bach and Bach, Beethoven, Vangelis, folk, synth., biker blues.....
Books:
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, The Pillars of the Earth, Pompeii (Robert Harris), The Greatest Show on Earth, The God Delusion, In Cold Blood (Truman Capote), anything by John Steinbeck, Catcher in the Rye, The Heaven Tree (Edith Pargeter), The Amtrak Wars, Pippi Longstocking, The Happy Hooker (just kidding).