Russell's Flying Pig

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If you ever want to know why I make my videos read these quotes:

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform them their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." ~Thomas Jefferson

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." ~Thomas Paine

"...one of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns—about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering—in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. Nothing stands in the way of this project more than the respect we accord religious faith. While there is no guarantee that rational people will always agree, the irrational are certain to be divided by their dogmas." ~Sam Harris

"...you hear people saying things like well, "This controversy generates more heat than light." Well, that's a stupid thing to say. Heat is the only source of light. That's a law of physics, among other things. You don't expect to get light except from heat." ~ Christopher Hitchens

I'm here to attempt to change people and be changed by people so don't hold back because I'm sure as hell not going to. Why?

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

--Chinese Proverb--

Nosce te ipsum (know yourself)

Nosce hostem (know the enemy)

De omnibus disputandum (Question everything)

Skeliton artwork by Eric Drooker

http://www.drooker.com/drawings.html

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