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“Atheists are the most honest of the human race. These people are unable to live a double life; they are unable to lie to themselves. Of course it's an evolutionary handicap, and if that handicap was widespread, our species would run the risk of extinction”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Don't create unbelief or doubt in people's minds. When you do so you ruin their lives and you have nothing to give them in its place. It's ok if people delude themselves; those delusions keep their day running.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to
even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.”
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even the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.”
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“I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization."
There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.”
― The Voyage of the Basilisk
There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.”
― The Voyage of the Basilisk
“Mind emerges from matter and life at an empirical level, but at a transcendental level every form or structure is necessarily also a form or structure disclosed by consciousness. With this reversal one passes from the natural attitude of the scientist to the transcendental phenomenological attitude (which, according to phenomenology, is the properly philosophical attitude).”
― Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
― Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind
“But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his
respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to
know that there was a soul before him that needed saving?”
― Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to
know that there was a soul before him that needed saving?”
― Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam, Why doesn't the Ayatollahs convert to Buddhism, Why isn't Buddhism swept away? Religious leaders know that all religions are equal; they know that no one of them has the monopoly to the knowledge of God. They know that each religion is trying to find the hidden God and that no one religion can claim to have found him beyond doubt. That's why they remain where they are and respect each other.”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.”
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him. Atheism is a cry of despair”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“[...] proficiency in inferring the large-scale and small-scale structure of our immediate environment, or any features of parts of the universe distant from our ancestral stomping grounds, was of no relevance to our ancestors’ reproductive fitness. Hence, there is no reason to imagine that our habitual intuitions and inferential responses are well designed for science or for metaphysics.”
― Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
― Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
“Philosophers who have denied that there are any innate ideas probably meant only that all ideas were copies of our impressions. [W]hat is meant by ‘innate’? If ‘innate’ is equivalent to ‘natural’, then all the perceptions and ideas of the mind must be granted to be innate or natural, in whatever sense we take the latter word, whether in opposition to what is uncommon, what is artificial, or what is miraculous. If innate means ‘contemporary with our birth’, the dispute seems to be frivolous—there is no point in enquiring when thinking begins, whether before, at, or after our birth.”
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“My gods are not tame. They do not always come when they are called.
This is not a failure of ritual or a weakness of belief. It is the nature of my gods. I would no more expect a god to “show up” in my ritual space than I would expect to be able to call a mountain into my living room. That is simply not the nature of mountains. If I want to meet a mountain, I am the one who must move." - Alison Leigh Lilly, "Gods Like Mountains, Gods Like Mist”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
This is not a failure of ritual or a weakness of belief. It is the nature of my gods. I would no more expect a god to “show up” in my ritual space than I would expect to be able to call a mountain into my living room. That is simply not the nature of mountains. If I want to meet a mountain, I am the one who must move." - Alison Leigh Lilly, "Gods Like Mountains, Gods Like Mist”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." ... In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence”
― Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
― Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
“Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside”
― Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
― Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
“Theism does not offer a sufficiently substantial explanation of our capacities, and naturalism does not offer a sufficiently reassuring one.”
― Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
― Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
“It is the distinction between transpersonal and interpersonal relationships with deities which sets naturalistic polytheism apart from neopolytheism. Interpersonal relationships are between two or more persons and are focused upon individual perspectives. A transpersonal relationship extends beyond the individual perspective, transcending the distinctions of ego and personality. For example:
A neopolytheist has a close personal relationship with a modernized personification of Thor, to whom she prays to daily.
A naturalistic polytheist practices breathing as a sacrament which allows her to focus on life’s connection to the atmosphere, altering her perception of separateness, resulting in viewing the at-mosphere as a deity." - Glen Gordon, "Naturalism and the Gods”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
A neopolytheist has a close personal relationship with a modernized personification of Thor, to whom she prays to daily.
A naturalistic polytheist practices breathing as a sacrament which allows her to focus on life’s connection to the atmosphere, altering her perception of separateness, resulting in viewing the at-mosphere as a deity." - Glen Gordon, "Naturalism and the Gods”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding. I sing to you of the god of the dust that flies off the ice-burned comet, and the god of the spaces in between. I sing to you of the god that twists like a serpent at the center of every sun and is found again coiled within every electron, shared by both and worshiped by each in its own way. I sing to you of the god that collects asteroids together in mockeries of his sister’s solar systems, jealous of his elder sibling’s power. I sing to you of all these, and many, many more." - Lupa, "The Forgotten Gods of Nature”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.”
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“God has not yet revealed himself to no one in no unclear terms. Religions are attempts to find him; on that level they are all equal”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Incorrect radiation levels may be able to affect your sex drive and it may be proven in the future that human sex drive is governed more by radiation types and levels than any other factor, even more so than hormones! Generally, a feeling of contentment replaces sexual desire in natural radiation environments.”
― Electrical Forensics
― Electrical Forensics
“We can name this river, here and now—but we cannot name the water itself. We can name our gods and we can name ourselves, but we cannot name the essence of sacred identity that flows through both, that connects us and sanctifies us." - Alison Leigh Lilly, "Naming the Water: Human and Deity Identity from an Earth-Centered Perspective”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“Natural polytheism embraces the science of ecology as a basic metaphor for theological inquiry. In other words, natural polytheism seeks to understand our relationship with the gods as an aspect of interrelated systems of being, consciousness and meaning. Its focus is, first and foremost, on the wildernesses that defy our carefully mapped boundary lines, that penetrate even the most civilized cultural centers and underlie our most cherished notions of what it means to be human." - Alison Leigh Lilly, "Natural Theology: Polytheism Beyond the Pale”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“I sing to you of the deities of the Dictyostelidal slime molds, sexless and strange, at once a thousand voices and one song united. I sing to you of hard times when the wood has rotted away and the sun bakes the earth, and while as individuals we die, together we thrive. The divinities ask for sacrifice, the thousand voices demand it. Those who die to give life to the others, who raise up the new generation so that they may spread far and wide—these become a part of that sacred host, their voices immortalized not in cells but in spirit." - Lupa, "The Forgotten Gods of Nature”
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
― Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.”
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
― God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help”
― Pearls Of Eternity
― Pearls Of Eternity
“Somehow creationists keep us naturalists in track to some extent. They are the representation of human stupidity at its extreme. And we need some stupidity in the society for true intellect to be adored.”
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