May 2011
2 posts
http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen... →
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
“The word ‘belief’ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t...”
– Carl Jung
March 2011
2 posts
“Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so...”
– Carl Sagan
“It’s a question of discipline,” the little prince told me later on. ...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard
August 2010
2 posts
The Gryphon added, “Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.”
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
July 2010
2 posts
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
[I would give a lot to spend an hour talking to Chuck Palahniuk. I LOVE his writing.]
Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
Until you find something to fight for,...
“The supreme arrogance of religious thinking: that a carbon-based bag of mostly...”
– Peter Walker
May 2010
2 posts
Televangelist: A charismatic good ol’ boy with the power to perform miracles, such as transforming the donations of dirt-poor believers into a thirty-room mansion. - Anonymous
Calvin: This whole Santa Claus thing doesn’t make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists, why doesn’t he ever just show himself and prove it? And if he doesn’t exist, what’s the meaning of all this?
Hobbes: I dunno…isn’t this a religious holiday?
Calvin: Yeah, but actually, I’ve got the same questions about God.
April 2010
4 posts
March 2010
13 posts
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“I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown.. Yes, sir, a clown. There...”
– Harper Lee
http://www.humanismbyjoe.com/church_&_state.htm →
President John F. Kennedy:
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute – where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote – where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference – and where no man is denied public office...
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Contact your Sen/Rep/WH about Medicare-for-All!
Read Rep. Grayson’s bill: http://tinyurl.com/yf5ts4p (pdf format)
Contact your representative: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Contact your senator: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Write the white house: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Call the white house: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414
Please take action...
“A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its...”
– John Steinbeck
“I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to Americans everywhere,...”
– Anthony Beal
A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred.“‘Which wolf will win, grandfather?” asks the young boy. “Whichever one I feed,” was the grandfather’s reply. —Native American...
“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art……May I...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
7 posts
“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and...”
– Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times...”
– Jacob A. Riis
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey (Aesop's...
A Man and his son were once going with their Donkey to market.
As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them
and said: “You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?”
So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their
way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: “See
that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he...
“A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance...”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach...”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
December 2009
8 posts
“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does...”
– James Agate
Looking for a cheese ball recipe that will be gone in hours? Here you go!
Bacon-Ranch Cheese Ball
8 oz softened cream cheese, room temp.
8 oz cheddar& Colby jack (shredded)
Bacon, crumbled, to taste (I fried my own-about 4 slices for 1 & crumbled it, but you can use real bacon bits instead)
1/2 tbsp dry ranch DRESSING mix (not the dip mix) —you might prefer a more ranch taste, so...
An example of picking & choosing what you like from your “holy book”, Republicans:
“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”—Leviticus 19:33-34
“So what were we to do when we in America were attacked on September 11, that...”
– Michael Berg, whose son Nick was beheaded in Iraq
“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?...”
– Anne of Green Gables
“What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his...”
– Bertrand Russell
November 2009
4 posts
L.A. photographer documents U.S. military's 'don't... →
“Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some...”
– Oscar Wilde
October 2009
6 posts
“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all...”
– Tyler Durden, Fight Club
