In principio creavit homo dei et ex eo tempore poenas dederat
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"If a faithful account was rendered of Man's ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word "gods" has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods...When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon...does he, in fact, do anything more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe?" [emphasis mine] -- Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Baron von Holbach, Systéme de la Nature, London, 1770
Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σιβυλλα, Τι θελεις; respondebat illa: αποθανειν θελω. -- Wasteland, TS Eliot
"I don't swear for the hell of it. Language is a poor enough means of communication. We've got to use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damn few words anybody understands" -- Inherit the Wind
Those who can, create. Those who can't, delete. Odd nature
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This user believes the world would be a happier, safer and saner place without religion. |
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- Linguistics; Evolution and the debate surrounding it; Political Science; Theoretical Physics; History; Mathematics; Poetry; Music; Philosophy; Mythology (primarily religious)
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