May 2012
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May 25th
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“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
– Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
May 25th
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May 25th
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Kenosis: The Heaven of Exemption
You dream your Adam an amoeba To break his eukaryotic whole And split in two his God-made lonely soul, To clone his greed, great cowardice, And make another apart to blame (For, Michelangelo notwithstanding, Pointing the finger at God across the chaotic sky Is less than satisfying): Your darling Eve, a wanted wanton At once silly and deceitful, The easier to ridicule and despise: The...
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your...
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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Happy Victoria day! Hope you’re all managing to enjoy it. No posts today, I’m afraid. Cheers!
May 21st
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May 19th
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“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
– Edith Sitwell
May 19th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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“To be rational is to look the universe in the face and not flinch.”
– Anonymous
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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“He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who...”
– William Drummond
May 16th
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May 16th
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“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.”
– Voltaire
May 16th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble...”
– Galileo Galilei
May 12th
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May 11th
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Child's Confession
I don’t believe in a soul like a daughter loses faith in the Father after he stops coming home. She sheds him off like she’s outgrown him, like a baby bird molted from her Sunday’s best, born to soar or make an impact (because who isn’t inspired by broken bones or hope?) Listen, I believe in a soul like I believe in Heaven. I don’t. ‘Cause really, I believe in...
May 11th
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May 11th
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May 11th
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May 10th
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“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
– Thomas Henry Huxley
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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