November 2011
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You can’t just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have...
– Stephen Fry (“The Importance of Unbelief”, Interview on bigthink.com)
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do...
– George Orwell
galaqu asked: I just love your blog! Haha, such a good humor.
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Leaves
One by one, like leaves from a tree, All my faiths have forsaken me; But the stars above my head Burn in white and delicate red, And beneath my feet the earth Brings the sturdy grass to birth. I who was content to be But a silken-singing tree, But a rustle of delight In the wistful heart of night— I have lost the leaves that knew Touch of rain and weight of dew. Blinded by a leafy...
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for...
– Charles Bukowski
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Death
i walked with Death today. we walked not hand in hand, nor side by side merely in a mutually uncomfortable symbiosis.
Death confessed to me (sweating and cursing and lying and composed as though in a velvet box) that there is no heaven. there is no god no heroic angels of fortune no baby cherubs blessed to determine love on earth,
but a mere Infinity. (infinity, infinite, endless amounts of...
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole...
– Isaac Asimov
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Writers
Today’s theme will be 19th century writers, and I just wanted to clarify that my categorical choice of 19th century means only that the writers were born in the 1800’s.
Today will be part of a larger theme of writers, and in the coming Fridays I will have early 20th century, modern day, feminist, and other kinds of writers.
If you have a writer category that you would like to...
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The God in All of Us
When I jested, God laughed. When I hated, God killed. When I loved, God cleared the way. When I bore hunger, God granted me Manna. When I bore thirst, God sated me from brooks of heaven. When I prayed, God granted. When I died, God..? He died with me.
by CrimsanityCreations
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i-killed-god-deactivated2012030 asked: I love you.
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Church of Thought
I want to build a library And shelve it with every book ever burned. I want to build a library And invite in all the pastors and preachers and woebegone popes- Send them wandering through the breathing books, Willingly lost in the dust motes and the cinnamon paper and the quiet conversation of Dry Twain- Dark Poe- Wilde and Shakespeare and Darwin and Plato. I want to build a library For all the...
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Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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