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I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

- US President, James Buchanan

 

 

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence, from Jerusalem, of a lunatic asylum.

- Havelock Ellis

 

 

Q: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?

A: Then he is not omnipotent.

 

Q: Is he able, but not willing?

A: Then he is malevolent.

 

Q: Is God both able and willing?

A: Then whence cometh evil?

 

Q: Is he neither able nor willing?

A:: Then why call him God?

 

Why should I fear death?

If I am then death is not.

If death is, I am not.

Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?

-Epicurus

 

 

Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.

Religions tyranny did domineer.

At length, the mighty one of Greece

Began to assert the liberty of man.

 

-Lucretius, Ode to Epicurus

 

Fear is the mother of all gods.

Nature does all things spontaneously by herself

Without their meddling.

- Lucretius

 

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider God-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

- Aristotle

 

In this subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is, do the gods exist or do they not? It is difficult, you will say, to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly. But in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

-Cicero

 

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

-Seneca

 

My earlier views on the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation have become clearer and stronger with advancing years.

- US President, Abraham Lincoln

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"If you have sex with your clone, are you gay or masturbating?"

 

- some forum somewhere...:)

Hard question

 

“I am brilliant and charming.

You are overly talkative.

He is disgustingly drunk.”

Dan M. at the Cruise Room explaining the contrary effects of five martinis on three different people.

 

“Either you’re too drunk or I’m too sober.”

Sara N. attempting to get to the bottom of why she can’t understand a friend’s conversation.

 

“I went out last night and didn’t drink a drop.

I talked all night and in the morning I remembered everything I said.

It was horrifying.”

Juan R. explaining his third shot of the afternoon at Swanky’s.

 

Of course, the best, was my mother-in-law, who, after eating all our Grand Mainer Ice desert, told my brother-in-law:-

"Your drunk!

Your all blurry!"

Posted
Mathematics subtends art.

Give me a break! mathamaticians are worse than JWs

 

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See""

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“There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.”

 

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

 

-- Havelock Ellis

 

 

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

 

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

 

-- Mohandas Gandhi

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