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The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality. We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day. The inverse square law of gravitation is amazing. Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
The nearly infinite set of dominoes that have fallen into each other in order for us to be here tonight is unfathomable. Truly unfathomable. But it is logical. We don’t know all the steps in that logic, but we’re learning more about it every day. Learning, expanding our consciousness, singly and universally. As far as I can see, the three main intolerant religions in the world aren’t helping in that mission.
Food for The Eagle - Adam Savage’s speech to Harvard Humanism Society
Read the whole thing.
(via wilwheaton)
Oh, hell yeah. This squared. Adam Savage is obviously inside my brain and doing a Reader’s Digest on my thoughts.
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Secular victory: Religious groups must offer birth control - Portland Humanist | Examiner.com
Yay! Let’s tax the bastards next.
Preaching to the choir here…. The religious types fear true freedom because they’re afraid other people will make choices that they don’t like. Cultural and moral relativism is evil incarnate in their view. They also don’t trust that they themselves will always be ‘delivered from temptation’ (because obviously they aren’t responsible for their own desires and are subject to the influence of others). Therefore it is better to remove any opportunity to choose and simultaneously chalk it up to the supposed dictates of their lord. Despite the supposed gift of free will from their god, it’s better that there be no opportunity to sin rather than there even be the slightest opportunity to choose not to sin.
A reading from the book of Kevbo.
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Despite your feelings regarding Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, this little...
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i'm so fucking confident with no hair.
i want to have nude portraits taken of me, sexual or...
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And so begins the 3-5 month stretch that I don’t wear clothes.
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