Light on the Go

I said to myself...

2009-06-08T14:26:00.000-07:00

All talk and no proof makes religion absurd.

Ponder this.

2008-06-25T22:51:00.000-07:00

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

- Albert Einstein

... But He loves you!

2008-06-25T22:38:00.000-07:00

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man - living in the sky - who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. Ant the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want yo to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send yo to live an suffer and burn and choke and scream and cray forever and ever 'til the end of time... But He loves you!

- George Carlin
(May 12, 1937–June 22, 2008)

Religion is used for...

2008-05-09T13:08:00.000-07:00

Religion is very commonly used for validating our ignorance and boasting our awe for the things that we cannot explain.

-Me

The Universe is my backyard

2008-05-09T11:50:00.000-07:00

[I]t's too late to make any improvements now. The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.

-HERMAN MELVILLE, MOBY DICK, CHAPTER 2 (1851)

Of Nietzsche...

2008-05-06T10:48:00.000-07:00

God did not die, that's silly... he never existed in the first place.

Thank you, Lina.

The root of all evil? (Not quite, but...)

2008-05-02T11:26:00.000-07:00

Taken from the wikipedia entry of Dr. Richard Dawkins:

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when asked how the world might have changed, Dawkins responded:
"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!"

-Dawkins, Richard (November 11, 2001). Has the world changed?. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2006-01-29

W3 b3 important?

2008-05-01T11:47:00.000-07:00

[One philosopher] asserted that he knew the whole secret... [H]e surveyed the two celestial strangers from top to toe, and maintained to their faces that their persons, their worlds, their suns, were created solely for the use of man. At this assertion our two travelers let themselves fall against each other, seized with a fit of...inextinguishable laughter.

-VOLTAIRE, MICROMEGAS, A PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY (1752)[1][2]

Of Omnipotence and Omniscience

2008-04-30T12:57:00.000-07:00

"... it has not escaped the notice of logicians that omniscience and omnipotence are mutually incompatible. If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't change his mind about his intervention, which means he is not omnipotent. Karen Owens has captured this witty paradox in equally engaging verse:
Can omniscient God, who
Know the future, find
The omnipotence to
Change his future mind?"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

Quoting Ancient Times

2008-04-29T12:30:00.000-07:00

Democritus -
"There are two forms of knowledge: one legitimate, one bastard. To the latter form belong all the following: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. The legitimate is quite distinct from this. When the bastard form cannot see more minutely, nor hear nor smell nor taste nor perceive through touch, then another, finer form must be employed. - Democritus, Fragment 11, The Symmetry of Life"