Suppose I had found an ape lying dead upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the ape happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer I had before given, that for anything I knew, the ape might have always been there. … There must have existed, at some time, […]
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The trick in dealing with anxiety is to forget the evils of the past, and not to fret about the perils of the future, while living entirely in the present. The problem is finding out the secret of how the trick is done.
Was it Warren Buffet who said “of course there is a class war and my class is winning”? No matter, it’s the thought that counts. It comes in response to the neoconservative meme, going back a few years now, in which parties vaguely of the Left (Australian Labour, American Democrats, British Labor), are accused of
YouTube comment threads are an embarrassing display of the ignorance of the world in the 21st century.
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Life is like an exam in which you struggle to write as much as possible, pack as much into each answer as possible, until the moment when the teacher says “Time’s Up”, and you stop, reluctantly, seeing, on the exam paper, gaps where you could have, should have, said more, places where, gulp, you have
Prophets are often profitable but never prophetable.
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Life is an exam paper with a series of questions. For some people the questions get easier towards the end, for others harder. You have to mark your own paper, there is no examiner. Pass mark is 50%, and no-one has ever scored 100%. Good luck.
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Why the attacks on Science? Same reason as always. Homo sapiens is not a species that lives, like other animal species, in a rational way in a real world (one piece of evidence for this being that other animal species haven’t invented religions). Our belief systems, the set of things we believe, are derived from
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America from first democracy on to last autocracy
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