He who laughs last
Laughter is the best medicine if you have something to laugh about and don’t have anything wrong with you.
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science
Then examining the finds
Doing the archaeology of your life involves digging down through the layered years until you reach cot rock.
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No alternative
Religion is to science as alternative medicine is to medicine. No such thing as alternative medicine, any medicine that works is just medicine. Similarly, any part of any religion which actually supplied some real, testable, information about the world we live in would be science.
That’s why we can’t have good things
When the other species on the planet get together and compare notes I think they will all agree that Homo sapiens sapiens didn’t deserve Earth.
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And then acquire followers
There is no idea so extreme, so mad-brained, so far removed from reality, so damaging to human beings, so damaging to the planet, that someone, somewhere, won’t accept it as gospel truth.
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5pm, September 30, 2018
As I sit outside in the Sun, 400 million year old rock beneath my feet, guarding my chickens against Goshawk death from the blue sky, dozens of tiny dinosaurs fly past my chair – sparrowsaurs and wrensaurs. The setting Sun ends another day of my 27,000 days (or thereabouts) so far on this ancient planet.
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Consequences
People who start religions are like people who bury toxic waste underground or at sea – they poison the world for generations to come.
Oh, all right, just a peek, now and then
When you are born you should be presented with a 70-year-diary, every day already filled in, a bright red ribbon tied around the cover. Then, as you work your way through life, you could constantly check where you were up to and what lay ahead. Or perhaps it would be best to leave it closed,
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Congratulations
Once, when I was receiving a degree from a university, I was first up to the stage out of perhaps 100 degree recipients. I reached the Chancellor who handed me the piece of paper, shook my hand, and said “Congratulations, we have been following your career with interest”. “Following my career with interest”, wow, I