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Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ?
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RE: Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ?
Bertrand Russel Wrote:Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time



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Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ? - by Rwandrall - May 11, 2010 at 2:00 pm
RE: Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ? - by Autumnlicious - May 11, 2010 at 7:15 pm
RE: Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ? - by Pippy - May 11, 2010 at 9:24 pm
RE: Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ? - by Watson - May 11, 2010 at 11:02 pm
RE: Humanity makes me want to puke.;;help ? - by Pippy - May 12, 2010 at 9:08 pm

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