Meaningful ideas and quotes

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Oi, Peter...I can see your house from up here!’ - Jesus of Nazareth, 33 CE

Boru

[Gwaithmir]

“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” (James Madison)

[Angrboda]

"Men cannot create a worm, yet the can create gods by the dozen." (Blaise Pascal)

* kudos to Gwaithmir for the quote

[Brian37]

Me- "If our species never questioned social norms, our species never would have left the caves."

[Angrboda]

Me- "If our species never questioned social norms, our species never would have left the caves."

I doubt that.

[Brian37]

Me- "If our species never questioned social norms, our species never would have left the caves."

I doubt that.

Not sure what you mean. If it means we have plenty of bad logic today, sure we still do. But I wouldn't claim an earth centered universe was good logic. I wouldn't claim slavery was good logic. Those things got questioned and as a result positions changed.

Give me the choice of having to ride a horse to send a letter, or texting or PMing someone, call me lazy, I'll take texting over the Pony Express.

[Angrboda]

I doubt that.

Not sure what you mean. If it means we have plenty of bad logic today, sure we still do. But I wouldn't claim an earth centered universe was good logic. I wouldn't claim slavery was good logic. Those things got questioned and as a result positions changed.

Give me the choice of having to ride a horse to send a letter, or texting or PMing someone, call me lazy, I'll take texting over the Pony Express.

I was making a funny.

[Brian37]

Not sure what you mean. If it means we have plenty of bad logic today, sure we still do. But I wouldn't claim an earth centered universe was good logic. I wouldn't claim slavery was good logic. Those things got questioned and as a result positions changed.

Give me the choice of having to ride a horse to send a letter, or texting or PMing someone, call me lazy, I'll take texting over the Pony Express.

I was making a funny.

THAT'S MY LINE!

[Gwaithmir]

“To create [ex nihilo] is a mystical religious expression which can be of value only in the eyes of those persons who are pleased to believe that which they cannot comprehend and on whom faith exerts an imposition conversely proportional to their lack of comprehension. But to any intelligent man, for any observer for whom words have value only in the measure that they represent a reality or a possibility, to create is an expression void of sense.” (Sebastien Faure, Does God Exist?)

[Angrboda]

“The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”
— Andrew Carnegie