February 2011
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January 2011
43 posts
Jake: I don't know if it was just because I was drunk, but--
I: The answer is always "yes."
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The Problem with Models →
Scientific models are a good way to understand reality, but they aren’t real.
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“Although a good God regrets our suffering, his greatest concern is surely that...”
– Richard Swinburne.
Wow. Because it’s impossible to develop those qualities without maiming or killing an innocent bystander.
Wow.
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“Pantheism is sexed-up athiesm. Deism is watered-down theism.”
– Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
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“Do not accept any of my words on faith,
Believing them just because I said...”
– Buddha (via ageofreason)
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“√2 = 1.414213456…. This is just evidence of a misspent youth.”
– My math professor had a job at an observatory as an undergrad where he had to calibrate the calculators. To test them, he would find the square root of 2.
This was 50-some years ago, and he still can’t forget all those digits.
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“There is a near-100% likelihood that a Wisconsin graduate helped design the...”
– -Andy Phelps
just a little school pride. It’s not bragging if it’s true, right?
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“It is never too late.
Even if you are going to die tomorrow,
Keep yourself...”
– Lama Yeshe (via ageofreason)
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Historical Perspective
When I was younger, I would always read history books with a sense of omniscience. Well of course this is the outcome—obviously the US won its independence from England; of course Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt. It was like reading to the end of a novel; you get the sense that you know the whole story and everything there is to know about the characters. Nothing else can happen...
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“The common mistake of the religious celibate has been to suppose that the...”
– Alan W. Watts (Nature, Man and Woman)
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“The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding,...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin
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“The odds against you, personally, having been born into this life, are beyond...”
– Greta Christina
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“Es vida este breve paso, esta premura entre la cuna y la tumba?”
– Carlos Fuentes
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“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.”
– The Great Gatsby
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“Instead of being the warm center of the world, the Middle West now seemed like...”
– The Great Gatsby
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