Q: Real or Magic? A: Both.

‘I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’” ~ Louis C.K. Question: Real or magic?…

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Being Normal: Overrated and Arguably Impossible.

“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.” ~ Thomas Moore Disengage from the dominant tendency. Just disengage. We could say, ‘there is no normal’; and for sure that is to a large extent true, and the great majority of what I want to say here. On the other hand, abstractions…

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The Idea That Faith Is Stupid

“Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It’s nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.” ~ Bill Maher, Religulous The idea that faith is stupid…

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The Irony Of Religion

“The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to end. The plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live.” Bill Maher, Religulous As a Buddhist sage once said to Nobel Laureate Richard P. Feynman: ‘To every man is given the key…

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