Author of quotes: Richard Dawkins. Page 3
Recently there has been a rejection of racism and patriotism and a tendency to the object of our fraternity was all of humanity. Such a humanistic extension of our altruism leads to an interesting consequence, which, again, apparently, supports the evolutionary idea of "the good kind". People who hold liberal political views, which are usually the most staunch advocates of "species ethics" often Express the greatest contempt for those who went to your altruism a little further, extending it to other types. If I say that I'm more interested in protection from extinction of large whales than improving the living conditions of the people, I'm shocked that some of his friends.
The belief that members of your own species deserve special protection compared to members of other species, has long been deeply rooted in man. To kill a man in peacetime is considered a very serious crime. The only action by which our culture imposes a more severe ban, is cannibalism (even in the case of eating of corpses). However, we eat other species.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 19:10
Philosophy and the subjects known as "Humanities" are still taught as if Darwin never existed.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 19:10
After sleep of a hundred million centuries we have finally opened my eyes on a gorgeous planet, the sparkling colors, rich life. Within a few decades we will have to close my eyes again. Is not it a noble, an enlightened way to devote our short time in the sun working on understanding the universe and how it turned out? Here is how I answer when people ask me why I bother to get up in the morning out of bed.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 18:04
Incidentally, the religious student can come into confusion, wondering why God is creating problems, providing predators with beautiful adaptations to catch prey, while with the other hand supplying beautiful adaptation of production to prevent it. Apparently He was enjoying the sport as a spectator.
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MegaMozg 10-01-2017 / 16:18
This is not science fiction, it's true. We are just a wrapper for selfish entities that live inside us.
They govern us, they drive our actions, forcing us to kill and to betray, to pretend that we are kind and caring, just so we could survive among others and extend their life. They are incredibly ruthless and completely selfish. These entities are known under the name genes.
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MegaMozg 09-01-2017 / 22:27
The God of the old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in world literature. Jealous and proud of it, petty, unjust, ruthless, power-hungry, vindictive, the mastermind of ethnic cleansing, misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticide, spread plague and death, sado-masochist, capricious, malevolent bully.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
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MegaMozg 08-01-2017 / 15:37
Let's not forget that one of the main gifts of the teacher students is acquired by children to amazing parents.
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MegaMozg 07-01-2017 / 20:38
All the supporters of the literal interpretation of the Bible enough to read it and know that for adultery, picking up sticks on the Sabbath and disobedience to parents the death penalty?
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MegaMozg 07-01-2017 / 09:24
We die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people never die because they are never born. The number of potential people who could be here at my place, but in fact will never see the light of day, much more than the grains of sand in the Sahara. Of course, in the ranks of the unborn ghosts are poets greater than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because a lot of people, allowed our DNA, much more than many real people. And from the mouth these meager chances of birth escaped ordinary you and me. We are a privileged bunch of people who against all odds won the lottery of birth. How dare we complain about our imminent return to the state from which the vast majority were never born.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 04:14
1. Do not do to others what you would not want to receive from them.
2. Try never to harm.
3. In relation to other people, living beings, and the world, show love, honesty, loyalty and respect.
4. Do not disregard evil, and do not shy away from justice, but always be ready to forgive pleaded guilty and sincerely repented.
5. Live with a sense of joy and wonder.
6. Always try to learn new things.
7. Always check their ideas with facts and be prepared to abandon the most cherished beliefs if the facts refute them.
8. Don't be afraid to Express disagreement and dissent; always respect the right of others for a different point of view.
9. Form your own opinion based on personal reasoning and experience; not blindly go on about the other.
10. Question everything.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 01:21
Religion becomes a symbolic expression of intergroup hostility and revenge, no better and no worse than other labels such as skin colour, language or favorite football team; and religion often comes into play where other labels ordered the road.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 01:21
If people are good only because of fear of punishment and desire of reward, then we are truly pathetic create.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 01:21
Nothing prevents a person from being an atheist to be happy, balanced, deeply intelligent and highly moral.
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MegaMozg 06-01-2017 / 01:21
How not to recall a test of David Hume on miracles: "No testimony can not serve as proof of the miracle, except for the situation when false testimony is even more incredible than the fact that it should confirm".
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MegaMozg 04-01-2017 / 21:14
Even if the issue is real, and science cannot answer it, this does not mean that religion can do it.
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MegaMozg 04-01-2017 / 13:21
