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Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion.

— David Eagleman

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Many great civilisations have fallen, leaving nothing but cracked ruins and scattered genetics.

Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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