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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #390 - August 14, 2010, 10:30 PM
    Quote from: Solarjaaz on August 14, 2010, 10:16 PM
    "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred." ~Richard Dawkins


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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #391 - August 14, 2010, 10:32 PM
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #392 - August 14, 2010, 10:32 PM
    Quote from: Solarjaaz on August 14, 2010, 10:16 PM

    "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred." ~Richard Dawkins




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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #393 - August 14, 2010, 10:32 PM
    Quote from: Solarjaaz on August 14, 2010, 10:16 PM
    "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred." ~Richard Dawkins

    Is that good? Do I win the prize? Do I get free cookies?

    Must admit, that one kicks ass.  Amongst the best in the thread, along with the one in my siggy  Smiley
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #394 - August 14, 2010, 10:41 PM
    Bertrand Russell:

    The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts


    Quote from: z10 on August 14, 2010, 10:32 PM
    this is a mathematical fallacy


    How so?
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #395 - August 14, 2010, 10:44 PM
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #396 - August 14, 2010, 10:44 PM
    A brave man is scared of a lion three times: first when he sees the tracks; second when he hears the first roar; and third when they are face to face.

    One can change his religion; one cannot change the law

    My Uncle always quoted those to me in Somali.

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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #397 - August 14, 2010, 10:49 PM
    This is like being asked to pick a number between 1 and a million and then whatever answer you give is taken as proof of being a lucky number because it had 1/1000000 chance of being picked.
    Simply put, this is exactly the same argument that Richard Dawkins would laugh at if a creationist made it: it's so rare that a living organism could be assembled as it is, the odds are incredibly low, and so living organisms are divinely created. Swap divinely created with "privileged" and you get the same fallacy. The irony is almost delicious.

    Unless ofcourse he is making the wholly trivial point that somebody had to be here and its just as likely me as any other dna combination - in which case he's not really saying anything worth saying anyway.
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #398 - August 14, 2010, 11:11 PM
    I think his point is not that "Oh, it's so unlikely that we are here! OMG!!!" as much as it is that there are countess people who are perfectly valid, some fantastic, who will never be born, and so we shouldn't whine over our own mortality considering we were lucky enough to be born in the first place. It is most certainly not a mathematical fallacy.
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #399 - August 14, 2010, 11:17 PM
    Quote from: z10 on August 14, 2010, 10:49 PM
    This is like being asked to pick a number between 1 and a million and then whatever answer you give is taken as proof of being a lucky number because it had 1/1000000 chance of being picked.
    Simply put, this is exactly the same argument that Richard Dawkins would laugh at if a creationist made it: it's so rare that a living organism could be assembled as it is, the odds are incredibly low, and so living organisms are divinely created. Swap divinely created with "privileged" and you get the same fallacy. The irony is almost delicious.

    Unless ofcourse he is making the wholly trivial point that somebody had to be here and its just as likely me as any other dna combination - in which case he's not really saying anything worth saying anyway.


    I'm pretty sure that he means the latter.
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #400 - August 14, 2010, 11:24 PM
    Quote from: z10 on August 14, 2010, 10:49 PM
    This is like being asked to pick a number between 1 and a million and then whatever answer you give is taken as proof of being a lucky number because it had 1/1000000 chance of being picked.

    I think its like having 1/1000000 chance of winning the lottery and then winning it.  That I consider lucky.  Not because somebody won it which is akin to the creationist argument.  At those odds somebody would.  But because I won it.
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #401 - August 14, 2010, 11:26 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on August 14, 2010, 11:24 PM
    I think its like having 1/1000000 chance of winning the lottery and then winning it.  That I consider lucky.  Not because somebody won it which is akin to the creationist argument.  At those odds somebody would.  But because I won it.

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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #402 - August 18, 2010, 02:48 PM
    Ghandi:

    "Our thoughts become our words as they become our beliefs; our beliefs become our actions as they become our habits. Our habits become our values as our values become our destiny."
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #403 - August 18, 2010, 02:57 PM
    It's not from Gandhi. It comes from the Torah or another Jewish source.
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #404 - August 18, 2010, 03:27 PM
    Interesting, thanks, one should double check things on the Internet sometimes.   Embarrassed

    I've read two other versions of it too:

    "Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny."

    "Keep your thoughts positive, Thoughts
    become your words; Keep your words positive, words
    become your behaviors; Keep your behaviors positive,
    Behaviors become your habits; Keep your habits positive,
    habits become your values; Keep your values positive,
    values become your destiny."
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #405 - August 18, 2010, 05:21 PM
    Capt. Malcolm Reynolds:
    Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

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    So once again I'm left with the classic Irish man's dilemma, do I eat the potato or do I let it ferment so I can drink it later?
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #406 - August 18, 2010, 05:29 PM
     ‎"I drink to bring myself down to the level of the common man. But remember: the common man drinks, so I must drink twice as much!"

    K. Roth Binew
    "In a child's power to master the multiplication table, there is more sanctity than in all your shouted "amens" and "holy holies" and "hosannas." An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks" - Henry Drummond
  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #407 - August 19, 2010, 08:33 AM
    Quote from: deusvult on August 18, 2010, 05:21 PM
    Capt. Malcolm Reynolds:
    Half of writing history is hiding the truth.

    worship
    He's no friend to the friendless
    And he's the mother of grief
    There's only sorrow for tomorrow
    Surely life is too brief
  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #408 - August 19, 2010, 09:05 AM
    "Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy of life invincible."

    - Joseph Campbell
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #409 - August 19, 2010, 10:05 AM
    “A life Jimmy. It’s the shit that happens while you wait for moments that never come.” - Lester Freamon, The Wire.

  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #410 - August 20, 2010, 01:40 PM
    I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith
    -Kant
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #411 - August 20, 2010, 03:21 PM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuknsnphEU&feature=related
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #412 - August 20, 2010, 04:29 PM
    The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.  ~Richard Burton

    Religion:  A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.  ~Ambrose Bierce

    On the sixth day God created man.  On the seventh day, man returned the favor.  ~Author Unknown

    A thorough reading and understanding of the Bible is the surest path to atheism.  ~Donald Morgan

    "Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . ." Robert Ingersoll

    Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.
  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #413 - August 24, 2010, 01:50 PM
    This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.  ~Dalai Lama
  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #414 - August 24, 2010, 10:14 PM
    “A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.”

    From Ayatollah Khomeini's book, "Tahrirolvasyleh"
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #415 - August 24, 2010, 11:46 PM
    Quote from: Unechance on August 20, 2010, 04:29 PM
    The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.  ~Richard Burton



    This quote is very interesting. Richard Burton himself was a profoundly religious man who wrote his own Sufi poem called The Kasidah. I suppose, like all cultivated men, his target was the empty, base dogma of organised religion - while he himself was a practicing mystic.

    Unless, this is meant to Richard Burton, the Welsh actor, instead in which case I apologise.  Smiley
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    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #416 - August 25, 2010, 08:50 PM
    "The arrow needs an archer, and poetry a magician. He must ever hold in his mind the scales of meter, rejecting the long and the short. Truth is his mistress, astride a black steed, veiled in allegory. From beneath her lashes shoot a hundred unerring glances. The poet will decorate her fingers with multi-hued jewels, adorn her with the perfume and scent of saffron metaphor. Alliteration will ring like footbells; oh her bosom will be the mystery of concealed rhyme. Together with the secrets of inner meaning, the concealing eyes, these make her body a perfection of mystery."

    - The Keys of the Afghans -- Written by an anonymous sufi poet and translated by T. C. Plowden
    At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
    Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
    Downward to darkness, on extended wings. - Stevens
  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #417 - August 25, 2010, 08:52 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on August 24, 2010, 10:14 PM
    “A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.”

    From Ayatollah Khomeini's book, "Tahrirolvasyleh"


    bwahahahahahahaha. awesome.
  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #418 - August 25, 2010, 08:59 PM
    Quote from: z10 on August 25, 2010, 08:50 PM
    "The arrow needs an archer, and poetry a magician. He must ever hold in his mind the scales of meter, rejecting the long and the short. Truth is his mistress, astride a black steed, veiled in allegory. From beneath her lashes shoot a hundred unerring glances. The poet will decorate her fingers with multi-hued jewels, adorn her with the perfume and scent of saffron metaphor. Alliteration will ring like footbells; oh her bosom will be the mystery of concealed rhyme. Together with the secrets of inner meaning, the concealing eyes, these make her body a perfection of mystery."

    - The Keys of the Afghans -- Written by an anonymous sufi poet and translated by T. C. Plowden


    This is beautiful.
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  • Re: Quotes you would consider for your signature
     Reply #419 - August 27, 2010, 12:02 PM
    "If you start throwing Arab petrol on their flames, the only thing that will happen is you will get cooked" Yeezevee
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