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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 4, 2013 at 9:46pm

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question. -Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (1941-2002) 

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 1, 2013 at 9:21pm

Our comforting conviction that [the] world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. -- Daniel Kahneman

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on February 11, 2013 at 11:14pm

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. -Robert Brault, writer (b. 1938)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on June 20, 2012 at 1:45pm

Deepak Chopra quote generator

It has been said by some that the thoughts and tweets of Deepak Chopra are indistinguishable from a set of profound sounding words put together in a random order, particularly the tweets tagged with "#cosmisconciousness". This site aims to test that claim! Each "quote" is generated from a list of words that can be found in Deepak Chopra's Twitter stream randomly stuck together in a sentence.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 18, 2012 at 12:11am

Sceptics are philanthropic and wish to cure by argument, as far as they can, the conceit and rashness of the Dogmatists.

– Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism

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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on December 16, 2011 at 6:20pm

 

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief(1877), Chapter I, "The Duty of Inquiry"

Full text of The Ethics of Belief

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on September 28, 2011 at 5:33pm

Haven't read this. Just passing the info along.

 

How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions

 

"A perceptive, incisive critical thinker is the very best pain in the ass there is. This book is DiCarlo's enlightening master class in critical thinking, couched in language any curious reader can profit from. From an introduction to formal logic that everyone can understand to a guide to the big questions about knowledge, meaning, ethics, and purpose in life, it's all in here—buttressed by exemplary unpackings of religious, paranormal, and pseudo-scientific bunkum." --Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry magazine, executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and editor of The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief.

 

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