The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the p...
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Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secula...
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Belief is the death of intelligence.
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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying u...
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of exi...
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -...
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...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
