Paradoxical Paradigms

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dorkstranger:

fuckyeahmythbusters:

Well how bout that, our very own Adam Savage made it onto thedailywhat!  I couldn’t not reblog it.  Videos had popped up earlier of this speech, but I was waiting for a better quality one to come along.  Well, here it is.

thedailywhat:

Reasonable Man of the Day: Mythbuster Adam Savage delivers a rousing speech on reason and the progress-sustaining byproducts thereof at Saturday’s Reason Rally in DC.

Money: “Everything that we have that makes our lives possible exists because human beings have tested the things they’ve found in their surroundings, made predictions based on those tests, and then improved upon them. This is reason: The human capacity to make sense of the world.”

[fark.]

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Boom.

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februaryof1964:

christinsanity:

Sounds legit.

logic.

But Dad, what if it’s just a thinly veiled ruse?

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abaldwin360:

You can go ahead and look for “almighty”, “creator”, “higher power”, and “lord” as well.

You’ll find one of them. In the date. 

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Searched for The Beatles song “The Word”…

only to find a freaky string of Biblical quotations and Scripture praising. Whoops, sorry. Wrong number… *click*

"If triangles had a god, he would have three sides."

Montesquieu

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devosdk:

You mean the Bible isn’t a reliable single source of historical fact?

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Synchronicity, Richard Dawkins, and “Imagine” by John Lennon

So I started reading the God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. My friend Lauren loaned me the book on New Year’s Day after I partied there the night before. Today I was inspired to dig in, not only because of the energizing feeling of a new year, but also in spite of the news that Cee Lo Green purposely changed the lyrics of John Lennon’s song “Imagine” during his New Year’s Eve performance.

Now, I always had a fair amount of respect for Cee Lo, short of maybe his more recent “Fuck You” material (although the whole censorship issue cutting both ways is rather curious, as my friend Terence pointed out). I’ve even seen Gnarls Barkley live. They were great. This move, however, was a sorely distasteful slap in the face of John Lennon. The words “And no religion too” were changed to “And all religion’s true”, effectively flipping the song’s original, powerful, and controversial message completely on its head.

Snatching up the Dawkins book and beginning to read, wasn’t I surprised to find almost immediately in the preface: “Incidentally, my colleague Desmond Morris informs me that John Lennon’s magnificent song is sometimes performed in America with the phrase ‘and no religion too’ expurgated. One version even has the effrontery to change it to ‘and one religion too’.” Well, I guess that makes three versions now, eh, Richard?

Seriously, the synchronicity with which this event occurred was astounding. It just goes to show you that us godless heathens can still have mind-blowingly meaningful moments of connection and clarity, except minus all that clumsy, dogmatic baggage.