quote of the day...

KPTV Fox 12 10:00 Broadcast

"They found that liberal brains showed a lot of conflict related brain activity and conservative brains showed less flexibility. Scientists say this suggests that liberal brains might be prepared to accept new social, scientific or religious ideas."

on a study conducted by New York researchers
pointing out what I have known for years
(their brains are not wired right!)

quote of the day...

Galileo, hero of astronomy

"The Bible may tell you how to go to Heaven, but it doesn't tell you how the Heavens go."

-on what inspired him to study astronomy
and what changed astronomy forever

quote of the day...

Slavoj Zizek, pioneer of philosophy

"The most elementary definition of ideology is probably the well known phrase from Marx's Capital:

"They do not know it, but they are doing it."

The fundamental level of ideology, however, is not of an illusion making the real state of things but that of an (unconscious) fantasy structuring our social reality itself."

-on ideology and how it functions
from a documentary, Zizek!

Translate that, and see if you can get it right. If you do, I will ultimately respect you intellectually.

quote of the day...

Phil Donahue, talk show Pioneer

"We are the most religious nation on Earth. We throw more holy water, sing in more choirs, we build more mosques, churches and synagogues. And dispatch our loved ones at the end of our lives with more prayer and holy smoke than any other nation in the history of the universe. Apparently you can't get elected to anything in this country without God blessing this and that and my dog and my cat. I mean, this is ridiculous. People are tripping over their robes to bless everything in public life. And you know - God himself must be up there saying and wincing, 'Whoa, whoa, hold it. Don't talk to me, talk to the person next to you on the bus.'"

-on religion in America
featured on documentary "Godless in America"

quotes about atheism...

While we're on the subject of atheism - I was watching a documentary called "The History of Disbelief" and I found some of the quotes so intriguing, I thought I would share them. :) Maybe you will understand a little bit more of where I'm coming from.

"So far as I can remember, there's not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence."
-Bertrand Russell

"Generally speaking, errors in religion are dangerous. Those in philosophy are just ridiculous."
-David Hume

"If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods, that fancy, enthusiasm or deceit adorned them, that weakness worships them, that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect, and tyranny support them in order to make the blindest of men serve their own interests." ... "The ignorance of nature gave birth to the gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them."
-Baron D'Holbach
1723 - 1789