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Well... Despite my age (15), I'm a huge Deadhead. I never got to see a concert though, as you should be able to guess why. I also like Jack Johnson, the Doobie Brothers, CCR, the Beatles, Donovan, Greydon Square, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Pearl Jam, Kula Shaker, and many more. Uhhhmm... I'm more of an "in person" kind of guy so writing stuff about myself is a tad difficult. I'm friendly, unless you tell me something ignorant and try to back it up with bogus facts. I love helping people. I do it whenever possible. Well, I don't have much else to say except
LONG LIVE THE DEAD
(Oh, and if you're wondering about the colors, this was as close as I could get to tye dye) ;-)
And now it's time for some quotes.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
-- Douglas Adams
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
-- Douglas Adams
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Preface to Androcles and the Lion
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.
-- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
-- Isaac Asimov
Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
-- Isaac Asimov
Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Toward the Mystery
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
-- Thomas Jefferson
We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.
-- Richard Dawkins, Free Inquiry, Summer, 2002
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
-- Thomas Paine
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-- Albert Einstein
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
-- Stephen Roberts
Are we atheists passionate about something? Hell, yes.
I'm passionate about my family -- people for whom I'd give my life. It wouldn't matter whether a god was dead, nonexistent, or hovering over my shoulder.
I'm passionate about science, a process that actively and explicitly excludes gods and the supernatural, whether they exist or not.
I'm passionate about my students, and in most cases I don't have a clue what religion, if any, they practice ... and it wouldn't matter in the least anyway.
And oh, yeah, I'm passionate about atheism, but atheism isn't about nothing: it's about valuing reason over superstition, about conquering unfounded fears, about facing the real world without crutches and lies to hold you up. I'm sure someone is going to sit there and dissect the letters of the word and tell me that atheism means only an absence of belief in gods, but screw that -- it's about a whole philosophy of thought that is built on materialism and naturalism. It is an idea with substance.
-- PZ Myers
For the reason that a priest considers sin,
for the reason that a police officer considers crime,
for the reason that a doctor considers disease;
I consider religion.
Not to cherish or esteem or glorify,
but to understand, to assuage, and to remedy.
If you find these quotes offensive, so be it.
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