| Readings
quotes that have (almost) nothing to do with atheism |
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| Readings
quotes that have (almost) nothing to do with atheism |
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't
go away.
Philip K. Dick
In the long run, we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all
copulated at least once.
Richard Dawkins
Never be obedient.
Baxter
Tradition means giving votes to the most
obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be
walking around.
G. K. Chesterton
Never let your morals keep you from doing
what's right.
Robert Heinlein
I don't want to achieve immortality through my
work ... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing
evil.
Jerry Garcia
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
proverb
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Jesus of Nazareth
I can explain it for you, but I can't
understand it for you.
proverb
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The Tarot Card: The Fool We begin with the Fool (0), a card of beginnings. The Fool stands for each of us as we begin our journey of life. He is a fool because only a simple soul has the innocent faith to undertake such a journey with all its hazards and pain. At the start of his trip, the Fool is a newborn --- fresh, open and spontaneous. The figure on Card 0 has his arms flung wide, and his head held high. He is ready to embrace whatever comes his way, but he is also oblivious to the cliff edge he is about to cross. The Fool is unaware of the hardships he will face as he ventures out to learn the lessons of the world. The Fool stands somewhat outside the rest of the major arcana. Zero is an unusual number. It rests in the exact middle of the number system - poised between the positive and negative. At birth, the Fool is set in the middle of his own individual universe. He is strangely empty (as is zero), but imbued with a desire to go forth and learn. This undertaking would seem to be folly, but is it? |
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| beginning entering a new phase | being spontaneous living in the moment |
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| having faith trusting the flow | embracing folly accepting your choices |
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