Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Tim Minchin

Tags: music religion spirituality skepticism song-lyrics freethinking

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You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Tim Minchin

Tags: humor scepticism alternative-medicine pseudoscience quackery

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Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.

Tim Minchin

Tags: humor love hurt comedy

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I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".

Tim Minchin

Tags: humor sarcasm spirituality relativism black-humor grumpiness

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Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Tim Minchin

Tags: science god religion faith

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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?

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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.

We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

Tim Minchin

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