Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
Michael CrichtonTags: theories theory conjecture speculation guessing scenario scenarios
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds...this is all great stuff. Wonderful stuff. You can argue it interminably. But it can't be contradicted, because nobody knows the answer to any of these topics.
Michael CrichtonTags: science consciousness theories knowledge religion language ignorance evolution theory brain darwinism conjecture speculation human-behavior seti guessing abiogenesis extraterrestrial-life origin-of-life
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
Antonio MachadoTags: life philosophy dreams dreaming living dream food-for-thought guessing
Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.
T.F. HodgeTags: wisdom life perception philosophy fate mystery destiny quotes beautiful conclusion guessing
He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
Lionel ShriverTrue saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own ego, fear and lack of spirituality. What's sadder is when they are Christian.
Shannon L. AlderTags: fear communication judgement hypocrisy facts paranoia saddness branding gossiping guessing overthinking blaming ignoring not-caring lack-of-communication not-knowing assuming denying-feelings dishonorable hurting-people male-ego opinionated truthfullness
Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.
Shannon L. AlderTags: imagination truth compassion understanding seeing logic facts guessing blinded believes false-interruptations interruptation
There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. We know the origins of the universe, the physics of the big bang and how the basic chemical elements formed in supernovas. We know that life on this planet originated about 4 billion years ago, and we are all descendants of that original replicating molecule. Thanks to Darwin we know that natural selection is the only workable explanation for the design and variety of all life on this planet. Paleoanthropologists and geneticists have reconstructed much of the human tree of life. We are risen apes, not fallen angels. We are the most successful and last surviving African hominid. Every single person on this Earth, all 7 billion of us, arose 50,000 years ago from small bands of African hunter-gatherers, a total population of somewhere between 600 and 2,000 individuals.
J. Anderson ThomsonTags: science biology atheism atheist cosmology charles-darwin darwin anthropology secular primitive origins guessing
When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.
Shannon L. AlderTags: opinions life-experience assumptions upbringing critics bias brainwashed judging view guessing life-experiences not-knowing pressured coheresed limited-knowledge limited-perspective not-enough-information
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