The Expat Life

7 December 11

“ I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and in many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go to something else. But I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.

— Richard Feynman (via crookedindifference)

(Source: en.wikiquote.org)

30 November 11

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unfriendlyatheist:

milkywaymusings:

Carl Sagan on the human conceit

Man created god in his image: intolerant, sexist, homophobic, and violent.

(Source: milkywaymusings)

29 November 11

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hydrides:

wait what on earth does evolutionary biology have to do with quantum mechanics

What a fail.

(Source: acylates)

23 November 11

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samous:

step it up

I’m sorry, I don’t usually post stuff like this.. but this, this is too ridiculous.

4 October 11

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sanityscraps:

atheistsblog:

Eddie Izzard “Stripped”: God and Atheism (2:35)

“If there was a God, don’t you think he would have flicked Hitler’s head off? Don’t you think? You know. ‘Oh, I’m not allowed to do anything’— Well, fuck off, then! If you’re ‘not allowed to do anything’, then what’s the use? Just piss off and stop asking us to mumble things on Sundays!”

Best part. XD

21 September 11

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Wait, this shit actually happens? In real life?

depressingfacts:

helvetebrann:

This week is Parent Conference week. We meet with all of the parents of the kids in our advisory class. Today I met with a bright young student and her parents. She is succeeding in almost every subject. On top of doing well in school, her parents are having her learn to play the piano, she’s enrolled in a local gym, and is running every weekend on the school track.

She’s just having problem in one subject: science. The only unit that’s been covered so far? Evolution.

I offered to help her study.

On the way out, one of the parents grabbed my arm and said, “I really want you to stress that evolution is just a theory.”

I was too in shock to say anything. I mean, yeah I know I’ve heard about it happening, but I’ve never had a PARENT tell me that they want me, as a teacher, to tell the child that a standard of education isn’t important.

Sure. We’ll go over theory when I help her study.

The theory of gravity.

The theory of plate techtonics.

The theory of germs.

Fuck you. You’re harming your child’s education. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Helvetebrann being a total badass.

18 September 11

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aisforatheist:

fuckmorrissey-solo:

True story, Stephen.

thanks some-c0ld-tea :-)

(Source: stephenfrycunninglinguist)

15 September 11

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Let Go

God: Don't you trust in me?
Me: Yeah, I trust in You. I remember times You led me.
God: So why do you hesitate?
Me: This time it's bigger now - and I'm afraid You'll let me down.
God: Daughter, you know better than that.
Me: But how can I be certain? Will you prove Yourself again?
God: Who the fuck are you talking to?

10 September 11

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(Source: questforsweaters)

8 September 11

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ohmessylifex:

This is an awesome illustration of something Carl Sagan used to talk about back in the day, its crazy how little time we’ve been here and yet we like to parade around thinking we know everything - religious and non-religious alike.

Posted: 2:04 PM

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6 September 11

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depressingfacts:

Burst out laughing.

(Source: hentaikamidesu)

5 September 11

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rabblevolunteer:

“The lord is not our shepherd for we are not goddamn sheep- Homo Sapiens”

2 September 11

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“ So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the big bang, so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere, it doesn’t have an edge, so it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want, but it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no god. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization: There is probably no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am grateful.

— Stephen Hawking (via cwnl)

(Source: bringtheruckuss)

1 September 11

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ih8religion:

Evolution takes such a beating. lol

I H8 RELIGION
- Tyler

(Source: faqueers)

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh