New study shows someones "god" is nothing more than one's own image

... made easier by the fact that we often think of deities in very human terms, despite their omnipotence and abstract nature. Of course, many philosophers got there first. The very word "anthropomorphism", ... share their physical characteristics. And many people, from Rousseau to Twain to Voltaire, are credited with the line: "God created man in his own image ...

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Intellectuals, Vigilance & Responsibility –

... best of all possible worlds’ by Voltaire, the greatest intellectual of the day...instead that the catastrophe merely demonstrated nature’s indifference to humanity. The two...opposed explanations shared a sense of human powerlessness: there was no specific course...avoid the catastrophe. To be sure, Voltaire did not believe that the hubris...for their fate. In this respect, Voltaire thought very much like a ...

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"I'm an engineer," Scotty snapped, "not a paper towel!"

...not a callous bastard who doesn't care about human suffering. Dominant or submissive? Somewhere in between the two..., and preferably a couple of drinks, but the nature of all three of those elements can vary. ...IN STAR TREK If you couldn't date a human for some strange, odd reason, which species (...for Star Trek techno-innuendo, nobody will ever beat Voltaire's Sexy Data Tango . I love that song....

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Interesting - 17.01.09: Words of Wisdom

... the men and women who could change the world." -- Herbert Marcuse "Human life is an experience to be carried as far as possible...; it unmasks them." "Prejudice is the reason of fools." -- Voltaire "Experience is a keen knife that hurts, while it extracts ... appear quite new and unfamiliar. In this way their true nature is disclosed." -- Schopenhauer, On Genius "All the wit in the ...

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Favourite Quotes Series #1 Atheism

... is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of...has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not .... No lower opinion of the human race has ever been expressed ... a large majority of the human race. I cannot see why ... things as a part of nature. George Bernard Shaw The fact ... absolve myself; me, the man. Voltaire To pray to God is ...

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Voltaire and some ideas on theatre and art

... but always natural; to know the human's heart but also how to ...in them a true imitation of nature. I shall only like a picture...can believe I am looking at nature itself-and there are no such...imitated something else, in this case nature, it was kitsch. To Signor Pococurante, though, this imitation of nature was exactly what he liked, ...thought it was cool how even Voltaire can be relevant to our past...

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" - Voltaire

...a community – Christians. A big powerful community filled with over-zealous believers, even servile in nature. Those who did not believe and questioned God were killed. To question anything that cannot ... occurrence of a statistically unlikely event, so there is a possibility of it happening. But human instinct would rather credit such a joyous unexplainable event to the supernatural – God. Some “...

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Not For The Faint Of Heart

...You can see them trying to get out of the ditch only to be pushed back in. Some victims are kicked around, others are beaten with a stick. "It’s the worst of human nature. To paraphrase Voltaire, when people believe absurdities, they can commit atrocities. This is a perfect example..."

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Are you a Patriot? Are you angry?

...I can accept it - politics is human nature at its best...and at...swallow their vomit. They are, as Voltaire said simply, “parrots prompted by ... to stop the practice of human sacrifice. The irony! Ask the 12... the difference between sacrificing a human being on the alter (or ... a cross) and sacrificing a human life on the battlefield? Isn'... right "thing" - it is a human nature "thing". There is no ...

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Majority Rules: A Lesson in Democracy's Failure

... collusion is rewarded while honesty could go either way. The nature of the game provides an incentive for teams to work ... (Castro, Stalin). When it is acceptable to wield power over other people then human nature will direct the ambitious to become tyrants. The only real solution is to remove the ... name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." -Voltaire

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