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He tried...poorly

Be excellent to each other

To drop this line in a kid's movie (edited)

Pretty much

"If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it." Richard Dawkins

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” Charles Bukowski

"Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny. Be aware of human fallibility." Carl Sagan

Good guess work

4am thoughts:

There's just really no point to anything is there.. (edited)

"There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true." Richard Dawkins

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.” Carl Sagan

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Creative/critical problem

I already know what I would do but I'm curious if anyone had a solution as well. Say you are flying a kite really high at the beach and but you want to keep flying it back at the beach house. The problem is there are telephones and wires preventing this. Without reeling it in how would you get it… read more

"Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening." Richard Dawkins

Thats an odd way to put it

"Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say." Richard Dawkins

Thinking.

"Don't be a slave to your own ignorance. Know where your opinions, especially the strongly held ones, came from and be brave enough to question them." Dean Van Drasek

"Offense is what people take when they can't take argument." Richard Dawkins

"I am passionate about truth and passionate about clarity, and I don't regard myself as particularly militant or aggressive. I simply wish to discuss what is true and to listen to evidence and put evidence forward to other people and have a sensible, sane, moderated argument." Richard Dawkins

24 hrs is not a lot of time

Logic So emotionally detached, can't even emotionally connect to people.