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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 08/15/2012 : 05:05:27
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 08/15/2012 : 06:11:10 [Permalink]
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To put it another way, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were awakened? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume pursuit of the bastard who woke you and rejoicing in the effort in killing him?
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Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2012 : 09:23:23 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by moakley
To put it another way, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were awakened? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume pursuit of the bastard who woke you and rejoicing in the effort in killing him?
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And Dawkins is famously violent and cruel. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2012 : 10:53:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Originally posted by moakley
To put it another way, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were awakened? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume pursuit of the bastard who woke you and rejoicing in the effort in killing him?
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And Dawkins is famously violent and cruel.
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Not sure of your intent here, but hopefully this makes mine clear. Last paragraph.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an s sssssenlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?
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Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2012 : 11:15:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by moakley
Not sure of your intent here, but hopefully this makes mine clear. Last paragraph.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?
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What you have there is a variation of the quote I mangled.
My intent: Humor. Result: Questionable. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 08/15/2012 11:18:51 |
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Dawkins on Awakening
