Ramblings as they appear in my head. Sometimes coherent, othertimes complete drivel. Sift if you will
5 months ago
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8 months ago
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"As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a God. I don’t think there is a God, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a God. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are."
- Ricky Gervais: “Why I’m an Atheist” (via mscofields)
(via downlo)
8 months ago
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"A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics."
- Sam Harris, on stem cell research (via joshishollywood)
(via deliciousramble)
8 months ago
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Guidelines to being a part of the Pond family:
- You must get shot.
- You must, at some point, not actually be made of you (ex: plastic, yogurt).
- Your name is not Williams, it is Pond.
- You must be BAMF.
- You must have a life that doesn’t make any sense.
- You must have the Doctor thrown into your life at a young age (directly or indirectly through your future wife).
- You must die, several times.
- You must not stay dead.
- You must be incredibly old, but not age a day (ex: be plastic, be in the pandorica, be half-timelord).
- You must not think the Doctor’s hats are cool.
- You must not have an easy, linear relationship (ex: timestreams going in the opposite direction, 2000 years waiting for her).
- You must not be afraid to use a gun.
- You must be married. Maybe. Maybe not. Are you asking?
- You must be quite the screamer ;)
(via deliciousramble)
Source: alannispippins