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Comment by Dallas Gaytheist on December 16, 2011 at 5:19pm

 

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself credulous. The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose the habit of testing things and inquiring into them; for then it must sink back into savagery.

William Kingdon Clifford, The Ethics of Belief(1877), Chapter I, "The Duty of Inquiry"

Full text of The Ethics of Belief

Comment by Adam on February 27, 2010 at 10:45am

@DOS 'Party At Ground Zero" by Fishbone would work too.

Comment by Aiden on December 17, 2009 at 9:24am

Comment by D.O.S on December 12, 2009 at 11:32am

Prince's 1999 would probably good too.

Comment by Aiden on November 27, 2009 at 8:03am

DOS, it may seem clichéd, but should you throw such a disaster-themed party, remember that REM's "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" is required to be played and drunkenly, loudly sung-along with at some point during the party.

Comment by D.O.S on November 27, 2009 at 7:48am

I don't generally do much for my birthday but since the Mayan Calendar ends on it, 12-21, I'm thinking in 2012 I might have to have a huge bash. My wife and I had a big new years party for 2000 in part because we both find the end of the world nuts so annoying. Maybe I could get on NPR if I do a disaster theme. :)

Comment by D.O.S on October 12, 2009 at 9:51am

And Randi kicks ass. Hope he's doing well. Last I heard his health was questionable. It's a bit depressing that the old guard, so to speak, of Skepticism and Humanism aren't going to be with us much longer.

Comment by D.O.S on October 12, 2009 at 9:47am

When it comes to religion or the supernatural Brian Dunning tends to be right on. However, when it comes to Economics or Politics he doesn't seem to stick to his own guidelines for skeptical inquiry. I do read and listen to him but when it comes to his analysis of the two I just mentioned I've become very skeptical of him. His two collections of writing, Skeptoid and Skeptoid 2, are definitely worth reading. 2012 is in one of them, I forgot which one.

Comment by Louis Davout on October 10, 2009 at 8:12pm

Comment by Louis Davout on September 30, 2009 at 4:52am

Note: I not watched this yet, but I'm sure it's good.

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