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Name and Location:
Lee Borrell [Manchester,UK]
D.O.B:
3/1/65
Hobbies and Interests:
Quantum & Metaphysics & Mathematics &
Music
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Number of pages at this site :
"When you live in the shadow of insanity,the
appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something
close to a blessed event." Robert Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance"
"Would I rather have
the truth or a lie that gives hope? I'd rather
have the truth." - Louis Theroux (Reporter)
Religions must update beliefs ยท The views of JP (Metro, The)
demonstrate that most disturbing aspect of organised religion - the unshakeable
belief that whatever acts are done in line with your interpretation of the
teachings of your god must be morally right. This way of thinking has justified
countless atrocities, massacres and holy wars throughout history, and continues
to destroy the lives of people around the globe today. I am not anti-religion
by any means, but anyone who believes they have all the answers is a dangerous
person. Whether you want to call them religious fanatics, fundamentalists
or extremists, their unquestioning belief that their hatred and prejudice
is sanctioned by their god allows them to commit acts of barbarism against
other human beings. JP argues that 'religion has nothing to do with being
relevant to modern society' but, if religions don't update their attitudes,
we will never be able to move past the mentality that led to crusades and
jihads. Surely, people can see that using your religion to justify persecuting
a man [Dr Jeffrey John] on the basis of his sexuality is the thin end of
the same wedge that justifies Islamic extremists' attacks on the 'corrupt
West'? But then again, that's the problem with people with blind faith in
organised religion - they can never accept that they could be wrong. Michael
Axe, Surrey (Metro July 9,2003)
"It is more justifiable to say that those without
any scientific understanding miss a whole body of experience;they are
rather like the tone deaf from whom all musical experience
is cut off and who have to get on without it."
- CP Snow (Writer)
"Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable"
- Dr Chris
French (Parapsychologist)
"A mathematician,like a painter or a poet,is a master
of pattern"- GH Hardy (Mathematician)
"There is, perhaps some strong similarity between
musical composition and mathematical thinking" - R.Penrose
(Mathematician)
Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being
aware that it is counting - Leibniz (Mathematician)
"The knowledge at which geometry aims is the
knowledge of the eternal" -Plato (Republic)
"Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists
test things" -Simon Conway-Morris (Evolutionary Biologist)
"The third rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.The
second rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.The
first rate mind is only happy when it is thinking" -A.A.Milne
"I thought dabbling in the black arts would be good
for a chuckle,how wrong I was" - Bart Simpson
" 'Highlander' a story of epic Greek proportions" - Sarah Greene
"He was caught in a no win situation,and he chose the wrong option" -
The Phillips report on BSE about
John Gummer (Agriculture Minister)
"That's the saltiest thing I've ever tasted,and I once ate a bowl of
salt" -Fry - "Futurama"
"What God wants,God
gets,God help us all" - Roger Waters "Amused
to Death"
Dr Albright: "For future reference - I have a red Volvo"
Dick Solomon: "Pleeease,Dr Albright,we hardly know each other" - "3rd Rock
from the Sun"
Major Carter: "Even at 300,000km/s it will take
over ten years to get there"
Colonel O'Neill:"I shoud've let the dog
out" -"Stargate SG1"
Colonel O'Neill:"We're exactly one zap gun short of actually having a zap
gun" -"Stargate SG1"
I've heard that word LOVE so many times from
the mouths of so many people who don't know what it is" - Richard Rigel in
Robert Pirsig's "Lila"
"Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human
beings think the world is older than it is" -
Bill Hicks (comedian)
"Only in America is it that people think that safety is enhanced by having
an increasing number of guns" - Greg Proops (comedian)
"I have been asked why I oppose Christianity.I have several reasons which
shall appear in due course.At the present I offer one. I
oppose Christianity because it is not true.No honest man will ask for
any other reason" - Robert Blatchford in "God and my neighbour"
"The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but
determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but
of things.Truth should be his primary object." - Michael Faraday
Last-Word
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