Mammals came on the scene about 200 million years ago.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 20, 2010 by Michael
Big cities are highly, vastly, crashingly overrated.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 18, 2010 by Michael
The fact is that we all get one life. Extracting the most possible pleasure from it – something which does not inherently equal selfishness – is the only sensible course.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 15, 2010 by Michael
Here is a descriptive claim:
Many people think bugs are gross.
It is not a value statement. Now here is a normative claim:
Bugs are gross.
It passes judgement on bugs and is therefore a value statement.
I wish more people could separate these two types of claims.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 13, 2010 by Michael
Old people love to pretend their oldness somehow gives them some sort of authority or intellectual superiority. It doesn’t.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 11, 2010 by Michael
I just watched the so-called highlights of the World Cup match. It was amazing. Soccer is somehow able to be so boring that even its highlights make me want to shoot myself.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 10, 2010 by Michael
Sexual immaturity is rampant in Christianity.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 7, 2010 by Michael
Anyone who tries to link Darwin and Hitler is being a dishonest hack.
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Thought of the day
Posted on July 3, 2010 by Michael
Thought of the day
Posted on July 1, 2010 by Michael
No new data is gained from logic.
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For the Sake of Science 