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"Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
Free will is actually more than an illusion (or less), in that it cannot be made conceptually coherent. Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them."

Sam Harris (Free Will)

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lackofbelief:

This quote is from Sam Harris’s latest book, Free Will. Harris just keeps getting better and better.

“Steal This Book,” by Abbie Hofman, Sixties Radical

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lackofbelief:

I don’t have a Kindle reader, so I was quite excited to find that Sam Harris’s new book, Free Will, is now available in paperback from Amazon — for his latest book before that, Lying, was released in electronic-format only.

Of course, I can’t just buy one book on Amazon, for I like to get the “super saver shipping,” so I ordered Richard Dawkins’s recent book on evolution, The Greatest Show On Earth, even though I’ve already read it. It’s too valuable a reference to not own, and it is one of the many books I have loaned out, but never had returned.

Then I remembered that Dawkins has a a new books out, also….

So, what did I end up doing to celebrate Easter this year? It isn’t what I set out to do, but I ended up purchasing a whole “trinity” of books by prominent atheists, as an “Easter present” to myself!

                                                             —RobertLovesPi

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edge of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories."
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via hannahgraceful)

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In the extremely unlikely event that I am ever sworn in to a political office, I’ll use a Bible:  this one.

Thomas Jefferson basically took scissors to the Bible — the four Gospels, in particular.  All the supernatural stuff about Jesus, which offended his sense of reason — gone.  As for the moral teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, he examined them, asking, each time, does this make sense?  He took those which passed this test, and laid them down in an order that made sense to him.  Thus was The Jefferson Bible born.

Sample page from Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit.

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I love this book they are reading together, and recommend it highly.  Yoko Ono wrote it, and it is called Grapefruit.  I might have been 10 years old the first time I read it.

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John &Yoko

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