(Source: everyday-epiphany)
When Emma laughs:
When I laugh:
When she dances:
When I dance:
When she whips her hair:
When I whip my hair:
When she cries:
When I cry:
When she winks:
When I try to wink:
IN GENERAL, THIS IS EMMA WATSON:
AND THIS IS ME:
(Source: youmeandnothingness)
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. The second sentence is false. Religion does not turn you into a terrorist. The overwhelming majority of religious people have similar values to yours; my church-going grandmother would have been just as horrified at people using their faith to justify murdering people as the most hardened atheist, and there have been atheist individuals who also think they are justified in killing people for the cause. So stop saying this!
I would say, though, that religion does make one more susceptible to bad ideas. After all, if you’ve spent your whole life learning to dampen your critical faculties and avoid questioning the Holy Trinity and the Magic Mother of God, it’s not so hard to accept that the people in the IRS building are plotting to put a mind-control chip in your head. I oppose religion because we can see its effects on even otherwise brilliant people: it short-circuits skepticism and leaves them open to dangerous and erroneous ideas. It’s just that usually we can trust in the cooperative social nature of human beings, and the kind of dangerous idea usually plopped into their brains is that it is good to bring sugar cookies made with a pound of pure butter to the church social.
ACNE s/s 2011
(Source: philo-sofia)
