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ismnotwasm

(42,652 posts)
4. Oh boy
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 11:48 AM
Jun 2013

I can only quote Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

“Nor had he, as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most people through the choppy waters of Life. He'd have liked to believe in a supreme God, although he'd have preferred a half-hour's chat with Him before committing himself, to clear up one or two points. He'd sat in all sorts of churches, waiting for that single flash of blue light, and it hadn't come. And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard, self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. And every single political party had seemed to him equally dishonest. And he'd give up on ecology...Then he'd tried believe in the Universe, which seemed sound enough until he'd innocently started reading books with words like Chaos and Time and Quantum in the titles. He'd found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn't really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what or even if it could theoretically exist.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch



I love that book.

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Philosophy dead? Hardly. I was a Physics major. discntnt_irny_srcsm Jun 2013 #1
I would have hoped for better from Hawking... TreasonousBastard Jun 2013 #2
Well, two out of three ain't bad. defacto7 Jun 2013 #3
Oh boy ismnotwasm Jun 2013 #4
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