{"quotes":[{"text":"The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","belief","bias","clan","country","estimate","estimated","estimation","family","funny","funny-but-true","humor","illogical","inferior","inferiority","irrational","logic","mystery","nation","nationalism","patriot","patriotic","patriotism","people","percent","percentage","pride","prideful","sarcasm","sarcastic","stat","statistic","statistics","stats","superior","superiority","true"],"id":1099,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["abhor","apologetics","avoidance","brain","chore","cognition","contemplation","distractions","emotional","emotional-work","exhaustion","fear","grinding","hard-labor","hard-work","hate","hustling","illogical","irrational","labor","logical","mental","mental-work","philosophy","physical","physical-labor","physical-work","psychology","rational","stress","task","thinker","thinking","thought","work"],"id":79224,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.","author":"Dark Jar Tin Zoo","tags":["broken","deceit","deception","denial","deny","funny","honest","honesty","humor","illogical","illusion","lie","lie-detector","lies","life","love","machine","relationships","suspicion","women","word-junkies"],"id":80343,"author_id":"Dark+Jar+Tin+Zoo"},{"text":"No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.","author":"Theodosius Dobzhansky","tags":["illogical","irrationality","stupidity","unscientific","wishful-thinking"],"id":102000,"author_id":"Theodosius+Dobzhansky"},{"text":"If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["chance","complex","complexity","contemplate","contradictory","creation","creationism","evolution","evolutionary","god","happenstance","illogical","methodical","odd","opposed","opposite","random","randomness"],"id":119743,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["blind-faith","faith","gut-feeling","illogical","intuition"],"id":142473,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["choices","choosing","chose","conclude","conclusion","destroy","destroying","destruction","end","ignorance","ignorant","illogical","insane","insanity","irrational","preposterous","short-sighted","wisdom","wise"],"id":154689,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adult","adults","age","age-is-nothing-but-a-number","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","child","childhood","childish","childlike","conform","conformity","craziness","crazy","critical","critical-thinking","develop","development","earn","funny","grow","growth","hard-work","herd","herd-mentality","humor","humour","illogical","immature","immaturity","independent-thinker","independent-thinkers","independent-thinking","individual","individuality","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","logic","mad","madness","majority","mature","maturity","minority","monkey-banana","mr-follow-follow","nonconformity","original","original-thinker","original-thinkers","original-thought","originality","philosopher","philosophers","philosophy","reach-adulthood","reason","sane","sanity","satire","sheep","sheeple","silver-plater","society","standard","think","think-for-yourself","thinker","thinkers","thinking-for-yourself","toil","unreasonable"],"id":155297,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is to tell them to go ahead and stick their finger in the socket. And what I find is that what my argument failed to solve, electricity does quite nicely.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["argue","belief","bullheaded","consequence","consequences","conviction","convinced","debate","electricity","fixated","ignorance","ignorant","illogical","lesson","myopic","obstinate","outcome","plead","socket","solution","solve","stubborn","stubbornness","surrender","tunnel-vision","unbending","understanding"],"id":181726,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The core issue in monotheism is righteousness/wickedness. Righteous/wicked qualifies a person acting or being Good/bad.In an environment of scarcity, man’s vital strategy for collective survival hinges on being good to his clan and bad to rival clans to acquire or defend resources.So the creation/elaboration/nurture of both good and bad can only be the consequence of a primary cause: scarcity.Monotheism “Revealing” such a mental disadvantage in a Creator as to confuse consequences for causes is … revelatory.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["creator","good-bad","good-evil","illogical","incomprehensible","monotheism","philosophy","religion","revelation","scarcity","thought","unreasonable"],"id":253761,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}