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- A Christian is one who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- A clergyman can hardly ever allow himself to look facts fairly in the face. It is his profession to support one side; it is impossible, therefore, for him to make an unbiased examination of the other. ~ Samuel Butler
- A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... ~ Robert Ingersoll
- Adults have imaginary friends too. ~ Alan Jay Weiner
- All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise. ~ Lord Byron
- All religion begins with the cry "Help!" ~ William James
- All religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance, ferocity; and modern religions are only ancient follies. ~ Paul Henri Thiry
- All religions are auld wives' fables, but an honest man has nothing to fear, either in this world or the world to come. ~ Robert Burns
- All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice — that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
- As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. ~ Protagoras
- At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second. ~ Marquis de Sade
- Belief, like any other moving body, follows the path of least resistance. ~ Samuel Butler
- Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor. ~ H. L. Mencken
- [Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science. ~ J.B.S. Haldane
- Children are naïve — they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble. ~ Frank Zappa
- [speaking of religion] Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you. ~ Marquis De Sade
- Christianity has a built-in defense system; anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It is a very interesting defense mechanism and the only way to get by it, and believe me I was raised Southern Baptist, is to take heroic doses of mushrooms, sit in a field, and just go, "Show me." ~ Bill Hicks
- Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions .... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing. ~ George Santayana
- Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed. ~ Richard C. Carrier, Jr.
- Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ~ H. L. Mencken
- "Each of those churches (Christian, Judaic and Islamic) accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all." ~ Thomas Paine
- For cats and witches are hard to kill;
They swore they shouldn't and wouldn't die —
Books said they did, but they lie! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Fundamentalism means never having to say "I'm wrong." ~ Anonymous
- Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ~ Chapman Cohen
- Going to Church doesn't make a man Christian any more than going to a garage makes him an automobile. ~ Billy Sunday
- Good represents the reality of which God is the dream. ~ Iris Murdoch
- Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- Here's another question I've been pondering — what is all this shit about angels? Have you heard this? Three out of four people believe in angels. Are you fucking stupid? Has everybody lost their mind? You know what I think it is? I think it's a massive, collective, psychotic chemical flashback for all the drugs smoked, swallowed, shot, and absorbed rectally by all Americans from 1960 to 1990. Thirty years of street drugs will get you some fucking angels, my friend! ~ George Carlin
- How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is sick from overeating, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares It is God's will. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping people quiet. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this? ~ Confucius
- I am deeply frightened by ritual, because it implies mind-numbing repetition, obedience and the mysticism of action without thought. ~ Jonathan Wallace
- I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. ~ H. L. Mencken
- I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world. ~ Charles Dickens
- I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough — I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine. ~ Charles Darwin
- I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. ~ Albert Einstein
- I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition. ~ Gerry Spence
- I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony
- I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. ~ Albert Einstein
- I do not pray... I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men... Prayer seems to me a cry of weakness, and an attempt to avoid, by trickery, the rules of the game as laid down. I do not choose to admit weakness. I accept the challenge of responsibility. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- I do not support religion because it demands that we give up our most important human asset, the ability to question. It demands that we simply believe. Isn't that true of any dictator, of any totalitarian society? Insofar as social development is concerned, nothing is of greater importance than the human function of questioning... Questioning led to the development of civilization. ~ Vladimir Pozner
- I don't mind born-agains being born again, but why do they always have to come back as themselves?! ~ Robin Tyler
- I don't see any god up here. ~ Yuri Gagarin
- I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. ~ Thomas Edison
- I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded upon fables and mythologies. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- I hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. ~ Lord Byron
- I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- I know I feel this way and I know a lot of educators feel this way, and a lot of parents feel this way, that religion is a "gateway psychosis." ~ Dave Foley
- I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not a pioneer; it accepts a new truth, last of all, and only when denial has become useless. ~ Robert Ingersoll
- I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research....A contemporary has said not unjustly that in this materialistic age of ours the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people. ~ Albert Einstein
- I pray every single second of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me. I know there is no God of the universe made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him "great". ~ Susan B. Anthony
- I prayed for freedom twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ~ Frederick Douglass
- I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit, you might as well go for the Zombie package as well. ~ George Carlin
- If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that he persecuted for opinion's sake; that he will punish forever, and that he hates an unbeliever, the effect in my judgment will be bad. It always has been bad. This belief built the dungeons of the Inquisition. This belief made the Puritan murder the Quaker. ~ Robert Ingersoll
- If Christ was executed today, I bet Christians would wear little electric chairs around their necks. ~ Dick Gregory
- If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. ~ Lord Byron
- If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. ~ Thomas Paine
- If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. ~ Umberto Eco
- If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. ~ Steve Allen
- Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable. ~ Sigmund Freud
- Isn't it ironic that Christians keep repeating, "Civilization will fail without Christianity" on computers built by Buddhists in Japan? ~ Anonymous
- It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists, it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money. ~ H. L. Mencken
- It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people... If solace and comfort are how we judge the worth of something, then consider that tobacco brings solace and comfort to smokers; alcohol brings it to drinkers; drugs of all kinds bring it to addicts; the fall of cards and the run of horses bring it to gamblers; cruelty and violence bring it to sociopaths. Judge by solace and comfort only and there is no behavior we ought to interfere with. ~ Isaac Asimov
- It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. ~ H. L. Mencken
- It is often said in the Bible that God spake unto Moses, but how do you know that God spake unto Moses? Because, you will say, the Bible says so. The Koran says, that God spake unto Mahomet, do you believe that too? No. Why not? Because, you will say, you do not believe it; and so because you do, and because you don't is all the reason you can give for believing or disbelieving except that you will say that Mahomet was an impostor. And how do you know Moses was not an impostor? ~ Thomas Paine
- It is usually argued that we need religion in order to get humanity to behave and work together. All evidence is to the contrary. Religion has not notably improved human behavior. The pagan Romans were far kinder than the Inquisition Christians. Nor has religion united Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, or Jews. It has divided them. In fact, religion will never unite them, because religion requires that they share the same beliefs, without offering any reliable evidence that their ideas are correct. Reason, on the other hand, is the only thing that can unite people of diverse opinions. Reason bases its decisions on evidence available to everyone, and allows people to disagree when evidence is lacking. Religion will never do that. ~ Richard C. Carrier, Jr.
- Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant. ~ Edward Gibbon
- Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Men have never fully used the powers they possess to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing. ~ John Dewey
- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal
- More wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day. ~ Charles Kimball
- Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. ~ John Adams, 2nd President of the United States
- Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is none more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter. ~ Thomas Paine
- Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor. ~ Lord Byron
- Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. ~ Richard Lederer
- One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it ... You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. ~ Bertrand Russell
- One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ~ Jesse Ventura
- Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme. ~ Bernard Katz
- Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ~ Carl Sagan
- Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws. ~ Robert Ingersoll
- Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them seriously. ~ Samuel Butler
- Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. ~ Sigmund Freud
- Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Religion easily has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. ~ George Carlin
- Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg, Freethought Today, April 2000
- Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. ... A good world needs knowledge, kindness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. ~ Bertrand Russell
- Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration — courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Religion is the brainchild of fear, and fear is the parent of cruelty. The greatest evils inflicted on humankind are perpetrated not by pleasure-seekers, self-seeking opportunists, or those who are merely amoral, but by fervent devotees of religion. ~ Emmanuel Kofi Mensah
- Religion is a kind of mental disease. ~ Benito Mussolini
- Religion is a neurological disorder. ~ Bill Maher
- Religion is poison. ~ Mao Zedong
- Religion is the last frontier of men beaten in life. ~ Anonymous
- Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis. ~ Sigmund Freud
- Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ~ Bertrand Russell
- [Religions are] ...conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- Religion, like poetry, is simply a concerted effort to deny the most obvious realities. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ~ Stendhal
- Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion. ~ Steve Allen
- Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ~ Bertrand Russell
- So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk. ~ Thomas Edison
- Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. ~ Clarence Darrow
- Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ~ H. L. Mencken
- Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell. ~ H. L. Mencken
- That fear created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject. ~ George Santayana
- The atheist realizes that every selfish or cruel act and its consequences would remain uncomfortably remembered by himself, believing that no divine forgiveness is available to assuage the pangs of a guilty conscience. ~ Frank Swancara
- The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence. ~ Lord Byron
- The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked... ~ H. L. Mencken
- The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it. ~ Matilda Joslyn Gage
- The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails. ~ H. L. Mencken
- The Christian religion has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ~ Bertrand Russell
- The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say "charge it." "Put it on the slate." The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance. ~ Robert Ingersoll
- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. ~ Ferdinand Magellan
- The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. ~ Thomas Jefferson
- The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence. ~ Thomas H. Huxley
- The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. ~ Thomas Edison
- The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is: all the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions. ~ Frank Zappa
- The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the thirteenth century. ~ H. L. Mencken
- The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action. ~ Albert Einstein
- The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights ... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide.... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality.... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake. ~ Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
- The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
- The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times. ~ Bertrand Russell
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. ~ Bertrand Russell
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe — that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ H. L. Mencken
- The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. ~ Sir Richard Burton
- The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
- The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith." ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
- The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music. ~ George Carlin
- The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot
- The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.... Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The scientist yearns to find and eventually know the truth; The religious man wants the truth to fit his preconceived mold. So, as a result...The scientist alters his perception to conform to the facts; The religious man tries to change the facts to conform to his beliefs. ~ Anonymous
- The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God's chillun, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. ~ H. L. Mencken
- The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.
- E. O. Wilson (2 November 2005). "Can biology do better than faith?". NewScientist.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it. ~ Goethe
- The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ~ Havelock Ellis
- ...the universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind and pitiless indifference. ~ Richard Dawkins
- Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ~ H. L. Mencken
- There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil.... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie.... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty.... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity? ~ H.G. Wells
- Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself. ~ George Carlin
- The more faith one has, the less freedom they have. ~ Anon
- Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life and death. Religions introduce us not to God but to slavery. They deprive us of our freedom to explore our own souls and to discover the endless and wondrous possibilities presented to us by an infinite universe. And most often the method of religions is fear, not love. They demand blind obedience and often obedience to dreadful dogma. ~ Gerry Spence
- Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ~ Adam Smith
- I was unable to find any published attribution. It appears on p. 884 of 20,000 Quips & Quotes (1968) by Evan Esar but with no attribution to anyone. See Talk:Adam_Smith under the heading "suggestion". --Hughh (talk) 21:05, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
- We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ~ Richard Dawkins
- We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated. ~ Leo Tolstoy
- We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals? ~ Lord Byron
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ~ H. L. Mencken
- "Well," she said finally, "what would Jesus do?" My mind hit a brick wall and slid down it. No one I considered entirely sane had ever said something like that to me before. ~ Elizabeth Nickson
- When the churches literally ruled society, the human drama encompassed: (a) slavery; (b) the cruel subjection of women; (c) the most savage forms of legal punishment; (d) the absurd belief that kings ruled by divine right; (e) the daily imposition of physical abuse; (f) cold heartlessness for the sufferings of the poor; as well as (g) assorted pogroms ("ethnic cleansing" wars) between rival religions, capital punishment for literally hundreds of offenses, and countless other daily imposed moral outrages.... It was the free-thinking, challenging work by people of conscience, who almost invariably had to defy the religious and political status quo of their times, that brought us out of such darkness. ~ Steve Allen
- When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there are no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force. ~ Bertrand Russell
- Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.... Morality is then surrendered to the groundless arbitrariness of religion. ~ Ludwig Feuerbach
- Where is the soul? ... I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me. ~ Robert Ingersoll
- Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers. ~ H. L. Mencken
- You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ~ Bertrand Russell


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So much has been going on-it's been hard to keep track of what I have shared and what I haven't. I'm proud to announce that starting Thursday, March 12th, will be the second class of Destination Happiness, beginning the journey of the six-week online course. I'm so excited to be able to help individuals in a small group setting, online, giving the flexibility to reach people from all over, helping in the areas of breaking barriers that are holding people back, unleashing confidence, living powerfully in the present with purpose, embracing all forms of abundance, helping people with financial freedom, harmonious relationships, finding true love and creating a pathway to leave a legacy in this world, that exceeds one's lifetime and carries on. All by identifying the road map for each person that will lead them to their definition of Destination Happiness. This course, as I mentioned before, includes two one-hour sessions with me, one in the beginning and one in the end, to help you overcome any obstacles you are facing in the area of your choice, and really give you the tools to reach your truest definition of happiness.
Registration for the class will end Sunday, March 1st. To register, you would go to my website, melissahevenor.com, look under the "Coaching" program and purchase Destination Happiness. Then, you will be contacted to receive the links to the class and how to gain access to the recorded classes if you can not attend the live sessions. It is each week, Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. EST for an hour and a half. Then, the private sessions will be arranged with each student throughout the course. I am limiting the course to ten people, so that each student can get individual attention and the most out of the course. Also, I'm happy to announce that I will be launching my first spiritual cruise March 1st. The cruise will take place Oct. 31st, leaving out of Ft. Lauderdale, until Nov. 7, on the beautiful, luxurious cruise line Holland America. There will be beautiful destinations on the itinerary such as: Cocoa Kay, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas,and more. On board the cruise, there will be yoga classes. I will be teaching various spiritual classes as well as doing inspirational speaking and readings. I will have some other amazing spiritual teachers on board, all in one place to cover topics such as: connecting with angels, chakra balancing, and mediumship. There will even be art classes to help you connect with your creativity and higher self, and various activities and events organized for children on board. The cost of the cruise per person is $1200, including all food, classes and activities. In order to be part of this spiritual "Sanctuary on the Sea," I will be launching a website March 1st, where you can sign up to be part of this amazing experience. If you purchase a cruise ticket for the cruise through Holland America, you will not be considered a participant in the spiritual experience.
Many people have asked me recently, "what is one of the most important spiritual practices?" And while gratitude and acceptance of current situations and obstacles are key to moving forward, one of the most imperative individual spiritual practices is being true to one's word. With many doors of opportunity flying open as of late, to appear on television and on the big screen, it's brought to my attention the lack of authenticity that, not only transpires in Hollywood, but happens regularly, day in and day out. It is so important to be true to your word. Words are the vibrational imprint of your spirit, being shared among the oxygen that all living things breathe in and out. Therefore, is what you are saying toxic? Not only in terms of authenticity, but also in terms of kindness and vibration? Are your words and actions supporting that of love, kindness and compassion, or individualism, selfishness, and negativity? If you find that you are in a situation where your actions do not compliment your words or your words do not compliment your actions, then start by taking accountability, for either or both of those that are incongruent. While I am a spiritual teacher and live, 90% of the time, from a place of love and compassion, I am a "tough cookie," so to speak. I have found myself in the treacherous shark tank known as Hollywood many times over, and I am very good at keeping myself afloat. Though once you have strayed from those waters for awhile, you tend to forget how treacherous they are. And, I find myself shocked by the rampant dishonesty that comes from those who have taken habitat in those waters for some time. I have had opportunity to sell my story and different treatments for television many times over, and I always go with my instinct. While I know that superficial destructive energy is present in the media, I find it almost humorous that these individuals who know I am psychic because I have been reading for them for years, or they have contacted me to work on a television project or a film because of my abilities, still find themselves being dishonest. Yet, I find myself continuing to move forward, in the arena of the media and Hollywood, because I really want to embrace that small ripple of energy that is trying to come from a place of integrity, love and education, while still embracing the element of entertainment. I know, with every fiber of my being, that the projects I am working on, will be of great service to the world through entertainment in different media where people will be more open to a touch of enlightenment that seeps through each of these projects. So, please keep me in your prayers as I continue on this venture, and, I promise, you will not be disappointed I also want to use the platform to bring greater awareness and equality for all as well as assisting causes that I care about financially, which brings me to the last but most important, thing, I wanted to express to everyone, which is the greatest of gratitude for those who taook advantage of my Valentines's Day Special, allowing me to make a nice donation to the charity, Talia's Legacy, children's cancer foundation.
Thank you for your continued support, and until next time, love, light and blessings.
PS Please remember February is the month that love and companionship get its moment in the limelight. But please allow that spark of light that motivated you to say "I love you," get a card, buy chocolates, or do whatever you did for those you love on Valentine's Day, spill over, helping you not only to fall in love with february, but fall in love with life itself throughout the year.
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Imagine this: You're getting ready for your sister's wedding when you suddenly realize you have no clue how to tie a bow tie. Too proud to ask for help, you duck into a bathroom, whip out your iPhone, and pull up an app that walks you through the entire knotty process, step by step. Only moments later, you've got yourself a bow tie. Easy, convenient, dignity intact.
This is not theoretical: This is Snapguide, the free, iOS-only app that acts as a hub for how-to guides on your phone. Topics range from how to make an aerium, to making potato latkes – there's even a guide on how to play ball with your cat (seriously).
Of course, there's no shortage of DIY sites littering the internet, but few (if any) have been optimized for the mobile device. And let's face it: When you're on the side of the road changing a flat for the first time, an iPhone is far more convenient to whip out than a laptop or tablet.
So what better way to cover this app than provide our own how-to guide? Step by step, we'll walk you through how we experienced and reviewed the app, and our impressions. (It's a bit 'meta,' so bear with us.) And of course, if you download Snapguide, you can check out our uploaded how-to there as well.
How to Review the Snapguide App
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1. Download the free Snapguide app onto your iPhone. It's only available in the App Store – sorry, Android users.
2. Open the app. Immediately notice the handmade paper texture of the background, and the snappy orange text of the logo as the app loads. It's elegant, eye-catching. So far, so good. Sign up with an e-mail, Twitter or Facebook account login.
3. After signing up, the app opens to the Featured section. Flick through the how-to offerings to get a feel for the different types of available guides. Notice how the flicking action is smooth, and when you flick very quickly or go back to the first guide (which teaches you how to make an aerium, in this case), there's a physicality, a rebound to the action. Make a mental note to give the app props for attention to detail.
4. Tap a guide to check it out in depth – I chose to make beeswax and honey lip balm. The 'how-to' title is large on the first page, with a small image and byline of the guide's creator, and a short description of the guide below. Notice the handmade paper grain again. The app feels a bit like a scrapbook, or perhaps a fancy, miniaturized PowerPoint presentation.
5. Check out the supplies navigation tab, which you access with a swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Judge it. Appreciate the pop-over tab as a clever way to hide and reveal what you need for the how-to.
6. Swipe to the next page, the first step of the how-to, and begin exploring and judging its contents. It's got a large square image, which you can tap to bring to full screen, and a small paragraph of text below. In the upper right, a small orange ribbon wraps around the page to let you know you're on step one of 15. Also notice the supply tab has been minimized slightly, but is still available at the bottom of the screen. Handy! Now you don't have to flick back to some other page if you need to double-check your supplies.
7. Continue flicking through the app to get a feel of what it's like to read a how-to guide on a phone. Observe a few more features around the page periphery: See the comments, in the lower left-hand corner, for posting on a specific step of a how-to. A heart button at the top center, so you can 'like' the how-to guide as a whole. A 'jump to' button in the upper right, which you can use to navigate directly to a specific step.
8. After you've gotten your fill of that how-to, close it and go back to the main screen. Click 'explore,' which is divided into two subcategories, Popular and Recent. Observe the stylings of these buttons. Although iOS-like, they're kind of out of style with the rest of the app that we've seen so far. Pull down on the first how-to image and notice it uses a pull-down-to-refresh feature. The explore section uses vertical flicking for navigation, rather than the horizontal flicking of the featured section. Interesting. Develop a preference: We like the horizontal flicking better, as each flick stops on the next how-to directly.
9. Click the search button in 'explore.' Content suggestions show up as you type, a feature seen more commonly on the web than in apps. Very cool. Search a few different topics and conclude that it does best when you search for something specific, like "pizza" rather than "food," for example.
10. Check out the activity button at the bottom of the screen. Under everyone, scroll down to see who has recently joined the app, and what sort of activity is going on. Find someone you know, or a random person who looks cool. Follow them and check out their profile. I followed Brit Morin, who's already contributed two guides to the app. Go back to the main activity page, and check out what's in the 'friends' and 'you' tabs.
11. Click on the 'me' tab at the bottom of the screen. Notice the design and UI – a pleasant, perhaps slightly excessive drop shadow behind the different sections on the page. Click on your name to edit your profile, adding a short bio, photo, and other information like your location and website. Click on followers, following, and messages.
12. Using the 'find friends' button in the upper right-hand corner, connect your Twitter or Facebook account (if you haven't already) to see if any other friends have joined the app.
13. Now, we go back to the big, main center button at the bottom of the screen, Create, to create our own how-to guide. In this case, I'm writing a how-to on how to review this app.
14. Now you're in the how-to guide editor. You have the option to add supplies, or add a step.
16. Begin adding the steps using text, photo or video. Select multiple images of your camera roll to upload to your how-to guide, which you can then arrange in a logical order. Again, the app shows off how user-friendly it is – we greatly appreciate not having to upload each photo individually for each step.
17. Add captions (up to 200 characters) or text to each step to explain what to do. If you're just adding short captions to each photo or video, doing this on your iPhone is fine. But if you've got a 20-plus-step, text-heavy instruction manual, you'd better give your thumbs a rest by typing up the steps online, e-mailing them to yourself and then just copying and pasting to the app.
18. Once done inputting all of your how-to's steps, hit publish, and you're done. If you want to take a break instead, your app is conveniently saved as a draft in the 'me' section of the app, which you can return to and add content until you're ready to publish.
19. Make conclusions: This app is very easy to navigate through, and provides a wealth of information on how to do a huge variety of projects. The UI is an appropriate mix of cute and slick – DIY meets the touchscreen. Subtle texture is almost everywhere. The social following aspect of the app (paired with push notifications) is pleasant, allowing you to get a heads-up when a friend or favorite how-to writer posts a guide or sends you a message. For those who are the least bit crafty, this app is a must-have.


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A Just So story about the cat that walked by himself, by Rudyard Kipling
EAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild–as wild as wild could be–and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail-down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe you feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.'
That night, Best Beloved, they ate wild sheep roasted on the hot stones, and flavoured with wild garlic and wild pepper; and wild duck stuffed with wild rice and wild fenugreek and wild coriander; and marrow-bones of wild oxen; and wild cherries, and wild grenadillas. Then the Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton–the big fat blade-bone–and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the First Singing Magic in the world.
Out in the Wet Wild Woods all the wild animals gathered together where they could see the light of the fire a long way off, and they wondered what it meant.
Then Wild Horse stamped with his wild foot and said, 'O my Friends and O my Enemies, why have the Man and the Woman made that great light in that great Cave, and what harm will it do us?'
Wild Dog lifted up his wild nose and smelled the smell of roast mutton, and said, 'I will go up and see and look, and say; for I think it is good. Cat, come with me.'
'Nenni!' said the Cat. 'I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. I will not come.'
'Then we can never be friends again,' said Wild Dog, and he trotted off to the Cave. But when he had gone a little way the Cat said to himself, 'All places are alike to me. Why should I not go too and see and look and come away at my own liking.' So he slipped after Wild Dog softly, very softly, and hid himself where he could hear everything. (click here to read the rest of this lovely story or just enjoy the reading at the top)


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Paramount Theater certainly set the bar high when they called their self-produced Broadway musical series "Better than Broadway." Though after seeing what they did with Fiddler on the Roof, I am beginning to think that they were being modest. Beginning with the theater itself, an art deco gem from the '30s, this production has that certain magical something that makes for a moving theater experience. Set design, authentic feeling costumes, and, most importantly, the cast itself are pulled together marvelously under Director/ Artistic Director Jim Corti.
Set in the turn of the 20th century Russian shtetl of Anatevka, Fiddler on the Roof focuses on the poor (but rich in daughters) milkman Tevye and his struggles with a rapidly changing world. Faced with daughters who want to marry for love and the ever present danger the surrounding gentile community poses, Tevye turns time and time to God for answers. It is in these gentle asides, with Tevye working out exactly how much he can bend without breaking, that we most fully glimpse his gentle and meditative soul.
David Girolmo (filling in for Peter Kevoian) plays Tevye wonderfully. Barrel chested and full of power when need be, Girolmo is also more than capable of catching Tevye's softer side. Cast as his wife Golde, Iris Lieberman does well as the strong house wife who sometimes lets Tevye believe he is charge of things. Yente(Renee Mathews) provides the necessary laughs and Tevye's three older daughters are played well by Kelley Abell (Tzeitel), Jazmin Gorsline (Hodel), and Brook Singer (Chava).
What impressed me most about this production were all the little things. Sure, they nailed the big Broadway numbers like Sunrise, Sunset and If I Were A Rich Man. But the play also captures many smaller, more nuanced qualities of life such as the genuine affection felt (but not always shown) between parent and child (as well as husband and wife and between neighbors). I am not sure I would want to live in Anatevka, but it was a pleasure visiting the other day. I also think that if Paramount keeps this up, maybe someday a Broadway musical will sell itself as "Better than Aurora."
Bottom Line: Fiddler on The Roof is highly recommended. The Paramount Theatre is located at 23 E. Galena in Aurora, Il. From the northwest side of Chicago, it was less than a forty-five minute drive. Tickets range in price from around $35 to $47. Valet parking is available, but we were able to find street parking (and meters only need to be fed on the weekday and before five). For more information or to purchase tickets, visit ParamountAurora.com. For more theater reviews, go to theaterinchicago.com.
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Lauryn Hill is making a return to music after a decade-long absence from the charts.
The former Fugees singer's song, "Repercussions," which was recently leaked online, debuted at Number 94 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, Billboard.com reported.
It was the first song by Hill as a solo artist to appear on the charts in over 10 years. Her last single as a lead vocalist was "Turn Your Lights Down Low," which peaked at 49 in 1999.
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Since the release of her mammoth 1998 album, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," the singer has kept a very low profile. In an interview this past May with NPR, Hill explained why she hasn't put out any new music.
"There were a number of different reasons," she said. "But partly, the support system that I needed was not necessarily in place. There were things about myself, personal-growth things, that I had to go through in order to feel like it was worth it. In fact, as musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment — and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the [music] industry, that really nurtures these gifts.
Hill is going to also bring the music out live to her fans when she will be one of the performers at today's Rock the Bells festival in San Bernardino, Calif., reported Rolling Stone. Joining her at the event will be Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, KRS-One and Slick Rick.
She recently performed at the FESPAD Festival in Kigali, Rwanda.
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THE MODERATOR: We are joined by Courtney Paris and Danielle Robinson and Coach Coale. Coach?
COACH COALE: Thank you. Proud of our kids, our second-half effort, the resiliency, their refusal to go away. I challenged them at halftime, 22 points in the first half, that means we better have 55 in the second, darned if we didn't have 52, we got close.
Defensively I thought we were really good all night long against a team that's difficult to defend, and even though we missed quite a few in the first half, we made the ones that mattered in the second, and we were terrific from the free-throw line. And somebody will ask about those turnovers, we had 11 and that's good for us.
Q. Courtney and Danielle, talk about the first half when you could have gotten frustrated because shots weren't falling for you and how you kept it together and regrouped in the second half.
COURTNEY PARIS: I think whenever shots aren't falling, that's the biggest issue in a situation, and we knew we could come back second half and finish plays and that's what we did.
DANIELLE ROBINSON: We knew we weren't shooting particularly well, but we were playing great defense and points came from the foul line, so if we stopped fouling, things would change.
Q. Courtney, you played a complete game. Was it just the kind of desperation to keep this season going?
COURTNEY PARIS: Yeah. I'm a senior, I don't get another chance. It's the Final Four. You want to make sure you give everything you can and leave everything out on the court no matter if you're struggling or not.
Q. Courtney, what's it mean to go to the Final Four?
COURTNEY PARIS: I'm happy, I finally get to go with these guys, so it will be a lot of fun. It's been a long four years, but it makes it all worth it. I'm not surprised.
I think we got here the way we've been playing and that's together. And just having fun out on the court. At no time were we up 20 points, but it felt like it, and I think that's the most important thing for us.
Q. Courtney, there was a point when you made a pass to Ashley and she got a 3-point play. They had just cut the lead down to 4. How big of a play do you think that was to answer that 3? They had come out of a time-out and got a good shot and scored.
COURTNEY PARIS: I thought it was a huge play. They kept trying to double with the other post player so Ashley would be wide open. And I knew they were helping with the guard, so she was able to get that shot off and draw the foul. It was great for our momentum.
Q. Danielle, Coach Coale talked about yesterday how during the off season and during practices you bring a notebook and write down what you did wrong and what you can work on to get better. Talk about that dedication and how it's led to you tonight making the points and keying your team to go to the Final Four.
DANIELLE ROBINSON: The Coach does such a great job with all of us, making sure that we're getting better every day, and that's what makes the program special, is buying into the system and that we do it together.
Q. Danielle, seemed like your motor was running a little fast at the first half, and I would assume the halftime the Coach talked to you about slowing it down.
DANIELLE ROBINSON: She talked about not being surprised that I was open. Malone was guarding, but then she would let up and I was surprised that the room was there and I was open.
So she said really just focus on the target and be a point guard. There was only 20 minutes left in the game and we had to adjust.
Q. Courtney, that's about as animated as I've seen in you a game, celebrating during the game. Is that as animated as you've been, the magnitude of the game tonight?
COURTNEY PARIS: I think we were having fun, and we weren't up by 30 or 20, didn't have the game blown away, but it felt like it. We were playing as a team and it's fun when you do that.
Q. Courtney, could you talk about that run in the second half where y'all ended up with the great defensive pressure to control the game, and it looked like Danielle and Whitney were a big part of that run.
COURTNEY PARIS: Definitely. We tried to go inside and get some shots and we got a lot of little fouls and adjusted to it.
And Whitney came out and knocked down that three off one of those magic plays that Coach Coale has, and D-Rob hit some shots and got to the rim so fast. I don't know, I'm just happy we have that one.
Q. Courtney, what was the crowd like tonight and how much of a different did it make for you guys?
COURTNEY PARIS: It's amazing and I don't think they realize that. The other team, when you were at the free-throw line and our crowd is going crazy and that energy and they're looking and saying it's not just them you're playing against, you're playing against all these people, too. So that manager was amazing.
But they're back there backing us up and keeping us going. I think we have some of the best fans in the nation and I hope they stay like that.
Q. Courtney, would you talk about your defense, you had six blocks, talk about going up against the big players and being able to go head-to-head.
COURTNEY PARIS: Lindsay is really good, I've had the opportunity to play against her in USA basketball and she moves well off the dribble and has a nice jump shot. I thought our "scout" was good and we were able to make a few plays.
THE MODERATOR: Ladies, good luck at the Final Four. Thank you.
Q. Sherri, during this era of the Paris twins, there have been frustration in some ways, Courtney was just named All-American, the first time a player has done that, talk about the difference at this point, getting to the Final Four a year in the making and the dedication that has gone into it at this point, especially with the twins as seniors.
COACH COALE: Sometimes it's going through the valley that makes standing on the mountain top worth it. It hasn't been easy, hasn't been easy for any of us. You have to earn your way, though.
I think particularly at the close of last season guys had to make a commitment, you know, either we're going to commit and do this thing, or we're going to end up disappointed. And I think a lot of our commitment began with Ashley's commitment to her physical body. And Danielle's commitment to improving her perimeter shooting. And A.T. being in the gym.
And you can't discount the addition of Whitney Hand and the spirit and the life that she infuses us with, not to mention a good stroke from behind the arc. So it's a lot of things and very rewarding.
I wish I could think -- I'm still too emotional from what went on, but there is a great quote by Tony Dungy that I have on the side of my computer that talks about how being tough makes it worth it when you get there. "Quiet Strength", that's the name of his book.
Q. Sherri, when you hit the two 3-pointers, you guys were clicking, talk about that.
COACH COALE: I've said a number of times, true freshman. When she hits a three, we feel like we're invincible, and that opened the flood gates because at that point she hit the three, we ran a play for Danielle to get to the rim, and turned around, ran a play for the post and then went back to Whitney and she hit the three from the top of the key. It was huge and it opens up everything and changes the flavor and complexion of everything.
Q. Coach, Courtney said she felt like you guys were up by 20 the whole game, I didn't get that impression.
COACH COALE: I don't remember feeling that way.
Q. I didn't think so. How tough was that game in general? The expectation to win with all the fans here, was the pressure as much as maybe you've ever felt?
COACH COALE: No, didn't feel a single bit of that. Honestly, Purdue was good and I didn't say anything about that in my opening comments, and I sure should have. What a well-coached basketball team.
Every time in the second half that we had a chance to put them away, they came down and made an incredibly difficult shot. Possession after possession after possession we could not stretch seven. We got it to nine once, I think, and we could not stretch, five, seven, five, seven, and that's because they came down and made big plays.
They're confident, tough, and well coached and down the stretch they did exactly what they had to do. They were fantastic from the free-throw line, 31 of 34, goodness, we need to quit fouling people, don't we?
Q. Coach, would you talk about halftime. Were there a the lot of adjustments, a little bit, could you not wait to get there to get to some things?
COACH COALE: Well, sometimes you don't like to see halftime comein' because you're on a roll and you don't want to stop the rhythm, and sometimes when you don't have any, you can't wait for it to get there so you can stop and regroup. I felt like it was one of those.
I think of Barry Switzer a lot when I go into the locker room, and he is one of the most revered coaches in college coaching history, and he has a Super Bowl ring, but aside from that, if you're not careful, you can convince your team into thinking they can't win.
And I remember that we played against Cal Berkeley, and tonight when I walked into the locker room I knew there were a couple of adjustments we needed to make offensively. I thought we were guardin' the heck out of 'em, they had 12 free-throws in the first half, and that's how they got to 27, so we were really guardin' them.
I thought it was the most important thing I could do was to convince our kids that we could win, and that's what I spent my time talking about not much strategy, we called a couple of plays to start the second half, told 'em to continue to do what they were doing defensively, but spent most of my time trying to infuse them with confidence and get them to believe that we could win.
Q. Sherri, congratulations. Comment on Amanda Thompson's contributions tonight. She gave you guys minutes tonight.
COACH COALE: Thank you for asking about her, and I told my team in the locker room before we had our team prayer, "How about Amanda being ready when it was her turn?" She handled this injury with grace and stayed engaged.
We ran two new sets that we put in for just in the tournament in the last few days, and she hadn't had an opportunity to do them because we've been limiting all of her reps.
We put her in to make the pass and she's just been watching it, and she went in and threaded the needle and hit the exact pass. No jumper probably bigger than her contested jumper that she made on the wing when we were making our run. She plays with no fear. I said all year we get our toughness from A.T. and she gave it to us when we needed it most.
Q. Sherri, against Georgia Tech you were tied at halftime and not good on offense, and after the game you said you were more annoyed than worried, was it the same way tonight? Or were you more worried than annoyed?
COACH COALE: I don't remember ever being worried, seriously, concerned, maybe? Not worried. And I wasn't annoyed at halftime, not at all. I felt like we were playing too fast. We would foul and then come down and try to make up for fouling really fast.
Everything was too fast, D-Rob's penetration was too fast, Whitney's three's were too fast, finishes were too fast, no one caught it before they shot it, I thought that was trying too hard. You don't get annoyed with kids for trying too hard, you get annoyed when they're not playing hard. We were playing hard, we just needed to calm down a little bit.
Q. Would you talk about Courtney getting to this point? I know it's been the one thing missing for her.
COACH COALE: First of all, let me just say that it may be the one thing missing, but winning a National Championship isn't the whole deal. I just left a sea of players out there who gave us their guts for four years and didn't get to go to the Final Four and didn't get to play for a National Championship, who had wildly successful careers at the University of Oklahoma. And they had experiences that have fueled them and make them some of the best people on the planet.
I think it's awesome that Court and Ash and Carolyn Winchester get to end their careers with a trip to the Final Four, and I hope it gives us the opportunity to hoist a National Championship trophy, but it's about so much more than that in collegiate athletics.
Q. Coach, talk about your two young guards stepin' up in a big way in the second half. They played like seasoned veterans.
COACH COALE: Whitney and Danielle have been fabulous and our team has taken on their personality, their demeanor. Whitney, when I took her out, started yelling immediately, "I'm going to make the next shot." It was the cutest thing I've ever seen.
She is 18 years of age and she started screaming at me, "I will make the next shot ,"and I said, "I believe you, but you can rest for a bit now." She is just wide-eyed and Jasmine and her think this is what you do, you practice and go to the Final Four, this is what you do. That's neat, you have that mixed in with the older guys who know what a climb it is and how hard it is and it's been a nice combination.
Danielle Robinson is the engine, there is no doubt about it. She runs the game, manages the game, gives us our energy, gives us our confidence, give us life. I can't say enough about the way she managed the game on both ends of the floor in the second half. I thought she was fantastic, confident, tough, resilient, all of those things that you want your point guard to be.
Q. Nice hat. You came out before the game standing in front of the bench and it looked like you looked around and you had this look on your face like "I really can't believe this crowd." Do you remember that moment?
COACH COALE: Yeah, I wanted to make sure that I took it all in. These things are special and you can get so zeroed in that you can miss some of the neatest stuff.
I probably knew a lot of those people way up high that I couldn't quite see, and I wanted to take it in because I knew as soon as they began to announce starters, I wouldn't think about a single soul, it would be about what happened between the lines. So I wanted to take a moment and make sure I never forgot.
THE MODERATOR: Congratulations, Coach, best of luck at the Final Four.
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GCHQ Oversight Tribunal Has To Ask GCHQ's Permission To Reveal GCHQ's Wrongdoing
from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong? dept
One of the key themes to emerge in the debate about surveillance is the oversight of the agencies involved, and to what extent it is effective. In the US, that has been put into stark relief by news that the committee that is supposed to keep an eye on the spies was itself spied upon. And now over in the UK, we learn that things are just as bad when it comes to the equivalent oversight body, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT). Its powers sound impressive:
The Tribunal can investigate complaints about any alleged conduct by, or on behalf of, the Intelligence Services - the Security Service (sometimes called MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (sometimes called MI6) and GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters).
Unfortunately, the IPT's credibility as the public's watchdog for the intelligence services has just been seriously undermined by the following information published by The Guardian:
The scope of conduct the IPT can investigate concerning the Intelligence Agencies is much broader than it is with regard to the other public authorities. The IPT is the only Tribunal to whom complaints about the Intelligence Services can be directed
A controversial court that claims to be completely independent of the British government is secretly operating from a base within the Home Office, the Guardian has learned.
It gets worse:
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which investigates complaints about the country's intelligence agencies, is also funded by the Home Office, and its staff includes at least one person believed to be a Home Office official previously engaged in intelligence-related work.
the IPT will not say whether GCHQ had disclosed the existence of its bulk surveillance operations, which attempt to capture the digital communications of everybody -- including those people who complain to the tribunal.
So the body tasked with overseeing GCHQ has to get GCHQ's permission before it can reveal any wrongdoing by GCHQ, which it doesn't bother doing when it knows it would be refused. Isn't oversight a wonderful thing?
Nor will it disclose whether it has issued any secret ruling on the lawfulness of those operations, on the grounds that the rules under which it operates stipulate that it cannot do so without the permission of GCHQ itself. It has not sought that permission on grounds it knows it would not be given.
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Christian Dean(University of California), AJ Cochran(University of Wisconsin), Damion Lowe(University of Hartford) have signed Generation adidas contracts, completing the 2014 class of seven players.
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As if Adam Dunn's head wasn't messed up enough, he just got schooled on the golf course by the team psychologist.
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I have some very trivial basic questions about networking, but I find varying information on that, so I just wanted to settle this.
As far as I understand a Network Switch handles traffic "intelligently" in the way that it only propagates packets to its port where it knows that the receiver is located (In contrast to Hub which brute force sends all data to all ports).
- Correct?
So a Switch needs to remember all adresses of Hosts connected to it. If the host is not found the packet is sent to the default route (commonly Up link to a wider network)
- Correct?
Now my major question is:
- Does a Switch remember IP-Addresses or MAC-Addresses to calculate its decisions?