True, You Don't Have To

The Mind Is The Effect, Not The Cause.

The Juvenile Sea Squirt Wanders Through The Sea Searching For A Suitable Rock Or Hunk Of Coral To Cling To And Make Its Home For Life. For This Task, It Has A Rudimentary Nervous System. When It Finds Its Spot And Takes Root, It Doesn't Need Its Brain Anymore So It Eats It!

Now That Mobile Phones And The Internet Have Altered The Epistemic Selective Landscape In A Revolutionary Way, Every Religious Organisation Must Scramble To Evolve Defences Or Become Extinct.

The Only Meaning Of Life Worth Caring About Is One That Can Withstand Our Best Efforts To Examine It.

I Should Emphasize This, To Keep Well-meaning But Misguided Multiculturalists At Bay: The Theoretical Entities In Which These Tribal People Frankly Believe — The Gods And Other Spirits — Don't Exist. These People Are Mistaken, And You Know It As Well As I Do. It Is Possible For Highly Intelligent People To Have A Very Useful But Mistaken Theory, And We Don't Have To Pretend Otherwise In Order To Show Respect For These People And Their Ways.