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29 lines
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## Rough Notes
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* I dunno. Truth can feel pretty empty, so fantasy, stories, have a pretty solid appeal by comparison.
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* The common cry of Atheism - "They're all idiots!"
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* I'm content to let the machines do the thinking - they're better at it, and I'd rather be off drinking in a cafe somewhere.
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## Quotes
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* "The imagination... gave [man] his first lift above his fellow primates. It enabled him to visualize a condition of existence better than that he was experiencing... even today he keeps on going in the same manner.""
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* "His corpus of high faiths and confidences--in brief, his burden of errors."
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* "Faith may be defined as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
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* "The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell."
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## Questions
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## Definitions
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* Chrestomathy (n.) - edited collection of writings
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* Salubrious (adj.) - good fer yer health
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* Swedenborgianism (n.) - New Christianity. Emanuel Swedenborg.
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* God is kind, never angry
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* The stories are just that, not to be taken literally
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* poltroonery (n.) - an utter coward
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* Brummagem (adj.) - a cheap counterfeit
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* Roister (v.) - celebrate in a noisy, boisterous way
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* Popinjay (n.) - vain or conceited person. Dressed extravagantly.
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* Mountebank (n.) - a charlatan; tricking others out of money
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