Quotes by Brendan Myers - Page 1

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.
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Bows
Worship
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I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'
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Worship
Bow
Obey
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No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
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Believing
False
Faulty
Served
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The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
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Philosophical
Rely
Primarily
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The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.
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Happens
People
Sides
Exist
Live People Who
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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Abstraction
Centre
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The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
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Matter
Philosophical
Prestige
Satisfied
Spirit
Teller
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People in minority religious communities, like Paganism, often feel isolated and even marginalized by others because of the lifestyle differences associated with their spiritual path.
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Differences
Isolated
Lifestyle
Marginalized
Paganism
Spiritual Path
Associated
Path People Feel
Communities
Minority
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It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
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Isolation
Loneliness
Solitude
Anywhere
Encounter
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My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.
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Primary School
Bought
Earliest
Programs
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If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.
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Essence
Loneliness
Exist
Practical
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All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.
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Compassion
Generosity
Goods
Moral Values
Involve
Sharing
Speaking
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What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
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Arms
Particular Kind
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I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.
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Classroom
Council
Iron
Tools
Encouraged
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There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
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Better Ways
Inevitable
Initiative
Labyrinth
Creature
Fellow
Liberate
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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
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Wise
Affirmation
Authority
Catholic
Upbringing
Worship
Life Me My Life
Absolute
Deity
Neither
Remaining
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The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
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Birth
Birthplace
Dramatic
Greece
Western
Western Civilization
Agreed
Date
Generally
Obviously
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Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.
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Uplifting
Empowering
Magic
Way
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Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.
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Bias
Emerging
Pagan
Paganism
Option
Observer
Practices
Woo
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The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'
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Relationship
Sacred
Acts
Circle
Gives
Meaning
Partner
Search
Shall
Such Things
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My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.
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Available
Critical
Logic
Reasoning
Myself Thinking World
Observed
Price
Professor
Textbook
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At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
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Isolation
Loneliness
Regard
Anyone Else
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I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.
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Drama
Logic
Mathematics
Philosophy
Plot
Skills
Theory
Lots
Degree
Designers
Earned
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Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.
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Being Judged
Injured
Judged
Left
Loss
Neglected
Our World
Political
Political Rights
Privacy
Religious
Rights
Saturated
Unloved
Attacked
Both
Domestic
Extremists
Foreign
Utterly
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Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.
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Athens
Julius
Pagan
Rome
Alexander
Time Society Great
Caesar
Hannibal
Homer
Societies
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We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved.
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Entertainment
Mass
Other Countries
Saved
Stability
Teeth
Tyrants
Pray
Arm
Countries
Dictators
Politicians
Escapist
Fanatical
Immerse
Programs
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Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
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Disk
Heritage
Including
Influential
Instruments
Intellectual
Mechanism
Pagan
Sky
Western
Astronomical
Books
Complex
Intellectuals
Literary
Poets
Scientists
The Most Important
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For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.
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Conscious
Educational
Enlightened
Humanist
Pagan
Paganism
Powerful
Sophisticated
Struggle
Cosmopolitan
Environmentally
Intellectually
Prejudices
Socially
Stereotypes
Tool
Vibrant
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