My best Instagram Posts
Is it Ok to think? is on Instagram. Here are some of the best posts so far. If you are on Instagram be sure to follow because when inspiration strikes, it is highly likely that something will be published there first, simply because I might feel that it’s too small a thought to warrant a full blog post. You’ll notice that some have very few likes. This is because at the beginning you don’t have so many followers, but they are still included because I feel they are essentially good.
Below each post is a small comment about it. Also, while I’m here I want to tank some of the people who are following since the beginning.
I recently read this book. The rise of the far and alt-Right is a big problem in our world so it makes sense for us all to try to understand where do they come from and try to decide how to best counter their ideas. This book explains that really good so if you're interested in this topic - and you should be as it doesn't look like they are going away - you should read it.
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Bertrand Russell is surely one of the people who I admire, so there’ll be some quotes from this extraordinary man. Here is his thought about how it really doesn’t make sense for god to be offended when somebody simply uses the “tools” he gave them.
If you are good only because a book tells you to, or because you are afraid to burn in hell, are you really, really good? An Atheist is, on the other hand definitely good because she wants to be good.
Exactly. If you don’t really believe that God created the world in 6 days, then do you really, really have a reason to believe that a carpenter rose from the dead?
Time to let go of the guilt?
I wrote about this book here already but it's so good that I must mention it here as well. If you care at all about the big questions in philosophy you should not miss this one.
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Indeed. Morality predates religion and can even be explained through natural means. We evolved to be kind to one another. This can be explained through being good to people in your group increases your chances of survival. This behaviour then misfired to include altruism and selflessness. Not only that, but we evolved the capacity for reason, which means we can use our brain to decide that we should care about others.
Do I need to tell you just how big of a problem fake news is? This book will show you that it's even worse than many of us thought but it also gives us recipes on how to handle it. Highly recommended.
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This is an attempt to show to religious people that if they give up their imaginary friend, they didn't almost lose anything. They simply grew up and found inspiration in reality.
You can quickly dismiss any argument that does not bring evidence to the table. And what's more, by doing this you are not being dishonest, you simply value your time. This argument was inspired by Christopher Hitchens (look Up Hitchens' Razor) and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
There is plenty of inspiration in the godless universe. For a quick shot of awe, simply look up!
I love to throw in random cool facts from science out there.
It is not exactly honest to start from the premise that something must be false. This will only take you in one direction and this is not how you get to the real truth.
In this case, this post was published to Instagram first and then copied to the site. It was inspired by Star Trek and by the realization that the world we live in is not so bad, especially considering how far we have come.
Sometimes, you do have to dream. Can we dare to dream about World Peace?
This might be one of my very favourite philosophy books because it's accessible and written for the general audience. I already talked about it in the post about Blackburn's wonderful book 'Think'.
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This book is not a very casual read if you are an omnivore. It will make you question things you think you know about scientific research on animals and about morality of using them for food. But as Kafka argued, we should not read to make ourselves happy or comfortable but to challenge our ideas. This book will certainly do that.
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The moon landings prove that we humans can do anything when we work together. This brilliant quote captures that human spirit beautifully.
This might be the best book I have read in the past few years. I will do a blog post about it in the future but for now, it's enough to say that it will teach you about human history, make you question the very fabric of our society, the role of religion, countries, empires, science through history. It will inspire you, make you uncomfortable, blow your mind. It's really quite an adventure and it will be very hard for you to put it down.
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I took this photo myself and I think that together with this quote it really does show the beauty of autumn. We should not consider it a time of death, but a time of change and reflection.
I absolutely love this book. I got the Kindle version so I can come back to it any time I want, even on the move. It's a careful examination of the most relevant ethical problems in our world with the author's conclusions and trains of thought perfectly described. It touches upon abortion, animal welfare, the problem of killing, whether civil disobedience is justified etc. It's really quite profound and if you're interested at all in how we are to live, this is the book for you.
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There's really not much to say about this quote as it really hits the point. The huge number of times when religious people say God doesn't like something, it's not so much the Bible speaking - it's their prejudice.
This is the post I made a few hours after I heard that Dr Stephen Hawking passed away. 'A Brief History of Time' is perhaps my favourite book of all time since it was the first one ever to show me that we humans are so special that we're able to think, ask questions and look for answers about the very nature of space and time itself.
Whether or not you would agree with the title, as it shows not only where theist arguments fail, but also where are some errors in atheist arguments. If you are interested in the matters of God's existence, and do want to move beyond the basics, you do not want to miss this one.
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I cannot recommend this book enough. If you really want to lead an honest life and are interested in both atheist and theist arguments and where they might go wrong this is the book to read. It is maybe leaning on the atheist side as the author is an atheist, but it shows weaknesses on both sides. It even tries to show that Agnosticism is not a gutless position as some might maintain. Again, it is seriously a book about arguing about gods.
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From my visit to the Technik Museum Speyer. Yes, I can be excited by the steel tubes :)
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