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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood...”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
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“What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is...”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
amuffinformypuffin:
Rock Lobster by The B-52’s
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They Might Be Giants Behind The Music Episode...
jeannr:
“We can almost always hit paydirt with a band’s groupies, but in They Might Be Giants’ case, they’re all 31-year-old computer programmers.” The They Might Be Giants episode largely focused on keyboardist/accordionist John Linnell’s harrowing early-’90s addiction to Tetris.
Oh, They Might Be Giants. Oh, The Onion.
joffi:
tuneage:
Simon and Garfunkel - “The...
“But as for certain truth, no man has known it, nor will he know it; neither of...”
– Xenophanes, quoted by Karl Popper in “The Beginnings of Rationalism” and cited by the excellent Matt Young (who, along with Superfluidity, will surely have wiser commentary on Popper than I ever did).
The quote in full:
The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black while the the...
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Misnomers
willzone:
A misnomer is a term which suggests an interpretation that is known to be untrue.
An inchworm is neither an inch long, nor a worm.
Greenland is icy and Iceland is greener)
Panama hats are not made in Panama, but Ecuador
The “lead” in pencils is made of graphite and clay, not lead
Northwestern University is in northeastern Illinois, a midwestern state.
“Tin foil” is almost...
