We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.

Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and to everything, with no special exemptions or amplifications for your benefit- given variety by the input of chance. Everything that you as a human being consider cosmically important is an accident.

We live our lives for our life's sake, rather than for illusions about rewards and satisfaction after we're dead.