Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

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.

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.