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Behind a photo is a story. Behind two is History.

New project, the most awesome photos of our history fight each other! What comes out are interesting insights into the life of those before us.

Take a look! :)

A clear outline of how we can be very wrong about probabilities, and to interpret them better.

In particular the fallacies resulting in a misunderstanding of Bayes's theorem can become harmful when the people using the data are cancer doctors or O.J Simpson's attorneys.

#oj simpson #probability

Earth from Mars, Mars from Earth - a feat made possible by the Curiosity robot

#curiosity #astronomy #mars

An interactive look at time...

#universe #time

Jesus, tax collectors and sinners

Tax collectors are not the most beloved people in the world. In the times of the Bibles things were not much different...

And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

St Matthew's Gospel

#bible quotes #jesus christ

A personal opinion

If God was a white piece of paper, asking Him to give meaning to our lives would be like asking the sheet of paper to draw a thin line on itself. It just can't. Is the line on the sheet? Yes. Can the sheet dissociate from itself? No.

#God #universe

#religion

Epicurus on God

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

- Epicurus [341–270 B.C.]

#epicurus #god

RIcky Gervais's underestimated intelligence. Can't say the same about Piers Morgan...

#Philosophy of Religion #ricky gervais

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Answering the Question: “What Is Enlightenment?”

Kant answers the question quite succinctly in the first sentence of the essay:

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.”

He argues that the immaturity is self-inflicted not from a lack of understanding, but from...

#stephen fry #kant

Rendez-vous in September for more Lazy philosophy!

Lazy Philosophy will be there next year, stronger than ever. We hope you will too.

And for the mind is nothing without the body, we strongly encourage all lazy philosophers to stay healthy and come back with a mind of steel for more philosophical entertainment!

See you soon!

#bruce lee

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From warston:

PhilPapers conducted a survey back in 2009 asking faculty philosophers and graduate students what they thought about diverse matters. Follow the link for more results and the demographics of the survey, here are two interesting results:

Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don’t switch? Accept or lean toward: switch 635 / 931 (68.2%) Other 225 / 931 (24.2%) Accept or lean toward: don’t switch 71 / 931 (7.6%)

Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?

Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible 331 / 931 (35.6%) Other 234 / 931 (25.1%) Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible 217 / 931 (23.3%) Accept or lean toward: inconceivable 149 / 931 (16.0%)

#philosophers

Not really philosophy-related...but then isn't it? An evolved ape producing art in outer space!

Bowie's song appeals to a human dream, to go beyond, and this man is living this dream. It feels like science and myth are crossing paths.

#space #outer space #david bowie

A jaw-dropping talk about the Universe, its origins and its future by Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

#universe #life #quantum physics #physics

The last lines of Hannah Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem'

A film about Hannah Arendt's covering of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem is coming out soon so I thought it would be the occasion to share the last lines of her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Just as you [Eichmann] supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations—as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world—we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.