Sign in with Facebook
Michael A. Blackledge’s Followers (5)
Michael A. Blackledge
Goodreads Author
Born
Washington, D.
Website
Genre
Member Since
May 2011
|
Blackledge Stories - and other BS
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
―
―
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.”
― Infidel
― Infidel
“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
Four Hills Evening Book Group
— 1 member
— last activity May 10, 2012 03:19AM
This book club is open to residents of Four Hills Village, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
Last Thursday Book Club
— 3 members
— last activity May 10, 2012 05:53AM
Founded in April 1993 by the semi-literate descendant of Russian, Norwegian, and Italian immigrants, LTBC is a collection of mildly mature males meeti ...more
