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Anti religious Quote by Sam Harris

“The moment you shift the conversation to God ... you can pretend to know things you absolutely and obviously cannot know.” quote by Sam Harris — Download Open image

“The moment you shift the conversation to God ... you can pretend to know things you absolutely and obviously cannot know.”

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About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are…

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“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.”

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