I'm not really book-smart.
I'm fond of science fiction. But not all science fiction.
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.
Evolution is just a theory? Well, so is gravity and I don't see you jumping out of buildings.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die, because they are never going to be born. The number of people who could be here, in my place, out number the sand grains in the Sahara. If you think about all the different ways in which our genes could be permuted, you and I are quite grotesquely lucky to be here. The number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. . . we are privileged to be alive and nd we should make the most of our time on this world.
Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read.
Well, if the excitement's over, I think I'll take a bath. ' 'Wow. The harsh lifestyle of a succubus. I wish I had your job. ' 'Hey, our side's always recruiting. You might need to be a little prettier to be an incubus, though. And a little more charming. ' 'Untrue. Mortal women go for jerks. I see it all the time. ' 'Touché.
How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?
Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.