Christopher Jamison:
CLASS OF 1990
Keystone Oaks High SchoolClass of 1990
Pittsburgh, PA
Penn Technical InstituteClass of 1997
Pittsburgh, PA
Christopher's Story
Christopher's schools include Keystone Oaks High School, Penn Technical Institute.
Music Christopher likes includes Stroke 9, Muse, Puscifer. Books Christopher likes include The Elegant Universe, Forged, God's Problem. Movies Christopher likes include A Christmas Story, The Green Mile, Godless (the documentary).
One of Christopher's favorite quotes is:""I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." ~ Stephen Roberts
"I really do not care about being comforted by mythology. I'd rather have the harsh truth and learn how to live with it, than believe myths that are just band-aids to cover reality." ~ me
"Most people walk around life completely unaware of anything happening beyond the 3 cubic feet surrounding their own heads!" ~ ME
"it IS an impossibility to spend every day walking on eggshells and never break any." ~ ME
"I find religious superstition to be wildly irrational, painfully fallacious, wholly nonsensical, logically discredited, dangerously delusional, antiquated, outmoded, and obsolete. At its best, it is little more than a pacifier from the infancy of our species. We have had a myriad of drastically different, mutually exclusive, obviously fabricated, intentionally deceptive religious belief systems clamoring for our allegiance and alms, warring for our minds and our property, perverting our collective sense of morality, falsely explaining to us that which they themselves never understood, supplying us with haphazardly made-up answers to our sincerest of questions (which have consistently proved wrong in the light of modern knowledge), providing us with fairy-tales and fictions in the place of truths and facts, leading us like sectarian sheep to the slaughter, causing nothing but global social chaos for far to long!" ~ Robert Runkle
"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence." ~ Bertrand Russell
"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
"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse." ~ Isaac Asimov
"If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousn...Expand for more
ess ascribed to Him?" ~ Albert Einstein, Out Of My Later Years
"Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" ~ Lucretius
"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ~ Mark Twain
Thomas Jefferson:
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear....Do not be frightened from this inquiry by any fear of its consequences. If it end in a belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue on the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise and in the love of others which it will procure for you."
René Descartes:
If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Christopher Hitchens:
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Thomas Jefferson:
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Pierre Abelard:
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Gerald Massey:
They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth, rather than truth as authority.
John F. Kennedy:
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John Locke: (1690)
One unerring mark of the love of truth, is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Albert Einstein:
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Carl Sagan:
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
Ajahn Brahm (Buddhist Monk):
It's very compelling, very attractive to have a big daddy in the sky or a big mummy in the sky who will actually make sure that everything is okay for you and will make sure that all your problems disappear... BUT, you know, we're grown up now.".
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