Getting random stuff organised
Somehow the word seems to have got around that some person on Quora knows everything. I don’t know who this person is. It’s certainly not me, and it’s not any of the people whose answers I have read. Some of them know a great deal about one thing; some of them know a lot about …
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There is clearly a deep-seated and widespread tendency towards megalomania in some members of the human race. Many, many people seem to desperately need to feel that they are in some sense important to the universe. The whole of religion, in fact, can be seen as an expression of the desire to be regarded as …
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Factual material can be found in Wikipedia, as well as on many other locations on the internet. There’s no point in wasting people’s time by asking questions with a clear factual answer like “How high is Mount Everest?”
What would we do if… What will happen if… What will be the results of… Impossible events are impossible. We don’t need to prepare for them, we don’t need to consider them, we don’t need to think about them at all, ever. And in order for an impossible event to take place, the universe would have …
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