{"id":135,"date":"2006-05-12T06:32:46","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.142.75.173\/~trekkie1\/wordpress\/?p=135"},"modified":"2006-05-12T06:32:46","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T06:32:46","slug":"life-the-universe-and-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/2006\/05\/12\/life-the-universe-and-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Life, The Universe and Everything&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#006600\">More Stumble! found goodness:<\/font><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts &#8212; there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Spock\">Benjamin Spock<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galileo\">Galileo<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn&#8217;t go away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phillip_Dick\">Philip K. Dick<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;An atheist doesn&#8217;t have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can&#8217;t be a god.  He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_McCarthy_%28Nebraska%29\">John McCarthy<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Eisenhower erroneously quoting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexis_de_Tocqueville\">Alexis de Tocqueville<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mega.nu:8080\/quotes.html\">My Favorite Quotes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking &#8230; the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">WikiQuote<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Stumble! found goodness: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem plausible to me that there is the kind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andy-thomson.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}