"A theory is something that has been tested and confirmed. It is like it got its damn diploma. — Christianity is like, ‘I’m gettin’ ready to go to pre-school. — And I left my lunch at home.’"

Matt Dillahunty

(Source: blip.tv)

"There’s a world of difference between wanting to believe something and having good reasons for believing it."

Sam Harris

(Source: youtube.com)

Pottermore Sorting and Wand Analysis: Ranked Sorting for misscoconut →

pottermoreanalysis:

I have a difficult time picking between things sometimes, so I hope you are okay when I pick more than one answer. Hope you don’t mind another ranked Sorting. Thanks. <3

Q1

- Cowardly

- Ordinary, selfish, ignorant

Gryff wins over Slyth/Puff/Claw (I’m assuming ones on top are more important?)…

Q3: It’s the first one I gave, CMR. So, it’s still in order and completely unhelpful, isn’t it? 

Anyway, thanks so much for doing this for me! Unfortunately, Hufflepuff has the animal-leaning answers, and I’m allergic to most animals. :( I like them though. Bit unfortunate, really, because animals don’t seem to play a huge part in Hufflepuff in the books, do they?

Interesting change appearance doesn’t have Hufflepuff in it, considering that’s what Tonks can do.

Again, thanks!

justnerdgirlproblems:

suggested by bit-not-gay

Okay, this isn’t a problem of mine, but it annoys me when others confuse them!

"You can’t change the way the universe is just to suit human desires."

Richard Dawkins

(Source: youtube.com)

"My speculation is that bats hear in colour. Because why wouldn’t you use colour? Colour is just a hue, perceived hue; it’s nothing more than a label that the brain uses."

Richard Dawkins

(Source: youtube.com)

"We don’t want people to live without wonder or mystery, and in fact we thoroughly recommend: Take a look through the Hubble Telescope. See if you can get over what you see: — The unbelievable beauty — and symmetry and majesty of what you’re seeing. — And you want to exchange this for the burning bush? I don’t think you will once you’ve done it. Read a page of Stephen Hawking on the event horizon, for example, and see if that isn’t awe-inspiring enough for anybody. And you’re seeing there the future of a potentially much more noble and ennoble and enlightened and emancipated humanity where none of these discoveries and none of this awe and majesty requires that you kill anyone in the name of some man-made idol or god or superstition."

Christopher Hitchens

(Source: youtube.com)

"‎If you want to write that number [a googolplex], you’d have to write a googol zeros. But there aren’t even a googol atoms in the universe, so the googolplex cannot be written out in the available space and matter of the cosmos."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

(Source: startalkradio.net)

"If you have a rotating black hole and you go in at a particular trajectory, it actually opens up to another universe that is not ours."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

(Source: startalkradio.net)

Everything INTP: Let It Be Known That INTPs Are Not (Really) Assholes →

Let it be known that INTPs:

- Are truthful. This means we may value truth and honesty over sadistic lies.
- Are personable. They’re called Ti-Glasses. They let you see all kinds of cool shit without getting emotionally involved.
- Are nice people! Just don’t fuck with or misinterpret…

(Source: personalitycafe.com)