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“Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an unthinking habit; it had a moral rationale. If you really believe that failing to accept Jesus as one's savior is a ticket to fiery damnation, then torturing a person until he acknowledges this truth is doing him the biggest favor of his life: better a few hours now than an eternity later.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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“The standard explanation of the madness of crowds is ignorance: a mediocre education system has left the populace scientifically illiterate, at the mercy of their cognitive biases, and thus defenseless against airhead celebrities, cable-news gladiators, and other corruptions from popular culture.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Quote (Jupe @ Nov 2 2023 07:32am)

waterfiends skip -> black demons skip -> bronze dragons skip -> THIS
https://i.imgur.com/Xy5s2kB.png
lance upcoming? i doubt it

Quote (fenwick @ Nov 2 2023 11:30am)

Not deserved you non gaymer. You have much to do, much to see, much to learn! Lance when you kill 4357 Hydra.

Quote (Pedmesene @ Nov 2 2023 03:47pm)

I can't believe how up you've risen

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One fire fights, one fire
One-nil, one-nil
Rights by rights falter
Strengths by strengths do fail

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“The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined