Appalachian Trail

Catfish Fire Tower - Kittatinny Ridge, New Jersey

Enemy of Knowledge

"As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make acquisition of knowledge a real sin."

- Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason, part 2, p 129

Non Fui, Fui, Non Sum, Non Curo

"Death is nothing to us; for that which is dissolved is without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us."

- Epicurus: "I was not, I was, I am not, I do not care."

p.s.: There is no possibility of an afterlife, hence no reason to fear death!

Joke of the Month

A Jamaican mad man was seen speaking into an empty envelope and was asked: "What are you doing?" He answered: "Yuh a idiot? Yuh nuh si seh mi a sen a voice mail?"

Void

"The implied meaning of 'destroying' something is to undo its existence, to make it not there anymore, and this can not be so: if the void is that which does not exist, and if this void is the implied destination of the destroyed, then the thing in reality can not be destroyed, for the thing could not have existed in the first place."

- Epicurus elaborating on Parmenides'  "Ex nihilo nihil fit" (Nothing comes from nothing)