Consciousness is the basis of both the examined and the unexamined life. It is all that can be seen and that which does the seeing. No matter how far… - Sam Harris

Consciousness is the basis of both the examined and the unexamined life.

there seems to be no doubt that love and compassion are good, in that they connect us more deeply to others.30 Given this situation, we can see that one could desire to become more loving and compassionate for purely selfish reasons.

Our world is dangerously riven by religious doctrines that all educated people should condemn, and yet there is more to understanding the human condition than science and secular culture generally admit.

Well, that’s a very interesting question,” he said — to which he had no interesting or even sane answer. He simply conceded that if the Messiah came back and reconvened the Sanhedrin, well, then, yes — though mere mortals like ourselves might not see the wisdom of it — homosexuals, adulteresses, witches, and Sabbath breakers would be killed, and every other barbaric prescription found in the Old Testament would apply. As I was contemplating where on his person I should aim my vomit, he managed this final defense of his religion: “You just don’t understand what an obscenity — what a sacrilege — these things would represent in the presence of the Messiah