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“When you are an addict and you get caught, you always seem to be at your lowest point.”
― Such Unfortunates
― Such Unfortunates

“Think of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed he sets out for vengeance. What next?"
Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead. "He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing."
Kvothe nodded. "Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?"
Chronicler shrugged. "He finds the villains and kills them."
"Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
― The Name of the Wind
Bast hesitated, his expression puzzled. Chronicler answered the question instead. "He finds help. A clever talking squirrel. An old drunken swordsman. A mad hermit in the woods. That sort of thing."
Kvothe nodded. "Exactly! He finds the mad hermit in the woods, proves himself worthy, and learns the names of all things, just like Taborlin the Great. Then with these powerful magics at his beck and call, what does he do?"
Chronicler shrugged. "He finds the villains and kills them."
"Of course," Kvothe said grandly. "Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.”
― The Name of the Wind
“However, there is a way to know for certain that Noah鈥檚 Flood and the Creation story never happened: by looking at our mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).聽 Mitochondria are the 鈥渃ellular power plants鈥 found in all of our cells and they have their own DNA which is separate from that found in the nucleus of the cell.聽 In humans, and most other species that mitochondria are found in, the father鈥檚 mtDNA normally does not contribute to the child鈥檚 mtDNA; the child normally inherits its mtDNA exclusively from its mother.聽 This means that if no one鈥檚 genes have mutated, then we all have the same mtDNA as our brothers and sisters and the same mtDNA as the children of our mother鈥檚 sisters, etc. This pattern of inheritance makes it possible to rule out 鈥減opulation bottlenecks鈥 in our species鈥 history.聽 A bottleneck is basically a time when the population of a species dwindled to low numbers.聽 For humans, this means that every person born after a bottleneck can only have the mtDNA or a mutation of the mtDNA of the women who survived the bottleneck. This doesn鈥檛 mean that mtDNA can tell us when a bottleneck happened, but it can tell us when one didn鈥檛 happen because we know that mtDNA has a rate of approximately one mutation every 3,500 years (Gibbons 1998; Soares et al 2009). So if the human race were actually less than 6,000 years old and/or 鈥渆verything on earth that breathed died鈥 (Genesis 7:22) less than 6,000 years ago, which would be the case if the story of Adam and the story of Noah鈥檚 flood were true respectively, then every person should have the exact same mtDNA except for one or two mutations.聽 This, however, is not the case as human mtDNA is much more diverse (Endicott et al 2009), so we can know for a fact that the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Noah are fictional. 聽 There”
― The Invention of Christianity
― The Invention of Christianity

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
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“Human thought is thought that opens up into the future, and the future is inescapably the domain of the gods.”
― The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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