CarlBentham

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• Location Philadelphia, PA
• Party Democratic
• Politics I am a progressive, pseudo-utilitarian, rationalist, pragmatist, secular humanist, and skeptic. For all of you metaphysicists, I am a mereological nihilist.

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• Favorite Blogs Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, the Wonk Room, Paul Krugman's blog,
• Favorite Quotes *"If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another." --Carl Sagan *"[Philosophers] pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of “inspiration”—most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract—that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact." --Friedrich Nietzsche *"There are two ways to live your life. The first is as though everything is a miracle. The second is as though nothing is a miracle." --Albert Einstein

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My profile picture is not of me- it is of the great Carl Sagan, who was a great inspiration to me. Go read one of his books or watch his PBS series 'Cosmos'.