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Brendan Myers Quotes

Canadian - Philosopher | July 4, 1974 -

Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.

Life Wise Me My Life You Authority

I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not 'worship.'

Worship Obey Bow

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Thinking Spirit Point Own Rely

The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

God True Accept Spirit Matter Seems

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

Ideas Believing False Faulty Served

Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.

Home Place Relationships Need Happen

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Time Moment Civilization Birth Whole

What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.

Problems Thought You Feeling Person

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

Myself School Parents Game Design

I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

Mathematics Game Logic Philosophy

I've invented several games for use as teaching tools in my classroom: one of them, a game called 'Iron Age: Council of the Clans,' got so popular among my students that they encouraged me to publish it, which I did.

Age Me Game Tools Games Classroom

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

Myself World Book Free Thinking

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