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Last week, we busted the myth that electroweak gague symmetry is broken by the Higgs mechanism. We'll also examine the existence of God and whether true love exists.

The Infamous Brad - The Wearin' o' the Black

From Brad Hicks’s entry The Infamous Brad - The Wearin’ o’ the Black:

Early in the history of Irish Catholicism, somebody came back with stories of how amazingly spiritual the Egyptian ascetic sects are, and tried to re-invent asceticism inside Ireland. And when they tried to send their ascetics out into the wilderness, they ran into the insurmountable problem that living alone in the wilderness in Ireland isn’t really all that unpleasant. So to make it unpleasant, they put themselves to an intentionally boring and difficult and demanding job: hand-copying the few books that survived the fall of the ancient Roman empire…

I will never, ever understand religion.