Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion.

xrayfish · Post by **xrayfish** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 2:32 pm

...or room 101

(*Edit* damn, page 102 already)

pilcrow · Post by **pilcrow** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:07 pm

shtreimel · Post by **shtreimel** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:17 pm

xrayfish wrote:Except we all know these religious nuts have NO sense of humour

Why'd the chicken cross the road?

NorthernMonkey · Post by **NorthernMonkey** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:24 pm

shtreimel wrote:
xrayfish wrote:Except we all know these religious nuts have NO sense of humour
Why'd the chicken cross the road?

Take your pick:

http://www.scheinerman.net/judaism/humor/chicken.html

All about as funny as herpes.

pilcrow · Post by **pilcrow** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:05 pm

xrayfish wrote:Except we all know these religious nuts have NO sense of humour

Yeah, and atheists are a bundle of laffs. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, anyone?

Atheists are continually making sweeping, unfounded pronouncements. We all know that.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:10 pm

pilcrow wrote:Atheists are continually making sweeping, unfounded pronouncements. We all know that.

Ironic.
Picking in christians... like shooting fish in a barrel. Best to ignore the haters or pick them apart with short, blunt retorts.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
There is no chicken, it's a delusion set about to control peoples' minds into telling the same joke over and over again without ever getting a laugh.

pilcrow · Post by **pilcrow** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:13 pm

pilcrow wrote:
xrayfish wrote:Except we all know these religious nuts have NO sense of humour
Yeah, and atheists are a bundle of laffs. Madalyn Murray O'Hair, anyone?

Atheists are continually making sweeping, unfounded pronouncements. We all know that.

Yes, I'm quoting my own bad self. Just to add this. Madalyn Murray O'Hair was one of the sourest people I've ever had the displeasure of seeing/hearing on TV. Not surprised to hear that Dawkins comes across that way too. I don' t know what kind of a personal impression Bertrand Russell made, but I'll bet he was a sourpuss too. Why are all these schmucks so bitter and intent on trying to knock the pins of faith out from under regular people? Maybe they're missing something in their lives?

pilcrow · Post by **pilcrow** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:23 pm

Tone Deft wrote:
pilcrow wrote:Atheists are continually making sweeping, unfounded pronouncements. We all know that.
Ironic.
Picking in christians... like shooting fish in a barrel. Best to ignore the haters or pick them apart with short, blunt retorts.

Do you mean as opposed to the long diatribes or childish insults about others' beliefs or goofy-ass jpgs that accomplish so much in the way of leading us all toward mutual understanding and respect?

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:27 pm

pilcrow wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:
pilcrow wrote:Atheists are continually making sweeping, unfounded pronouncements. We all know that.
Ironic.
Picking in christians... like shooting fish in a barrel. Best to ignore the haters or pick them apart with short, blunt retorts.
Do you mean as opposed to the long diatribes or childish insults about others' beliefs or goofy-ass jpgs that accomplish so much in the way of leading us all toward mutual understanding and respect?

Lighten up for fucks sake. Isn't Friday where you are too?

Goddamn... I've been awake for 2.5 hours and I've been a total asshole magnet today, what the fuck??

It is striking to go back and read some of the posts, you'd think the end of the world was coming, we do take ourselves too seriously at times.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:35 pm

102 fucking pages? Did you guys give mad props to me on page 100?

pilcrow · Post by **pilcrow** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:57 pm

Tone Deft wrote:
pilcrow wrote:
Tone Deft wrote: Ironic.
Picking in christians... like shooting fish in a barrel. Best to ignore the haters or pick them apart with short, blunt retorts.
Do you mean as opposed to the long diatribes or childish insults about others' beliefs or goofy-ass jpgs that accomplish so much in the way of leading us all toward mutual understanding and respect?
Lighten up for fucks sake. Isn't Friday where you are too?

Goddamn... I've been awake for 2.5 hours and I've been a total asshole magnet today, what the fuck??

It is striking to go back and read some of the posts, you'd think the end of the world was coming, we do take ourselves too seriously at times.

Right you are.
What's most striking--always--about these kinds of threads is the amount of heat that's generated in proportion to the amount of light. It's about a 1000:1 ratio. If that. The second most striking thing is how much time I spend on them. That's just foolishness, and I need to work at that.

Hope your Friday gets better, TD.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:14 pm

pilcrow wrote:...the amount of heat that's generated in proportion to the amount of light. It's about a 1000:1 ratio. If that. The second most striking thing is how much time I spend on them. That's just foolishness, and I need to work at that.

Hope your Friday gets better, TD.

It's actually a remarkably chill thread for the subject matter. Yeah, the ratio of heat to light is pretty low but there has been some genuine discussion. It's also WAAAY to easy to just say "you're stupid, you have no values, you have wrong values, you're stupid." I wouldn't say it's (entirely) foolish, it's good to think about these things and learn about how other people think and why. If you're going to spend time on an interwebernet, might as well be music or theology or porn.

Thanks, my day will get better, I'm gonna run home and make some loud fucking noise while the neighbors are out then come back to work and kick some ass.

Neb - it's every 1,000 pages we give you props, but that's a different delusion altogether.

xrayfish · Post by **xrayfish** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:36 pm

Machinate wrote:

Hey, what's with the sperm impregnating the computer?

Can this be the spawn of satan?

xrayfish · Post by **xrayfish** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:57 pm

pilcrow wrote:
Maybe they're missing something in their lives?

Yeah, maybe they are, but why do christians automatically jump to the conclusion what's missing is their sky god?

'The god of the gaps', as Dawkins puts it

popslut · Post by **popslut** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:23 pm

Smells of dead horses in here.