This rocks in so many ways. :D
Richard Dawkins Reads His Hate Mail (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuowNcuGsc&feature=g-vrec)
Seen this before.
Still funny! ;D
It's settled. Dawkins rules. ;D
I love hearing the prim, proper, and polite Dawkins reading all that profanity as primly, properly, and politely as he can. ;D
I feel kind of bad for him actually. It must be very frustrating to do what he does. Getting hate mail from legions of clueless must have it's toll I guess.
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 24, 2012, 11:44:40 PM
I feel kind of bad for him actually. It must be very frustrating to do what he does. Getting hate mail from legions of clueless must have it's toll I guess.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons the late Christopher Hitchens drank so much. ;)
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 24, 2012, 11:44:40 PM
I feel kind of bad for him actually. It must be very frustrating to do what he does. Getting hate mail from legions of clueless must have it's toll I guess.
He is a fairly humourless and odious character. I imagine his righteous and patronising interventions have converted many atheists back to religion. I joke of course, but he is no poster boy.
Quote from: MadBomr101 on June 24, 2012, 11:47:57 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 24, 2012, 11:44:40 PM
I feel kind of bad for him actually. It must be very frustrating to do what he does. Getting hate mail from legions of clueless must have it's toll I guess.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons the late Christopher Hitchens drank so much. ;)
I don't think he needed any excuse. He seemed to belong to that splendid tradition of Journalists with a lifelong love affair with booze which seemed to have inspired him rather than impeded him.
Quote from: En_Route on June 25, 2012, 12:01:00 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 24, 2012, 11:44:40 PM
I feel kind of bad for him actually. It must be very frustrating to do what he does. Getting hate mail from legions of clueless must have it's toll I guess.
He is a fairly humourless and odious character. I imagine his righteous and patronising interventions have converted many atheists back to religion. I joke of course, but he is no poster boy.
I didn't know that atheists even had a poster boy ??? You have a bit of everything I guess.
I see myself as more of an accomodationist than of those who think that religion would be wiped from the face of the earth, but people like Dawkins and Hitchens have their value, even if I don't agree with many of their ideas.
I also get the impression that his patronizing was never meant for getting the religious on his side but rather those who were on the fence about the whole thing....
Dawkins and Hitchens serve a good purpose. I agree they're not the ones to convert the believers to unbelievers, but they at least show that there is another way.
Quote from: Firebird on June 25, 2012, 12:37:39 AM
Dawkins and Hitchens serve a good purpose. I agree they're not the ones to convert the believers to unbelievers, but they at least show that there is another way.
Not so fast. Have you ever read through the content in
Converts Corner (http://richarddawkins.net/letters/converts) on Dawkins site?
Quote from: Firebird on June 25, 2012, 12:37:39 AM
Dawkins and Hitchens serve a good purpose. I agree they're not the ones to convert the believers to unbelievers, but they at least show that there is another way.
I think that was already apparent to most people certainly in the UK.
Quote from: MadBomr101 on June 25, 2012, 12:44:36 AM
Quote from: Firebird on June 25, 2012, 12:37:39 AM
Dawkins and Hitchens serve a good purpose. I agree they're not the ones to convert the believers to unbelievers, but they at least show that there is another way.
Not so fast. Have you ever read through the content in Converts Corner (http://richarddawkins.net/letters/converts) on Dawkins site?
There is almost a religious fervour to it. I Read the work of the master and I saw the light!
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 24, 2012, 11:44:40 PM
I feel kind of bad for him actually. It must be very frustrating to do what he does. Getting hate mail from legions of clueless must have it's toll I guess.
I wouldn't bother feeling too sorry for him -- he may well enjoy hate mail. I remember a scene from the TV show
Murphy Brown where she tells a distraught co-worker who'd just gotten her first piece of hate mail that she, Brown, not only kept every piece of hate mail she received but sometimes she dumped them all onto the floor and rolled around in them naked. I can see Dawkins doing that too.
Quote from: En_Route on June 25, 2012, 12:53:06 AMThere is almost a religious fervour to it. I Read the work of the master and I saw the light!
As long as they saw it. They can work on dropping the religious fervor next.
"Go into the light, Carol Ann! There is logic and reason in the light!"
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on June 25, 2012, 01:01:24 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 24, 2012, 11:44:40 PM
I feel kind of bad for him actually. It must be very frustrating to do what he does. Getting hate mail from legions of clueless must have it's toll I guess.
I wouldn't bother feeling too sorry for him -- he may well enjoy hate mail. I remember a scene from the TV show Murphy Brown where she tells a distraught co-worker who'd just gotten her first piece of hate mail that she, Brown, not only kept every piece of hate mail she received but sometimes she dumped them all onto the floor and rolled around in them naked. I can see Dawkins doing that too.
LOL Thanks for the image, I guess. :P
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 25, 2012, 01:43:19 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on June 25, 2012, 01:01:24 AM
I wouldn't bother feeling too sorry for him -- he may well enjoy hate mail. I remember a scene from the TV show Murphy Brown where she tells a distraught co-worker who'd just gotten her first piece of hate mail that she, Brown, not only kept every piece of hate mail she received but sometimes she dumped them all onto the floor and rolled around in them naked. I can see Dawkins doing that too.
LOL Thanks for the image, I guess. :P
Eh, just imagine hate mail sticking to the appropriate (or inappropriate) bits, concealing them from view.
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on June 25, 2012, 02:06:59 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 25, 2012, 01:43:19 AM
Quote from: BooksCatsEtc on June 25, 2012, 01:01:24 AM
I wouldn't bother feeling too sorry for him -- he may well enjoy hate mail. I remember a scene from the TV show Murphy Brown where she tells a distraught co-worker who'd just gotten her first piece of hate mail that she, Brown, not only kept every piece of hate mail she received but sometimes she dumped them all onto the floor and rolled around in them naked. I can see Dawkins doing that too.
LOL Thanks for the image, I guess. :P
Eh, just imagine hate mail sticking to the appropriate (or inappropriate) bits, concealing them from view.
I think Dawkins might have enough to make a whole outfit actually - could start a whole new trend in fashion: The Hatemail line, for summer. :P