It was interesting enough that I listened to it all the way to the end, but upon reflection, I think I'm more-or-less lukewarm on The God Delusion.
Dawkins really lost me when he recognized the consolative (is that a word?) power of the belief in a personal God while giving it short shrift, likening the objectively demonstrable need for consolation to childishness that adults would outgrow were they not delusional. Find your consolation in your fellow human beings, and find your wonderment in the natural world which is best understood by means of science. That's his takeaway, if I've got it right.
Seems to me that a world-renowned ethologist would have a less naïve view of the hairless ape. Oh, well.
Anyway, evolutionary biology/psychology pretty much has the altruism thing nailed down. Dawkins should know better, though that hardly means I think he should be set on fire.
They did a cage match last night on The Big Bang Theory. Leonard's mom versus Sheldon's mom.
More punches were thrown than landed. I would have appreciated a sly reference to Spock vs. McCoy. Maybe it was there but I missed it. Maybe they thought it too obvious to include.
Anyway, the takeaway was that getting to bang an affectionate, supportive and approving Penny is Leonard's reward for turning out to be a nice guy, despite the odds.
Dawkins. It's good to be so marvelously narrowly brilliantly focused on the material world, of it, and within it.
Keep doing it. Sometimes I feel it's materialists like Dawkins that hold the whole thing together. Were it not for him I'd be accidentally walking through walls and falling through floors.
Then what a surprise when you survive the death experience and say, well, what did you expect? When I was in it I was focused on it brilliantly, I was the best in fact, I talked about it all the time, wrote about, made my living from propounding the belief, believed it entirely in fact I still sort of do, I'm not convinced yet this afterlife thing is all that real. Maybe this afterlife thing might be all we got. This is all there is to existence. There is certainly nothing for us beyond this simple survival of the death experience thing, surely there's nothing more to it than this. Just focus on the marvels at hand, the increased energy jump, that's a thing of real beauty right there we can focus on our whole lives, there's nothing that comes after this.
If not, just shut up. I'm having a discussion with my plants. They're doing poorly and I must give them a good talking to, and frankly, although dying, they're showing more spirit than you.
Anyway, the takeaway was that getting to bang an affectionate, supportive and approving Penny is Leonard's reward for turning out to be a nice guy, despite the odds.
A miracle?
May 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM
Hardly, the agony this poor bastard has gone through to attain his prize, in my mind wasn't worth it.
A 61 year old white man was beaten into a coma by the vibrant ones yesterday in Baltimore. His crime? He tried to break up a fight between two vibrant females. Didn't see or hear that story reported, did you?
A 61 year old white man was beaten into a coma by the vibrant ones yesterday in Baltimore. His crime? He tried to break up a fight between two vibrant females. Didn't see or hear that story reported, did you?
Draw your own conclusions.
Of course not because a) the cops didn't brutalize him, b) the perpetually aggrieved did, c) he's white, d) he's old. Nuff said.
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An entire DNC TV network pushed "hands up don't shoot." a total lie. It never happened.
So, what do you expect. These folks are angry.
It was interesting enough that I listened to it all the way to the end, but upon reflection, I think I'm more-or-less lukewarm on The God Delusion.
Dawkins really lost me when he recognized the consolative (is that a word?) power of the belief in a personal God while giving it short shrift, likening the objectively demonstrable need for consolation to childishness that adults would outgrow were they not delusional. Find your consolation in your fellow human beings, and find your wonderment in the natural world which is best understood by means of science. That's his takeaway, if I've got it right.
Seems to me that a world-renowned ethologist would have a less naïve view of the hairless ape. Oh, well.
Anyway, evolutionary biology/psychology pretty much has the altruism thing nailed down. Dawkins should know better, though that hardly means I think he should be set on fire.
They did a cage match last night on The Big Bang Theory. Leonard's mom versus Sheldon's mom.
More punches were thrown than landed. I would have appreciated a sly reference to Spock vs. McCoy. Maybe it was there but I missed it. Maybe they thought it too obvious to include.
Anyway, the takeaway was that getting to bang an affectionate, supportive and approving Penny is Leonard's reward for turning out to be a nice guy, despite the odds.
A miracle?
Harrowing.
Dawkins. It's good to be so marvelously narrowly brilliantly focused on the material world, of it, and within it.
Keep doing it. Sometimes I feel it's materialists like Dawkins that hold the whole thing together. Were it not for him I'd be accidentally walking through walls and falling through floors.
Then what a surprise when you survive the death experience and say, well, what did you expect? When I was in it I was focused on it brilliantly, I was the best in fact, I talked about it all the time, wrote about, made my living from propounding the belief, believed it entirely in fact I still sort of do, I'm not convinced yet this afterlife thing is all that real. Maybe this afterlife thing might be all we got. This is all there is to existence. There is certainly nothing for us beyond this simple survival of the death experience thing, surely there's nothing more to it than this. Just focus on the marvels at hand, the increased energy jump, that's a thing of real beauty right there we can focus on our whole lives, there's nothing that comes after this.
Dawkins, do you have a soul?
If not, just shut up. I'm having a discussion with my plants. They're doing poorly and I must give them a good talking to, and frankly, although dying, they're showing more spirit than you.
That's what insurance is for. Use it. You may never get it again at this point.
Eric the Fruit Bat said...
Anyway, the takeaway was that getting to bang an affectionate, supportive and approving Penny is Leonard's reward for turning out to be a nice guy, despite the odds.
A miracle?
May 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM
Hardly, the agony this poor bastard has gone through to attain his prize, in my mind wasn't worth it.
A 61 year old white man was beaten into a coma by the vibrant ones yesterday in Baltimore. His crime? He tried to break up a fight between two vibrant females. Didn't see or hear that story reported, did you?
Draw your own conclusions.
ricpic said...
A 61 year old white man was beaten into a coma by the vibrant ones yesterday in Baltimore. His crime? He tried to break up a fight between two vibrant females. Didn't see or hear that story reported, did you?
Draw your own conclusions.
Of course not because a) the cops didn't brutalize him, b) the perpetually aggrieved did, c) he's white, d) he's old. Nuff said.
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