About me: Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require.
Fred Kite wrote:I'm new here, but, I just registered to speak on behalf of atheists who are extremely embarrassed to have the term "atheism" associated with the vicious and vindictive comments and incessant whingeing from so called "atheists" upset about Richard Dawkins website, because I notice that a lot of you are on here. Some of you are even writing press releases to spread the embarrassment even further!
What are you thinking?
I don't claim to be an expert on the whys and wherefores but one thing is very clear - regardless of the whys and wherefores the online reaction has been exceptionally embarrassing for atheism.
Even if Dawkins and his web team did something horribly wrong, the viciousness and rabidness of the reaction is completely unnecessary.
What's upsetting for me and regular atheists is that it's being reported as the 'largest online atheist community'. I have visited Richard Dawkins . net and it was not an atheist community. It was a website for fans of Richard Dawkins to congregate and discuss ideas online. There were theists, atheists, jews, christians and many others on the site and forum.
Some of you are reacting in the same way a teenage pop fan would react if a singer decided to leave a well known pop band. It's childish. It's petulant and it's hero-worshipping at it's worst and I can only imagine how embarrassed Richard Dawkins must feel at this moment.
Well, myself I am a part time atheist. The rest of the time I am eastern orthodox christian
Please take some of your precious time and get informed.
I'll try to help you http://www.heathen-hub.com/blog.php?b=242
That's it. Now let your fingers do the walking
If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little Electric Chairs around their necks instead of crosses. - Lenny Bruce
Someone say cheese? (you can have the tits, they do nothzing for me)
"Another aspect of the particulateness of the gene is that is does not grow senile; it is no more likely to die when it is a million years old than when it is only a hundred. It leaps from body to body in it's own way and for its own ends, abandoning a succession of mortal bodies before they sink in senility and death" -Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene p.34
About me: I have prehensile eyebrows. I speak 9 languages fluently, one of which other people can also speak. When backed into a corner, I fit perfectly - having a right-angled arse.
Fuck all this rerailing. I am going to amend the OP as most of these people are obviously not reading any further!
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. House MD Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view. Sandy Denny This is the wrong forum for bluffing Paco Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish! Calilasseia I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants. Twoflower Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse Millefleur
About me: I have prehensile eyebrows. I speak 9 languages fluently, one of which other people can also speak. When backed into a corner, I fit perfectly - having a right-angled arse.
Rule #69 applies. Everything is an euphemism: especially rule #69.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Salman Rushdie You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic. House MD Who needs a meaning anyway, I'd settle anyday for a very fine view. Sandy Denny This is the wrong forum for bluffing Paco Yes, yes. But first I need to show you this venomous fish! Calilasseia I think we should do whatever Pawiz wants. Twoflower Bella squats momentarily then waddles on still peeing, like a horse Millefleur
About me: Married, ethnically German, hardcore Social Democrat, ex-Dittohead, ex-Libertarian, went to Catholic school, father was a religious cultist who thought he had the gift of prophecy and could communicate with the "other side". .............................. So, had a weird life. Better now.
Location: Surrounded by fundies and mutants in Texas
I don't think i'll be hanging around here Charlou. but thanks anyway. it's too much like the old richard dawkins forum.
It may seem that way if you just look at recent posts but trust me this is a VERY different place .We had a close knit community of friends that was more than happy to push out a life boat to Thousands of wounded hurt and lost people and give them the space they need to vent and reorganise .
Snide comments that this place is like RDF not only show your ignorance but insult lots of my friends .......
Just remember you got to post here you didn't have to submit anything you said for approval a privilege you seem happy to see denied to 85,000 RDF members.
oh just another little point hosting your ill informed opinions costs us money please make a contribution !
wow.....so let me get this straight. You are delighted to host doctored photographs with slanderous comments suggesting that josh is richard dawkins illegitimate son via an affair with someone called trixie and you are busting my balls for trying to reason against the vicious and personal attacks on richard dawkins?
About me: Married, ethnically German, hardcore Social Democrat, ex-Dittohead, ex-Libertarian, went to Catholic school, father was a religious cultist who thought he had the gift of prophecy and could communicate with the "other side". .............................. So, had a weird life. Better now.
Location: Surrounded by fundies and mutants in Texas
About me: Married, ethnically German, hardcore Social Democrat, ex-Dittohead, ex-Libertarian, went to Catholic school, father was a religious cultist who thought he had the gift of prophecy and could communicate with the "other side". .............................. So, had a weird life. Better now.
Location: Surrounded by fundies and mutants in Texas
Wow, just read through some of this. That discussion with Kite just went in circles didn't it? I got through about 6 pages before I was too dizzy to continue. I'm glad it got derailed though. it's given me an opportunity to post this:
We run a tight ship.
