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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:07 pm

I couldn't think of the best place to post this - considering that it isn't just a web-related issue - but am I the only one left to ponder a bit occasionally on what the fuck RDFRS actually does? I mean in practice. I can read the Mission Statement, but that doesn't tell me what they're actually doing.

They seem incredibly coy about advertising their activities, for an organisation with such great ambitions, anyway, I'll put it that way. :coffee:

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Post by klr » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:09 pm

Well, seeing as they were so active in nipping all of those problems in the bud ... :shifty:
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Post by Rum » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:12 pm

Meh - sorry, but meh..

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:13 pm

I don't really care what they do anymore... they're not getting any more of my money, though.
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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:22 pm

Rum wrote:Meh - sorry, but meh..
Well, that too - but that's kind of the point. It's been a kind of long road of disillusionment for me - realising how deep and how weird Richard's self-deception goes, for a man supposedly so devoted to reason and evidence-based understanding of the world.

And at some point in this road, after resigning myself to profound incompetence over on RD.net, and going 'meh' - I just asked myself - what the fuck does RDFRS actually do? :ask:

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Post by Animavore » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:27 pm

Well they set up events such as this for one.
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/news/ri ... ned_in_MI/
And give awards like this.


That's all I've got :dunno:
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Post by Animavore » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:29 pm

Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.

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Post by Rum » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:40 pm

Animavore wrote:Well they set up events such as this for one.
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/news/ri ... ned_in_MI/
And give awards like this.


That's all I've got :dunno:
I can hardly bare to watch this, though good for him for being such a tough nut.

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Post by lordpasternack » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:47 pm

That event was set up between Center For Inquiry and RDFRS, and the Richard Dawkins Award is given out by the Atheist Alliance of America.

I expect RDFRS is more about funnelling money into organisations that do stuff, as well as helping sponsor the odd event. As befits them - as we well know by now that Richard loves nothing more than creating victims of the Peter Principle, and clinging fervently to them all the way to the embarrassing lawsuit. Passing along money is probably at least within their range of skills. Even if they can't manage to keep a reliable track of accounts and audit people properly. :coffee:

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Post by tattuchu » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:50 pm

Hitchens looks fantastic since losing weight. I always thought he looked so uncomfortable in his body. Too bad the source of his weight loss is...well, what it is.
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Post by Jason » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:04 pm

I thought they were about funneling money into the accounts of interested parties.. :smug:

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Post by Bella Fortuna » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:11 pm

PordFrefect wrote:I thought they were about funneling money into the accounts of interested parties.. :smug:
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Post by Animavore » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:26 pm

Poo parties :smug:
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Post by klr » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:43 pm

PordFrefect wrote:I thought they were about funneling money into the accounts of interested parties.. :smug:
I thought it was all about funding home improvements.
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Re: RDFRS

Post by charlou » Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:36 am

klr wrote:
PordFrefect wrote:I thought they were about funneling money into the accounts of interested parties.. :smug:
I thought it was all about funding home improvements.
Bella Fortuna wrote:
PordFrefect wrote:I thought they were about funneling money into the accounts of interested parties.. :smug:
Pool parties... :toot:
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