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Have you ever read Dawkins?

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    #302
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    PDN wrote: »
    Attractive & stupid = Acceptable
    I must protest! Mariah Carey has a face like a slapped arse.
    CDfm wrote: »
    Jade Goody is an Atheist
    ORLY?


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    #303
    MrPudding
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    Dades wrote: »
    I must protest! Mariah Carey has a face like a slapped arse.

    ORLY?
    Plus, are we really getting into an atheist / christian idiot tit for tat spat? Even if our good friend Jade was an atheist, which she apparently isn't, I am sure we can come up with a few christian idiots.... Don't have too far to look. :pac::pac::D;):rolleyes::mad::o:eek::cool::confused:

    MrP


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    #304
    Zombrex
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    MrPudding wrote: »
    Plus, are we really getting into an atheist / christian idiot tit for tat spat?

    how did Jade Goody even come into this ... CDfm seems to have a Joycean stream of consciousness thing going on ...


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    #305
    CDfm
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    Wicknight wrote: »
    how did Jade Goody even come into this ... CDfm seems to have a Joycean stream of consciousness thing going on ...
    Joyce - low grade porn masquerading as high class literature ....and good at neither.

    MMMMM .......sort of reminds me of another controvercial writer

    And why are you trying to dump Jade Goody back on us - I definately saw her saying she is atheist.She has all the self publicist traits of one.


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    #306
    oeb
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    CDfm wrote: »
    Joyce - low grade porn masquerading as high class literature ....and good at neither.

    MMMMM .......sort of reminds me of another controvercial writer

    And why are you trying to dump Jade Goody back on us - I definately saw her saying she is atheist.She has all the self publicist traits of one.

    Does not matter if she is an atheist or not, being an athiest does not automaticly mean you are intelligent. That's like you saying that believing in a god makes someone good.


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    #307
    CDfm
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    oeb wrote: »
    being an athiest does not automaticly mean you are intelligent.

    Wish Id thought of that:rolleyes:

    Its a bit of banter on Jade Goody that goes back a bit as I compare Dawkins to a media whore just like JD. Its not a serious comment on her.

    But just in case you think that atheists are brimming with the compassion thing think again

    http://benbroughton.blogspot.com/2008/08/news-headline-that-tested-my-atheism.html


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    #308
    Zombrex
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    CDfm wrote: »
    Joyce - low grade porn masquerading as high class literature ....and good at neither.
    Wow, though crowd. No wonder you think Dawkins is a hack.

    Suppose you think Citizen Kane is a below average movie and Pet Sounds is a pathetic Phil Spector knock off :pac:
    CDfm wrote: »
    She has all the self publicist traits of one.
    Possibly, but she plays the persecuted victim routine like a true Christian :P


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    #309
    PDN
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    Wicknight wrote: »
    Wow, though crowd. No wonder you think Dawkins is a hack.

    Entirely off topic, but I agree with CDfm about Joyce. When I get to heaven I am going to ask God to refund me the day and a half I wasted reading the unmitigated crap that is Ulysses.

    I can't believe it keeps getting voted as being among the best literature ever. Have the voters actually read it? Or is it some kind of Emperor's New Clothes syndrome?


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    #310
    Dades
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    PDN wrote: »
    I can't believe it keeps getting voted as being among the best literature ever. Have the voters actually read it? Or is it some kind of Emperor's New Clothes syndrome?
    I took a run at it years ago and dropped it like a hot potato. Some excellent books are hard work* - but Ulysses ain't one of them.

    * Unlike (back on topic) The God Delusion - which is an easy read :D


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    #311
    CDfm
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    Dades wrote: »
    I took a run at it years ago and dropped it like a hot potato. Some excellent books are hard work* - but Ulysses ain't one of them.

    :D
    :cool:Feeling really smugly superior


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    #312
    Dades
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    CDfm wrote: »
    :cool:Feeling really smugly superior
    Knock yourself out.


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    #313
    CDfm
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    Dades wrote: »
    Knock yourself out.

    you could always try the Bible its an easier read to get into allegorical stuff. Ya can then work yer way up to Ulysses


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    #314
    Dades
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    CDfm wrote: »
    you could always try the Bible its an easier read to get into allegorical stuff.
    Only if there's an audio version narrated by Charlton Heston. :)


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    #315
    mountainyman
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    If you think Joyce is overrated that says more about you than it does about James Joyce!!!


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    #316
    Mal-Adjusted
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    mountainyman wrote: »
    If you think Joyce is overrated that says more about you than it does about James Joyce!!!

    ...not really...


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    #317
    CDfm
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    Dades wrote: »
    Only if there's an audio version narrated by Charlton Heston. :)

    :D:D:D

    Now I get it he stared in Planet of the Apes. Good choice - but I think Arnie Swartzenager would be a class act for Ulysses.

    Cant understand why Charles Bronson didnt do Waiting for Godot -do you?


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    #318
    CDfm
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    Wicknight wrote: »

    Pet Sounds is a pathetic Phil Spector knock off :pac:


    :P

    Did Phil Spector Knock off someone else?


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    #319
    Fanny Cradock
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    CDfm wrote: »
    Did Phil Spector Knock off someone else?

    Dunno, but the real question is, 'did he he bump off someone?'.


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    #320
    Galvasean
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    Just taught i'd lob this out there:

    Dawkins > Jade

    *sits back down*


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    #321
    studiorat
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    Galvasean wrote: »
    Just taught i'd lob this out there:

    Dawkins > Jade

    *sits back down*

    Disagree...

    Jade > Dawkins

    she's a big girl you know...


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    #322
    AtomicHorror
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    CDfm wrote: »
    you could always try the Bible its an easier read to get into allegorical stuff.

    Someone needs to tell the creationists this.


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    #323
    CDfm
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    studiorat wrote: »
    Disagree...

    Jade > Dawkins

    she's a big girl you know...

    Am I being too hard on Jade - after all she has apologised seen the error of her ways and gone to India to seek forgiveness.


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    #324
    CDfm
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    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    Someone needs to tell the creationists this.


    I thing Id start them of on Ulysses first.


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    #325
    AtomicHorror
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    CDfm wrote: »
    I thing Id start them of on Ulysses first.

    Cruel and unusual punishment. They're still people dammit.


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    #326
    CDfm
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    AtomicHorror wrote: »
    Cruel and unusual punishment. They're still people dammit.
    I know its harsh -and it would be a learning experience- it doesnt take an eternity to read Ulysses -it just feels like it.


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