tl;dr

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:40, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I tried but it was too long
so I skimmed it and found references to Atheism and it's "leaders".

Which is a stupid fall back position, Dawkins himself is on record as saying he is sick of being the person people call when they want an interview with an athiest, he would like them to be calling other people rather than holding him up as the "leader" of atheism.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:44, Reply)

I went to Michael Shermer's lecture in Bristol last Februrary.
It consisted of an hour long PowerPoint presentation saying how daft people were for not believing in evolution. It seemed to me that none of the audience needed convincing so he was wasting his breath.

Self-congratulatory talk ended; I went and got pissed in a Wetherspoons and copped off with a devout atheist so the talk had its uses.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:47, Reply)

YES!
Snogging in Wetherspoons FTMFW!
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:51, Reply)

classy bird, me.
I was even drinking the wine from the bottle rather than the wine on tap. 10p more expensive per glass.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:56, Reply)

You posh fucker
I bet you use a napkin after you've had your pork scratchings.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:57, Reply)

I kept reading that as "autism"
Shows how my mind works!
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:51, Reply)

You can happily swap the two
and it still makes an enjoyable read.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:55, Reply)

Sorry, Enzyme:
"Now, noone thinks that autism demands pure rationality and nothing else besides. That'd be nuts, and would exclude all kinds of valuable things like friendship and love. Autism is just as happy with the non-rational as with the rational. So the article is fighting a straw man on this. It also fails with its Ayn Rand analogy: maybe she was an autist, but noone takes her seriously as a thinker; the fact that she's hopeless, though, doesn't dent autism in the slightest."
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:57, Reply)

See!
Much more fun to read.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 13:58, Reply)

Lol.
Now I'm retiring to bed with my copy of Lustrum, some cold pizza and very sore shoulders. Must move my bed nearer to the ethernet cable...
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 14:07, Reply)

my copy of rum, some cold pizza and very sore shoulders. Must move my bed nearer to the ethernet cable... for a good old wank
(Bazongaloid, Wed 11 Nov 2009, 14:15, Reply)