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| Viruses of the Mind | |
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| Topic Started: Dec 21 2006, 08:05 AM (316 Views) | |
| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 08:05 AM Post #1 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Have a read and tell me what you think? I'm interested on what opposing viewpoints would be. http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/v...f-the-mind.html |
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| Pidgeon Island | Dec 21 2006, 10:32 AM Post #2 |
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Not so stale.
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You're obsessed with dawkins, ignore him, he's a twat. |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 10:51 AM Post #3 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Did you read it? |
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| Pidgeon Island | Dec 21 2006, 11:00 AM Post #4 |
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No, I don't wish to either. |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 11:05 AM Post #5 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Then I suggest you re-read the opening post :rolleyes: |
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| Athiestica | Dec 21 2006, 12:11 PM Post #6 |
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I haven't read this but I do know what your talking about. For those who haven't here is the short version. Religion is like a Virus that gets passed on with each generation because it has been taught at an age in the human development where it shouldn't be challenged. If we challenged are parents our species wouldn't be here because if were at a cliff and about to jump and we didn't listen to them well I can tell you there wouldn't be any internet porn which we are all grateful for. Am I on target L&H? |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 05:47 PM Post #7 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Yep; read it and you will find the points well made, I am interested on how the argument would be refuted. |
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| Pidgeon Island | Dec 21 2006, 06:13 PM Post #8 |
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Well anyone that thinks religion is a virus doesn't deserve to be given any credibility. Viruses harm things, religions are the seeds from which goodness grows. |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 06:16 PM Post #9 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Someone who makes a decision on the merit of this article without reading it is a Muppet! |
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| Pidgeon Island | Dec 21 2006, 06:17 PM Post #10 |
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Oh please, every single one of Dawkins's little rants consists of the same garbage. You've read one you've read them all. |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 06:25 PM Post #11 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Words of a philistine :rolleyes: |
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| Pidgeon Island | Dec 21 2006, 06:35 PM Post #12 |
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Dawkins is a prat that shouldn't be given the smallest piece of credibility whasoever. He is one of the most hypocritical people I have ever seen. He rants on about two things primarily, 1) how religious people are all close minded bigots ans 2) how religions cause all the worlds problems. Well to number 1, he is closer minded that Nick Griffin. He refuses to even listen to any arguments for relgion and spouts off about how science has somehow "proved" religion wrong. But I have a saying, whatever science can rpove, reality can disprove. To number 2, religion doesn't cause problems, it's people who claim to follow that religion but don't actually follow it that cause the problems he is referring to. Anybody that calls themself a Christian and goes around talking about how they are "protecting their country by killing Arabs" (yes, someone did actually say that), cannot be considered human, let alone Christian. The fact is that if people who call themselves religious actually tried to follow their rules, the world would have a lot less problems than it would do even under a leadership without "religion". |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 06:51 PM Post #13 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Well that just sums you up.:Laugh: You belong with the book burning mobs, Luddites and superstitious. Your ilk would of condemned Galileo Galileo for disagreeing the the norm as was then known. You would of stifled the Enlightenment at birth. Heck condemning writings without having read them, how idiotic. I condemn what I know of Nazism but ask me to condemn Mein Kampf? I can't as I never read it but I am wise enough to know this. You sir are a buffoon!
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| Dupitable | Dec 21 2006, 07:47 PM Post #14 |
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How do you like THAT side boob?
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He is right actualy. Much if not most of quantum physics can be disproved by reality. and how does his theory work for people who have converted? |
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| Pidgeon Island | Dec 21 2006, 07:57 PM Post #15 |
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Such as moi. |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 08:17 PM Post #16 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Read again what he said, I stress the generality of it.
This is saying All science proves reality can disprove. Quantum Theory is not yet proved. There is in fact major problems between it and Generality relativity and hence the quest for the a theory to tie the two together. I have never said Dawkins is right and this thread is a request for the holes in it. If you read the article (and I assume you haven't ) he answers your question on conversion. Read it! |
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| Athiestica | Dec 21 2006, 08:17 PM Post #17 |
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He's not saying all religion is bad most people who believe in it are great people. But like anything there is a minority who take it to an extreme and that is why it is bad. Also It hasn't always been an minority either. God is like Zeus, Thor, and RA they all can't be proven and they all can't be disproven while yet we all know that Zeus Thor and Ra don't exist. So why not God? |
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| Love and Honour | Dec 21 2006, 08:19 PM Post #18 |
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Yes Sir; No Sir: 3 Bags Full Sir
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Actually we can't say that just that there is no proof that they exist. |
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| Athiestica | Dec 21 2006, 08:28 PM Post #19 |
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Yes excuse me. Misuse of words. I mean while yet it can't be proven they all exist or don't exist and not most if not all people today no longer beileve in Ra, Thor, or Zeus. So why believe in God? |
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| Pidgeon Island | Dec 21 2006, 08:30 PM Post #20 |
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How do we know you exist? You could be an intellibot type thing. |
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