Richard Dawkins - Anti -Christ or Great Thinker?

https://richarddawkins.net/2013/09/child-abuse-a-misunderstanding-w-polish-translation/

In his own words, including a straw man dialog he thinks someone might say to him, and his sweeping away of the latter comment with "We discussed it among ourselves on many occasions, especially after his suicide, and there was indeed general agreement that his gassing himself was far more upsetting than his sexual depredations had been. "
..as if, hey, I knew all the people this guy abused and we agreed it was no big deal

so yeah, he basically is making a case that some pedophilia is no big deal if the social institutions around you support it and all your friends agree with you in public that it's ok

I give a shit in that people give him a soapbox and he repeatedly makes the same logical mistakes and shows the same biases time after time, it's just not immediately evident when it's about topics you may agree about

I'm sure this is just the imprecision of language and I'm just an agitator

I recommended Curtis White's book _The Science Delusion_ earlier, and here's a bit with him from last year where he actually go into the weird reductive philosophical choices that Dawkins et al have been loudly making over the past decade plus about cognition, creativity, thinking, etc:

http://www.strangenotions.com/the-science-delusion/

Plasmon, I think you might dig this.

i believe the appropriate word for this boy is "buffoon"

The science delusion is too eager to link its critique of the limitations of scientism to that offered in the 19th century by various Romantics. I gave the book a glowing review at the time bc I wanted to use the platform to attack Dawkins, but in hindsight the chapters on Schelling were a mess.

I do appreciate the book for at least introducing me to Schelling, who I had never encountered in my (admittedly limited) Continental philosophy classes.

"This is where the book started for me, with Jonah Lehrer’s repellent argument (in Imagine: How Creativity Works) that all human creativity is the consequence of brain events, the dribbling out of chemicals like vasopressin."

Wait isn't jonah lehrer the plagiarism guy? I thought his whole deal was creativity was the consequence of sampling and being in a cool scene with eno and david byrne. Basically's he's on the same page as white, but it seems like he got grossed-out by the mention of brain juice.

Deepak Chopra called out Dawkins for the Ice Bucket Challenge! It's on! Your move, Dawkins.

http://i.imgur.com/yDyVVvk.jpg

Wight Dawk

Brrrrrr what happened to that boy

http://www.duhaime.org/Portals/duhaime/images/Bentham_head.jpg

seriously fucked up lighting for that dawkins portrait

Men who look like old lesbians iirc

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119596/appetite-wonder-review-closed-mind-richard-dawkins"> brutal takedown

Unlike the best of the colonial administrators, some of whom were deeply versed in the languages and histories of the peoples they ruled, Dawkins displays no interest in the cultures of the African countries where he lived as a boy. It is the obedient devotion of those who served his family that has remained in his memory.

Ouch.

I am glad a fellow atheist is compelled to eviscerate him so fully

One might wager a decent sum of money that it has never occurred to Dawkins that to many people he appears as a comic figure. His default mode is one of rational indignation—a stance of withering patrician disdain for the untutored mind of a kind one might expect in a schoolmaster in a minor public school sometime in the 1930s. He seems to have no suspicion that any of those he despises could find his stilted pose of indignant rationality merely laughable. “I am not a good observer,” he writes modestly. He is referring to his observations of animals and plants, but his weakness applies more obviously in the case of humans. Transfixed in wonderment at the workings of his own mind, Dawkins misses much that is of importance in human beings—himself and others.

https://www.facebook.com/nightwish/posts/10154745049630068

waiting for Dick to get on the gamergate parade float

damm liberal gotcha social media

facebook comments... yikes

who the fuck are "nightwish"?

Malcolm Xavier I dont know if Tuomas reads this or not but I just wanted to say that my whole family loved Nightwish and was planning to go to their San Francisco show on April 28th after buying their new CD but this news has changed everything. As a Christian fan of Nightwish, I feel like we have wasted money and been slapped in the face by them doing a song with someone so angry toward Christians and theists in general. This is essentially like what a black person would feel like if their idol did a song with a KKK member. I just hope you know that you are alienating your Christian fans...and believe me, you have a lot of them.

Tarja > Floor > Anette > Dawkins

Christians who think Dawkins is the antichrist? Sounds like Dawkins won :(

If you take him at face value that's a loss

http://i.imgur.com/OMheDgH.png

Didn't expect that reference

i'm genuinely surprised it's only been a year since the honey tweet, it feels like way longer.

Dawkins' response to the events in Paris today? To retweet a BNP follower because it's anti-Muslim.

He really is just an embarrassment to the very concept of thought these days.

http://i.imgur.com/q1Nh9Ac.png

http://i.imgur.com/mPGGkwn.png

@RichardDawkins: beam erotic videos to theocracies? NOT violent, woman-hating porn but loving, gentle, woman-respecting eroticism.

@RichardDawkins @Amanda_Martin_ Thank you. I've deleted it. People seemed to just see "porn" and not see that I was suggesting NON-porn erotica.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A dog & bitch in full 69 off the shoulder of Orion...

He was almost killed by god (misleading URL, by the way)

https://richarddawkins.net/2015/05/letter-from-brazil-part-2-got-in-a-fight-with-a-creationist/

(((((((((((((((((((dawk))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Dawkins taking offence at Cage's 4'33" on Twitter today. What a guy.

lol I gotta see this

never noticed his twitter bio before: "Dislikes pretentious obscurantism."

has anyone written on the phenomenon of twitter making it impossible to take certain public intellectuals seriously anymore? the list keeps growing.

I’d rather be dismissed as philistine than a gullible fool

classic paranoia of the fuddled churl

Do performances of 4'33" often have these tension-breaking moments, like the conductor wiping sweat off his forehead?

I get the sense it's as much about experiencing collective awkwardness as silence.

Science cunts often don't get things it's weird

Does anybody ever try to defend this guy? I'm not going to btw.

My friends were defending him last night!

They were unaware of a lot of his shittest statements tbf

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/09/is-richard-dawkins-destroying-his-reputation

xp so that's why you're hungover today, understandable

selfish gene is an excellent book btw

absolutely! that's the tragedy of his internet incarnation

I was wondering just now, has he ever come up with e.g. a proposal for a new, more efficient kind of tractor? Does he get involved in/promote green energy and so on? Does he ever advise ppl how to approach their life problems in a reasonable manner?