Richard Dawkins - Anti -Christ or Great Thinker?

And if such a rationalist, why no awareness that pithy rhetoric is always at risk of stirring irrational mob violence?

Cos he didn't invent the clock man

I don't think he ever claimed to be an anything of decency

may i ask what i said on this thread that upset people so (there was a reference to it elsewhere)?

dawkins is being a dick, and the monomania with which he approaches this stuff seems to me to reveal not only his bigotry but a symptom of a mind that seems to be slowly failing itself. he also seems to have a more and more tortured relationship with grammar and spelling, which also makes me wonder....

possibly your commitment to an armchair diagnosis

everything you're saying anyway can be explained just as easily with "old asshole struggles with new technology", he's spent his life communicating to people via edited books and articles and essays and lectures/discussions in controlled environments; now he's using a tool that connects him directly to literally anyone who wants to say some shit to him and he's limited to 140 characters. he's acting like every elderly white relative who just got a facebook.

not to mention the current political climate as filtered thru sensationalist social media seems to be more than enough to drive conservatives/uh 'soft' racists into the arms of outright bigotry and fascism

oh i'm not being entirely serious re. diagnosis. you're probably right about the technology thing. it just seems like his mind --which was once upon a time so active and inventive -- seems to limit itself to caressing the same insipid grievances over and over and over again. which (if you can put the offensiveness aside for a moment) is saddening.

Clee ‏@jmsclee 4h4 hours ago
Scared of clocks: ✔
Hates a young boy: ✔
Very well educated but weirdly obsessive: ✔

Richard Dawkins is Captain Hook

Hahaha

a diagnosis we can get behind

Very well public school educated

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkens/status/645574075625025536

Dawkens now is it?

Rick Dawk
Tweeting atchu
Round the clock

https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardDawkens/status/669640262927323136

Trolls calling me "obtuse" but surely this 2 month vendetta against a teenage boy who experienced racism proves I'm a very clever man.

2:14pm - 25 Nov 15

is it somehow unclear that that's a joke account?

Well it's not funny, so

thats how you know its parody twitter

https://twitter.com/RlCHARDDAWKlNS the far superior dawks parody account

albvivertine knows "not funny" when they see it

ty merdeyeux

i see there is a lad bible now
where athiest lads

11:26am - 22 Oct 15

yes

Well the misspelled last name was a clue

Oh look now he has even more prominent supporters:

https://mobile.twitter.com/bristolsblog/status/670745519644409856

Bristol Palin
Bristol Palin – Verified account ‏@BristolsBlog

I can’t believe I agree with @RichardDawkins, but his tweets on "clock boy" were right on: https://shar.es/1ceep4

3:26 PM - 28 Nov

omg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZlecdlUMAACWkT.jpg

When I want to know more about good muslims, I always consult with Dr. D.

did he delete that or something cuz I'm not seeing it in his twitterfeed (I wanted to know what the link was to)

may be fake or deleted

link was to this, apparently: https://worldgovernmentsummit.org/knowledge-hub/her-majesty-queen-rania-al-abdullah-addresses-government-summit-delegates

hah

I assumed she was wearing one of his branded t-shirts

Putting this here, cuz Sam HArris doesn't deserve his own thread:
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/07/my_secret_debate_with_sam_harris_a_revealing_4_hour_dialogue_on_islam_racism_free_speech_hypocrisy/

sounds like the same bullshit he tried to pull when he "debated" Chomsky, picking apart specific phrases he didn't like and then assuming his own words were beyond critique. so gross.

Ham Sarris is the worst.

I think his brain has officially rotted away:
https://twitter.com/RichardDawklns/status/672302448535564288

haha d'oh never mind

or wait no that IS him? I r confused

DawkLns

Also over a year old

This is bad enough:

Sir Simon Jenkins is one of Britain’s most eminent journalists.

Considering Jenkins' anti-science articles some years back...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more/

^ yes. this is a needed tonic.

love that

was going to say false dichotomy, but it's not skeptics, it's a combo of New Atheists and their criticizers

same old "these people are turning 'skeptics' into a capital-S demagoguery" thing which is otm

science needs critics more than cheerleaders
don't pat yourself on the back for being smarter than those outside the tribe
go after the hard targets

but cleave to the idea of a clear, hard distinction between real and pseudo-science based on your faith in falsifiability (too hard a target maybe) and a distaste for the sort of stupid stoners who would go in for that sort of thing

don't think I need to say that generally I agree but could do with more of his own medicine

Also not sure the community of strident homeopathy opponents is what the antiwar movement needs to tip the scales. Good read though

He links to his own posts kind of an annoying amount.

Does believing war is innate vs. cultural really that big of a contribution to our complacency of it?

I'd say no but deep roots theory certainly doesn't seem to help explain things in a way that helps us solve the problem, so it's useless and serves as a lame excuse, I see his point.

If you want the antiwar movement to get going again, bring back the draft and add women IMO