At this point, with Dawkins being so self-discredited, his science on the down-slide into the boneyard of discontinued social "science", it would be like someone saying they were going to listen to Ken Ham, only with a much smaller crowd than Ham would draw. It has about the same effect on me as being told someone I don't know and doubt the existence of is going to the dollar theater to watch Rocky Horror for the 52nd time.
I do notice that Simels isn't going to hear him, which also has no meaning in the world. Even if he did he wouldn't be able to focus for the entire length of a lecture. For the self-congratulatory stupid misleading the self-congratulatory stupid all he has to do is spend the night at Duncan's.
People still go to listen to Dawkins? Even if it was free, why waste your time?
ReplyDeleteAnd I only mention that to point out how childish some people are, thinking such news will outrage others. Seriously: who cares what Richard Dawkins says? The passage of time has shown me I'd have been better off ignoring him when he was popular, because whatever influence he had has long since faded away.
To be fair, Simels claimed the poor idiot was a friend of his and that he's a "Russian Jew" who believes that Reagan toppled "Russian totalitarianism". I guess his buddy is unaware of the implosion had already begun by the time Reagan became president. From what I've heard if they hadn't before, no one, even at the top of the Soviet government believed in Marxism during the Brezhnev era.
DeleteRichard Dawkins is someone I hope lives long enough to see his "science" entirely abandonned, much as B. F. Skinner did, though idiots such as ran the Cambridge Forum would still have him come to speak well after that. I suspect they knew he was some kind of pseudo-liberal atheist hero and not much more about him than they'd get from reading his fashionable novels. There was a time I looked at his claims and thought it was amazing how many alleged liberals thought they were some kind of progressive, "scientific" advance that was not an entire and complete refutation of the very basis of human dignity and freedom. You'd think the title would have given them a clue. I do have to say I've come to think Unitarianism is a lot less impressive than a New Englander was taught.
Dawkins is a laughable as the scientists who think they've defined "consciousness" and can program it into a machine, because, after all, brains are just computers, right?
DeleteIt's not only bad science, it's embarrassing philosophy. Puts them in the camp with Dennett, who still thinks he figured out what consciousness is. From what I've read, Dawkins ideas are held only be people who don't understand biology or psychology, or anthropology, or a number of fields. Maybe that's why physicists are atheists and think Dawkins is the bomb. They still haven't grasped that even a Grand Unified Theory would not be a theory of everything.
And no, Reagan didn't do anything except give the USSR an excuse to toddle along a bit longer; much as Trump is doing to North Korea. His public belligerence hindered Brezhnev's efforts, it didn't help them. And then we stood back and let the kleptocrats take over.
Good fucking grief, Sparkles. I don't give a flying fuck about Dawkins or any othewr "celebrity" atheist.
ReplyDeleteI only bring him up to make fun of YOU because YOU DO.
It's official: you're an imbecile.
Simps, you should be checked out for an undiagnosed stroke or early.... well, for you it wouldn't be early onset dementia. You don't seem to be able to remember what you typed out minutes before you claim you didn't say things. I'd say you've lost ground but I don't think you ever gained any to start with.
DeleteSounds more and more like Trump all the time, doesn't he? Maybe he should hire Huckabee Sanders to post for him, so he can do something more productive with his time.
DeleteMaybe Carter Page would like to be his personal assistant. They're soul mates.
Delete" I do have to say I've come to think Unitarianism is a lot less impressive than a New Englander was taught."
ReplyDeleteMore anti-Semitism, Sparky? Quel surprise.
You really are incredibly stupid, aren't you, Simps. The Cambridge Forum is a product of the Unitarian Universalist Association, about as WASP a bunch as could be imagined.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be dedicated to embodying Woody Allen's Alvy Singer but you're more like someone trying to be a bigger asshole than Jackie Mason at his worst. Alvy Singer wasn't an idiot, you are.
Oh please. Everybody knows that Unitarians are just reform Jews with less Hebrew.
ReplyDeleteGeesh, Simps, if you're going to make up a lie, why not make up one that's not that stupid.
ReplyDeleteThe Unitarians are a development of Calvinist Congregationalism. They are a WASP phenomenon. That is a matter of historical fact.
Ethnicity has nothing to do with the point that just sailed miles over your head, you dolt.
ReplyDeleteSo you compound your stupidity and ignorance with hypocrisy, you are unable to shock me. You could if you said something true but you are incapable of that.
ReplyDeleteDawkins says memes are real, Dennett says they have interests, just like a body politic, and voila, consciousness!
ReplyDeleteWhat came first, the meme or the consciousness? That's a silly question.
Among other consequences of a belief in memes is that it impeaches the idea that anything we can think can rise to a level of objective knowledge of a kind that both Dawkins and Dennett as true believers in scientism would require of science. I think what "memes" prove is that along with the unsurprisingly philosophically know-nothingism of Dawkins that Dennett, the professional philosopher, isn't especially good at it, either. Dennett is rather shockingly bad at dealing with the consequences of his claims, something he shares with such others as Paul Kurtz and at least one or so of his students at Buffalo. I'm not especially impressed with many of the atheist philosophers. Even Bertrand Russell's logical rigor was out the window in his assertions of scientism.
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