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Comments by PhilG


1. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127379 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 8:04 am

3:00am. That's bedtime in this house. Goodnight all.

2. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127369 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 7:52 am

This is actually relevant to the topic, as we are illustrating Bunting's idea of truth...


That's exactly why I've been playing!

3. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127361 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 7:41 am

Try the Kronstad Manoeuvre. Usually works.

4. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127354 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 7:24 am

she sounds hot though


Who? Madeline Bunting? Yeah nothing gets my pulse racing like an ineptly argued case for religion.

5. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127318 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 6:42 am

I cannot match your double clanger


If I had a dollar for every time...

6. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127305 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 6:31 am

irate-atheist said: "Finchley Road cannot be approached from the South."

Now you're just being vulgar.

7. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127301 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 6:29 am

I actually thought Partisan had posted in the wrong forum.

8. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127287 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 6:14 am

Yeah and Steve owns half a house. Though he never said which half...

9. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127283 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 6:08 am

Sounds like some abstract euphemism. "Fancy a bit of Mornington Crescent then, love?"

10. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127275 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 6:01 am

Third person is handy when you wish to delude yourself that you're a character in some grand intrigue, rather than sitting at a keyboard covered in biscuit crumbs.

11. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127254 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 5:25 am

PhilG disputes LorienRyan's call of the bout. Suggests that Bergson's "valuing 'truth' is subjective" play is PoMo twaddle.

12. Debate between Richard Dawkins and Madeline Bunting

Comment #127176 by PhilG on February 15, 2008 at 2:29 am

RD: "Why do you call yourself a Roman Catholic?"
MB: "Well, why not."

13. Sam Harris debate with Rabbi David Wolpe

Comment #107505 by PhilG on January 4, 2008 at 4:36 pm

The moderator wrote a short piece about the evening:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs29dec29,1,4392263,full.story?coll=la-headlines-california

His closing sentiment, that the foremost lesson of the evening is that we can all get along, is I suppose typical for a large circulation media outlet. Whether that sentiment is truly the author's own, or if it was merely the obvious thing to write for a large readership, I don't know. I'd rather our media commentators come down on either side of an argument, whichever they see as right, as the truth, and give their reasons for doing so, rather than forever trotting out feelgood lines like "Well, the main thing is we all get along, and nobody's feelings get hurt."