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Comments by tubular_trekkie


1. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord

Comment #155927 by tubular_trekkie on April 6, 2008 at 10:31 am

Yep, sounds like a fun idea to me!

I just hope the episode he appears in is better than the ridiculous 'Partners in Crime' opener we were subjected to last night. Fat monsters indeed :(

2. Fleabytes

Comment #129760 by tubular_trekkie on February 19, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Wonderful stuff and VERY thorough! I'm not sure I'd have the patience to wade through all the fleas personally. More tired arguments (or lack of them) than you could shake a stick at...

3. Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster

Comment #93885 by tubular_trekkie on December 4, 2007 at 11:50 am

I don't normally comment on these things, but this article just struck me as strange.

I sort of agree with some of the points RD is making, although the whole piece comes across as a rather poorly reasoned attempt to 'justify' extra-marital relationships. I can't see anything wrong with having multiple partners if you're honest and open about it, but most people don't have this in mind when they get married. Not that adultery is a 'sin' of course (jeez, I hate that word). Perhaps I misinterpreted the article - I found it somewhat muddled in any case and curiously impassioned for someone who I had assumed to be very happily married.

Still, there's certainly no harm in questioning the status quo, I suppose.

4. Interview with Alister McGrath, author of 'The Dawkins Delusion?'

Comment #20938 by tubular_trekkie on February 7, 2007 at 3:56 am

"Sadly, religious belief is still seen as the default setting for a 'normal' worldview, and rationalism is perceived as being weird, and potentially dangerous - again, despite approximately three thousand deaths in religious conflict."

That may have something to do with the fact that religion likes to corner the market in the morality stakes. Morality has to apparently be god-given in order to have any validilty. If you don't have faith you're then portrayed as some kind of immoral (or at best amoral) anarchist. Why not just admit morality isn't an objective notion? At least that would be an honest starting point.