351. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #201178 by the great teapot on June 29, 2008 at 11:13 am

Good.

352. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #201175 by the great teapot on June 29, 2008 at 11:03 am

Got any More shit worth clinging to we should know about Layla and terabrat.

353. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #201130 by the great teapot on June 29, 2008 at 5:38 am

This 20% are allowed to vote?

354. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #201124 by the great teapot on June 29, 2008 at 5:18 am

Patrick Moore would have been more appropriate.

Or Russell Grant:)

355. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #201116 by the great teapot on June 29, 2008 at 4:56 am

That just about sums up Doctor Who and BBC1-
What a waste of an opportunity.
Hey , we've got Richard Dawkins lined up, what words shall we get him to say...
Utter garbage. Still if you are competing with deal or no deal you have to pull out all the stops.

356. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #200958 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 3:43 pm

I am partticularly suprised that she wouldexpect a non religuous person unlkely to understand

357. Dawkins on Darwin

Comment #200953 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 3:27 pm

or failing that, I will do it anyway.

358. Dawkins on Darwin

Comment #200952 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 3:26 pm

| have saved it to my computer, for an advanced copy of your next DVD Richard I am more than happy to forward it to the website.

359. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #200947 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Too right I don't understand. What my forefathers did is meaningless to me. We are all part of the human race. German, hun, chinese, slav etc,
keep clinging to the myths that is what the white supremesists do.
I have offered an olive branch in this conversation you have ignored it.

360. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200943 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Sorry to disappoint, i know you really want it up there,(no one else even hinted at it) but that is really not my scene.

361. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200939 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 2:44 pm

But nothing changes.
Religion is unadulterated horseshit.
That remains for alltime.

362. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200937 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 2:38 pm

I am warming to you.
is that english.

363. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200936 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Good Lad,
may be you're not so bad after all.

364. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200929 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 2:18 pm

the idiot

thanks for that junior fuckwit.
Do come back when you have something worth saying.

365. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #200922 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Bluebird,
That is him. That's exactly what I remember him looking like.

(Terabrat, that is a joke. Do you see what I have done there)

366. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #200917 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Burn all the history books!!!

My comments were meant in jest.

What do you mean by burn the history books.

If you want to be persecuted forever keep living in the past. Keep reminding everyone that you come from a long line of people who haven't mixed for 4000 years. If we all cling to our history then prejudice will remain forever.

Way to go quoting out of context by the way.

If your "burn all the history books" was tounge in cheek please ignore the above with my apologies.

367. Your Brain Lies to You

Comment #200905 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Terabrat,
Is the problem semantic.
Being a jew is both a religion and a race.
You are draging a history around which would have been long forgotten if you originated from anywhere else. Sorry if I come across as antisemantic.

368. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200851 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 10:37 am

Seems irrelevent amongst the mud slinging,idiot
but no one has said that the old testament is in the Gospel. I was responding to your comment which seemed to be suggesting that atheists who criticise christians for believing in adam and even are fucking morons(my words) because adam ain't in the gospel. My point was xians accept the OT as well as the "fucking" Gospels.

369. I believe that there is no God.

Comment #200739 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 7:26 am

"And no eating the bread and wine has no magical power, it's a symbolic remembrance of the death Christ. Judging that the Gospel never even mention Adam, an unbeliever reading the Gospel and drawing this conclusions sounds like an idiot."

Except, Catholics I knew corrected me when I made the assumption that it was symbolic only. That is not what they were told to believe.
And whenever I attended catholic church, to keep my girlfriend at the time company, the old testament was as extensivley read as the gospels. (much to my disgust)

Steve how is the chick hunting going?

370. Common New Atheist Fallacies

Comment #200696 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 5:50 am

Being ridiculed and then feeling embarrased is very powerfull. It encourages people (who can) to think "hang on a minute did I deserve that, perhaps to avoid ridicule in future I should stop saying things that I have little proof of"
The initial reaction may be to defend ones position to save face but later in a quiet moment a more disinterrested re-evaluation occurs.

I find.

371. PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

Comment #200690 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 5:33 am

Let it go - Wouldn't let it lie - Vic Reeves.
The mind works in non mysterious ways

372. A secular world is a sane world

Comment #200677 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 4:59 am

Well 8teist, for one he claims religious leaders do not believe what they preach.
He doesn't know that for sure, but I have heard cardinal Cormack Murphy-O'Connor (or whatever his surname is) say that he has moments at 4 O'clock in the morning when he doesn't believe. How he suddenly takes leaves of his senses again once the ungodly hour has past I don't know. Richard Morgan could possibly explain that one.

I presume saying that one has doubts is another way of showing how fantastically noble you are.
Struggling on against all the odds, still keeping the torch a light and held high.

373. Dawkins on Darwin

Comment #200664 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 3:56 am

Thanks Sciros
You have just increased the chances tenfold.

Nice work again Paula(and Richard). I am disappointed not to hear the scottish accent I had imagined prior to the first interview.
I still half expect you to say "So, you'll have had your tea Richard"

374. Common New Atheist Fallacies

Comment #200650 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 3:09 am

Vaal
If a musselman made "the life of muhamed"- (may piss be upon him) they wouldn't be a muslim.
It is a brand of religious indoctrination not a race, nationality etc, but you know this already of course.

375. A secular world is a sane world

Comment #200607 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 1:35 am

Koreman
I see the geenstijl top article on the home page is advertising an ice free arctic as a new holiday destination. I assume the dutch will only need to buy a one way ticket.

376. PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

Comment #200599 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 1:05 am

Thanks mordacious.
I see it is just the follow up to the last point of inquiry interview. They did say last week they would be interviewing PZ again. "More haste less getting stuff right" as they say.

377. PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

Comment #200582 by the great teapot on June 28, 2008 at 12:06 am

jesus,
Let it go.
christ, I thought I was obsessive.

378. Saving Us from Darwin

Comment #200394 by the great teapot on June 27, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Clearmind
Of all posters on this site, I am forced to confess, your mind is the clearest of them all.

379. Stop distorting young minds!

Comment #200363 by the great teapot on June 27, 2008 at 11:58 am

MBC Morgan.
You call that a normal family upbringing.
It sounds to me like you were raised in the nut house. I thank my lucky stars religion has never entered my life, except as a curiosity and a weekly hymn we had to mime to at school.

380. A War On Science

Comment #199921 by the great teapot on June 26, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Steve

They have 2 tool boxes.
You own only one.
Religion and god can only be undestood using the tools in the other box.
How many times do you have to be told.
Sometimes you can be so slow.

381. Science is not philosophy

Comment #199023 by the great teapot on June 25, 2008 at 4:51 am

My guess would be entrepreneurs and politicians.
But I suspect you are implying religion.
Does our government have a philosophical department of technological applications?
I thought only radio 4 had one of those.

382. Saving Us from Darwin

Comment #198853 by the great teapot on June 24, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Battered women, did you say.
What do they taste like?

383. Science is not philosophy

Comment #198843 by the great teapot on June 24, 2008 at 2:57 pm

I have read the article twice now and i am a little confused.
Has the heading for another story been placed above this item by mistake. I can't see anywhere in the article where philosophy's relationship with science is discussed. Is it just me?
Apart from the missing correct heading it seems ok to me.

384. Christianity 'could die out within a century'

Comment #197759 by the great teapot on June 22, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Perhaps it will die out within a century.
But which one?

385. Saving Us from Darwin

Comment #197745 by the great teapot on June 22, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Marshall
You admit that you have no evidence for god.
Now if you have no evidence for the existence of something, what do you normally think?
Especially when those who claim (without any evidence) that something exists and the things they can tell you about it(without evidence), are both contradictary and not consistent with our normal experiences.
My instincts would be to assume it doesn't exist.
Not believing in something when it can not be proven to exist is not the mirror image of believing in something that can not be proven. The 2 propositions are about as asymmetric as one can get.

386. 'I despise Islamism': Ian McEwan faces backlash over press interview

Comment #197505 by the great teapot on June 22, 2008 at 9:12 am

Oh yeah that's right hit the soft targets.
You wouldn't say that about Isl.. oh, sorry I keep getting my religions mixed up.

387. Saving Us from Darwin

Comment #197496 by the great teapot on June 22, 2008 at 8:58 am

Terabrat

Some atheist are rude. Therefore I will change my world view. How does that follow?

388. Saving Us from Darwin

Comment #197388 by the great teapot on June 22, 2008 at 12:34 am

Marshall.

Doesn't the fact that there is no evidence for god kinda suggest to you that there almost certainly isn't one.
No mental gymnastics required. Don't believe things just because everyone else does. I am sure if no one else on the planet believed in god you would obediently follow suit.

389. Pastors Challenge Law, Endorse Candidates From Pulpit

Comment #197270 by the great teapot on June 21, 2008 at 2:06 pm

yes. That is what "perhaps it serves as a warning" would mean.

390. New discovery proves 'selfish gene' exists

Comment #197253 by the great teapot on June 21, 2008 at 1:04 pm

Nothing including Genes is either selfish or unshellfish. Everything just does what it does.

391. Is the Universe Actually Made of Math?

Comment #195854 by the great teapot on June 18, 2008 at 11:01 pm

The king is in his alltogether.

392. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #194382 by the great teapot on June 16, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Yes, that sounds like the sort of thing Richard Dawkins would say.
If Dawkins opinion is so important to you as an indicator of the truth, may I suggest you concentrate on the things he has to say outside of the movie expelled. I am sure they are far more representative of his true views.

393. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #194310 by the great teapot on June 16, 2008 at 3:34 pm

"Steve Zara are you Gay?"

I am not sure whether steve zara is gay but I have heard his husband is.

In response to who do atheist call out (in vain) to in difficult moments, as a longstanding batchelor and atheist, for me it is always to my latest unrequited love.
I guess I have a lot in common with you RTG.

394. Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama

Comment #193109 by the great teapot on June 14, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Funny you should mention string theory. I am inclined to think " when they can explain what it actually means in physical terms then I will listen" but I am prepared to admit that is my error.
But I don't believe ethics can not be discussed in plain English without losing precision- on the otherhand- i do know jack shit about it.

395. Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama

Comment #193102 by the great teapot on June 14, 2008 at 3:25 pm

Not quite Brian.
You should be able to express the same points without resorting to clearly specifically subject related jargon or dumbing down.
Speaking plain English should be achievable,
whatever the subject matter. Jargon is the last refuge of the bullshitter.

396. Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama

Comment #193097 by the great teapot on June 14, 2008 at 3:03 pm

Christ, We would be here all night.

397. Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama

Comment #193092 by the great teapot on June 14, 2008 at 2:55 pm

I would discuss these things if alternative words were used to aid a non philosophical audience. And I am sure it is possible it just requires a little more thought on behalf of the "philosopher"

398. Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama

Comment #193083 by the great teapot on June 14, 2008 at 2:39 pm

Mphil
Do french people have morals.
I ask because I can not speak french.

399. Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama

Comment #193078 by the great teapot on June 14, 2008 at 2:32 pm

So a dog can be moral.

400. Kerry O'Brien's exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama

Comment #193073 by the great teapot on June 14, 2008 at 2:28 pm

Can we have a moral earthquake if it produces good effects. Like killing Hitler fpor instance.