401. Fleabytes

Comment #134505 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 11:07 pm

Brian E.

I really should be ashamed, but being shameless. I'm not.

I hope you're at least ashamed of being shameless. It's quite shameful. Which is not quite the shame thing.
Sorry,folks - just woke up after only three hours' sleep.
Do what you usually do - just ignore me and I'll go away.

402. A Pragmatist and a Lobbyist on Atheism

Comment #134403 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 6:13 pm

"definately"?
Oh dear.
But you look like a nice guy.
Being grammatically disadvantaged here will enamour you to the theists, some of whom avoid using correct grammar as if it were forbidden by their religion.
(If English is not your mother tongue, please forgive me.)

403. A Pragmatist and a Lobbyist on Atheism

Comment #134395 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 5:53 pm

AshtonBlack

it would explain the rather shoddy style (imho) of this piece. My hat is firmly off,

Now I can imagine a hat being "firmly on, but firmly "off"?
"shoddy style"..."firmly off"?
At least you're not saying "totally" all over the place?
Or "awesome".
Thank god for that.
Totally awesome.
ArGGhh

404. Fleabytes

Comment #134232 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 12:39 pm

Frankus1122

How can you use, "I feel..." as evidence?

You can't. But an awful lot of what goes on in your life is based on "I feel..."
That's a major part of our communication problem with "them".
Matt7895

I am confronted by hordes of people singing praiseful hymns to an imaginary, brutal, genocidal celestial dictator.

Yes, I'm sure they are all fully aware of singing the praises to an "imaginary, brutal, genocidal celestial dictator."
I love your avatar. Like you, I sometimes pose for photos without having a good shave first.

405. Fleabytes

Comment #134199 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 11:43 am

Anybody else here starting to suffer from acute Phleabytis?
Talk about "clots"....

406. My Argument With God

Comment #134196 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 11:39 am

epeeist : Believe it or not, I know two Americans who thought that "to be affiliated" was a clever way of talking about a particular sexual activity!!!
I hope that in the surveys, the word "affiliated" was clearly explained to all those who were questioned!

407. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #134162 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 10:47 am

Steveroot

I met my wife at a mandolin lesson!

Steve, please, I know I'm a cantankerous unpleasant old geezer, but don't blame me for everything!
(Incidentally, I am learning the mandolin because I have recently fallen in love with choro music AND I have always adored Bluegrass. (Used to be a fiddler and banjo picker)

EDIT : I doubt that "The Quoteminer's Tale: We all tell stories" did much good to any breasts anywhere.
You tell me.
If you're not familiar with the main character, the piece was inspired by A. McG.


The Quote-miner's tale.

408. Fleabytes

Comment #134151 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 10:31 am

Steve Zara

Show that belief without evidence is a flawed approach for the understanding of reality.

Whose reality? Ours or theirs?
Unfortunately, in many cases, reality, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
Steve, I think you need to take us a little further in understanding your use of the word "reality".
Or not.

409. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #134037 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 6:49 am

annabanana :

hehehe...

Like you, I appreciate the intellectually motivating contents of these threads.
Thank you so much for your contribution.


( It's nasty-time here in Morganland. Should be over in about ten minutes.)

410. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #134015 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 6:28 am

phasmagigas

She shrieked and asked 'why would god make such an ugly creature?'

Could you be a little more precise please? Was she reacting to the tarantula or you?

411. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #133934 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 3:23 am

Steve Zara

"...for me one of the great joys of life is that AHA! moment ...."
"I had such a feeling when I finally understood..."
"...to get them to the stage where they can experience that leap in understanding."

Exactly!
At the end of the day, that's what it's all about, I supppose.
Feelings.

412. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #133882 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 2:09 am

Steve Zara :

I just wanted to provoke some discussion.

All alone in the house?
Got another bad cold...again?
I know the feeling.
Have you noticed how often you type "wHere" instead of "were"?
Oh, and thanks for reminding me about the excellent music used in Cosmos. But in my defence, I just have to point out that Pachelbel, Bach, Vivaldi and Shostakovitch are, well...absolutely brilliant, and I'm not.
Quite simple really.
(For the cold, try honey in your mint tea.)

413. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #133868 by Richard Morgan on February 27, 2008 at 1:51 am

Mitchell Gilks

From what I did read, you seem to be saying, you didn't like the comparison, ergo, I'm a moron?

I'm glad you asked the question, MG. No, I don't think you are a moron. It was just my way of being rude because I was upset. (I get upset rather too easily I'm afraid.)
But to come on to Richard Dawkins' site and say, "Nice film, but not as good a Sagan's Cosmos." struck me as, well, not very nice.
Those who know me here, know that I am quite the opposite of a "fanboy". They also know I am a cantankerous ol' sod, and regularly tell me off about it, bless'em. Adhomin'em.

Logicel :

Archipelagoes within archipelagoes.
Islands within islands.

Yes, the poetry of those expressions struck me also. In fact I almost chose one of them as a title for my music, before deciding on "Tortoises do float."
I preferred the latter for it's Lewis Carroll feeling, whereas "islands within islands" was a little reminiscent of Joni Mitchell or Rory Gallagher.
Watch this space.

414. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #133811 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 9:41 pm

Oops - I forgot the key word in that first sentence!

I found the unfavourable comparisons....

"...I'm sorry but I don't think cosmos can be beaten."
"...but I simply can't conceive of Cosmos being outdone, though I hope for that day that it is. "
etc.
Thanks for pointing that out to me, Styrer!

415. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #133808 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 9:19 pm

EDIT : I found the unfavorable comparisons with Cosmos to be in rather poor taste, here, on Richard Dawkins' site.
I was going to start PMing people, then I realised one of the posters was somebody who needed the evolution of life explained to him more than 36 times.
Enough said.

416. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133799 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 8:16 pm

Steve Zara :

My vertigo has meant that I stand in fear of bridges that aged ladies and gentlemen walk over calmly.

Well, that's an easy one. Just avoid bridges that have elderly people walking across them.
Seriously, for many years, I had a vertigo problem. Couldn't stand on a chair alone to change a light bulb, or look over the edge of reality into the dizzying depths of creationism, stuff like that.
Today I am completely cured.
In 2003 I did a 90 metre Bungee jump off the Napoleon Bridge in Luz Saint Sauveur near Lourdes.
It was absolutely the most paralysingly, testicle-freezingly terrifying experience of my life so far.
But it worked - my vertigo has disappeared. I can now hang out of 20th storey windows to clean the shutters and ogle the neighbour's wife, AND read Robertson and creationist literature without getting dizzy.
Try it yourself sometime.

417. The Giant Tortoise's Tale

Comment #133794 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 7:46 pm

Lovely!
I'm working on my next composition.
The title leapt out at me from the narrative : "Tortoises do float."

418. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133587 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 11:56 am

Polydactyl :

Incidentally, I fall into Richard's category of someone who once used to believe, and now no longer does. I embraced atheism with considerable regret.

I was going to reply to you in a PM, then I realised that so doing would have been nothing less than crass cowardice.
As an atheist, I am relieved at not having to try to believe and have faith any more.
But, like you, I have regrets. Truth can be a cruel sod.
Unlike you, I didn't "embrace" atheism; becoming an atheist is more of a "letting go" than embracing.
I was able to handle letting go of Santa Claus without too much difficulty, even though I was still only 23 at the time. (lol)
But for people like me, who are not psychologically programmed for being happy (thank god for Prozac and Brazilian beaches) who have previously found immense comfort in the human experience of "religious fellowship", realising that there are no gods has left an empty space in me that is not easy to fill.
My wife helps.
This site helps me enormously (I have hinted at this before).
But I freely confess that I am here more for the "fellowship" than anything else.
I am here for Richard Dawkins, Steve Zara, Paula Kirby, Brian English, Diancanu, Goldy, Dr Benway, juxta_monkey, irate_atheist, epeeiste, (Veronique and Yorker) and now, perhaps...you.
There - the truth will out.
It just did.
But it doesn't make me feel any better...


PS Set your Character encoding to Unicode (UTF-8) to eliminate the hieroglyphics.
PPS Steve Zara - you'd better not try telling my Algerian wife that mint tea is not "proper-tea." She could have a few things to say about the properties of "proper tea"... (the a la menthe ...delicieux!)

419. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #133575 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 11:32 am

Steve Zara : You said to wooter :

Think about it.

For a gentle person like yourself, I find this very unkind.
Sorry I don't remember how to say it in English, but in French we say
"A l'impossible, nul n'est tenu."


EDIT : Something like "Nobody is expected to accomplish the impossible."

420. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133378 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 6:34 am

the parents of my daughter's boyfriend are coming to visit us shortly. They hail from Arkansas. Could you suggest some good topics of conversation?

I happen to know for a fact that there at least two subjects that would go down well with people from Arkansas:
1. Your daughter's boyfriend;
2.Xylocaris maculipennis.

Here's hoping that the two subjects are non-overlapping magisteria.

421. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #133374 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 6:28 am

irate_atheist

I married a Vicar's daughter.

OK. Wedding ring species.
I hope you are able to breed satisfactorily.

422. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #133317 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 4:03 am

Since I have been inundated by requests for my Dawkins-inspired musical creations (the number was doubled this morning when I received two more!!!) I have decided to make them all available via one link:


Morgan's Music




Enjoy.

423. Feb 12th: Happy Darwin Day!

Comment #133315 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 3:59 am

Since compliments on my Dawkins-inspired musical creations have been pouring in by the three, I have decided to make them all accessible via one link.



Morgan's Music




Completely free until the Opening Ceremony of the Rapture.

424. Evidence can't shake your faith if your faith excludes it as evidence

Comment #133313 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 3:55 am

Since compliments on my Dawkins-inspired musical creations have been pouring in by the three, here's a link where you can get them all in one go:


Morgan's Music



Enjoy! Completely free until the Opening Day of the Rapture

425. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133310 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 3:51 am

Since compliments for my RD-inspired musical "creations" have been pouring in by the three, here is a link to get them all :



Morgan's Music


Enjoy while it's still free! ( Closure date : the beginning of the Rapture.)

426. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133248 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 1:23 am

Brian (Bloodshot) English :

Belief is something that is amenable to being mapped into brain states, and thus while not easy, is probably not a hard problem. I may be wrong on this, so fire away Richard.

You're right, but I'm not wrong either.
"Belief" is a hard problem (though obviously not on the same scale as Pinker's hard problem in the mystery of consciousness) when it comes to attempts at effective communication between us and them.
Let me explain:
I have recently attentively read ALL of the conversion stories in Converts Corner because I am looking for cases where "true" believers have become "true" rationalists/atheists.
So I had to exclude all the stories which included sentences like:

Mind you, I've never been a real Christian.

I always knew I didn't believe it, but I just didn't know what I could do about it.

I was never able to fully swallow all the scriptures, the concept of the trinity has always been slippery to say the least.

I have always been sceptical of all religion for as long as I can remember.

The God Delusion did not make me do an about face in my religious beliefs, because I didn't really have any…

From the earliest age, I realised I was different this manifesting itself in the ability to think freely,

My own case is similar to theirs : with hindsight I realise that I never lost any beliefs. Reading RD enabled me to stop having to try to believe. Or to put it another way (which would make my psychoanalyst give me his once-monthly smile) I didn't decide to became an atheist - I discovered that I already was an atheist.I had always held what has been called the "default attitude" towards Gods, miracles, magic, life before birth or after death etc.
So, clearly for me, and many people, I have never had the experience of religious belief. (I imagine that this is true for many of our friends who post here. And probably the Archbishop of Canterbury) In other words, I don't know what it feels like to be a true believer.
I once asked a Christian friend why so many noisy Fundamentalists didn't hesitate to tell outright lies. In his reply, he spoke of "an emotional attachment" to beliefs which could occasionally over-ride the necessity for bare, objective "truth".
I can't understand this.
I am trying to understand it.
And in spite of maps of brain states, it remains a hard problem IN THE CONTEXT OF ATTEMPTED DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN "US" AND "THEM"
Which is why I bristled at the use of the word "merely", because it seemed to me to represent a major obstacle to useful communication.
On a personal note, I am not burning with a desire to make theists stop believing, and "see the light". I am deeply concerned with people's quality of life (starting with my own!).
Flying planes into sky-scrapers, slitting throats, lying about condoms to poverty-stricken Africans, teaching children that homosexuality is a sin - to my mind these kinds of things interfere rather seriously with the quality of life.
There was no "merely" in the minds of Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, Hani Hanjour and their friends on 9/11.
I feel that if we are to be effective Zeitgeist-changers (and I suppose that's was this is all about) we need to put on our empathy spectacles when we look at believers, we need to install a maximum number of psycho-linguistic codecs, and seriously avoid being dismissive of other people's belief structures.
"The winning of hearts and minds."
Yep.
You see, I can't help feeling a sort of profound, er, affection (to avoid using the word "love") and sympathy for all my fellow-travellers on life's chaotic journey.
Even the Fleas and the dick-heads. (Though, for crissake, don't tell them, not here, on this site. I'd have to stop being supercilious, cantankerous and snide. And I don't feel ready to handle that kind of sea change just yet. OK? Thanks.)

EDIT : Since compliments for my RD-inspired musical "creations" have been pouring in by the three, here is a link to get them all :


Morgan's Music


Enjoy while it's still free! ( Closure date : the beginning of the Rapture.)

427. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133243 by Richard Morgan on February 26, 2008 at 1:04 am

Paula :

I'm right out of stomach for fleas just now.

Scottish cuisine never ceases to amaze me.
Have you tried deep-fried locusts? Apparently they're full of proteins. Beat the heck out of manna, but apparently God didn't know that back in O.T. times.

428. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133049 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 2:43 pm

Bryan English : when Quetzy-baby said "your picture is starting to look remarkably devilish." - he was politely trying to tell you that it was an improvement.
Continue ainsi. - as we write on end-of-term bulletins/reports.

429. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133034 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Goldy :

Belief is merely a faith thing.

Like you, I was a believer, and I underwent a series of salutary belief-ectomies. (As neologisms go, "belief-ectomy" is arguably on the the worst I have ever come across. But I can't think of a better one.)
You only have to consider the depth and tenacity of the attachment that people have to their beliefs - god-oriented or other.
And I must reiterate my original caveat, in changing the Zeitgeist, we are not dealing with something that can be dismissed with a "merely".
Perhaps you're telling us, in fact, that you have discovered that for you, personally, your belief was "merely"....all that.
If so, could you give me the phone number of your psycho-analyst please? He's done a good job on you.
Or was it "merely" all the beer?

430. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133020 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Brian (should've been Welsh)English :

Richard, I reckon notre Goldy was referring to religious belief, not belief as a cognitive function....

I'm sure you're right. But that doesn't change the main thrust of my comment.
When you are discussing with an open-minded theist (ok, oxymoron, I know, I know) you are not faced with "merely"

"a crutch, a blanket, a justification for doing odd things "

That would be easy.
But, as Pinker has said about the problem of consciousness, "belief" is a "hard problem".

431. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #133013 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 2:09 pm

Goldy - I love your posts,your language, your reasoning, your humour, your Chinese wife, everything!
But:

belief is merely...

is a real howler.
Whatever else the mechanisms of belief structures represent in the mind, there is no place for "merely".
The "belief" function is very powerful, and very ancient (in the evolution of the human brain.)
PZ Myers : "It is not ridiculous to be religious."

432. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #132997 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Steve Zara

I normally start by saying "hello".

Really, I am no match for your powers of conversation, Steve.
I'll try this opener myself tomorrow with the first theist I meet.
I sense that you're onto a highly effective strategy here.
Just one question - should I say it with an upper-case H, or has your discreet little (stealthy?) "hello" been shown to be more effective?
Where I live,I might have to say "Bonjour" and I am just a trifle worried that it might lose something in the translation.
However, without being able to provide any evidence, I have this feeling that "Bore da!" could be a redoubtable faith-killer in Llanfairpwllgwyngychgogerychwyndropllllantisiliogogogoch.

433. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #132980 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 1:39 pm

annabanana

Also, if suddenly there were some irrefutable evidence for theism, it would be all over the news.

Wrong. If the Military got their hands on it first, they'd want to build it into the defence structures.
Maybe there is some irrefutable proof somewhere, hidden away in a secret, underground, nuclear-bomb proof library somewhere under the Pentagon or the Vatican.
Or Disneyland?

434. Add another flea to the list...

Comment #132970 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 1:25 pm

I promise you, I have not made this up myself!
It's from the Amazon.com page for this book!

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Now that sounds like practical Darwinism to me.
All of sudden, Reason, Truth and Logic pale into insignificance....

435. Fleabytes

Comment #132965 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 1:10 pm

More music'n'stuff:

"Broken Rings and Gulls and Things."
From : The Salamander's Tale."
by Richard DAWKINS
Voice: Lalla WARD;
Music : Richard MORGAN



http://www.mediafire.com/?gg5fsxwbmxy

436. The Lava Lizard's Tale

Comment #132960 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 1:02 pm

gborland
Thank you so very much for the link to Frameshift.
A change in the musical Zeitgeist is under way.

437. The Lava Lizard's Tale

Comment #132952 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 12:50 pm

More music'n'stuff:

"Broken Rings and Gulls and Things."
From : The Salamander's Tale."
by Richard DAWKINS
Voice: Lalla WARD;
Music : Richard MORGAN



http://www.mediafire.com/?gg5fsxwbmxy

438. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #132856 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 10:00 am

More music'n'stuff:

"Broken Rings and Gulls and Things."
From : The Salamander's Tale."
by Richard DAWKINS
Voice: Lalla WARD;
Music : Richard MORGAN




http://www.mediafire.com/?gg5fsxwbmxy

439. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #132851 by Richard Morgan on February 25, 2008 at 9:46 am

AfraidToDie

I'm sure that was rhetorical as we've proven our species (males) will breed with anything that moves

"Breed"?
I take it you're using the word "breed" as a euphemism for having sex.
Well, I hope you are.

440. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #132535 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 11:57 pm

Talking about memes, are theists and atheists at the opposite ends of a ring-shaped continuum?
(OK -I'm not too happy about talking about rings with ends, but you started!)
Can rationalists and theists interbreed?
Would they want to?
Maybe the absolute impossibility of dialogue between the two (sub?) species is the equivalent of the impossibility of inter-species breeding?
If so, who's trying to screw whom?
And why?

Reminds me of the old joke:
Question: What do you get if you cross an atheist with a fundamentalist?
Answer : An Anglican and a bunch of angry in-laws.

441. The Salamander's Tale

Comment #132510 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 10:09 pm

Now that I hear it spoken aloud, I realise that I have the title for my next composition:

They gradually turn into each other.

Oh, frabjous day!

442. Evidence can't shake your faith if your faith excludes it as evidence

Comment #132502 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 9:44 pm

You guys haven't been reading your Book of Mormon.
Shame on you!

Moroni,(sic) Chapter 10:
3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.
4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

443. Fleabytes

Comment #132495 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 9:10 pm

Brian English :

I thought you also filled the role of "crusty ol' bastard with a warm heart."

I find this extremely offensive, and would like to know who has had the gall to accuse me of having "a warm heart."
Since I have a reputation to maintain, this is almost slanderous.

444. Fleabytes

Comment #132251 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 2:13 pm

601 :

This sort of provocation could be dangerous and arbitrary "pull quotes" out of context won't diminish Paula's sweet disposition.

OK - so you don't know me very well yet.
On this site, I am "Mr Cantankerous" at times, but mostly "Mr Laughter-is-the-best-medicine."
Avoid strenuous physical effort until you have got knickers un-twisted. That could be really dangerous!

445. Fleabytes

Comment #132203 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 1:03 pm

My favourite aspect is the way Paula delivers viciously cutting wit with such a friendly tone.

...contemptible sophistry...
...a truly despicable book and a criminal waste of paper, ink and time.
...firing a 100°C jet out of its backside...
(Oops - can't remember if that's a flea or a beetle...)
There is no health in this view: no peace, no beauty, no love, no generosity (to yourself or to others), no tolerance, no sanity. No joy, no optimism, no sense of proportion. And certainly no morality.

If that's her "friendly" tone, "unfriendly" must be really spectacular!

446. The coming religious peace

Comment #132183 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 12:28 pm

When atheists marvel at the fact that intelligent people can believe in gods, just think of this : there are many intelligent and educated people in both the Democrat and Republican parties.
There have been highly intelligent abd educated people amongst Communists, post-modern Liberals and Nottingham Forest supporters (though I freely admit to having no evidence for the latter).
The world is full of ideologically opposed groups, each asking themselves : "How can "they" believe that?"

PZ Myers (talking about the brain) has said : "It is not idiotic to be religious."
Also have fun with a google of "Why intelligent people believe stupid/weird things."
Even I believe that Wales is going win the Grand Slam in the Six Nations Tournament...

447. Fleabytes

Comment #132174 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 12:01 pm

The Quote-miner's Tale : We All Tell Stories.
Inspired by and dedicated to:
Paula KIRBY

Voices : Alister McGrath & Richard Dawkins
Unoriginal original music : Richard (Cantankerous) MORGAN



http://www.esnips.com/web/A-McG

448. Fleabytes

Comment #132173 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 11:58 am

Paula (who else?) :

The only evidence (sic) for the existence of a supernatural, simple God...

We have to grant them a certain coherence:
They claim to be made in the image of God:
They claim he can be simple.
OK.
I can go along with that.

449. The Lava Lizard's Tale

Comment #132158 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 11:20 am

The Quote-miner's Tale : We All Tell Stories.
Inspired by and dedicated to:
Paula KIRBY
Voices : Alister McGrath & Richard Dawkins
Unoriginal original music : Richard (Cantankerous) MORGAN



http://www.esnips.com/web/A-McG

450. The Lava Lizard's Tale

Comment #132072 by Richard Morgan on February 24, 2008 at 4:59 am

Richard D - in one of your books you mentioned taking your baby daughter out one night to see a comet. You explained that she was probably too young to know what was going on, but since she would live to see it again (and you would not) you wanted her to be able to say that she'd seen it twice.
I was very touched by this idea, and so composed this :

"You'll see it again, but..."
(Dedicated to Richard Dawkins and his daughter.)


http://www.esnips.com/web/WeSawTheComet


(It's one of my "straight from my heart" compositions.)