1. AAI 07

Comment #84482 by arthurmee on November 2, 2007 at 6:27 am

Scooter. This is all dogma. You are rigid and clearly not willing to discuss your views. And what does such a vague phrase as "The Pursuit of Happiness actually mean"? Go on consult the book, nay 'bible' with which you are clearly in awe of and let us have a definiton. Are you a rigid adolescent who is unable to appreciate nuance in an argument? Judging by your smirk I'd say not, but you certainly seem to be caught up in the particular approach just as a newly born-again Christian likes to evangelise.

2. AAI 07

Comment #84466 by arthurmee on November 2, 2007 at 5:32 am

ScooterNYC is dogmatic, and is engaged in 'the pursuit of happiness' no doubt. He either 'belives' he is right or he's winding everyone up. If the former then he is subscribing to a 'belief' system. Can't be proved or disproved. . . a bit like a religion really. If the latter, well then he's making himself happy. Egotistrical? I think so. That would be OK, except that he accuses others of being egotistical as being something undesirable.

Imagine a world designed by the poor, misguided fellow. . . it would probably be OK to purchase a gun and blow that smirk right off his face. Not a world I'd want to live in I hasten to add

3. Christopher Hitchens and Bill Donohue on Mother Teresa

Comment #66706 by arthurmee on August 31, 2007 at 3:36 am

The only thing I'm likely to remember about Bill Donohue is his ability to use a ruler to measure the dimensions of Christopher's book. Didn't he quote the dimensions twice? Empty vessels make most noise!

4. Interview with Richard Dawkins about 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #63813 by arthurmee on August 16, 2007 at 1:43 am

Beak of a squid, cosmic vagina in need of antibiotics and close to the crack of doom, definitely a Rorschach inkblot test. Whichever Freudian interpretation you plump for, I think we could found a new religious cult on it, probably goddess oriented, tolerant of sex, but maybe, one which asserts that over indulgence in sex leads to having one's 'fingers'burnt in the celestial fires or at least needing antibiotic treatment following a prolonged session with the deity. Hmm. . . think I'll stick with freud.

Thanks USA_Limey for the humour!

5. Interview with Richard Dawkins about 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #63338 by arthurmee on August 14, 2007 at 1:30 am

To USA_limey

Off topic for a moment:

Don't you think your avatar, 'the eye of Sauron' looks like a sort of cosmic vagina? Maybe it could be the basis of a new religious cult. Anyone?

6. Interview with Richard Dawkins about 'The Enemies of Reason'

Comment #63030 by arthurmee on August 13, 2007 at 1:15 am

I agree with Bri above. I wouldn't normally dream of watching Richard and Judy but millions do, and that's good for getting Richard's views and his programme publicised, which is, I'm sure the very reason that he agreed to appear.

7. New age therapies cause 'retreat from reason'

Comment #61443 by arthurmee on August 5, 2007 at 7:13 am

Yes Quetzalcoatl, that picture of Miss Livingstone with an expression of ecstasy (?) on her face is a bit scary. I wondered what might be going on 'off camera'. A caption might be, "Don't stop Richard, you're smiling and don't want it to stop and neither do I. I'm sure we'll have 100% success. . . at some level."

8. New age therapies cause 'retreat from reason'

Comment #61377 by arthurmee on August 5, 2007 at 1:58 am

But yesterday, Miss Livingstone hit back. "I have a 100 per cent success record with people at some level,".

9. They let anybody onto the faculty at Oxford nowadays

Comment #61252 by arthurmee on August 4, 2007 at 11:00 am

I thought "sucker" was a wittily amusing misspelling.
Surely it wasn't just a mistake?

10. Come Out!

Comment #59633 by arthurmee on July 30, 2007 at 2:38 am

Thanks for the code. It'll be on my site as soon as I've finished reading the latest on Richard's site.

I'm sorry to hear about you Americans who are afraid of displaying it for fear of getting fired. Hope things change for the better soon in the USA!

11. Susan Blackmore interviews Dan Dennett

Comment #58209 by arthurmee on July 24, 2007 at 3:02 am

I love this..
"I can think of no one in the scientific world working on conciousness who would think of submitting a paper that said.
Well I introspected under the following circumstances and these are the things I found."
And...
"We have had so many cases where people are just WRONG about the results of their own introspection. Its been a hugely misleading beacon over the centuries. People cannot prevent themselves from theorising when they think they are observing and their autopsychology theories are just BAD.

12. A force for good?

Comment #55101 by arthurmee on July 10, 2007 at 2:52 am

". . .Yes, of course people do vile things in the name of their religion, but the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford - a secular body - has conducted a major study called the Religious War Audit covering the major wars of the last three and a half thousand years. A number are undeniably religious - the 7th century Islamic conquests, the Crusades, the Reformation wars of the 16th and 17th centuries. Yet far more have been killed since political leaders shrugged off their religious traditions to experiment with a range of post-religious ideologies like communism and fascism. Nazism murdered 15 million, Soviet Communism had between 9 and 60 million victims, Maoism killed an estimated 30-40 million. Atheistic totalitarianism has perpetrated more mass murder than any state dominated by a religious faith. . ."