Just by a strange coincidence at the same time I was mostly through that tedious but famous read Frankenstein – the news broke that Newcastle and Durham’s collective University project has worked out how to manufacture sperm… As I mused on the wild silliness of that old feminist idea that men [as in the male [...]
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From Frankenstein to Barbarella
Posted in Britain Today, Economics, Provoked by Pulp, outlook, philosophy, relationships, science on Friday, 10 July, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Rule 303 and Your Freedom’s Up…
Posted in Britain Today, Canine Matters, Pipe & cigars, Rule 303, Terror, faith, outlook, philosophy, politics, science on Wednesday, 5 November, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Apart from a couple of quick personal asides this ones about freedom and what it means when we loose it.
This evening I’m off to stand outside an emerging church cafe evening because it’s about faith and politics – as a smoker I can no longer just go on in and if segregation isn’t political I [...]
Dawkins and Freedom of Thought
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, history, outlook, philosophy, religion, science on Tuesday, 19 August, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No doubt when I’ve re-watched all three episodes together of the ‘The Genius of Charles Darwin‘ I’ll write a ‘Whackos’ post about them as a whole but for this piece I’ll try to keep to The Final Installment of Dawkins propaganda… And make no mistake – that’s what it is. Either he doesn’t have enough [...]
The Blind Atheist
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, philosophy, politics, science on Tuesday, 12 August, 2008 | 8 Comments »
As I watched ‘The Genius of Charles Darwin‘ last night I could not but think that it was a rather revealing quest about Richard Dawkins as he started the programme with ‘Why should I love my brother?’ and from then on the programme was about him.
One of the problems with Dawkins is that he is [...]
Belief, evidence, proof and rationality…
Posted in atheism, dogma, faith, outlook, philosophy, science on Monday, 11 August, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As Dawkins the atheist that never sleeps is back on the ‘idiot lantern’ as my father-in-law calls the glowing box in the corner, I thought I’d try to clear up some ideas.
To believe something seems quite obvious to begin with but is rather fundamental to how we view the world. For example if we have [...]
Frankenstien’s Big Brother
Posted in politics, relationships, science on Tuesday, 20 May, 2008 | 15 Comments »
Yes, that’s right – it’s the government.
New proposals, found in the pages of that right wing rag ‘The Times‘ there was a piece on proposals by the state to watch us ever closer – on trying to find a paper [any paper] which also carried that story [but failing miserably] I found an ineresting piece [...]
Oh! Guildford…
Posted in Pipe & cigars, politics, relationships, science on Thursday, 29 November, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What have you done? What have you become?
As part of the merry process of applying for jobs elsewhere, the wife normally takes me along to find out what I think of a place. Hell, we’ll both be moving if we have a job offer and accept it…
So, off to Guildford we went – her to [...]
Whackos V; Dawkins strikes back
Posted in dogma, outlook, philosophy, relationships, science on Saturday, 1 September, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For his second free reigned polemic against anything he doesn’t like Dawkins makes a focussed attack on alternative therapies and their ideologies in ‘Enemies of Reason, part 2 The Irrational Health Service‘ arguing that there is a war fought not with swords or bullets but of reasoning and irrationality – which to Dawkins is a [...]
Whackos IV The child of science
Posted in dogma, faith, history, outlook, philosophy, science on Tuesday, 14 August, 2007 | 20 Comments »
I was watching that fellow Richard Dawkins last night on a programme called ‘Enemies of Reason‘ part one of this two part documentary/free-reigned rationalist propaganda vehicle was subtitled ‘Slaves to Superstition‘ and when I was looking up to check the title it struck me that it was on Channel 4 – the one which said [...]
Whackos III: Aping it…
Posted in dogma, faith, outlook, philosophy, relationships, science on Thursday, 5 July, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reading around I remembered an old argument from one of my ‘Ethics’ modules which, with my ‘module’ in animal behaviour show a stark argument – just how and why should we think we are special compared to other species?
My point of view is speciesist – I’m human and therefore I’m willing to put humans [...]
