Harlan Ellison on Atheism
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Great film, that.
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That's the thing about being a rationalist. It makes you very unhappy with your fellow man; an angry agitated peace-less kind of existence.Bella Fortuna wrote:As I've waxed rhapsodic about before, H.E. is one of my favourite writers and all-around curmudgeons, who has some great things to say on his atheism. He recounts that he became an atheist at age ten after reading Mark Twain's letters.
"... I have very little sympathy for those who do bad things. I don't care if your mommy locked you in the basement: stop doing it. We know people by their acts, we know people by their deeds. And no matter how well-coiffed their hair is, if they're spouting evil, and if they're turning brother against sister and man against man and woman against man, I think that they deserve to be... Well, I'm a mild person actually, I think we should probably just hang them up by the top half of a Dutch door and beat them across the belly with an aluminum ball bat until their piss runs red."
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I will always respect H.E. for selecting "With the Bentfin Boomer Boys in Little Old New Alabama". The creepiest story I read that year. (And, if you're familiar with that time, you know what an accolade that is.)
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Re: Harlan Ellison on Atheism
Many of you have probably seen this by now as it's been up on Pharyngula for a few days:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4V ... r_embedded[/youtube]
(And Ray's reaction:)
It occurred to me that she didn't need to sing "Fuck me, Harlan Ellison" because he probably already has!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4V ... r_embedded[/youtube]
(And Ray's reaction:)
It occurred to me that she didn't need to sing "Fuck me, Harlan Ellison" because he probably already has!
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The world should have MOAR things like this!!!drl2 wrote:Many of you have probably seen this by now as it's been up on Pharyngula for a few days:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4V ... r_embedded[/youtube]
(And Ray's reaction:)
It occurred to me that she didn't need to sing "Fuck me, Harlan Ellison" because he probably already has!
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Re: Harlan Ellison on Atheism
Catchy tune!drl2 wrote:Many of you have probably seen this by now as it's been up on Pharyngula for a few days:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4V ... r_embedded[/youtube]
(And Ray's reaction:)
It occurred to me that she didn't need to sing "Fuck me, Harlan Ellison" because he probably already has!
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Re: Harlan Ellison on Atheism
Found this today on Jalopnik.com:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS1VEjr3 ... r_embedded[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS1VEjr3 ... r_embedded[/youtube]
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Ah, the famed "noted futurist" ad... how well I remember that.
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Re: Harlan Ellison on Atheism
Harlan prostitutes himself for General Motors? Weird. That's very un-Harlan-like 
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