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Re: For Reason and Science?

Post by SteveB » Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:41 am

lordpasternack wrote:
Of course, the mask does occasionally slip. When she is not exerting conscious effort - Cornwell talks about topics that she purports to be passionate about, issues she purports to find emotive, in complete monotone, and with practically zero facial expressions:
Are you referring to yourself in the third person?

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Post by Thinking Aloud » Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:19 am

"She" = Cornwell.

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Post by rachelbean » Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:07 am

When she is not exerting conscious effort - Cornwell talks about topics that she purports to be passionate about
Are you drunk :ask:
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Post by Svartalf » Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:27 am

By now he's had time to come down.
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Re: For Reason and Science?

Post by lordpasternack » Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:53 pm

I really need to get back to this, by the way. It's just that this is gonna take a lot of time and concentration in one go, and I haven't really had that, over the past month. Lots of other obligations and distractions.

The issue has still been running around my head quite frequently, though - thinking about things that still need to be said...
Then they for sudden joy did weep,
And I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bo-peep,
And go the fools among.
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thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.

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Re: For Reason and Science?

Post by SteveB » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:41 am

Who the fuck is Cornwell?
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:46 am

SteveB wrote:Who the fuck is Cornwell?
Oh god, no............... now you've done it! :cry:

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Post by SteveB » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:49 am

Relax, it's just a village in England.
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Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:55 am

SteveB wrote:Relax, it's just a village in England.
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Post by Tero » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:56 am

SteveB wrote:Who the fuck is Cornwell?
Some woman in the RD entourage. When you are famous you need one of those. Otherwise, if you go outside alone you get mugged or if in FL torn by alligators.

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RD has an entourage? :lol:
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SteveB wrote:RD has an entourage? :lol:
It's down to pretty much just Cornwell now, I think.
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Post by DaveDodo007 » Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:18 am

Aren't Dawkins and Shermer on a rapey spree in America (more wine love,) looks like the only way to get yankee atheists is to breed them.
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Post by subversive science » Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:23 am

DaveDodo007 wrote:looks like the only way to get yankee atheists is to breed them.
Or send them to Catholic school.

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Re: For Reason and Science?

Post by lordpasternack » Tue Jan 28, 2014 12:41 am

I'll just leave this here:
“[N]ext time somebody tells you that something is true, why not say to them: ‘What kind of evidence is there for that?’ And if they can’t give you a good answer, I hope you’ll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.”

- Richard Dawkins

Show Us The Money

This is an open letter regarding the Richard Dawkins Foundation’s ‘Non-believers Giving Aid’ (NBGA) initiative. I am writing this open letter due to having spotted one small vexing discrepancy in RDF’s records, which has now escalated into situation where a handful of people have been querying RDF for over 12 weeks to date, and have failed to receive a satisfactory response.

The discrepancy itself is that there are apparently no ‘Non-believers Giving Aid’ donations declared on RDF’s 2011 annual return - despite the fact that RDF ran two separate appeals for donations through NBGA, in 2011.

Either their 2011 return is incorrect, and they need to address the error - or it is correct, and there is the very strong suggestion that a significant amount of donations made to RDF in the name of NBGA, have not gone to where they were supposed to go - and that they have been misappropriated, perhaps knowingly, and deliberately...

Given 12 weeks so far to have responded, nobody at RDF has offered a satisfactory explanation.

Senior staff at RDF (including Richard Dawkins himself) have not only failed to address the issue properly - but the organisation has come across as seriously disingenuous and incompetent in what little communication has been offered. Indeed, it’s possible that the frankly terrible responses from RDF could be the worst aspect of this situation, if it turns out that they have a perfectly reasonable explanation for the subject of the original query, and have just been keeping it close to their chests.

The repeated broaching of the issue with RDF staff also appears to have resulted in RDF’s dedicated NBGA site going offline. I am sure that this is simply an unfortunate coincidence, and that RDF will have the NBGA site back up and running if you contact them and let them know about this… but in the meantime, for the purposes of this letter, we will have to rely on the Wayback Machine’s archive of the NBGA site, for meaningful information.

A full explanation of the situation as it currently stands is detailed in the body of the letter below, and contact details for senior individuals within RDF (including Richard Dawkins) are included at the foot of this letter.

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Letter continues here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y20 ... ZdoyU/edit
Then they for sudden joy did weep,
And I for sorrow sung,
That such a king should play bo-peep,
And go the fools among.
Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach
thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.

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