Kangaroo Love: ReiverCorrupter:
ReiverCorrupter: El Diego:The real thing I
find funny is how Kangaroo tries so hard to be like Dawkins, except he
replaces relevancy and facts with elaborately worded insults.
Obviously you aren't that familiar with Dawkins.
Kangaroo Love:Dawkins is the champion of condescending insults.
His group calls themselves the 'Brights'. Since his father was a South African Apartheidist I think it's no coincidence it rhymes with 'Whites'. I don't get the whole 'New Atheism' thing. Atheists used to just be the intellectual elite who were unconcerned with religious people, now they've turned it into a f***ing religion, trying to convert all the believers. It's funny how Dawkins makes all sorts of claims about human nature in his arguments against religion, only to not realize that belief is belief. It's human nature that's sh*t; religion is merely a symptom.
I think it's good that he considers the philosophical implications of the falseness of religion.
Atheism has a following in most wealthy countries, which is of course affected by the same sheep effect that religion is as the following grows. Isn't believing in something reasonable like Atheism because your community does better than believing in magic?
To call Atheism a religion is wrong because it doesn't suppose the supernatural, but I can see what you mean.
The main problem I have with it is people like Sam Harris who tell us we can derive morality from science. It's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The scientific method can only tell us about causal relationships; it can tell us the outcome of our actions. But it can't tell us what to value.
The other thing is that we can explain the behavior of the brain as matter, but no one can cross the Leibnizian gap and explain qualitative consciousness itself scientifically. Some choose to simply say that we aren't conscious just so they don't have to explain it, which is far more retarded that believing in creationism (see Descartes). Personally it seems obvious to me that consciousness is merely another aspect of the physical world that we are unable to observe; token-token identity with matter. But the placing of science on a pedestal convinces people to reject any such considerations dogmatically, simply because the scientific method is incapable of dealing with the problem.
What is happiness but the feeling of power increasing, and obstacles being overcome? -Nietzsche