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Forum: Politics
08/20/12, 05:46 PM
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Dawkins is the worst now that Christopher...
Dawkins is the worst now that Christopher Hitchens is dead, though the fact that the latter wrote a book defending the invasion of Iraq makes it hard for me to assert this. Still gonna do it, though,...
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Forum: Politics
08/16/12, 08:17 AM
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Forum: Politics
08/13/12, 08:15 AM
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Forum: Politics
08/12/12, 08:41 PM
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It feels good to get called pretentious on the...
It feels good to get called pretentious on the internet again
ALL IN THE NAME OF COMMONSENSE LIBERALISM YOU GUYS
would it be better if I talked about someone not popular like Jack Halberstam? Or...
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Forum: Politics
08/10/12, 10:49 PM
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Heaven forfend I apply what I read to how I...
Heaven forfend I apply what I read to how I think. I'll stop doing that.
OK allow me to make the same statement without mentioning Foucault: "lol human rights is bullshit y'all are full of shit."...
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Forum: Politics
08/10/12, 01:36 PM
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Forum: Politics
07/27/12, 01:26 PM
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Dawkins's concept of religion is entirely...
Dawkins's concept of religion is entirely ahistorical and uninformed so it's kind of funny that he said that. Or, if you want to read him less generously than that, he's a shithead because he...
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Forum: Politics
07/27/12, 08:29 AM
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Yeah because they have nothing to say about...
Yeah because they have nothing to say about religion because they don't know anything about it and proudly parade that fact around (Dawkins often saying "why read theology if I don't believe in God,"...
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Forum: Politics
07/27/12, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 600
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Dom, regarding your recent posts in here, two...
Dom, regarding your recent posts in here, two books I'm reading right now take your methodological/theory-praxis concerns into account: Judith Halberstam's The Queer Art Of Failure and José...
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Forum: Politics
07/27/12, 07:50 AM
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Forum: Politics
07/27/12, 07:49 AM
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I guess my thing is I don't know how anyone who...
I guess my thing is I don't know how anyone who knows anything about science, history, philosophy, culture, &c., would take anything these guys have to say seriously. The fact that you do is kind of...
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Forum: Politics
07/26/12, 03:49 PM
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Forum: Politics
07/26/12, 10:45 AM
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Dawkins and Harris don't "critique"...
Dawkins and Harris don't "critique" Islam (there is nothing in this strain of atheism that resembles a thoughtful engagement with the religions they dismiss; to suggest they take it seriously enough...
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Forum: Politics
07/26/12, 08:50 AM
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Forum: Politics
07/26/12, 08:35 AM
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Implicit in the position that Christianity is...
Implicit in the position that Christianity is "less evil" than Islam is a whole host of unconscious value-judgments that, going along with a Western racialized conception of Islam, are extremely...
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Forum: Politics
07/25/12, 05:17 PM
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Replies: 5,026
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Dawkins has said on his blog that Islam is an...
Dawkins has said on his blog that Islam is an unmitigated evil (http://richarddawkins.net/discussions/624093-support-christian-missions-in-africa-no-but) and that it's better to support Christian...
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Forum: Politics
07/25/12, 04:10 PM
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In the last couple months or so I've stopped...
In the last couple months or so I've stopped identifying as a Marxist just because I've grown increasingly at odds with friends of mine who are Leninists/Trotskyists (though Trots tend not to get as...
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Forum: Politics
07/25/12, 03:44 PM
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I have no problem calling someone a jackass for...
I have no problem calling someone a jackass for being as ahistorical and colonialist and imperialist as Dawkins et al, and I think that aligning oneself with people who think it is a moral task to...
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Forum: Politics
07/25/12, 08:36 AM
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Also the whole "i'm spiritual not...
Also the whole "i'm spiritual not religious" thing is some liberal bullshit since the best part about religion is the community/inherent critique of egoism as the basis of community/society
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Forum: Politics
07/25/12, 08:35 AM
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It's one of those rare moments where I find...
It's one of those rare moments where I find myself agreeing with Zizek: yeah, I think for an atheist the question of God should be irrelevant (and I guess I'm kind of an atheist though to me the...
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Forum: Politics
07/24/12, 06:09 PM
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You obviously aren't familiar with Hitchens et...
You obviously aren't familiar with Hitchens et al, because they see Atheism as something that has an agenda to it. Or, to put it another, perhaps more intellectually honest way, for them atheism is a...
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Forum: Politics
07/24/12, 02:57 PM
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The best part about "atheism" is that...
The best part about "atheism" is that the only way it can work is by first conjuring up God so that it can negate it. Like the concept of God is even more essential to atheism than to religion. It's...
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Forum: Politics
07/24/12, 10:05 AM
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Forum: Politics
07/23/12, 01:59 PM
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Forum: Politics
07/23/12, 01:46 PM
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