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I just finished Dawkins's "The God Delusion" and am now very angry about everything.

Everyone should read it, even - especially - those currently deluded.

On the plus point I know what to get my mother for her birthday.

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angry about everything?

Even beer? You can't be angry at beer.

I can.

I am angry about the beer that leaked in to my carpet. It was both a waste of beer and a horrible mess.

But I bet some clown attributes the existence of beer to inspiration by the old man with the beard, which gets us into the whole business of belittling all human achievement.

OK. Maybe I'm not quite angry about _everything_. :-)

Gah - I've got a mile of plastic sheeting I could have given you some of.

It was unexpected leakage rather than dribbling from people being clumsy.

I declare you to be the king of having useful things I need after the fact though, that's twice in about a week ;)

But...but...I don't WANT to be angry about everything!

I think I am already angry enough about Other Things at the moment.

However, was it interesting?

"Beer is proof that God loves us, and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin ;>

With experience you find that leakage is not unexpected at all.

It's my natural emotional state, me.

There is really not a lot I can say to that :p

(except that this was about 20 pints in the course of a day so more a failure)

You may be temporarily excused under the circumstances.

It was interesting and very amusing in the bits where I wasn't reminded that people actually believe in this stuff. Dawkins has really pulled the gloves off - indeed, part of his point is that we give an unjustified respect to religion when we would feel perfectly free to mock or pity an adult who believed in the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus.

Franklin, of course, a relatively harmless Deist...

Brain breakage at finding

cookwitch in

damerell's LJ.

But thanks for the book rec - I'll check it out! Angry is good.

It is a truly excellent book isn't it? I am probably going to offer to buy a copy for each of my religious friends.

There were two things I wasn't aware of before I read the book... That Dawkins is good friends with the bishop of Oxford, and that he was abused in some way by a religious teacher at school.

Heh - hello. :) I met young D at B Movie, when he was as bit the worse for wear after a mosh pit.

Y'know, I really don't want to know why.

We are both B-Movie regulars.

I see no indication that that teacher was religious; Dawkins is just making the point, in passing, that in fact this experience was not the Worst Thing Ever. Having had similar experiences I would concur; Minty being excessively tactile was annoying but has hardly blasted my life forever.

It is actually rather prosaic. Several flats ago, our landlady had two dreadful uncomfortable sofas in the living room. We stowed them in the garage wrapped in the sheeting to keep them in good condition.

I was just going to gloss over that. Sometimes it's easier.

Did you see his Root of All Evil – two-parter on television?

"Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink."

-W.C. Fields

Nope - I don't watch TV. Was it good?

I don't know yet. I have half a Gb of it here sitting on my computer waiting for a rainy day. (-:

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