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Rationalist Society

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    #122
    Dubhghaillix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Dubhghaillix


    I'm sure the Nothing Specific Society wouldn't be too pleased.


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    #123
    Casper89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭Casper89


    Saw the poster in the SU! Very cool! Will look out for you guys on Socs Day!

    Anyone see Dawkins on The Late Late last night? Thought he handled the questions, in front of a mostly religious audience, very well. And go on the Jimmy Carr.:D


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    #124
    kevinmcinerney
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭kevinmcinerney


    im so happy so happy someone actually saw one of the posters..little victory dance.....

    Dawkins was clearly irritated by ryan asking the same old questions..nothing on evolution..Dawkins is truely truely a giant among men..what a ledge....


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    #125
    kevinmcinerney
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭kevinmcinerney


    well done cosmic frog...there is a campaign...we should have an agnostic or atheist option....why not? maybe de facto athest is pushong our luck.....Why should we be 'not specified' when we prob make up a larger population than some of the other options that were prob available...


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    #126
    Dubhghaillix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Dubhghaillix


    just saw it on youtube. Seemed Tubardy went out of his way to avoid the major topics like the Blasphemy legislation, the upcoming Darwin bio film, and barely spoke about TGSOE so that he could let the theologian in the audience try to justify his most bizarre of career choices.


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    #127
    Dubhghaillix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Dubhghaillix


    Meeting tuesday at six in smokies to talk Soc's Day Strategy, World Domination and this:

    http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elaine_morgan_says_we_evolved_from_aquatic_apes.html

    And remember, Take nobody's word for anything :D


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    #128
    kevinmcinerney
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭kevinmcinerney


    Skeptic society has 315 members....:confused::D...whoop whoop!.....well done everyone.....this is where it started......well actually it started with a bus with lots of alcohol but u know what i mean....

    nullius in verba...:D

    Special thanx to those who had time to help out at the table today..u know who u are..


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    #129
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    I still think Atheism=been done tbh.


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    #130
    aido179
    Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭aido179


    so why post?


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    #131
    Dubhghaillix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Dubhghaillix


    2008-02-29.gif

    /patpatpat


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    #132
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    loveissucide wrote: »
    I still think Atheism=been done tbh.

    By that logic, religion has been done for a far longer and more controversial time.


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    #133
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    By that logic, religion has been done for a far longer and more controversial time.
    What I mean by this is all sense of genuine debate there is to be derived from it has been covered,and surely atheism and religion should ignore each other.


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    #134
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    loveissucide wrote: »
    What I mean by this is all sense of genuine debate there is to be derived from it has been covered,and surely atheism and religion should ignore each other.

    No. Atheists will never ever give up.

    ...until we get our own cathedral.


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    #135
    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,029 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    In France, cathedrals are owned by the State.


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    #136
    loveissucide
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭loveissucide


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    No. Atheists will never ever give up.

    ...until we get our own cathedral.
    Does that not defeat the point of atheism.


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    #137
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    loveissucide wrote: »
    Does that not defeat the point of atheism.

    How so? A cathedral is just a building.


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    #138
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    How so? A cathedral is just a building.

    Is it?

    It seems a typical response from someone who would generally see no value in it. However, a cathedral has the specific purpose of worship and glorifying of God.

    If one wants a cathedral, it doesn't seem very consistent with atheism if the entire purpose of it is to glorify and serve God.


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    #139
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    Atheists already have cathedrals, they're just called universities and libraries, minus the zombies and general craziness.


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    #140
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    ZorbaTehZ wrote: »
    Atheists already have cathedrals, they're just called universities and libraries, minus the zombies and general craziness.

    This assumes that Christians, Jews, Muslims, and people of numerous different faiths do not attend universities. I.E Atheists do not have a monopoly on libraries and universities. Nor do they have a monopoly on science, or on education.


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    #141
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    Yes, we atheists are far too tolerant and accepting of other opinions and beliefs for our own good, if we had any sense, we would gather up all the religious, question them before an audience and then burn them at the stake.


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    #142
    Dubhghaillix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Dubhghaillix


    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mrwzc/Lost_Souls_of_Ireland/

    The Catholic Church: Evoking the desire to both vomit and kill since 325AD.


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    #143
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Dubhghaillix wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00mrwzc/Lost_Souls_of_Ireland/

    The Catholic Church: Evoking the desire to both vomit and kill since 325AD.

    The same could be argued about state atheism if you have read the thread until this point.


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    #144
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    Having a state tied in so closely to a faith so sickeningly tainted in controversy and hypocrisy is something I'm embarassed of.

    And Dubhghaillix, that's iPlayer, there's no way I can watch it (besides through a proxy at approx. 9kbps...


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    #145
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    TheCosmicFrog: Is it though? I don't see it as being so, but then again, I'm not a member of the Catholic Church and never have been. I have seen it more a matter of peoples faith and observance rather than dictating laws in the last few years. The obvious exception being the new law concerning the sale of mass cards.


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    #146
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    Surely you can't agree with this law?


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    #147
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    No I don't agree with this law. I don't see why churches cannot deal with their own internal matters themselves. Considering that all the other religious groups in Ireland manage to do this, it should be expected that the Catholic Church do the same.


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    #148
    Dubhghaillix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Dubhghaillix


    It's BBC Radio iPlayer, no video, sure give it a try, It worked on the College computers.


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    #149
    snarf_sarah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭snarf_sarah


    I wanna join this society but cant find a link to it on NUIG's societies home page. Any info on how I can join?


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    #150
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    snarf_sarah wrote: »
    I wanna join this society but cant find a link to it on NUIG's societies home page. Any info on how I can join?

    I'm sure Dubhghaillix will see your post and he'll contact you :)

    In fact, I'm absolutely positive. :cool:


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    #151
    Dubhghaillix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭Dubhghaillix


    You'd be right :D<3


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