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Strider
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Interestingly, religious fundamentalists may literally agree with that title! [Smile]

Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens sit down for a two hour conversation about all things atheist.

You can watch it for free or go buy the dvd on richarddawkins.net.

I haven't watched it yet(i just stumbled across it), but I'm sure it'll be interesting.
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BlackBlade
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Sounds like a title more appropriate for a rock band rather then a group of tired grumpy old men.
[Wink]
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That's what they want you to think. Little do you realize that the four horsemen of the Apocalypse are four tired and grumpy old men:

Dick Cheyney is War.
Richard Simmons is Famine.
Dr. Kevorkian is Disease.
and
Abe Vigoda is Death
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Tante Shvester
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Horses? Comes the apocalypse, they'll be riding Hummers.
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Telperion the Silver
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GREAT video.
Love it. [Smile]
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Glenn Arnold
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Get it straight: Dr. Kevorkian is death.

And they need to update the 4 categories to include global climate change.
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Launchywiggin
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Abe Vigoda is still alive!
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Launchywiggin
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I "watched" it, meaning I had it in the background for the last two hours. Everything they said made sense to me. I do like how ready they are to disagree with each other on some of the very small details--it adds a bit to what is otherwise a pretty boring conversation (if you've already read their books and talked about this stuff).

One good argument came about when one basically said "I don't think I would want to eradicate religion entirely, because then there's no more argument" and Dawkins pipes up with "Why on earth not?" That was funny.
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Elmer's Glue
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Disease? What happened to Pestilence or Conquest?
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quote:
Dr. Kevorkian is Disease.
It got changed to Pollution in the 19th century, though.
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Richard Dawkins, Dan Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens are not the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. They are the Four Other Riders of the Apocalypse.

VROOOM VROOOOM.
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imogen
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quote:
Originally posted by Elmer's Glue:
Disease? What happened to Pestilence or Conquest?
Forget that! Where's apathy??
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Scott R
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Cynicism, Fluff, Sarcasm, and Tom Davidson.

Who're these other pansies y'all are talking about?
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imogen
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Rats. I misremembered cynicism as apathy.


You sure there wasn't an apathy?
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Procrastination should be arriving tomorrow...

Good video BTW. Thanks. I'm reading the God Delusion and the Bible in parallel - it makes interesting reading.

I have the Hobbit on the go too, for when my brain hurts [Wink]
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