Posted on 04/28/2005 10:44:46 AM PDT by js1138
That's why I'm excited, I read them all two or three times but it has been soooo long ago that nothing will be stale.
AMERICAN ATHEISTS: Mr. Adams, you have been described as a “radical Atheist.” Is this accurate?
DNA: Yes. I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “Atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘Agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean Atheist. I really do not believe that there is a god - in fact I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one. It’s easier to say that I am a radical Atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously. It’s funny how many people are genuinely surprised to hear a view expressed so strongly. In England we seem to have drifted from vague wishy-washy Anglicanism to vague wishy-washy Agnosticism - both of which I think betoken a desire not to have to think about things too much.
Oh, yeah. I was wavering on the edge of "should I see it or shouldn't I?" until I heard about Rickman. PERFECT choice.
"Brain the size of a planet, and they have me opening doors..."
Which would make a really good tagline for a few days...
I always felt there was something fundementally wrong with the Universe.
What kind of freezer exactly? My freezer does not make my Bombay Gin solid...even after weeks. All that alcohol you know.
Yes, actually He is. (Or at least He was in the books.)
AMERICAN ATHEISTS: How long have you been a nonbeliever, and what brought you to that realization? DNA: Well, it’s a rather corny story. As a teenager I was a committed Christian. It was in my background. I used to work for the school chapel in fact. Then one day when I was about eighteen I was walking down the street when I heard a street evangelist and, dutifully, stopped to listen. As I listened it began to be borne in on me that he was talking complete nonsense, and that I had better have a bit of a think about it.
I’ve put that a bit glibly. When I say I realized he was talking nonsense, what I mean is this. In the years I’d spent learning History, Physics, Latin, Math, I’d learnt (the hard way) something about standards of argument, standards of proof, standards of logic, etc. In fact we had just been learning how to spot the different types of logical fallacy, and it suddenly became apparent to me that these standards simply didn’t seem to apply in religious matters. In religious education we were asked to listen respectfully to arguments which, if they had been put forward in support of a view of, say, why the Corn Laws came to be abolished when they were, would have been laughed at as silly and childish and - in terms of logic and proof -just plain wrong. Why was this?
Read the rest here.
http://www.americanatheist.org/win98-99/T2/silverman.html
I thought the radio plays came BEFORE the books.
No. Bill Nighy was the old drunk rocker in "Love Actually".
"What kind of freezer exactly? My freezer does not make my Bombay Gin solid...even after weeks. All that alcohol you know."
The freezer that I store my dry ice I use to pack my dead deer in works quite well.
Hmmmmm.
So?? Then we should not see the movie then???
Tell her to imagine if Star Wars had been written by Monty Python.
That's a very good description.
Mark
Tell her to imagine if Star Wars had been written by Monty Python while nursing a bad hangover.
So, bad a hangover, in fact, you spend a considerable time questioning whether things you remember really happened or were part of dreams, and worse, you can't decide if you would be happier if they were dreams or real.
Yes, as a Christian, I am just so happy to find that uber-dour Christians with no sense of humor --- at all --- seem to always be the loudest.
He'll recommend the best parts!
BTW, on the BBC TV mini-series, the DotD was played by Peter Davison,
better known from his work as Tristan on "All Creatures Great and Small," and probably best known as the 5th incarnation of "The Doctor," in the BBC series "Dr. Who."
Mark
Bookmarked. Thank you!
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