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Post-2012 Global Atheist Convention: a celebration of reason : Comments
By David Nicholls, published 18/5/2012For most attendees at the GAC it was a time of being reborn into the rational.
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Posted by Pericles, Thursday, 21 June 2012 1:19:42 PM
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David,
"...If one of you fine gentlemen would like to give examples of that scorn, I would appreciate it." Mmmm....let's see. This from the article for starters: "The lesson, that the organisers of the convention had to go to extraordinary and expensive lengths with security arrangements to thwart any acts of religious idiocy...." and... "It is unnervingly disquieting that many disregard evidence that the process of religious inculcation in itself can produce random mild or maniacal adherents. Those in support must bear some responsibility for the harm and atrocities created by it." That, David, is known as "pouring scorn". Posted by Poirot, Thursday, 21 June 2012 2:59:31 PM
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oh dear david..its funny how so many athiest..[genuine atheo-ists]
cant grasp..getting together to ridicule a thing/concept the belief in which..to them in and of itself dont egsist to them its much like tall-king.in fairy tales[delusions] what inteligent being..who is sure there is no 'god'..wants to get together with others riddle/cueing..someone else.. over a thing that do'nt egsist[lol] but you are blind..to the fact most here are athiest [disliking the messengers]..of who they think is delivering a lie its as exciting to them...NOT*>>.to waste any time on fictions look ya really want to find the real name for what your trying to do cat herder..is only just a bit..away from sheppard..:<L} if you can see the yoke but you cant lol i dont like religions neither! but...*fighting them only forces them to join together[get stronger] i think thats just dandy get strong..force them away from creed.. back to basics..[loving neighbour..thus loving good..[god] its the creed you lot really are fighting thats the lies..thats where there 'forgiven' yet from there..compound the sin..by sinning again anyhow im not hearing much..about..*that law change* you lot brought..to the rules? [notice how rersisting them..only made them stronger} this place is hell to tempt and to temper your attempts to make the world safer how did that work out? [you were so exited yesterday] Posted by one under god, Thursday, 21 June 2012 3:41:33 PM
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ohh congratulate-ions again david
census reported atheoists came in second great work cat herder's... they named/labled..themselves hating a living good god cause of lies rejecting the all living love sustaining them each..their very lives and still god..sustains us to live thats l;ove mate..thats what you take from people ditto the mongal religionists ..miss-leading the fathers own..away from grace,mercy love etc children..to sure to question..ongoing ignorance or even begin looking for the true cause..of everything light sustaining logic to live..that life lift the vile veil and see love lives..within us all[allways has allways will] know your greatness.. your mortal heirs of the immortal father all he asks is to love other how hard is that thats a basic...charity..to other that we did for the least..we did to god[good].. Posted by one under god, Thursday, 21 June 2012 4:21:34 PM
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Pericles,
I Initially said, "..the weekend built to a crescendo of intellectual significance..." Well, yes, it did. It had Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Ayaan Hirsi Ali on stage together as the closing part of the GAC. Having these brilliant minds together is historically significant. It has not happened before and possibly won’t happen again. How more intellectually significant could it have been? To which you replied, “Yep. The very epitome of a hyped-up, pseudo-religious happy-clappy event.” You said this with no knowledge of it at all. I found that somewhat weird to say the least. Your disingenuousness is outstanding. You responded to my words by stating *the convention was typical* of a religious event. It was not my words you were referring to, it was the event. Such deliberate squirming is unbelievable and unbecoming. (From you, expected) My article was based on actually being present at the 2012 Global Atheist Convention, experiencing it and the reactions by the attendees, from the hundreds of emails expressing the views I stated, and from a post event survey answered by over a thousand attendees. Various forums also expressed how the 2012 GAC was an outstanding moment in time. I see you still have not viewed or are not willing to admit you have looked at the presentations here. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7C0CA45F60FD44C7&feature=plcp Your pathetic interpretation of the 2012 GAC came out of your own self-obsessed little-mind. You know nothing of it, won’t even comment about it, don’t see that it was harmless and indeed it was a good thing for society but rabbit-on endlessly how it and I are destroying atheism. Yeah right! :) You spaded the first hole and you keep digging it deeper and deeper… I’m sorry your ego has taken a beating but it is not my fault. David Posted by Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc, Thursday, 21 June 2012 7:02:46 PM
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Poirot,
Well, dag nab it, you caught me out there. Thomas Henry Huxley was Darwin’s Bulldog but you, being nothing but a diminished Pericle’s puppy, missed the boat considerably. You really think those few sentences are “pouring scorn”. Advice - get a life in the real world. Bugger, didn’t mean to write to you, you are definitely on the list. David Posted by Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc, Thursday, 21 June 2012 10:22:44 PM
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>>...one can only assume you are talking out of your arse if you conclude that it was a “hyped-up, pseudo-religious happy-clappy event”. To draw that conclusion is more than inaccurate, it is well beyond preposterous.<<
I know how you dislike being quoted - "the nonsensical repetition of my harmless words" as you described it earlier. But these words are, after all, your own.
"...an overall sense of being involved in a part of making history"
"...the crowd of smiling faces...
"...attendees came away from the three days and three nights...with feelings varying from elation to euphoria...."
"...cat-herded into one place....The largest gathering...a harbinger of a changing manner in which humanity is viewing existence in ever growing numbers.."
"...the atmosphere was one filled by a powerfully exquisite joy inspired by camaraderie brought about by a unique experience found nowhere else."
"Now that the event is over the afterglow still burns brightly in the thoughts of attendees..."
"...criticisms overwhelmingly drowned in an ocean of accolades"
"..the weekend built to a crescendo of intellectual significance..."
Yep. The very epitome of a hyped-up, pseudo-religious happy-clappy event.