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Comment on Viewpoints: College is a Scam by New World Order

New World Order — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:32:54 +0000

I agree that college is in many ways a scam, but not entirely. If this were completely true, then why do Chinese, Indian and Jewish Americans collectively constitute a higher income bracket than most other demographic groups? It is because these Americans are generally hardworking and place great value in education. American culture has become very anti-intellectual. We are a nation that idolizes illiterate gangster rappers, brainless eye-candy socialites and athletes and we live self-indulgent, hedonistic unhealthy lifestyles like Peter Griffin and Homer Simpson. The fact that we don’t care about education is the reason why we will soon fail to compete in the international community with the imminent rise of China and India. The value of a college education is extremely undervalued in the current state of the American economy because we never truly cared about education to begin with. The current American economy is like a drug-dealer or gangster’s economy; it’s not about your talents or abilities to do a job, but more based on your personal connections and the ability to hustle your way through life using street smarts instead of applying book smarts and ingenuity to make a positive difference.

Comment on Dawkins Deconstruction, Part I: Amateur on a Soapbox by Austin

Austin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:51:28 +0000

It seems like the comments left are neglecting to address key issues that Zac laid out. From what I have read of the God Delusion Zac lays out valid areas where Dawkins has left topics lacking full elaboration. I hope that in the future Dawkins will revise his book to give a more fully informed and flowing argument.

Comment on Dawkins Deconstruction, Part I: Amateur on a Soapbox by Zachary

Zachary — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:23:13 +0000

To Collin,

At no point in my article am flippant or sarcastic: some days it is actually difficult for me to maintain a belief in Dawkins, because the way he argues, coupled with his immense popularity, is baffling to me. Having studied such thinkers as Hobbes, Hume, Russel, Sartre, and many other respectable thinkers, yes, Dawkins’ atheism does seem like a farce: a cruel joke at that, next to the powerful men I described who, without name-calling, rhetoric, or rambling anecdotes, honestly and brilliantly grapple with God’s improbability or with a world without God.
Here are atheists who deserve our respect, who will forever remain in the tradition and history of philosophy.
I shudder to think that an amateur like Dawkins would stand among the ranks of the great atheists of the past.

Comment on Dawkins Deconstruction, Part I: Amateur on a Soapbox by Zachary

Zachary — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:55:30 +0000

To Reggie, and all future people who may make the same argument:

My omissions are for this article only. As I said, I will simply have to make this a three-part series instead of a two-part series. There are no plans that I am aware of for a “God Delusion Part II.”

Further, Dawkins unchecked amount of anecdotes, tangents, and disconnected points are the real space concern of the text. If he were concerned about space, he would cut out all the stories which, though admittedly amusing, are not germane to the body of his argument.

Comment on Dawkins Deconstruction, Part I: Amateur on a Soapbox by Collin

Collin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:58:06 +0000

You subvert Dawkins’ entire argument on yourself from the beginning when you sarcastically argue that he may not be real, he seems like a cartoon, a cruel parody. When Dawkins is the one arguing that the existence of God IS THE CRUEL PARODY of human nature we’ve imprisoned ourselves with.

p.s. ‘rhetorictician’ = ‘rhetorician’

Comment on Dawkins Deconstruction, Part I: Amateur on a Soapbox by Reggie

Reggie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:46:11 +0000

perhaps his omissions are like your omissions: a matter of editing for space and time.

Comment on Love God or Go to Hell by Richard Dawkins: Amature on a Soapbox « Truth is a Snare

Richard Dawkins: Amature on a Soapbox « Truth is a Snare — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:38:45 +0000

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Comment on Angels, Demons, and Inaccuracies by Zachary

Zachary — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:11:15 +0000

George,
Thank you for your polite and orderly feedback. We’ve had a plethora of problems dealing with people unable to hold their tempers on issues like these.
The reason I am unable to endorse the “it’s-only-a-book” argument is Brown’s almost constant assertions that the book is “99% true or factual.” He makes claims like this almost every time he is interviewed, and what is the lay person to think of such things?

Comment on A Preface to Dawkins by Bryson Taylor

Bryson Taylor — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:09:02 +0000

I very much enjoyed these three seconds. ^_^ And I look forward to your commenting on the rest of Dawkin’s book.

Comment on And What Then is Love? by sandrar

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