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Bluestocking - your Richard Dawkins story?

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yama · 11/08/2007 22:34

Well?

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yama · 11/08/2007 22:38

She said she has a student story but then didn't divulge.

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3andnomore · 11/08/2007 22:39

hah./................

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yama · 11/08/2007 22:42

Did he say he believes in eternal life?

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gess · 11/08/2007 22:47

He probably got a student pregnant. He allegedly did a lot of that He gave us a 9am lecture in black tie once apologising because he was just off the train from London. This was almost 20 years ago- he was quite good looking then.

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yama · 11/08/2007 22:52

Good looking? Even though he is smarmy?

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gess · 11/08/2007 22:54

oh he was smarmy then but had very intense eyes. Certainly not my cup of tea but could see why people found him attractive.

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yama · 11/08/2007 22:56

Yeah my dp loves him.

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scampadoodle · 11/08/2007 22:56

I can see why he'd be [thought] attractive, but I find him SO intellectually arrogant.

gess · 11/08/2007 22:57

I've been told (by someone who knows him well) that he's shy (I was complaining about his arrogance as well).

scampadoodle · 11/08/2007 22:59

Yeah, well I'm shy but I can also be a right pain in the arse...

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yama · 11/08/2007 23:01

I agree scamp (great name). Anyone who is so sure, anyone that can't quite conceive that they night be wrong, anyone that can write to their 11 year old daughter telling her that there is no God is a teansy bit arrogant.

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gess · 11/08/2007 23:01

I was never convinced about the shyness. I don't mind him tbh; he writes clearly- does seem to enjoy upsetting christians a bit too much (but am not one myself so doesn't offend as such). Am interested to hear Bluesticking's story.

gess · 11/08/2007 23:02

I think lots of atheists tell their 11 year olds there is no god though don't they.

Tinker · 11/08/2007 23:02

Good-looking then? I'd do him now

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yama · 11/08/2007 23:04

Maybe Gess. He wrote (and published) a 6 page letter though.

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scampadoodle · 11/08/2007 23:05

Where is Bluestocking?! Does she have video evidence of him wigging out at a charismatic christian knees-up?

sfxmum · 11/08/2007 23:07

i would not wait until their are 11

so is there gossip?

gess · 11/08/2007 23:07

I must admit I switch off on his god stuff; only really read his bits on natural selection which are very well written.

Am very interested in the story now....

sfxmum · 11/08/2007 23:07

they are even

UnquietDad · 11/08/2007 23:08

I'd do his wife!

The lurverely Lalla!!

UnquietDad · 11/08/2007 23:09

Is there some problem with telling 11-year-olds there is no God?

Presumably by that age they also know there is also no tooth fairy or Father Christmas, so it ought not to be too traumatic.

gess · 11/08/2007 23:11

Not his first one (Marian Stamp Dawkins) then?

She was lovely though...not at alll arrogant.

UnquietDad · 11/08/2007 23:13

Noooo no no..... Lalla!

Tinker · 11/08/2007 23:13

UQD - was about to post the same as you but then realised I'm too squiffy on cava.

yama - If there's no god then that's what you'd tell you child. It's not a case of not believing, to an "atheist" there isn't one. Nothing to do with belief. Anyway, to drunk to argue about it