A Thinking Man

Richard Dawkins reading his fan mail.
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I find myself continuing to laugh about and reflect on a comic strip cartoon that was first brought to my attention by Daniel Florien in which the creator, Neil Swaab, explains why god must prefer atheists to believers.

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I originally posted this over a year ago, but decided it was time to give it another whirl …
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These are the important lessons I learned on a recent holiday trip abroad:
1. However much time you allow yourself to get to the airport in good time, it will never be enough to account for the civil [...]

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God suddenly appeared.
There I was, minding my own business, when it happened.  Out of the blue.  No warning.  Just came.  God, or rather almightygod, appeared on my screen about three days ago.  And she/he/it has appeared with great regularity ever since.  Just popping up out of nowhere, reminding me of important things, and revealing the [...]

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I’ve had difficulties in deciding what to do.  Readers who have been following this heart-rending story (see My Dilemma) will know that it has been a harrowing time.  However, things came to a head over a week ago - July 11, the day before I went on holiday.
We were going to Northumberland for a week [...]

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If I say to you, “Don’t think of a pink elephant,” it is, of course, the first thing that comes to your mind, whereas if instructed to think of a green one, you are unlikely to have internal pictures of pink.
There is a school of thought which says that we should be more careful about [...]

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I mentioned in my last posting how communication was one of the issues that contributed to the high stress levels of my hospital stay. I want to expand on that today. However, I must acknowledge that the communication confusions were also a source of mirth, albeit unintended.
From my perspective there were four communication [...]

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Thanks to Unsaved for bringing this to my attention.
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I’m grateful to Freethinker for this posting which seemed too important to pass by:
THE Roman Catholic church in the United States paid out £306 million in 2007 to victims of sex abuse involving members of the clergy – an increase 54 percent over the previous year, and the largest sum ever paid in a single [...]

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Interactive joke day:
How many fundamentalists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Please complete the joke by leaving your answers in the comments below.
My own tentative suggestion:
None. Fundamentalists profess not to believe in change. (Though secretly, some of them have been changing light-bulbs very slowly over the years.)

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