David Sloan Wilson: "Why Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Religion"

[Meadmaker]

Nicely put Meadmaker. Thank you.

My pleasure, and may I say I've enjoyed reading your comments as well.

 

[skeptic griggsy]

I am a happy neurotic without the benefit of the supernatural or the paranormal! The relgious fare no better than we naturalists/rationalists, I daresay. Other placebos make people happy.
I feel secure with my own purposes, human love and this one life.Others can embrace the neurosis of religion to find divine purpose and love and a future state, however that is purely a "mustabatory" want[Albert Ellis] rather than a true need.
My purpose of spreading on the internet naturalism keeps me happy. Familial love keeps me happy. And I don't need forever to be happy now.

 

[hgc]

...This must be the longest sentence in the world:...

You ought to give Herbert Marcuse a try.

 

[drzeus99]

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced shick-sent-me-hi)

Actually, the whole name is pronounced:
Mihaly (Michael) = ME hi
Csikszentmihalyi = Cheek (not Shick) Sent Me Hi

The combination letter Cs (in the Hunagrian alphabet) is a seperate leeter that
is pronounced like CH.

And a common English mispronunciation of the Hunagarian people
(called Magyars) is that they pronounce it MAG YAR, when in fact it's
pronounced: MUH JYAR


Cheers,
DrZ

 

[skeptic griggsy]

rational life

I read in Free Inquiry, that he has a theory relating to happinness. I find Robert Price's "The Reason-Driven Life" superb for showing us how to achieve piece of mind rationally as oppossed to the mush of Rick Warren and other evangelical cheerleaders.