Stereogatari
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I can see all the inevitable religious comments now.
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Richard Dawkins suffered a stroke
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You are a person with great foresight
Is this Richard's first major health problem? Pretty good if so. Having a major health uh oh in your 70s and not sooner is a good enough run as is. Doubly so if this is a minor stroke and not one that leaves lasting effects.
A stroke kind of killed the intellectual discourse Thich Nhat Hanh had with people, and that would be a shame if something like that happened with Dawkins as well. We need as many people using reason and understanding in the world, as I feel we have a great deficit of them.
A stroke kind of killed the intellectual discourse Thich Nhat Hanh had with people, and that would be a shame if something like that happened with Dawkins as well. We need as many people using reason and understanding in the world, as I feel we have a great deficit of them.
Rating the post for predictability I assume?
Because it's easier to yield to emotion and collective ad hominem groupthink that he is smug and superior rather than attempt to critique his ideas.
JimmyRustler
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Probably because he makes too much sense.
kavanf1
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I hope this is not the case. So many people attack Dawkins the man because they are unable to counter his challenges to their ideologies.
TatteredHat
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Good to hear that he's okay, I'm a big fan of his books.
uncelestial
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Can't wait until he dies, that's when the jokes mocking his spiritual beliefs should be REALLY good. Keep it up guys! 
Can't wait until he dies, that's when the jokes mocking his spiritual beliefs should be REALLY good. Keep it up guys!
What spiritual beliefs?
Lord British
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Ah, don't do that. You've just dismissed the notion of disliking Dawkins as "groupthink" when I'm capable of disliking him for reasons I've arrived at on my own terms with my own reasoning.
Regardless, this isn't the thread for that. He is a very important writer who has done great things for a lot of people and I hope he recovers with no issues.
You used the word hate, so you'll have to forgive me for making an assumption about emotion effecting your judgement.
Lord British
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No, I didn't, that was the other guy. But, that's a fair point nonetheless so I'll drop it.
Either way, hope he gets well soon.
Atraveller
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I was about to make the same joke on Twitter, then I found out there are Christians doing just that to taunt him.
Can't wait until he dies, that's when the jokes mocking his spiritual beliefs should be REALLY good. Keep it up guys!
Oh god, that'll be amazing.
Im sure there are many who agree with his arguments but just dislike his personality.
JimmyRustler
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I think he is pretty moderate compared to other atheists. In every single discussion I watched from him the theists end up being a lot more annoying than he could ever be.
MudoSkills
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Get well soon Emma Watson.
M3D1C1N3 MAN
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Oh god no
M3D1C1N3 MAN
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Praise the Lord he's ok?
I dont disagree, at least from the videos of debates I've seen. The more recent stuff about down syndrome or the clock bomb he's posted on twitter were kind of eh, though.
Polioliolio
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Hope the best and a speedy recovery. The world needs Richard Dawkins!
Melkezadek
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I would like to do something like this. I hope he recovers quickly.
Khalifa Jayy
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Yup. Hope he recuperates just fine. Although classified as a "minor stroke," I pray for a full recovery.
victreeb3l
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Strokes suck
What's the difference honestly? I see people throw around "but prayers don't do anything!", neither does wishing him well, just as useless, "praying" for someone is just the religious word for "wishing" someone well anyways.
This is why i never got why people get mad when someone prays for them, like, whatever you or they believe, they're just wishing you well man!
out of curiosity, is that book really a "eye opener"? granted that i pretty much view the matter like him but in a less rude way, it's like his video on youtube where he discuss religion with religious people or it's something different?
Orbis Tabula
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Damn, that sucks. I hope he recovers.
In my personal experience, it's only an eye opener if it's sort of your first look into atheist thought. It was definitely eye opening to me, but I read it in the tenth grade when I was first really considering these things. It's nothing too profound if you're already pretty aware of the he arguments for atheism.
In my personal experience, it's only an eye opener if it's sort of your first look into atheist thought. It was definitely eye opening to me, but I read it in the tenth grade when I was first really considering these things. It's nothing too profound if you're already pretty aware of the he arguments for atheism.
Fernando Fernandez
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The Church of England tweeted that they were praying for him. The angry responses are something else.
John Dunbar
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i don't mean to sound like a dick, but i know nothing about strokes so i got to ask: the article says he is expected to make a full recovery "in time," but do 75 year-olds generally have that time? of course someone can live to be over a hundred, but what i mean is that if you get a stroke in your seventies, what are the odds that your condition will improve rather than deteriorate?
kavanf1
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The book should be essential reading for high school age kids, in my opinion.
Afa
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I think some people just take it in a literal sense that, hoping and wishing is just plain being thoughtful. Where as praying, to an atheist, means the pray-er is "commuting" with something they don't believe exists and hence fills a little empty?
In saying that, I hope he gets better and wish him all the best.
Although knowing his views, death (if it came) is just a natural part of life and he'd make no biggie of it.
"Praying" people are being thoughtful too, and "hoping", "wishing" and "giving your thoughts" is as much empty in the end all these actions, prayer included, are done for the sake of giving the person in need and the people being thought full some peace of mind through the expression of support, they might do it differently, but it's the same thing, and people should understand this, no option is more empty than the other and they all serve the same purpose and yield the same results.
mentallyinept
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I'm glad he survived, it sucks to hear that he had partial paralysis to work through.
Afa
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Yeah realistically it wouldn't make a difference to the person being thought upon either way.
In the other direction however, the wisher and hoper might have neutral thoughts on the outcome of the events. With pray-ers, might not some of them think that what they did caused the outcome?
Terrible, I really hope he makes a full recovery. Will miss his presence on TV, and debates on youtube. It's terrible when a great communicator has their ability to communicate impaired.
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