Over the weekend if have been getting a
\nlot of hits from P.Z. Myers’
\nblog since someone linked to my desecration post in the comment
\nsection. The replies I have found to b rather funny in their
\nmissing the point. The commenter said to check out this guy
\nwho wanted to get even by desecrating a microscope. I guess
\nhe and others totally missed that this is a parody site and that I
\ndon’t think that P.Z. Myers hold’s microscopes sacred and of course it
\nwas only a photoshop thing anyway. Many seemed to have
\ntotally missed this and the point I was actually making is that science
\ncan only go so far.<\/p>\n
It kind of reminds me of the A 1. Video posted around 11:00 4. Nearly nine hours later, he wakes up and checks the post again. He 6. A couple minutes after the last post, he gets in another jab at 7. Under chastisement for his humbuggery, Dawkins admits that Daniel 8. Nearly ten hours after posting the video, someone postulates that 9. Sixteen hours after first watching the video, Dawkins finally 10. Seventeen hours after posting, Dawkins attempts to comprehend the This is not to say that atheist don’t What I do really appreciate after looking Over the weekend if have been getting a lot of hits from P.Z. Myers’ blog since someone linked to my desecration post in the comment section. The replies I have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDawkin’s rap video<\/a> where later Dawkins’ didn’t get the video
\nand asked his readers whose side the video was on.<\/p>\n
\ngreat bit of satire on this.<\/p>\n
\n
\n2. 1 hour and 44 minutes later, Dawkins implores his more intelligent
\nreaders to help inform him as to whose side the video is on (his side,
\nor not his side). He then pokes fun at people that think things are
\nfunny that he doesn’t understand just in case it turns out to be ‘not
\non his side.’ Comment #151544
\n
\n3. Dawkins now presumably goes to sleep.<\/p>\n
\nsees that his fellow scientific elites like the video, but also don’t
\nunderstand it. Dawkins tries to get in a little dig on postmodernism,
\nbut just ends up making fun of his posters. Comment #151685
\n
\n5. Nine and a half hours after posting, Dawkins wonders how his fellow
\ncomrades could laugh at something they don’t understand. He then lauds
\nThe Life of Brian as the pinnacle of comedic evolution. Comment #151704<\/p>\n
\nPostmodernism. Comment #151713<\/p>\n
\nDennett popping his head up from out of nowhere is, in fact, funny.
\nComment #151715<\/p>\n
\nthe humor is derived from the silly dancing bodies (not the satire).
\nDawkins seems to accept this theory and thanks the poster for his
\nintellect. Comment #151723<\/p>\n
\nrealizes that it is, in fact, making fun of ‘his side.’ Dawkins defends
\nhimself again by saying that he didn’t understand it. Comment #151849.<\/p>\n
\nhumor by equating similar scenes of incongruousness that Monty Python
\nhas also done. Dawkins has apparently not yet pondered why, if this
\nwere the only thing funny about the video, he did not catch on before
\nthis. Dawkins chalks this up to the video not being funny, and
\ndismisses the obvious conclusion that his head is too big to see the
\nsatire behind it. Comment #151889
\n
\n11. The next day, Dawkins chimes in again to defend his Ph.D. status to
\na poster who dared question it. Comment #152142
\n
\n12. Nearly 36 hours after posting, Dawkins discovers what a ‘grill’ is
\nand waxes philosophic as to why Sam Harris would have one in the video.
\nThe conclusion he comes up with is that it adds no humor to the video
\nand should not have been put in. Comment #152168
\n
\n13. After a full three and a half days after first watching the video,
\nDawkins (obviously perturbed at the fact he didn’t get that he was the
\nbutt of the joke, when every other non-elite who saw it could tell in
\nan instant) attempts to equate the video with ‘The worst poem ever
\nwritten.’ He then satisfies himself by settling on the conclusion that
\nthis is the only reason why people might like it. The final analysis is
\nthat it’s not only ‘not good,’ and not even ‘pretty bad,’ but so
\nincredibly bad, that it is in fact, good. He gets in a snobbish comment
\nabout the Bible for good measure. Comment #153061<\/p>\n
\nget parody since a lot of religious people also can be rather dense
\nwhen it comes to parody and totally missing the point. Though
\nit is
\nrather ironic for people who describe themselves as brights somehow can
\ntotally miss the point and take something much to seriously.<\/p>\n
\nat some of the comments made over at P.Z. Myers blog is that I am
\nreally happy that blogging didn’t exist when I was still an atheist.
\n The advent of blogging developed during the time that I was
\nnot yet in the Church, though moving towards it. I am quite
\nglad that all the dumb things I likely would have said and my zero
\nunderstanding of philosophy is not recorded on a hard drive somewhere for
\nall eternity. I would no doubt have been a troll on religious blogs
\nmocking them for following their hunter-gatherer base religion and
\nflouting my own superiority. As someone who is a hard SF geek
\nand who has followed science from a young age and has always been
\nfascinated by the sciences I can quite understand the attitude of the new
\natheists and their followers. “There but by the grace of God
\ngo I” – yes I am pulling the grace card. I still love the
\nsciences, the only difference is that I have gotten to know their
\nauthor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"