Tag Archives: atheism

Ghosts, God and the Trouble With Ghosthunters.

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Chris Jensen Romer

So as Martin Gardner said, I think the decline of traditional religious belief may actually underlie, rather than be the opposite of, this explosion of popular ghosthunting. Still a great article by Hayley, and got me thinking as normal. Now I really must go do some work! Continue reading →

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Dawkins.net Meltdown — New Forum for Exiles; rationalskepticism.org

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

A brief post for me, but a very important one. I know (from emails and comments) that a large number of ex-Richarddawkins.net forum members are passing this way in search of information. After a few days of gracious hosting from … Continue reading →

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There’s probably no Forum – Now relax and enjoy your Life: Richard Dawkins on changes at the forum

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

OK, OK, I know I said I would not write on this tedious topic any more. But the despondency of this morning at seeing a lot of hurt unhappy people and musing over ‘rationalist’ websites ability to explode has no turned to mild good humoured amusement. Richard Dawkins managed to cheer me up – not because I agreed with him or anything he says on this topic, but because it was good old bellicose belligerent Dawkins coming out fighting, and because know we know not to blame Josh. PZ Myers has washed his hands of the matter, not wanting to get dragged in, but Richard has posted on his forum (shame nobody else can!)
http://forum.richarddawkins.net/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=110356 Continue reading →

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Death of an Atheist Forum; the lessons of history

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Following the bizarre collapse of the Richard Dawkins forum, I posted this on the excellent Rationalia and Thinking Aloud Forums. It will be my last blog entry on atheist forum politics 😦 I am after all not actually an atheist!

OK, I think I’m giving up on the whole atheist forum thing. I’ll tell you why, then move on to other topics tomorrow…

Firstly, I am still shocked, saddened and miserable about the demise of the wonderful RichardDawkins.net/forum. The problem is I have seen it ALL before, and not so long ago. If I thought this was Josh Timonen’s fault, or Dawkins, I could just laugh and move on, and help fight. The thing is I can’t any more. It’s something fundamental and deeper. Continue reading →

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The End of an Era: Richard Dawkins forum to close

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Chris Jensen Romer

Unfortunately I popped over to RD.net to see what was going on, and found that an announcement had been made that the forum is to close. It will remain live for 30 days to allow us to retrieve anything we want to save: given I had written over 10,000 posts (7,000+ remain after an earlier purge) and I guess many million words as I am not known for my brevity, that will prove immensely difficult. Given that the search has not worked for months, in order to protect other parts of the website and keep the bandwidth manageable, well it will be next to impossible. Continue reading →

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Christmas Shopping, CJ Style

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

Bah Humbug! OK, I have to accept that now it’s December people are going to talk about Christmas. Unlike Lisa I love Christmas – and as her birthday is three days before and no one is ever available to go out or do anything for that reason, I can see why she is not keen on it. I have favourite Christmas Songs – I think Greg Lake’s I Believe In Father Christmas is my favourite, which will surprise nobody. Still having to listen to them every time I leave the house is enough to kill anyone. If I had the money buy a copy of Lou Reed’s album Berlin and Pink Floyd’s The Wall just to cheer myself up. Continue reading →

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Sunday Sermon 1: Should Atheists Have No Morals? Yes!

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

Love as an ethic requires intelligence and personal choice: what free will have we if we are bound to a single prescriptive set of applications? Continue reading →

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Education, Atheism – are they the enemies of Reason?

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

I have a rather heretical thought, about ‘paranormal’ beliefs, and their relationship to atheism. I originally posed a question on Professor Dawkins forum as it was inspired by his show… Continue reading →

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Accepting the surrender of the USA; and finding someone more intelligent than me…

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

Got in late tonight, and started looking at the atheist forums — think I was in a silly mood. Continue reading →

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God in School: a US oddity

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Chris Jensen Romer

If so, did the Religious Right make a tactical error to try and put God back in school? Continue reading →

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