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Offline benguela

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on: March 06, 2009, 22:42:30 pm
perhaps a seprate thread?

Storm

this has shot to my number 1 video list and will probably remain there for a long time.
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Reply #1 on: March 09, 2009, 13:32:12 pm
Yup, well worth a view, thanks!
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Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 09:06:08 am
That was quite brilliant. Thank you very much.
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Reply #3 on: August 25, 2009, 21:13:49 pm
Very nice - met a couple of Storms - never had the balls to give it to them like that though, but a good way to being inspired - thanks.

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Reply #4 on: June 02, 2010, 12:41:59 pm
Maybe you've seen it but here's an interesting list of atheists:
http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Main_Page
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Reply #5 on: June 02, 2010, 18:45:40 pm
Excellent video.  Thanks for posting.
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Reply #6 on: September 10, 2010, 18:54:27 pm
Have you guys seen one of Minchin's shows? I have his "Ready For This?" - which is just fantastic. Anyone in the JHB area can, erm, "borrow" it at the next SITP...

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Reply #7 on: March 23, 2011, 21:01:46 pm
*bump*

Storm by Tim Minchin - a classic...

(just because I knew it was on the site but no search could reveal it until I used the "google entire site" function and now I'll be able to  :D)
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Reply #8 on: March 24, 2011, 10:51:29 am
I've been waiting for the fully animated version for yonks now but they keep updating their site with "any day now", which never comes....

http://www.stormmovie.net
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Reply #9 on: March 24, 2011, 11:30:14 am
an animated movie!  very cool.



btw I just noticed this is actually a stickied topic? Talk about being in front of me all the time.
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Reply #10 on: March 30, 2011, 16:11:52 pm
Ray Comfort on the atheist experience  ;D

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13612645
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Reply #11 on: March 31, 2011, 07:25:17 am
I watched the first half an hour of that.

It is clear that Ray really really believes. Strange and alien as that may seem to me, he really does. I would love to understand the basis of that belief better but I think I may just have to accept that people like him and believers in general, simply have a different approach.

I do hear the argument from ignorance from him again and again - "the beautiful flowers and butterflies" - is it really just that? Believers are incapable of looking at the universe and *not* see a creator?

Kudus to Matt and Russel for an interesting yet futile conversation.

ETA: watching the rest ustream.tv is not blocked at work. The fools! mwhahahhaaahaaa /fades
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Reply #12 on: April 03, 2011, 22:16:33 pm
Quote from: benguela on March 30, 2011, 16:11:52 pm
Ray Comfort on the atheist experience  ;D

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13612645
I watched it yesterday - he is such a plonker!
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Reply #13 on: April 04, 2011, 08:48:14 am
I listened to about 1/2 way and it was clear Ray was just going to repeat his junk until the end of time.

He uses the diversionary pattern of argumentation: Opponent raises a point that buries you, you change the subject.
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Reply #14 on: April 08, 2011, 10:45:43 am
Tim Minchin's animated movie of "Storm" is finally up on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/timminchin

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