How Stupid Do You Think I Think You Are?

[rionaleonhart]

Richard Dawkins is such a bastard. I found myself becoming insanely angry barely a minute into The Enemies of Reason, and it only kept mounting. I am by no means a religious person, but he makes me wish I were a faith healer Creationist just so I wouldn't have to share any of my beliefs with him.

In other news, something that happened just now:

(RIONA is waiting for her rather misshapen attempt at brownies to cool in the kitchen. The younger of her brothers, FRED, walks in.)
FRED: Can I play your ukulele?
RIONA: (half-glances at him out of the corner of her eye) Yeah, all right.
(FRED whacks the ukulele against the table.)
RIONA: (YELPS)
RIONA: What--
'UKULELE': (is actually a piece of thin wood, carefully painted to look like RIONA's ukulele)
RIONA: ...
RIONA: ...
RIONA: That seems like a lot of trouble to go to in order to give me a heart attack.

In other other news, I, er, may sort of already have a few sentences of Alex/Jess scribbled down in one of my many notebooks. I cannot believe I'm writing The Real Hustle fanfiction. I'm usually able to resist for at least a month after a horribly inappropriate fanfic idea occurs to me! This one hasn't even taken three days!

Comments

[sideshow-meg.livejournal.com]

Urgh, you're right - Richard Dawkins *is* such a bastard. I'm not religious either, but his lack of acceptance for non-scientific beliefs is staggering!

Also, I shouldn't really laugh at the ukelele thing, but that's quite impressive. (Although, due to his name and prankster character, I now picture your brother as Fre Weasley 0.o)

[rionaleonhart]

Hee! He is a little Fred Weasley-ish, but if we're assigning Harry Potter characters, I've always associated him with the young (as in pre-teen; the one Dumbledore meets at the orphanage) Tom Riddle. Not because he's evil (although he certainly can be), but physically he's exactly what I imagine young Voldemort to look like. (I'd show you a photograph, but he's only thirteen and I'm not comfortable with putting his picture up where anyone can see it.)

[sideshow-meg.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I never put up pictures of my 15 Year Old brother either.

I think my brother is Fred, George and Ron all rolled together, and Hagrid because he's so tall!

[rionaleonhart]

My sixteen-year-old brother is also freakishly tall! I suspect that he may be the child of Ron and Hermione.

I have no idea where I'd fit into the Potter universe, though.

[sideshow-meg.livejournal.com]

No, me neither.

I'd like to be Tonks, because she's quite sweet. I'm quite Mrs Weasleyish in my worrying and mothering of my younger friends though!

[anazri.livejournal.com]

I've not actually been watching the Richard Dawkins thing, because people like that scare me slightly and I'd like to form my own views about the world, thankyou very much. Is he as patronising as I imagine?

I cannot believe I'm writing The Real Hustle fanfiction. ...neither can I, but I think I love you. XD

[rionaleonhart]

He is almost certainly more patronising than you imagine. His tone of voice when speaking to practitioners of alternative healing methods drove me into such rage that I can't even remember what he actually said. I've never heard such a superior git before.

And, er, I'm glad there's apparently a tiny audience for my bizarre fanfic out there!

[sideshow-meg.livejournal.com]

Yes, he is. he's all 'SCIENCE CAN PROVIDE AN ANSWER TO EVERYTHING SO ALL YOU BELIEVERS ARE WRONG AND YOU FAIL AT LIFE'

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

I only know him because of The God Delusion, and a friend of mine who studies Theology says a few of his chapters concerning religion are rubbish, which doesn't bode well for other chapters, really.

If Dawkins feels the need to put down other theories/beliefs to promote his own, his own can't be much good.

"I cannot believe I'm writing The Real Hustle fanfiction."

*is intrigued*

[rionaleonhart]

Have you watched any of The Real Hustle? If you haven't, you should, because then you can play your role as the little demon who sits on my shoulder and persuades me to write fanfiction (and totally not because I need other people who can write fanfiction for it, oh no). It's very easy to find on YouTube.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Nooo, I have three TG WIPs! And I still need to finish Final Fantasy VIII!

*flees*

[rionaleonhart]

COME BACK! I NEED ALEX/JESS/PAUL! Look, I'll even make it easy for you!

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

*is resisting temptation by playing FFVIII*

[twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com]

I don't think I know who Richard Dawkins is, but I'm going to take it as a good thing.

That was rather cruel of your brother! (Though also a bit amusing, since it wasn't really your ukulele.) I will admit I winced at the whacking, because that'd probably ruin the tuning. (I have a guitar - that I am terrible at playing because my fingers are so useless - that my father stepped on once. Not sure how he managed it, but it took me weeks to get it properly back in tune. I hate tuning.)

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

Your brother is very mean.

Also THANK YOU for reminding me to watch some The Real Hustle because FFXII has distracted me again.

[rionaleonhart]

*FLAILS*

Tell me when Alex/Jess/Paul or any combination starts worming its way into your brain! (Although playing FFXII is good too, because you can never have enough sky-pirating!)

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

Only there is not so much sky-pirating because I am like LOL VAAN LET'S START ANOTHER NEW GAME AND LEVEL AND SPEND LICENSE POINTS ON WEAPONS AND ARMOUR BECAUSE I NEED THEM MOST.

[reipan.livejournal.com]

Alternative methods of healing, is it? Remind me to punch this man in the face.

[rionaleonhart]

Gladly! He's almost on a par with Dan Brown when it comes to People Who Infuriate Me.

[reipan.livejournal.com]

=_= Tell me, was it just faith healers he was humiliating, or were there other types of alternative healers as well?

[rionaleonhart]

I think he was attacking more or less every form of alternative treatment, although I didn't watch the whole thing. The (bloody annoying) summary from the makers:

Is it rational that the dead can communicate with the living and give sound advice on how they should live their lives? What about sticking pins into your body to free the flow of Chi energy and cure your illness? Or the bending of spoons using your mind alone? Is that rational? Richard Dawkins doesn’t think so, and feels it is his duty to expose those areas of belief that exist without scientific proof, yet manage to hold the nation under their spell. He will take on the world’s leading proponents in their field of expertise, meet the victims who have used them and expose the history of the movements – from the charlatans who have milked these practices to the experiments and testing that have failed to produce conclusive results.

[reipan.livejournal.com]

...DEATH SHALL COME ON SWIFT WINGS.

from the charlatans who have milked these practices to the experiments and testing that have failed to produce conclusive results.

...isn't that pretty much the story of the NHS?

[ms-katonic.livejournal.com]

Richard Dawkins is such a bastard. I found myself becoming insanely angry barely a minute into The Enemies of Reason, and it only kept mounting. I am by no means a religious person, but he makes me wish I were a faith healer Creationist just so I wouldn't have to share any of my beliefs with him.

THANK YOU, YES, ABSOLUTELY!

And you have no idea how apt this post is - but I know some people who are hardcore atheists and are forever singing his praises. It really drives the rest of us up the wall, let me tell you.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

What did he do now?

I've read some of his books and they can make me think some, but The Agenda is about as visible as the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

[saaski-moql.livejournal.com]

...I'm a bit amazed at your little brother O_o