Freethought and other High-Fallutin' Multimedia Lectures
November 16, 2007 10:57 AM Subscribe
Freethought Multimedia contains dozens of interviews, conversations and lectures on a variety of topics with/by several contemporary skeptics and freethinkers, including Michael Shermer, James Randi, Daniel Dennett, Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins. (There's a great links section at the bottom of the page, as well. Particularly good are the University Lectures section and the Lectures Archive.)
God is real, and all these heretics will writhe in eternal torment in a lake of fire.
I don't really believe any of that. I just wanted to be the first to say it in this thread.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:35 AM on November 16, 2007 [3 favorites]
I don't really believe any of that. I just wanted to be the first to say it in this thread.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 11:35 AM on November 16, 2007 [3 favorites]
is there really no such thing as a non-white-guy freethinker? or is it just a conspiracy that we never hear from them?
posted by CitizenD at 11:40 AM on November 16, 2007
posted by CitizenD at 11:40 AM on November 16, 2007
or is it just a conspiracy that we never hear from them?
Or they have their own non-conformist fish to fry.
posted by DU at 11:52 AM on November 16, 2007
Or they have their own non-conformist fish to fry.
posted by DU at 11:52 AM on November 16, 2007
s there really no such thing as a non-white-guy freethinker?
Mr Tyson maybe?
posted by vertriebskonzept at 12:39 PM on November 16, 2007 [2 favorites]
Mr Tyson maybe?
posted by vertriebskonzept at 12:39 PM on November 16, 2007 [2 favorites]
... and how about The Infidel Guy? He's been around quite a while...
posted by jgarbers at 12:45 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by jgarbers at 12:45 PM on November 16, 2007
Well, Susan Jacoby -- who wrote Freethinkers: a History of American Secularism -- would probably fall under that category, CitizenD. (It's a great book, by the way.) Elizabeth Cady Stanton, too, but she's not a contemporary.
posted by cog_nate at 12:48 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by cog_nate at 12:48 PM on November 16, 2007
is there really no such thing as a non-white-guy freethinker?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali? I think that she's now moved to a position of all-out atheism.
posted by WPW at 1:00 PM on November 16, 2007
Ayaan Hirsi Ali? I think that she's now moved to a position of all-out atheism.
posted by WPW at 1:00 PM on November 16, 2007
Here's an interesting link (third to appear in a googling for 'black atheists', by the way).
posted by topynate at 1:02 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by topynate at 1:02 PM on November 16, 2007
Very, very nice, cog_nate. Thanks.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 1:03 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by Turtles all the way down at 1:03 PM on November 16, 2007
thank god none of them are as mind-numbingly monotone as Chomsky... if that's at all possible.
good find!
posted by desolepas at 1:06 PM on November 16, 2007
good find!
posted by desolepas at 1:06 PM on November 16, 2007
Many of these links are broken (at least under Massimo Pigliucci).
posted by futility closet at 1:19 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by futility closet at 1:19 PM on November 16, 2007
Who doesn't like Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Also: NOT ATHEIST (according to the US mint)
posted by [expletive deleted] at 1:19 PM on November 16, 2007
Also: NOT ATHEIST (according to the US mint)
posted by [expletive deleted] at 1:19 PM on November 16, 2007
is there really no such thing as a non-white-guy freethinker? or is it just a conspiracy that we never hear from them?
Oh yes, the silence is definitely part of the conspiracy. Members of super-secretive Communities of Color can't tell you their thoughts or they'd have to kill you.
posted by salvia at 2:02 PM on November 16, 2007
Oh yes, the silence is definitely part of the conspiracy. Members of super-secretive Communities of Color can't tell you their thoughts or they'd have to kill you.
posted by salvia at 2:02 PM on November 16, 2007
Forgot to add this to the post: The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive.
posted by cog_nate at 3:38 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by cog_nate at 3:38 PM on November 16, 2007
Oh, and I'd never heard of Neil deGrasse Tyson before. Thanks, vertriebskonzept.
posted by cog_nate at 3:40 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by cog_nate at 3:40 PM on November 16, 2007
Steven Pinker isn't much of a skeptic. He emphatically rejects a number of obvious strawmen, then replaces them with his own, equally impoverished, conceptual scheme.
posted by nasreddin at 8:53 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by nasreddin at 8:53 PM on November 16, 2007
Yeah, Pinker's a knob among knobs.
posted by Joseph Gurl at 10:58 PM on November 16, 2007
posted by Joseph Gurl at 10:58 PM on November 16, 2007
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