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What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
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What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
I remember it was a really big forum but I never posted there.
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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
The only otherForum I have frequented is the Darwin awards website forums.



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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
I didn't even know Dawkins had a forum. Personally I don't go round the web looking up what the prominent atheists are up to. I occasionally watch some Dawkins vids on the web. Not because of his atheism, but because of his general humerous attitude, which is something many atheist figureheads are sorely missing.
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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
I posted there for a short time ... about a week. It dawned on me that it was a minefield of pedants, sycophants, and assholes, so I left for different pastures.

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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
I couldn't keep up with it.  Way too much traffic.  You'd post something and two hours later you were wading through 3 pages of replies.  It got to be like homework.
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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
(June 6, 2015 at 11:56 am)Minimalist Wrote: I couldn't keep up with it.  Way too much traffic.  You'd post something and two hours later you were wading through 3 pages of replies.  It got to be like homework.

I'm surprised that TTA isn't like this.
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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
I thought it was one of the scariest places on the internet.  Some atheists were trying to turn atheism into an ideology.  "Atheists should do this, atheists shouldn't do that, etc." Richard Dawkins wasn't atheist enough for them because he rated himself as a 6.9 on the Scale of Probability.
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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
(June 6, 2015 at 2:12 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: I thought it was one of the scariest places on the internet.  Some atheists were trying to turn atheism into an ideology.  "Atheists should do this, atheists shouldn't do that, etc." Richard Dawkins wasn't atheist enough for some of them because he rated himself as a 6.9 on the Scale of Probability.

Is that why it got shut down?
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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
(June 6, 2015 at 2:12 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: Some atheists were trying to turn atheism into an ideology.

Which only goes to show that you can turn everything into an ideology. I despise them just as much as every religious fanatic. As soon as someone's starting the missionary work, I don't want to be associated with them.
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RE: What did you think of Richard Dawkins's old forum?
(June 6, 2015 at 2:12 pm)Confused Ape Wrote: I thought it was one of the scariest places on the internet.  Some atheists were trying to turn atheism into an ideology.  "Atheists should do this, atheists shouldn't do that, etc." Richard Dawkins wasn't atheist enough for them because he rated himself as a 6.9 on the Scale of Probability.

(June 6, 2015 at 2:13 pm)TheMessiah Wrote: Is that why it got shut down?

I don't really know why it was shut down but it caused a big drama.  You can read all about it here -

Richard Dawkins Forums meltdown -- how it went down, in quotes

Scroll down the page a bit to the links for more information, including -

Richard Dawkins sues, alleges Josh Timonen embezzled $375,000 from Richard Dawkins Foundation For Reason And Science
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