RE: Russell Brand vs. Paxman!
October 25, 2013 at 10:18 am
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2013 at 10:20 am by paulpablo.)
(October 25, 2013 at 8:51 am)Ben Davis Wrote: I saw this interview yesterday and was once again impressed by Russell's enthusiastic intellect. He's well educated and smart as well as funny. I wish the interview had been longer.
I liked the part when Paxman was honestly surprised at Russell's religiosity; in the UK, it's generally true that the smarter you are, the less religious you are and most people work on that assumption. TBH, I'd always assumed that he was religious because his values seemed imbued with a cross-fertilisation of christianity, new-age paganism & eastern philosophies. I don't think Russell has an official doctrine but he seems to be some sort of pantheist with interventionalist leanings.
He's a hipster who rarely makes much sense when he tries to use long words, his religion seems to me to be a blend of non nonsensical unspecific spirituality combined with the nice parts of christianity.
ALTHOUGH, I did like this interview and he seems to be making sense so far in this interview.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
