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THE FATHER OF MEMES: A GUIDE TO RICHARD DAWKINS

Sisyphus 55 | November 13, 2025



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  2. @daseinz

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    Funniest part is his recent interview where he says that he misses the Christian Europe. Because other religions are being held in UK. He's a special type of loser.

  3. @alexluna3207

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    I digress his viewpoints on the topics are not "shallow" nor "archaic" but well thought out and backed by actual EVIDENCE, which is of utmost importance when proving something is right or wrong regardless of whether its emotionally uncomfortable for some or that the idea is put out recently and believed by a more contemporary audience does nothing to back it up as a true statement what matters and what he does do is look to the EVIDENCE and cites it in backing his claims constantly , other than that entertaining video.

  16. @cygneturesounds

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    I had to pause a re-read the tweet (being up too fast to read and assuming it was a really spicy take)… it was not spicy at all. I'm assuming it was sarcasm that he lost his humanity award?

  20. @tribudeuno

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    “What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition. Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, it's far over 20%.

    …the general tacit assumption in thought is that it's just telling you the way things are and that it's not doing anything – that 'you' are inside there, deciding what to do with the information. But you don't decide what to do with the information. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false information that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us.

    Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally. This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against what it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call "sustained incoherence”…

    David Bohm, quantum physicist, unknowingly wrote the final necessary calculations that made the Atomic Bomb possible in his doctoral dissertation that was seized by the US Government

  22. @appleturdpie

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    Was there something he said anti-trans before that 2015 tweet? Because there's a 2006 two part episode of South Park that heavily memes on him, the fact it's accurate in regard to his views on trans people makes the episode more hilarious. (For reference it's s10e12 & e13 of the Go God Go episodes)

  24. @stephano4468

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    I just purchased Susan Blackmores "The Meme Machine" today on a whim and seeing as you've mentioned them in this video a dedicated look into the topic could be highly informative for what I feel is a painfully under highlighted subject and idea

  28. @bugseater1

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    I am transgender and I see his comment about it as a bit iffy but not full blown evil worth total 100% shaming of.

    You can't change your chromosomal sex, but you can change several other characteristics of it (hormones, a lot of secondary sexual characteristics, etc.), sex in its totality is not a binary, and a fully transitioned person would fall non-binary in some spots, male in some spots, and female on others.

    And also gender is a separate thing from sex (he kind of mentions this), with both a non-deniable biological part to identity (Trans people's brains match closer to their desired sex and lie somewhere between their birth and desired sex), and a socially constructed view of gender (roles, looking deeper into identity, etc. This stuff is literally so weird when you begin to look at it and runs super deep, and as Lily Alexandre put it, "I see this sh-t in six dimensions, you cannot begin to comprehend just how fake it is!").

    It's good that as a formality he refers to someone as their gender, rather than biological sex, as anyone should out of respect.

  35. @polarbianarchy3333

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    The god facade is a shared meme that has a continuum of expression across dominance hierarchal cultures or those conquered by cultures of economic dominant drives/memes., the western European patriarchal colonialism.

  36. @AnnaLiisaOG

    November 13, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    His excuse/joke to not do theological research is terrible though. No one believes in leprechauns but close to half the world believe in God/god and have personal testimony regarding their belief. It's not the same comparison. He shouldn't be so sloppy

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