Date: 27/12/2021 21:52:37
From: sarahs mum
ID: 1829096
Subject: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

Tim Minchin in conversation with Richard Dawkins

Center for Inquiry 59K subscribers In the 350-year-old Sheldonian Theatre, designed by the famed British architect Christopher Wren, musician, composer, comedian, actor and writer, Tim Minchin, received the 2021 Richard Dawkins Award before a sold out crowd on October 10th.

Support the Center for Inquiry! https://centerforinquiry.org/support-…

Richard Dawkins gave a soaring and touchingly personal tribute to the awardee, calling him “a staunch upholder of rationalism, secularism, and scientific skepticism.”

In introducing the event, Robyn Blumner, CFI’s CEO, said that Tim is this year’s awardee because “Number one, the award criteria fits him to a ‘T,’ and number two, because he’s so freakin’ awesome.”

David Cowan, a CFI board member and Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, masterfully moderated a lively 90-minute conversation between Richard and Tim, after sharing that he is a major fanboy of Tim’s and doing an on-stage selfie with him.

CFI sends a special “thank you” to educator and science journalist David Robert Grimes who expertly organized the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vg3DkeyoUI

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Date: 27/12/2021 22:38:33
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1829103
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

sarahs mum said:


Tim Minchin in conversation with Richard Dawkins

Center for Inquiry 59K subscribers In the 350-year-old Sheldonian Theatre, designed by the famed British architect Christopher Wren, musician, composer, comedian, actor and writer, Tim Minchin, received the 2021 Richard Dawkins Award before a sold out crowd on October 10th.

Support the Center for Inquiry! https://centerforinquiry.org/support-…

Richard Dawkins gave a soaring and touchingly personal tribute to the awardee, calling him “a staunch upholder of rationalism, secularism, and scientific skepticism.”

In introducing the event, Robyn Blumner, CFI’s CEO, said that Tim is this year’s awardee because “Number one, the award criteria fits him to a ‘T,’ and number two, because he’s so freakin’ awesome.”

David Cowan, a CFI board member and Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, masterfully moderated a lively 90-minute conversation between Richard and Tim, after sharing that he is a major fanboy of Tim’s and doing an on-stage selfie with him.

CFI sends a special “thank you” to educator and science journalist David Robert Grimes who expertly organized the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vg3DkeyoUI

Have to come back to that one tomorrow.

I’m a big Minchin fan.

I guess he probably would have used a different name for the comparison if it had been this week though.

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Date: 27/12/2021 22:58:33
From: sarahs mum
ID: 1829108
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

I guess he probably would have used a different name for the comparison if it had been this week though.
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It was the thread title that I used due to what my soundtrack was..

The youtube channel titled it…‘Tim Minchin in conversation with Richard Dawkins’

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Date: 28/12/2021 11:22:47
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1829172
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

The Rev Dodgson said:


sarahs mum said:

Tim Minchin in conversation with Richard Dawkins

Center for Inquiry 59K subscribers In the 350-year-old Sheldonian Theatre, designed by the famed British architect Christopher Wren, musician, composer, comedian, actor and writer, Tim Minchin, received the 2021 Richard Dawkins Award before a sold out crowd on October 10th.

Support the Center for Inquiry! https://centerforinquiry.org/support-…

Richard Dawkins gave a soaring and touchingly personal tribute to the awardee, calling him “a staunch upholder of rationalism, secularism, and scientific skepticism.”

In introducing the event, Robyn Blumner, CFI’s CEO, said that Tim is this year’s awardee because “Number one, the award criteria fits him to a ‘T,’ and number two, because he’s so freakin’ awesome.”

David Cowan, a CFI board member and Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, masterfully moderated a lively 90-minute conversation between Richard and Tim, after sharing that he is a major fanboy of Tim’s and doing an on-stage selfie with him.

CFI sends a special “thank you” to educator and science journalist David Robert Grimes who expertly organized the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vg3DkeyoUI

Have to come back to that one tomorrow.

I’m a big Minchin fan.

I guess he probably would have used a different name for the comparison if it had been this week though.

> I’m a big Minchin fan.

You mean the barely funny commedian with the big hair?

(Runs away).

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Date: 28/12/2021 11:42:45
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1829179
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

mollwollfumble said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

sarahs mum said:

Tim Minchin in conversation with Richard Dawkins

Center for Inquiry 59K subscribers In the 350-year-old Sheldonian Theatre, designed by the famed British architect Christopher Wren, musician, composer, comedian, actor and writer, Tim Minchin, received the 2021 Richard Dawkins Award before a sold out crowd on October 10th.

Support the Center for Inquiry! https://centerforinquiry.org/support-…

Richard Dawkins gave a soaring and touchingly personal tribute to the awardee, calling him “a staunch upholder of rationalism, secularism, and scientific skepticism.”

In introducing the event, Robyn Blumner, CFI’s CEO, said that Tim is this year’s awardee because “Number one, the award criteria fits him to a ‘T,’ and number two, because he’s so freakin’ awesome.”

David Cowan, a CFI board member and Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur, masterfully moderated a lively 90-minute conversation between Richard and Tim, after sharing that he is a major fanboy of Tim’s and doing an on-stage selfie with him.

CFI sends a special “thank you” to educator and science journalist David Robert Grimes who expertly organized the event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vg3DkeyoUI

Have to come back to that one tomorrow.

I’m a big Minchin fan.

I guess he probably would have used a different name for the comparison if it had been this week though.

> I’m a big Minchin fan.

You mean the barely funny commedian with the big hair?

(Runs away).

De gustibus non est disputandum

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Date: 28/12/2021 13:30:05
From: Ogmog
ID: 1829225
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

having not sat through the hour + talk

I’ll choose to reply directly to the Thread Title:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
“Come on now, be honest! Which one of you wouldn’t rather listen to his hairdresser than Hercules?
Or Horatius, or Orpheus… people so lofty they sound as if they sh*t marble!”

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Date: 30/12/2021 22:22:02
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1829980
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

Just watched it all.

OK, I skipped the intros.

Really enjoyed it. A bit slow at times, but some stuff I really agreed with, especially towards the end.

Then I went and watched Storm again :)

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Date: 30/12/2021 22:24:52
From: sarahs mum
ID: 1829983
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

The Rev Dodgson said:


Just watched it all.

OK, I skipped the intros.

Really enjoyed it. A bit slow at times, but some stuff I really agreed with, especially towards the end.

Then I went and watched Storm again :)

I also watched storm again and :)

Also

I’ll Take Lonely Tonight by Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is73BbYhFz4&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=3

and

Tim Minchin – If This Plane Goes Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EblcARJBgww&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=1

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Date: 30/12/2021 22:32:23
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1829987
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

sarahs mum said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

Just watched it all.

OK, I skipped the intros.

Really enjoyed it. A bit slow at times, but some stuff I really agreed with, especially towards the end.

Then I went and watched Storm again :)

I also watched storm again and :)

Also

I’ll Take Lonely Tonight by Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is73BbYhFz4&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=3

and

Tim Minchin – If This Plane Goes Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EblcARJBgww&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=1

If asked for my favorited TM song, I’d probably say Thank-you God, but really it’s:
Five poofs and two pianos

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Date: 30/12/2021 22:38:27
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1829989
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

sarahs mum said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

Just watched it all.

OK, I skipped the intros.

Really enjoyed it. A bit slow at times, but some stuff I really agreed with, especially towards the end.

Then I went and watched Storm again :)

I also watched storm again and :)

Also

I’ll Take Lonely Tonight by Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is73BbYhFz4&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=3

and

Tim Minchin – If This Plane Goes Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EblcARJBgww&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=1

Thanks for the links by the way.

Good to see some new stuff.

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Date: 30/12/2021 22:41:45
From: sarahs mum
ID: 1829990
Subject: re: He'd rather break bread with Dawkins than Desmond Tutu to be honest.

The Rev Dodgson said:


sarahs mum said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Just watched it all.

OK, I skipped the intros.

Really enjoyed it. A bit slow at times, but some stuff I really agreed with, especially towards the end.

Then I went and watched Storm again :)

I also watched storm again and :)

Also

I’ll Take Lonely Tonight by Tim Minchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is73BbYhFz4&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=3

and

Tim Minchin – If This Plane Goes Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EblcARJBgww&list=RDEblcARJBgww&index=1

Thanks for the links by the way.

Good to see some new stuff.

:)
It was an album. But they were my favourites from it.

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