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WCDT: Strips 2892 to 2896 (9th - 13th February 2015)
joran:
The strip where Claire and Faye and chatting, and Faye realizes that maybe Angus wants to move to NYC and so he's floating the idea to her. Faye says something like, "how could I not realize that?" and Claire goes, "I don't know, are you kind of dumb?"
This doe-eyed don't-be-mean Claire seems like a completely different character than that girl. It's like she got kawaii'd somewhere in there.
bhtooefr:
Keep in mind that Claire didn't know about Faye's violent streak during that scene.
Now she does, and she also knows that Faye's been through hell recently.
Dark Matter:
--- Quote from: dexeron on 12 Feb 2015, 09:16 ---I'll second (3rd? 4th?) the annoyance with atheists (especially the New Atheists,) and I say that as an atheist myself. I'm not annoyed at their "fundamentalism" (I'm not sure what's meant by that) but by the fact that they're so often tone-deaf to real issues of inequality and suffering (case in point, Dawkins constantly putting his foot in his mouth re: feminism.)
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Exactly. It's not that the New Atheists are any more strongly atheist than other atheists (although they are certainly more smug and confrontational about it), its that they use their atheism to excuse or justify their terrible, reactionary politics.
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 12 Feb 2015, 10:03 ---Keep in mind that Claire didn't know about Faye's violent streak during that scene.
Now she does, and she also knows that Faye's been through hell recently.
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I've also kind of thought that Claire had been in the CoD often enough to see how they are interact that. Casually abusive towards one another, more often than not. So she just was trying to fit in with that comment.
Dalillama:
--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 12 Feb 2015, 09:26 ---
Contrast with people like Dawkins, for whom atheism is a religion - they'd be atheist in a D&D universe where there's conclusive evidence of multiple gods, for instance.
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Not that I'm one to defend Dawkins, what with him being such an asshole, as others have noted above, but that's entirely unfair to him. He's categorically stated that if anyone showed him actual evidence of divinity, he would accept it and change his tune. No one has, because such evidence doesn't exist, but that's another matter.
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