Busy Day

03 Jun 2010

Had another busy day. Busy at work, even during lunch I ran a couple of errands.

This evening, I hosted another two episodes of Atheists Talk; this time I interviewed my friend Ryan. First, Ryan discussed some of his suggestions for “Summer Reading.” We talked about the book God, a book I hadn’t heard of before Ryan told me it was one of the books he wanted to talk about. It’s a pretty good choice for summer reading, actually, since it’s made up of many, many self-contained vignettes.  The other books, featuring a trilogy of fiction, a book titled Doubt, and a difficult-to-obtain out-of-print book by William Clifford were probably not quite as conducive to summer reading.

Which brings up a question I had: Why are there summer reading lists? I’ve seen them in magazines and online, and some books are even marketed as summer reading, but why does the season make a difference in what people read? Because school is out of session? Must be. That’s the only reason I can think of.

The other episode featured discussing Ryan’s critique of Dawkins’ The Greatest Show on Earth (which appeared on Dawkins’ site), and the TV premier of Flattened. I think that episode went better. It was a lot more fun.

Also today, I got a copy of latest brochures that the Watchtower Society is releasing at their conventions this summer. Here are the covers:

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Let me know if you wanna see the rest.