{"id":627,"date":"2010-06-04T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=627"},"modified":"2010-06-04T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:05:46","slug":"busy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2010\/06\/busy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

03 Jun 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had another busy day. Busy at work, even during lunch I ran a couple of errands.<\/p>\n

This evening, I hosted another two episodes of Atheists Talk<\/em>; this time I interviewed my friend Ryan. First, Ryan discussed some of his suggestions for “Summer Reading.” We talked about the book God<\/em><\/a>, 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.\u00a0 The other books, featuring a trilogy of fiction, a book titled Doubt<\/em>, and a difficult-to-obtain out-of-print book by William Clifford were probably not quite as conducive to summer reading.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

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

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and…<\/p>\n

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Let me know if you wanna see the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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