Atheist Zone | Bookish atheists | Activity https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/ Activity feed for the group, Bookish atheists. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:44:18 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 69f365873c174d0c325f648060ce98dc RichRaelian joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/38268/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 06:11:50 +0000 0 e0ce37290c2386e943048d3b87600a95 TheEncogitationer joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/24239/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:56:32 +0000 0 991accb55fd3cf5cc6a9580eb3daf7be Donald Williams joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/18546/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:59:59 +0000 0 b45d2837778e248b5e6b8dc7164a6245 gt joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/18142/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 11:19:26 +0000 0 b8f4da8d71df968133307387047e2d44 Clearsky joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/14760/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 13:05:00 +0000 0 bc883cf9207e402e8b9a277844d49bd2 Rodrigo Moreira Pavanelli joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/14207/ Tue, 21 Aug 2018 03:15:18 +0000 0 be178b262cc7531a6d69fc02f790c175 Emma Leigh joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/13389/ Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:00:45 +0000 0 36ed11a3cfe65df946029ce05d1a6ca3 Lars joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/13073/ Tue, 10 Jul 2018 06:54:11 +0000 0 cc01957f88ced8d55bb34d9f7a1a44a7 williamchess joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/13045/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:46:28 +0000 0 84eb5388f7e802a7c7e2ed96a76623c8 michaelmoats joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/11734/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 14:32:59 +0000 0 c4be57f65fcb780ace71c39de48bf069 PopeBeanie replied to the topic Writers, tell about your offerings here in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/writers-tell-about-your-offerings-here/#post-8726 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 03:04:49 +0000 NOMA NOMA!!

]]> 23b40f9aa968c2cc68e6876a9d57ce6a eljay joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/11659/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 21:37:57 +0000 0 3b40d94b906fd30579456bdd3dbb393a Lisa joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/11496/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:26:25 +0000 0 8006009990c6b356fa6db6cd19ff2fe1 Strega replied to the topic Writers, tell about your offerings here in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/writers-tell-about-your-offerings-here/#post-8485 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:39:17 +0000 @regthefronkeyfarmer I will proof read for you when you’re ready

]]> ef795e1a09bdb2d66b822e9fe811c65d Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Writers, tell about your offerings here in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/writers-tell-about-your-offerings-here/#post-8482 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 21:07:08 +0000 Thanks Simon, I am 300 pages in but need to stop revising and editing it. Just write it and let someone else proof read it.

I am in the “NOMA” camp and do not see any need for religion. Science investigates the natural world and religion the alleged supernatural world. As there is only the natural world I see no need for religion. It is obs…[Read more]

]]> dc7e98ed8592a41679059124a2b8c228 PopeBeanie replied to the topic Writers, tell about your offerings here in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/writers-tell-about-your-offerings-here/#post-8481 Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:43:09 +0000 @simonpaynton I wouldn’t call myself a blogger, yet, as most of my writing is here (and TA) atm. I do have a different identity at some other websites, but I’m not ready to disclose them publicly (because of some of my anti-Scientology rants), and other websites where I publicly store links and themed resources under my real name. I do have a…[Read more]

]]> 626c0344b4ef2e6bd62a8d7aaaad98a5 Simon Paynton replied to the topic Writers, tell about your offerings here in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/writers-tell-about-your-offerings-here/#post-8405 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:24:35 +0000 I have my web site.  The problem I have (that I identify) is that my writing is very clunky.  It’s difficult to put down bits of facts and research piecemeal and expect it to read nicely.  I notice that other writers on a similar subject (morality) know their material like a charm, and so they can just reel it off when needed, and it really fl…[Read more]

]]> fb5d6fe458e3e48756175af80022ebb3 Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Writers, tell about your offerings here in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/writers-tell-about-your-offerings-here/#post-8386 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:40:37 +0000 I am writing a book about the nature of belief and belief in gods in particular. The premise of the book is to help people with doubts to reason themselves away from god. It will be commercial – if I ever finish it!!! with 10% of profits going to a charity I support.

More anon……

]]> 8d493f76938e2d3beed1692a78040ac5 PopeBeanie started the topic Writers, tell about your offerings here in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/writers-tell-about-your-offerings-here/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:27:43 +0000 This forum’s for telling us about and linking to your atheism-related writings. If there’s a commercial aspect to it, please be up front about it. If it’s of a more personal nature, you might additionally or prefer to mention it here: https://atheistzone.com/groups/atheist-poets-and-writers/forum/

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]]> b7fe2362cef91269d35482972977cf7c private started the topic The Three-Body Problem (sci-fi) in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/the-three-body-problem-sci-fi/ Sun, 24 Sep 2017 10:08:07 +0000 This is a trilogy, written by Cixin Liu, an author “beloved” by Chinese readers.  I found it seriously nerdy at times (well, I am a technopeasant).  Did me good to exercise a few brain cells.  Reminded me of Isaac Asimov due to the affection and depth of the way this author dealt with sensitive human problems.  Hint:  space is much more dang…[Read more]

]]> cb9a2c247f2d2bb8db9f3987fa837e73 private replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/genius-of-p-g-wodehouse/#post-5429 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 09:41:40 +0000 @Belle ….. It can happen to any of us unwary ones.  I only accidentally stumbled on Laurie doing Wooster on TV.  By the way, none of us deserves to live if we let this bookish forum die.

]]> cc98b8499537de10fc632df8bac45cfc private joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/6498/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 05:12:15 +0000 0 fa25896c1345e84aecc3c98adf2649c2 Goranko joined the group Bookish atheists https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/5870/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:46:57 +0000 0 980751583e64ce598d80206f23662240 tom sarbeck posted an update in the group Bookish atheists: Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the 21st C […] https://atheistzone.com/activity/p/5864/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 16:48:12 +0000 Sex, Religion, and Law from America’s Origins to the 21st Century [subtitle]

If you’re unsure of your ability to demolish the “Christian Nation”, lie, this book is for you.

Geoffrey Stone opens “Sex and the Constitution” with the words of SCOTUS Justice William Brennan from one of the Court’s major decisions on pornography, Roth v. United…[Read more]

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]]> 0 67a0d631cfc0701f8b8734a4e9733652 Winter Lily started the topic Go Set A Watchman book review in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/go-set-a-watchman-book-review/ Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:16:42 +0000 Ok so Go Set A Watchman was pretty good… Well lets just put it this way I liked and didn’t like it. Atticus in GSAW (Go Set A Watchman) seemed like a stranger in this book. Like I said I liked the book but I couldn’t really get into it in the beginning I was practically glued to the book but then after awhile it just bored me a bit and the…[Read more]

]]> 95a7ac1500275c0024495650ed51e15b Winter Lily started the topic To Kill A Mockingbird book review in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/to-kill-a-mockingbird-book-review/ Sat, 22 Aug 2015 03:38:51 +0000 I absolutely loved To Kill A Mockingbird it was amazing although I thought for sure (Spoiler alert!) that Tom Robinson would go free and they were sooo close to winning but then Tom runs off and well…?

But besides that I really loved it. It gets ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I just really wish Tom Robinson hadn’t run off like he did while waiting for the possible appeal.

]]> 43cbe3fc7417abb4cfe477b52e5b7b6f Beth replied to the topic I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson review in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/ill-give-you-the-sun-by-jandy-nelson-review/#post-2624 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:21:49 +0000 I loved this book too! Normally I don’t like alternating first-person perspectives, but I thought it was done really well in this case. And as you said, such beautiful writing.

]]> 8431985e1a80152f11006bfc56fbc566 Winter Lily started the topic I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson review in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/ill-give-you-the-sun-by-jandy-nelson-review/ Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:02:52 +0000 I just finished reading I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson.

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next, while daredevil Jude cliff dives and wears red lipstick and does the talking for both of them.

But three years later, at sixteen,…[Read more]

]]> 5cede8bddbf34805d4a08072ca6a7e7b Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/genius-of-p-g-wodehouse/#post-2555 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:02:15 +0000 As I grew up I remember my father reading PGW with regular loud outbursts of laughter and seeing a long line of “orange” Penguin books by him on one of the bookshelves.

“I hadn’t the heart to touch my breakfast. I told Jeeves to drink it himself.”

]]> 7f309dd3e3c450727ad626b870476277 Simon Mathews replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/genius-of-p-g-wodehouse/#post-2550 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:05:02 +0000

Strega wrote:Having read all (and I do mean all) of the Jeeves and Wooster books he wrote, I was ecstatic when Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie played Jeeves and Wooster respectively in an adaptation series from the books. If you haven’t seen them in action, I’m pretty certain YouTube will have full episodes available. Pip pip, old friend, no tim…

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]]> 71ba00ca2231d1b4dfaa2a60d49c1bcd Strega replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/genius-of-p-g-wodehouse/#post-2545 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:32:35 +0000 Having read all (and I do mean all) of the Jeeves and Wooster books he wrote, I was ecstatic when Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie played Jeeves and Wooster respectively in an adaptation series from the books. If you haven’t seen them in action, I’m pretty certain YouTube will have full episodes available. Pip pip, old friend, no time like the present…

]]> d28a86d95c92284c6627f465b5d30120 Davis replied to the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/genius-of-p-g-wodehouse/#post-2542 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:38:49 +0000 Indeed. The Code of the Woosters was brilliant.

A particularly nice quoty by Wodehouse:

“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

]]> 7f0688fd414798a28d20523b59fdf0d8 Simon Mathews started the topic Genius of P.G. Wodehouse in the forum Bookish atheists http://atheistzone.com/groups/bookish-atheists/forum/topic/genius-of-p-g-wodehouse/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:27:29 +0000 For anyone who is a fan of the English language and hasn’t read any Wodehouse, I recommend it – particularly the Jeeves and Wooster books. They contain lovely turns of phrase such as:

“Well upon my word, Spode, this is just too much. Just that little bit above the odds that compels a man to take drastic action.”

“I don’t think Totley Towers is…[Read more]

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