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Actually pretty useful. I work as a copywriter and the general writing skills I picked up definitely help and the logical structure of how I write as a result of studying philosophy gives me a bit of an edge over other writers (I think). It's a USP at least. Also, just having the degree (any degree) meant I could apply for graduate jobs I wouldn't otherwise be eligible for.

I also, broadly speaking, use the 'skills' of philosophy every day because it has profoundly shaped the way I think but this is only because I took the course so seriously. I wouldn't recommend someone study it if it doesn't interest them though because they're not likely to get the same value from studying it as I did.

Hoping to go back and do a PhD in September.

Q: What do you do with the "you are religious about science" charges that come at you so often?

Richard Dawkins: [rolls eyes] Science doesn't have the property of religion of blind faith. Science is based upon evidence. Uhh, so evidence is actually the ONLY way we know anything about the real world. So it would be nonsense to say that science has anything in common with religion in that sense. Science may have something in common with religion in that science answers the questions that religion over the centuries that religion has aspired to and FAILED to answer.

Source: https://youtu.be/_v4X3qW05fE

Thoughts?

Questioner: Are you a science apologist? Is that an accurate way to speak about what you do?

>Richard Dawkins: [rolls eyes] In the normal sense of the word I wouldn't have thought that science needed an apologist. I suppose I am a science advocate. Uhhh... but yes, I'm, I-I am proud of what science has achieved and uhh... I like to promote science to as many people as possible.

Q: What do you do with the "you are religious about science" charges that come at you so often?

>RD: Science doesn't have the property of religion of blind faith. Science is based upon evidence. Uhh, so evidence is actually the ONLY way we know anything about the real world. So it would be nonsense to say that science has anything in common with religion in that sense. Science may have something in common with religion in that science answers the questions that religion over the centuries that religion has aspired to and FAILED to answer.

Source: https://youtu.be/_v4X3qW05fE

Thoughts?

>Dear Muslima
>Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and … yawn … don't tell me yet again, I know you aren't allowed to drive a car, and you can't leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you'll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with. Only this week I heard of one, she calls herself Skep"chick", and do you know what happened to her? A man in a hotel elevator invited her back to his room for coffee. I am not exaggerating. He really did. He invited her back to his room for coffee. Of course she said no, and of course he didn't lay a finger on her, but even so …
>And you, Muslima, think you have misogyny to complain about! For goodness sake grow up, or at least grow a thicker skin.

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>Finally, I desired that, if there is to be talk about philosophy, there should be less trifling with the label “atheism” (which reminds one of children, assuring everyone who is ready to listen to them that they are not afraid of the bogy man), and that instead the content of philosophy should be brought to the people.

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Dow-kin?