Wouldn't like to go to heaven or hell. Eternal fire and punishments gonna be painful for a couple of years, but it will just get boring. Having anything you want for eternity will also be great for a couple of years, but that'll get boring too. Reincarnation sounds the best, and is probably the least boring.
@Anonymouskmn Let me rephrase that, anything in the Bible that has to do with magic and miracles is nonsense. You could possibly take some good life lessons from it if you pick and choose the right parts :)
@spencerbenedict2nd Talk sense. If you can. Or did you copy/paste that to save yourself the trouble of THINKING? You religious twazzocks are pretty good at avoiding thinking, after all..
Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations
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If we place our faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, trusting His death on the cross to pay for our sins, we will be forgiven and receive the promise of eternal life in heaven. "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son so that anyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).
died in 2001... well one things for sure, he knows whether or not he was right haha! i hope he was... no body, and i mean NO BODY deserves to burn... no matter what you've done!
@sstan1337 well he's dead. so he has learned whats going to happen when we die. plain and simple. i tend to be on the fence. each side with strong supporting points/facts to me. i dont know whats going to happen. but i must say, i dont see myself ever "loving" a god what would have me burn if i didnt. if it wernt for the scare of hell... i couldnt see any religious person EVER saying they loved jesus their savior. or god. it would be pointless. so yea. there you go
@ovechkin100 I'll go one step further and say that if it came down to it and there is a heaven or hell and I was given the choice I would choose hell over heaven simply because I could not imagine spending eternity in a paradise with a being who makes such an extreme and binary system of punishment and reward.
@ovechkin100 You're not going to mate, even if there is an afterlife. To burn requires atoms, thus if there really is a soul it isn't made of atoms, thus burning it is impossible. So enjoy your life and don't worry about all the threats the religious people use.
You don't get it. I couldn't scare you by saying there's a big butterfly that will punish you if you don't believe in him. You can't scare me by saying a fictional character will punish me.
Death. Something humans have had their own thoughts and believes for ages, even the times long ago when they were quite limited by both brain capacity and imagination. Even if this death sounds quite unoriginal in many ways, it still is the fate of all living humans, even for the ones as original and imagination filled people as Douglas Adams, even tho this all is relative, and forcing the reader to be any more fhilosophical like most are when this is mentioned, is inhumane.This too is relative.
Absurd. The early or any other world didn't fit men at all. The fact that the man created tools in the first place, proves that the world didn't fit the man and he was forced to make tools to 'improve' or change his world. When the man stops striving for better, then the world will fit the man. Sorry Douglas, I though of you higher than this.
@MrKoshak Thinking in absolutes is never productive. The early world was not, to use a wildly inappropriate simile, a Garden of Eden but it gave us all the opportunities and materials we could ask for as well as the motivation to use them. That's how we made it to where we are today. An absolute "perfect fit" would have stunted all progress, as you say.
Although at this point I think the more important question is: does man still fit the world?
@MrArpas123 The Bible is alive and kicking today because 1) Parents teach it to their children, and so on and so forth, and 2) People still need something to believe in; because people don't like the idea that they're not here for a reason. =3 Makes them feel small.
I would have loved to have seen Douglas Adams on the atheist circuit with Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris. His Satire would have been brutal to the religion.
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Theists conveniently ignore humanity's ability and penchant for imagination, and the centuries old practice of storytelling oral traditions which perpetuated all manner of mythologies. Oh no, they would protest . . . these stories all just sprang into existence via supernatural "inspiration". Really? The blatant plagiarisms from one culture and time period to another are just mere coincidence? People couldn't POSSIBLY make any of this up?
@MrArpas123 Try debunkingchristianity.blogspot. Try John W. Loftus, 'The Christian delusion', 'The end of Christianity', 'Why I became an atheist'. There is an interesting debate between orthodox and sceptical Bible scholarship. Atheists have similarities to Sadducees Acts 23v8- who say there is no resurrection, angels or demons but it is still important to act caring, ethically / reasonably. Try Dennis McKinsey's encyclopedia of Biblical errancy. The Bible myths have been bust for centuries
This guy is amazingly smart and funny. I think he has been created to by God to make us aware God is tired of us thinking there is a god. I'm joking. I just find it rather difficult, if not impossible, to disagree with mr adams.
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@epartida7 i disagree on that.. since people do things together and they seemed to have done that for quite a long periode of time it is logical that they would think of a group of huge, powerful higher beeings who made the world.
@Maddin667 Yes!, thats my point exactly. I think, and I might be wrong, but he presents early mans view god as one single god who created things with a purpose behind it; but as we all know primitive religion was centered around many gods not just one. So, in order for his arguement to hold up, early man had to have believed in a monotheistic god and not in several. What do you think?
@epartida7 i was just thinking of old religions and nature religions pop into my mind for example the great manitu or the juju... i guess they don't necessarily need to be polytheistic. But you are right many of them were!
The important thing i think is that either way it does not harm the argument douglas adams is making. I think it's not important how many "designers" people have come up with the important part is why they came up with these thought constructs...
@Maddin667 hmm...I think your right when you look at that way. The outcome happens to be the same one way or another. I guess I just like to be picky!
@epartida7 Not necessarily. Even a polytheistic mythology has to start from one character. I'd imagine it's pretty unlikely that early man would go "Okay, let's invent polytheism! Now to think of some gods...". More likely it was a gradual thing of "Thing A is awesome, god A must have made it", "Thing B is awesome, god B must have made it", et.c.. Still the same kind of thinking. Also we can't be sure that the very first forms of theism were polytheistic, as recorded human history is limited.
I am a scienceman. I have a hypothesis that this sort of video, based on its content of confidence in science rather than God, will have numerous comments debating religion and/or evolution.
Read read read.
Ok. I have gathered enough data to form a theory based on my observations. My theory: human behavior is depressingly predictable.
Effectively, this helps a lot with being able to provide at a lower and much faster than contiguous concatenation, however is intrinsically the problem of differential delay where each that is created.
may i interject? is the bible not man's interpretation of the will and words of god? is it not true that man can never fully comprehend the size, appearance, nature or true will of god? is god not most likely beyond our comprehension? for all i know the bible could have been written by dolphins, god himself may be a dolphin(celestial dolphin that is) and we an undesired by-product of the dolphins creation. the universe can be a strange and unpredictable place, as could its creator, DON'T PANIC.
@ellandeire21 Yes but it was written by people so your idea crumbles. And why wouldn't we be able to comprehend the "size, appearance, nature, or true will of god"? If data is there, we can find it.
I wonder how that primitive man who had to fight for his life all time against this cruel and nasty world around him with only reason of existence is to kill all mankind.
world is our enemy not our home.
that must be something screwed with the mind of humans.
to worship cruels nasty gods who do nothing valuable for you and say that this killer environment is fit for humans.
@deltaxcd no... there are optimistic and pessimistic people in every age. Some people complain today how bad everything is while out way of life may be paradise for a medieval person.
Likewise there have been optimistic primeval men who thought life is good.
Also they can always blame the bad stuff on Satan, Hades or Loki...
Life is not so great today either, unless you talk about parasitic nations that are sucking all resources from poor regions. Third world countries live far worse that they lived in medieval ages. In that time they had no need to deal with chemical contamination and western supported dictators.
It does not matter if life is good or bad but the fact is that you are living in constant war against invaders, predators, parasites and fight each other for natural resources.
@deltaxcd Bullshit. On average, people live longer, healthier and richer lives than anytime in the past, including third world countries. Just look at some statistics, life expectancy is constantly rising in developing countries.
To the second point - so what? There are always problems and hardships, people learn to accept that and see it as invevitable. Still they can have a feeling theyre created for a purpose and the world is for them even though its ridiculous.
I do not need statistic about life expectancy this is dependent on medical service and politic.
in general resources decrease and population and demands increase prices go up. if you compare what you were able to buy for same amount of work 100 years ago and now you will see big difference.
Hardships come from the word without any human fault, it is like some evil god just throws random disasters on your head, while you need to work hard yourself to obtain everything else.
@deltaxcd no... 100 years ago people really could not afford more stuff for the same amount of work. You live in a very weird world of your own if you believe that. Of course thats not the only criteria for a "quality of life" and all the others are on a higher level today too.
@spairpartsdealer That's absurd. Your opinion doesn't make you a Nazi. It makes you an idiot....I kid. I kid. Why not elaborate a little though. It is a very well-thought out argument that he presents. Tell us why he's obviously wrong, rather than simply stating the fact. There must be some logical reason you've come to this conclusion.
@Pantslessbob The only difference in my explanation is the Bible (In the average Christian's opinion, the Word of God). If I try using it as a reference, people who are atheists will usually shoot me down saying things like "Why would you reference a book that was 'written' by people who didn't exist," or "Miracles are alluded to look like what they are when they really aren't." So, there really is no point in debating about it.
@spairpartsdealer I'm a tad confused. Why say anything at all if you aren't interested in discussing or debating the point. (And for the record the bible was not written by people who didn't exist. The Torah was written by a number of different priests and prophets and then compiled together by at least two redactors, and the New Testament was written by others whose names often appear in the chapter titles and then edited by committee at the Council of Nicaea)
@DontTouchMyVicodin Its from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from UK TV - NOT the movie. You can get it online as a video or probably an audio book somewhere !
@vonFiedler no what Douglas Adams is trying to get at when he says that man makes things is that man is 'adaptable'. The puddle is 'adaptable' because it is able to change it's shape to fit the hole that it is currently inhabiting.
All very logical, practical, but falters in the very end. The puddle doesn't make things. If man makes things and this leads him to think that the world is made, why does the puddle think the world is made for it? Now what does the puddle do? Nothing. It has no thoughts. Perhaps the puddle should be a nihilist.
@zivjax I agree with the your quote. Disagree with religion. Religion was the way the ruling class kept everyone else in line - Mandate of Heaven if you will.
Wow! This is genius. Douglas Adams was a remarkable writer, a profound philosopher, and the funniest MF in the universe. I think he took the ideas of Kurt Vonnegut, who he greatly admired, a step further.
His views on religion almost make you want to say, "Why didn't I think of that?"
I loved this so much that I had to "Like" it (press the button) and share it on facebook, and after that I had to go on to thumb-up any nice comment about it.
Well, you do need to consider the alternate theory: Rather than it being made for you, you were just programmed to feel pleasure by being there so that you would stay there instead of venture off somewhere where that program brings pain instead.
thanks so much for posting-Mr. Adams I hope you're still making people laugh wherever you are, we miss you man, and he's right, the dolphins are on to something!
Adams was an early athiest influence on me, back when I was still a Catholic. What I like is that his books were subtle enough about it that you could be a theist and still laugh and keep reading.
If blind natural selection is responsible for humans, then why are there so many extraneous "things" which aren't required for mere survival and reproduction?
Words cannot describe how wonderful humans are. It is absurd to contemplate that we are the result of the mere beed to survive and reproduce. It's not THAT hard.
If there is no God, then WHY the universe? It's not eternal and could not have created itself.
If there is no God, then your kid's cancer is hilarious! Yay! More food for me!
evolution is based on random mutations in the dna as i'm sure you know. so what if there was a random mutation on one early man which didn't do him any good, but it didn't make his life harder either?
the wonderfulness of humans depends on how you're looking at it: humans create wars, pollute the environment, extinct animal races. for humans it may not be that hard to survive, but that's because we are the smartest beings living on earth.
Humans are wonderful and awesome, and our abilities so exceed what is required to merely survive and reproduce that it's absurd to weigh the two.
And if there is no God, then your concerns about war and pollution fall on deaf ears. They are merely the (temporary) product of chance. Your concerns were developed by a drive to dominate others and have sex, and these "morals" will evolve away eventually or disappear on our extinction.
and in addition to that, it's not only about surviving, but being able to have a easier life.
now for the why, that's your only reliable argument it seems. scientists simply don't know about that. it's that bad they already start to make supernatural explanations themselves, for example that the universe IS eternal. nobody can prove such theories, but you can't prove yours either, so...
".. it's not only about surviving, but being able to have a easier life."
Huh?
"..nobody can prove such theories, but you can't prove yours either"
When science discovered the universe had a beginning and was limited in size, it angered those who needed the infinity symbol in their calculations, to explain life. So they embraced metaphysics.
Atheists scientists, it seems, are willing to extended science to include the metaphysical, just not metaphysical religion.
@ianmac2010 I never understood how the universe was limited in size. That's wrong, it can never be known if it's actually limited, you know? I mean maybe the planets, stars, galaxies and other heavenly bodies end and we just don't have strong enough to see past the void in space where a new set of galaxies and supergalaxies begin. And even if the heavenly bodies ended somewhere, wouldn't that infinite space after it still be part of the universe? (uni=one aka encompasses the all).
Well according to scientific consensus, the universe is limited in size and age.
What existed before? Nothing.
What exists outside? Nothing.
The universe is defined by matter, energy, time and the laws. So, there was no "before" the Big Bang, and as the universe expands, the nothing it's expanding into becomes part of the universe.
@awesomewelles90 Energy, consisting of no volume or mass. Freely converts to matter in minute, nearly-undetectable amounts, producing less-detectable particles. No known cause itself, and not destroyed.
However, ask how God made the universe...what existed before God made everything that exists?
Where did the universe come from? Some people say that a god made it. Where did that god come from? It always existed? So why not save a step, and say that the universe always existed?
@thedexterbros Science deals with the "present form" of the universe. Presently science presents the hypothesis that the universe has always existed in one form or another. Maybe the last one had different "constants".
The "age" has been calculated, and if it continually expands or contracts, it must have some finite size.
Though you forget about empty space...and how literally "nothing" is outside the universe.
Science DOES FOR A FACT deal with the past only truly when explaining aspects of the present [how X formed, etc]. Likewise, science deals with the future only truly when predicting how/what things will happen [concentrations at equilibrium, X changed through Y into Z, etc]. No biases involved. Just observation.
You assume I "[googled] what science is" AND "only [picked] out the little details..." despite me having neither googled (least of all for the comment) nor any faith.
and about the cancer thing, i know you shouldn'd actually be rude about things like that and i have to admit i have never experienced a cancer death or similar of someone close to me yet, but that's just reality, death simply belongs to life, and religions were made for people who can't live with facing that. i really like the bible as a book full of symbolic inspiration, but actually believing that adam and eva really lived and did the things that are written is just ridiculous.
Concerning cancer, I was making a point. If there is no God, then "morality" is no more than any other evolved trait in any species.
We just share a quirky illusion that cancer in children is bad. Nothing is REALLY bad bad. And as I've pointed out, these morals will either be evolved away or else disappear when we go extinct. and all life on earth dies, and the sun explodes, and the universe winds down. WHICH IS NO BAD THING.
Wouldn't like to go to heaven or hell. Eternal fire and punishments gonna be painful for a couple of years, but it will just get boring. Having anything you want for eternity will also be great for a couple of years, but that'll get boring too. Reincarnation sounds the best, and is probably the least boring.
Mezworld 4 days ago
Douglas Adams is pure amazement.
Maxdg1013 5 days ago
Gro - si - si - mo!
muy muy bueno! :)
lucholombar 2 weeks ago
love it !!
MrKyja72 3 weeks ago
gr8... good find !
whadefu 4 weeks ago
Science = Win
Rawklorrd 1 month ago
God does exist.
Anonymouskmn 1 month ago
@Anonymouskmn No one is saying there's absolutely no god, we're just saying the Bible is nonsense :)
megamarsvin 1 month ago in playlist Entertainment
@megamarsvin Everything in the Bible isn't nonsense.
Anonymouskmn 1 month ago
@Anonymouskmn Let me rephrase that, anything in the Bible that has to do with magic and miracles is nonsense. You could possibly take some good life lessons from it if you pick and choose the right parts :)
megamarsvin 1 month ago
@Anonymouskmn Very doubtful.
frankmademedoit 4 weeks ago
@Anonymouskmn It appears that God does not.
MrVicist 3 weeks ago
@Anonymouskmn Sure and so does Santa
zikfogg 3 weeks ago
@zikfogg Santa is Satan
Anonymouskmn 3 weeks ago
@Anonymouskmn You got that right and God`s a Dog.
zikfogg 2 weeks ago
''a few generations" haha
MichaelDiamondMusic 2 months ago
SCIENCE RULES!!!!
Thinkdeep420 2 months ago 12
@Thinkdeep420 Sounds like a football team lol
patu8010 2 weeks ago
@spencerbenedict2nd Talk sense. If you can. Or did you copy/paste that to save yourself the trouble of THINKING? You religious twazzocks are pretty good at avoiding thinking, after all..
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Dead-to-the-spirit deluded "God Delusion" author & blithering fool scientist goon Richard Dawkins another "leader" given 2 the profane masses is another useful idiot 4 Jesuit machinations
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If we place our faith in Jesus Christ our Lord, trusting His death on the cross to pay for our sins, we will be forgiven and receive the promise of eternal life in heaven. "For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son so that anyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16). "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved" (Romans 10:9).
OldGrowth420 3 months ago
died in 2001... well one things for sure, he knows whether or not he was right haha! i hope he was... no body, and i mean NO BODY deserves to burn... no matter what you've done!
ovechkin100 3 months ago
@ovechkin100 May I ask what exactly do you mean by this? I think I know but, I am very curious to hear what you have to say. Please respond.
sstan1337 3 months ago
@sstan1337 well he's dead. so he has learned whats going to happen when we die. plain and simple. i tend to be on the fence. each side with strong supporting points/facts to me. i dont know whats going to happen. but i must say, i dont see myself ever "loving" a god what would have me burn if i didnt. if it wernt for the scare of hell... i couldnt see any religious person EVER saying they loved jesus their savior. or god. it would be pointless. so yea. there you go
ovechkin100 3 months ago
@ovechkin100 I'll go one step further and say that if it came down to it and there is a heaven or hell and I was given the choice I would choose hell over heaven simply because I could not imagine spending eternity in a paradise with a being who makes such an extreme and binary system of punishment and reward.
cpu46 3 months ago
@cpu46 yea i hear ya... although i do not want to go to hell... at all... but i think we're in control of our consciousness when we die
ovechkin100 3 months ago
@ovechkin100 You're not going to mate, even if there is an afterlife. To burn requires atoms, thus if there really is a soul it isn't made of atoms, thus burning it is impossible. So enjoy your life and don't worry about all the threats the religious people use.
PastafariansWON 1 month ago
@PastafariansWON as much as i knew that already, i never really THOUGHT of it... guess thats the way they get people. FEAR!
thank you tho, your comment makes me feel better : )
ovechkin100 1 month ago
@ovechkin100 Exactly. :)
PastafariansWON 1 month ago
does anyone know the music in background of the video?
jazzsonic 4 months ago
@MrArpas123
You don't get it. I couldn't scare you by saying there's a big butterfly that will punish you if you don't believe in him. You can't scare me by saying a fictional character will punish me.
XiaoPow 4 months ago
Death. Something humans have had their own thoughts and believes for ages, even the times long ago when they were quite limited by both brain capacity and imagination. Even if this death sounds quite unoriginal in many ways, it still is the fate of all living humans, even for the ones as original and imagination filled people as Douglas Adams, even tho this all is relative, and forcing the reader to be any more fhilosophical like most are when this is mentioned, is inhumane.This too is relative.
RuleOfTheInternet 4 months ago
Absurd. The early or any other world didn't fit men at all. The fact that the man created tools in the first place, proves that the world didn't fit the man and he was forced to make tools to 'improve' or change his world. When the man stops striving for better, then the world will fit the man. Sorry Douglas, I though of you higher than this.
MrKoshak 4 months ago
@MrKoshak Thinking in absolutes is never productive. The early world was not, to use a wildly inappropriate simile, a Garden of Eden but it gave us all the opportunities and materials we could ask for as well as the motivation to use them. That's how we made it to where we are today. An absolute "perfect fit" would have stunted all progress, as you say.
Although at this point I think the more important question is: does man still fit the world?
megamarsvin 4 months ago in playlist Science & Nature
@MrArpas123
weeryan2008 4 months ago
@MrArpas123 Are you insane? THAT IS RELIGION.
weeryan2008 4 months ago
@MrArpas123
why did God make me an atheist?
and if you buy the wool can he make you one too?
eadg56 4 months ago 2
@MrArpas123 Trying to scare atheists with religion is pointless
weeryan2008 4 months ago 2
@MrArpas123 ..shut the fuck up. Go wait for God in a bunker you tit.
ZeroAzrael614 5 months ago
@MrArpas123
How about 2 kings 2 23-25?
That's inclination enough that you are one dumb, evil piece of crap for believing in something vile and retarded as the bible ;)
Not good enough?
There are thousands more. Google up skepticsannotated bible and feast your eyes, you dipshit.
d3st88 5 months ago
@MrArpas123 The Bible is alive and kicking today because 1) Parents teach it to their children, and so on and so forth, and 2) People still need something to believe in; because people don't like the idea that they're not here for a reason. =3 Makes them feel small.
CultureShockSix 5 months ago
I would have loved to have seen Douglas Adams on the atheist circuit with Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris. His Satire would have been brutal to the religion.
ibizajoey 5 months ago 4
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zytigon 5 months ago
Theists conveniently ignore humanity's ability and penchant for imagination, and the centuries old practice of storytelling oral traditions which perpetuated all manner of mythologies. Oh no, they would protest . . . these stories all just sprang into existence via supernatural "inspiration". Really? The blatant plagiarisms from one culture and time period to another are just mere coincidence? People couldn't POSSIBLY make any of this up?
Imagination or magic, whichever is most probable.
rmcdaniel423 5 months ago 3
@MrArpas123 Try debunkingchristianity.blogspot. Try John W. Loftus, 'The Christian delusion', 'The end of Christianity', 'Why I became an atheist'. There is an interesting debate between orthodox and sceptical Bible scholarship. Atheists have similarities to Sadducees Acts 23v8- who say there is no resurrection, angels or demons but it is still important to act caring, ethically / reasonably. Try Dennis McKinsey's encyclopedia of Biblical errancy. The Bible myths have been bust for centuries
zytigon 5 months ago 2
True genius. Articulately expressed. Great humour. Ties in perfectly with existentialist psychology theory.
bozobingbox 6 months ago
@MrArpas123
I congratulate you sir, a true comedian indeed.
Yahwehtism 6 months ago
This guy is amazingly smart and funny. I think he has been created to by God to make us aware God is tired of us thinking there is a god. I'm joking. I just find it rather difficult, if not impossible, to disagree with mr adams.
Yediot 6 months ago
LOVING the puddle analogy
allister2357 6 months ago
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MegaSage007 7 months ago
Brilliant
theconnornolanbox 7 months ago
I dont know.... I think he missed the point that early religion did not have a single god but multipule gods. It kinda puts a hole in his logic.
epartida7 7 months ago
@epartida7 i disagree on that.. since people do things together and they seemed to have done that for quite a long periode of time it is logical that they would think of a group of huge, powerful higher beeings who made the world.
Maddin667 7 months ago
@Maddin667 Yes!, thats my point exactly. I think, and I might be wrong, but he presents early mans view god as one single god who created things with a purpose behind it; but as we all know primitive religion was centered around many gods not just one. So, in order for his arguement to hold up, early man had to have believed in a monotheistic god and not in several. What do you think?
epartida7 7 months ago
@epartida7 i was just thinking of old religions and nature religions pop into my mind for example the great manitu or the juju... i guess they don't necessarily need to be polytheistic. But you are right many of them were!
The important thing i think is that either way it does not harm the argument douglas adams is making. I think it's not important how many "designers" people have come up with the important part is why they came up with these thought constructs...
Maddin667 7 months ago
@Maddin667 hmm...I think your right when you look at that way. The outcome happens to be the same one way or another. I guess I just like to be picky!
epartida7 7 months ago
@epartida7 which is not a bad thing to do ;) without being picky douglas would have never been able to make his points =P
Maddin667 7 months ago
@epartida7 Not necessarily. Even a polytheistic mythology has to start from one character. I'd imagine it's pretty unlikely that early man would go "Okay, let's invent polytheism! Now to think of some gods...". More likely it was a gradual thing of "Thing A is awesome, god A must have made it", "Thing B is awesome, god B must have made it", et.c.. Still the same kind of thinking. Also we can't be sure that the very first forms of theism were polytheistic, as recorded human history is limited.
Swenglish 7 months ago
This would be even better without the incredibly annoying soundtrack behind it!!
combandpaper 8 months ago
awfully long talk just to tell us you follow atheism
Zareste 8 months ago
@Zareste Failing At Debate 101: if you can't counter-argue a point or misunderstood completely, beat up a strawman.
monkeywage 8 months ago 3
@monkeywage okay have fun with that
Zareste 8 months ago
17 people hate objective thinking.
semiserioussam 8 months ago 2
oh douglas, you put a smile on my face
willardftw 8 months ago 26
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BibiiiKenaan396 8 months ago
An eloquent and lucid man.
Highlyskeptical 8 months ago 4
Thank you again Mr. Adams for putting things in perspective.
petehjr1 8 months ago 5
This is a good explanation of why religion came about and why it is such a stupid idea.
ThePhoenixforce11 10 months ago 6
all I can say is... thumbs up for Hitchhiking
Migglyman 10 months ago 45
He EVEN lives in NEW YORK for heaven's sake!
thedavecorp 10 months ago 3
omg that was sooo good :) loled hard
TheNewProphetisHere 10 months ago 3
That was froody.
EzeeKill2517 10 months ago 2
As much as I love this guy, it scares me that the things he says make sense to me. lmao
skywize 10 months ago
So long and thanks for all the fish, Douglas!
sripuranam 10 months ago 6
The background tune was frigging annoying.
therealkakkamakkara 10 months ago
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@therealkakkamakkara "The background tune was frigging annoying."
Congratulations.
You actually found something in this very intelligent, entertaining clip to whine about. You're SPECIAL.
drstew42 9 months ago
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw:
Animals look at the world and adapt to fit it.
Mankind looks at the world and adapts it to fit him.
PatRibsey 11 months ago 4
If god lived on Earth, people would break his windows.
yeshuahfullofit 11 months ago
I am a scienceman. I have a hypothesis that this sort of video, based on its content of confidence in science rather than God, will have numerous comments debating religion and/or evolution.
Read read read.
Ok. I have gathered enough data to form a theory based on my observations. My theory: human behavior is depressingly predictable.
spazfox 11 months ago 6
@spazfox
Effectively, this helps a lot with being able to provide at a lower and much faster than contiguous concatenation, however is intrinsically the problem of differential delay where each that is created.
weavehole 10 months ago
That was rather interesting; too bad it can be tested.
shadywolf91 1 year ago
may i interject? is the bible not man's interpretation of the will and words of god? is it not true that man can never fully comprehend the size, appearance, nature or true will of god? is god not most likely beyond our comprehension? for all i know the bible could have been written by dolphins, god himself may be a dolphin(celestial dolphin that is) and we an undesired by-product of the dolphins creation. the universe can be a strange and unpredictable place, as could its creator, DON'T PANIC.
ellandeire21 1 year ago
@ellandeire21 Yes but it was written by people so your idea crumbles. And why wouldn't we be able to comprehend the "size, appearance, nature, or true will of god"? If data is there, we can find it.
shadywolf91 1 year ago
@ellandeire21
Ah, so true - it is most difficult to understand the true nature of an imaginary being.
tellnet 11 months ago
I wonder how that primitive man who had to fight for his life all time against this cruel and nasty world around him with only reason of existence is to kill all mankind.
world is our enemy not our home.
that must be something screwed with the mind of humans.
to worship cruels nasty gods who do nothing valuable for you and say that this killer environment is fit for humans.
That is just absurd.
deltaxcd 1 year ago
@deltaxcd Just because it's a cruel system does not mean that it doesn't support us. Or any life for that matter.
hectixx 1 year ago
@hectixx
yes, world doesnt support us, We fight for our lives instead.
If God existed we would be like Roman gladiators amusing God by killing each other for ability to survive.
deltaxcd 1 year ago
@deltaxcd no... there are optimistic and pessimistic people in every age. Some people complain today how bad everything is while out way of life may be paradise for a medieval person.
Likewise there have been optimistic primeval men who thought life is good.
Also they can always blame the bad stuff on Satan, Hades or Loki...
MrDezokokotar 7 months ago
@MrDezokokotar
Life is not so great today either, unless you talk about parasitic nations that are sucking all resources from poor regions. Third world countries live far worse that they lived in medieval ages. In that time they had no need to deal with chemical contamination and western supported dictators.
It does not matter if life is good or bad but the fact is that you are living in constant war against invaders, predators, parasites and fight each other for natural resources.
deltaxcd 7 months ago
@deltaxcd Bullshit. On average, people live longer, healthier and richer lives than anytime in the past, including third world countries. Just look at some statistics, life expectancy is constantly rising in developing countries.
To the second point - so what? There are always problems and hardships, people learn to accept that and see it as invevitable. Still they can have a feeling theyre created for a purpose and the world is for them even though its ridiculous.
MrDezokokotar 7 months ago
@MrDezokokotar
I do not need statistic about life expectancy this is dependent on medical service and politic.
in general resources decrease and population and demands increase prices go up. if you compare what you were able to buy for same amount of work 100 years ago and now you will see big difference.
Hardships come from the word without any human fault, it is like some evil god just throws random disasters on your head, while you need to work hard yourself to obtain everything else.
deltaxcd 7 months ago
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@deltaxcd no... 100 years ago people really could not afford more stuff for the same amount of work. You live in a very weird world of your own if you believe that. Of course thats not the only criteria for a "quality of life" and all the others are on a higher level today too.
MrDezokokotar 6 months ago
He's obviously wrong. I just know that when I post this, everyone who sees this comment will call me a nazi because of my opinion. Oh well...*click*
spairpartsdealer 1 year ago
@spairpartsdealer That's absurd. Your opinion doesn't make you a Nazi. It makes you an idiot....I kid. I kid. Why not elaborate a little though. It is a very well-thought out argument that he presents. Tell us why he's obviously wrong, rather than simply stating the fact. There must be some logical reason you've come to this conclusion.
Pantslessbob 1 year ago 2
@Pantslessbob The only difference in my explanation is the Bible (In the average Christian's opinion, the Word of God). If I try using it as a reference, people who are atheists will usually shoot me down saying things like "Why would you reference a book that was 'written' by people who didn't exist," or "Miracles are alluded to look like what they are when they really aren't." So, there really is no point in debating about it.
spairpartsdealer 1 year ago
@spairpartsdealer I'm a tad confused. Why say anything at all if you aren't interested in discussing or debating the point. (And for the record the bible was not written by people who didn't exist. The Torah was written by a number of different priests and prophets and then compiled together by at least two redactors, and the New Testament was written by others whose names often appear in the chapter titles and then edited by committee at the Council of Nicaea)
Pantslessbob 1 year ago
@spairpartsdealer Please, explain your opinion Mr. nazi.
hectixx 1 year ago
lol, I never thought of water as; "delicious"
percheron1654 1 year ago
The jazz music was quite distracting.
MrBiffAnderson 1 year ago 6
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pigletized 1 year ago
... just... wow...
Just what was going on in his brain?
4yinyang 1 year ago
@4yinyang Thoughts, hehe.
Forserean 1 year ago
Where is this recording from, can I get it and more like this on CD?
DontTouchMyVicodin 1 year ago
@DontTouchMyVicodin Its from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from UK TV - NOT the movie. You can get it online as a video or probably an audio book somewhere !
SquireDonCristobal 1 year ago
@SquireDonCristobal
watch?v=ZMoi-nDd6cQ
SquireDonCristobal 1 year ago
@vonFiedler no what Douglas Adams is trying to get at when he says that man makes things is that man is 'adaptable'. The puddle is 'adaptable' because it is able to change it's shape to fit the hole that it is currently inhabiting.
MexiSquirrel 1 year ago
All very logical, practical, but falters in the very end. The puddle doesn't make things. If man makes things and this leads him to think that the world is made, why does the puddle think the world is made for it? Now what does the puddle do? Nothing. It has no thoughts. Perhaps the puddle should be a nihilist.
vonFiedler 1 year ago
Inspiring speech and kickass background music.
MapleRevolutions 1 year ago
A true Genius!
dirtydonki 1 year ago
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Wrong. I like Doug's work, but like most atheists, he's just wrong.
zivjax 1 year ago
@zivjax So... some atheists are right?
joese5 1 year ago
@joese5 :) "An atheist is God's way of looking at himself objectively." -- me
Dave is wrong about the religion aspect. IMO (not humble) most religions in prehistoric time evolved as a way for people to live together peacefully.
zivjax 1 year ago
@zivjax I agree with the your quote. Disagree with religion. Religion was the way the ruling class kept everyone else in line - Mandate of Heaven if you will.
ccollymore 1 year ago
@zivjax you sir are stereotyping quite a lot their! I wonder what you evidence is for most atheists' being wrong?
psychobartus 1 year ago
Fantastic! What a brilliant man.
BrooklynRagtag 1 year ago
RIP
IsaacGolle 1 year ago
...of course it doesn't take long before the cave man realizes that this idea can be used quite effectively for reasons of politics and coercion.
jnberg 1 year ago 3
First time I heard Douglas Adam, Good point of vue !
didikh 1 year ago
15 moronic creationists!
FreedomIsJustAWord 1 year ago
Great!
bigboxbobby2 1 year ago
Wow! This is genius. Douglas Adams was a remarkable writer, a profound philosopher, and the funniest MF in the universe. I think he took the ideas of Kurt Vonnegut, who he greatly admired, a step further.
His views on religion almost make you want to say, "Why didn't I think of that?"
LordoftheJimmy 1 year ago
brilliant and entertaining
b5thomas7 1 year ago
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it as well?"
Douglas Adams.
pervious1 1 year ago 2
A brilliant man.
dominictemple 1 year ago 4
This is an excerpt from The Salmon of Doubt, definitely worth picking up if you liked this.
nameless888 1 year ago
Put so straight forward and simple...Religion 0 - Rational thinking 1
MrShannonite 1 year ago
in memoriam
vuotopiuscuro 1 year ago
... and then there's... the Bible... :-((((((
bersa888 1 year ago 3
I loved this so much that I had to "Like" it (press the button) and share it on facebook, and after that I had to go on to thumb-up any nice comment about it.
MaricaAmbrosius 1 year ago 3
like
JakeLucGoodman 1 year ago
You know, this is the best explanation for religion I've ever heard. Thank you so much for posting it! :-D
KaraRvn 1 year ago 78
brilliant
MrDasmaster 1 year ago
So is it Simon Jones or Douglas Adams?
MrZkinandBonez 1 year ago
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Fizzisist 1 year ago
A true genius, this man was.
GreatFox42 1 year ago 4
You left us all far too soon, the world still has need for people like you!
dummbatz48 1 year ago 4
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Religions are inherited or accepted emotionally. Both are erroneous paths in the search for truth. Google Doe’s Account.
techbesst 1 year ago
what a hoopy frood!
slagrajag 1 year ago 6
he was so realistc in his theories, he is one of the masterminds of the 20th century
redk1234 1 year ago 3
Well, you do need to consider the alternate theory: Rather than it being made for you, you were just programmed to feel pleasure by being there so that you would stay there instead of venture off somewhere where that program brings pain instead.
Remousamavi 1 year ago
thanks so much for posting-Mr. Adams I hope you're still making people laugh wherever you are, we miss you man, and he's right, the dolphins are on to something!
IntroSpetful 1 year ago 4
I love Douglas Adams. Poor puddle.
FredMalm 1 year ago 3
I meant "atheist". Also, what book or article is this snippet read from?
brianranzoni 1 year ago
Adams was an early athiest influence on me, back when I was still a Catholic. What I like is that his books were subtle enough about it that you could be a theist and still laugh and keep reading.
brianranzoni 1 year ago 3
it is true, god a laughable notion
EdgeOfFrontiers 1 year ago 3
google Doe's Account, its mindblowing.
Kingkalty 1 year ago
@Kingkalty
It seemed a bit more of a sucking sensation when I googled
Joedick27 1 year ago
brilliant
MrDasmaster 1 year ago
A great man. RIP
Hundpiraten 1 year ago 3
I found this video inclredibly smart and thought provoking. Mr. Adams was a remarkably intelligent man, and I still believe in God.
kroozader 1 year ago
Know what i didnt know he died.
sad really the hitch hikers sereis was very funny well anyway this makes so much sence
TheResiMac 1 year ago 2
If blind natural selection is responsible for humans, then why are there so many extraneous "things" which aren't required for mere survival and reproduction?
Words cannot describe how wonderful humans are. It is absurd to contemplate that we are the result of the mere beed to survive and reproduce. It's not THAT hard.
If there is no God, then WHY the universe? It's not eternal and could not have created itself.
If there is no God, then your kid's cancer is hilarious! Yay! More food for me!
ianmac2010 1 year ago
@ianmac2010
evolution is based on random mutations in the dna as i'm sure you know. so what if there was a random mutation on one early man which didn't do him any good, but it didn't make his life harder either?
the wonderfulness of humans depends on how you're looking at it: humans create wars, pollute the environment, extinct animal races. for humans it may not be that hard to survive, but that's because we are the smartest beings living on earth.
Cosinus02 1 year ago 2
@cosinus02
Humans are wonderful and awesome, and our abilities so exceed what is required to merely survive and reproduce that it's absurd to weigh the two.
And if there is no God, then your concerns about war and pollution fall on deaf ears. They are merely the (temporary) product of chance. Your concerns were developed by a drive to dominate others and have sex, and these "morals" will evolve away eventually or disappear on our extinction.
Nothing is "bad," and your concerns are quaint.
ianmac2010 1 year ago
@ianmac2010
and in addition to that, it's not only about surviving, but being able to have a easier life.
now for the why, that's your only reliable argument it seems. scientists simply don't know about that. it's that bad they already start to make supernatural explanations themselves, for example that the universe IS eternal. nobody can prove such theories, but you can't prove yours either, so...
Cosinus02 1 year ago
@cosinus
".. it's not only about surviving, but being able to have a easier life."
Huh?
"..nobody can prove such theories, but you can't prove yours either"
When science discovered the universe had a beginning and was limited in size, it angered those who needed the infinity symbol in their calculations, to explain life. So they embraced metaphysics.
Atheists scientists, it seems, are willing to extended science to include the metaphysical, just not metaphysical religion.
ianmac2010 1 year ago
@ianmac2010 I never understood how the universe was limited in size. That's wrong, it can never be known if it's actually limited, you know? I mean maybe the planets, stars, galaxies and other heavenly bodies end and we just don't have strong enough to see past the void in space where a new set of galaxies and supergalaxies begin. And even if the heavenly bodies ended somewhere, wouldn't that infinite space after it still be part of the universe? (uni=one aka encompasses the all).
thedexterbros 1 year ago
@thedexterbros
Well according to scientific consensus, the universe is limited in size and age.
What existed before? Nothing.
What exists outside? Nothing.
The universe is defined by matter, energy, time and the laws. So, there was no "before" the Big Bang, and as the universe expands, the nothing it's expanding into becomes part of the universe.
"Fascinating, Captain" -Spock
ianmac2010 1 year ago
@ianmac2010 So something comes from nothing?
awesomewelles90 1 year ago
@awesomewelles90 Energy, consisting of no volume or mass. Freely converts to matter in minute, nearly-undetectable amounts, producing less-detectable particles. No known cause itself, and not destroyed.
However, ask how God made the universe...what existed before God made everything that exists?
onijester56 1 year ago
@onijester56 Oh great, not this again. :-P
Where did the universe come from? Some people say that a god made it. Where did that god come from? It always existed? So why not save a step, and say that the universe always existed?
KaraRvn 1 year ago 2
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@KaraRvn I think you really want to reply to the guy I replied to.
He said [So something comes from nothing?] and I merely asked "What did God use to make Everything if nothing existed?".
onijester56 1 year ago
@KaraRvn But the universe was sneezed out of the great green arkelsneezer :) Beware the coming of the hanky :)
recyard12x 1 year ago 3
@recyard12x i am prepared i got my towel
middletonization 1 year ago 76
@thedexterbros Science deals with the "present form" of the universe. Presently science presents the hypothesis that the universe has always existed in one form or another. Maybe the last one had different "constants".
The "age" has been calculated, and if it continually expands or contracts, it must have some finite size.
Though you forget about empty space...and how literally "nothing" is outside the universe.
onijester56 1 year ago
@onijester56 Thanks for googling what science is and only picking out the little details that runs smoothly with your faith.
Anchoring bias, self-serving bias, confirmation bias...
NakedCreep 1 year ago 2
@NakedCreep
Science DOES FOR A FACT deal with the past only truly when explaining aspects of the present [how X formed, etc]. Likewise, science deals with the future only truly when predicting how/what things will happen [concentrations at equilibrium, X changed through Y into Z, etc]. No biases involved. Just observation.
You assume I "[googled] what science is" AND "only [picked] out the little details..." despite me having neither googled (least of all for the comment) nor any faith.
onijester56 1 year ago
@ianmac2010
and about the cancer thing, i know you shouldn'd actually be rude about things like that and i have to admit i have never experienced a cancer death or similar of someone close to me yet, but that's just reality, death simply belongs to life, and religions were made for people who can't live with facing that. i really like the bible as a book full of symbolic inspiration, but actually believing that adam and eva really lived and did the things that are written is just ridiculous.
Cosinus02 1 year ago
@cosinus
Concerning cancer, I was making a point. If there is no God, then "morality" is no more than any other evolved trait in any species.
We just share a quirky illusion that cancer in children is bad. Nothing is REALLY bad bad. And as I've pointed out, these morals will either be evolved away or else disappear when we go extinct. and all life on earth dies, and the sun explodes, and the universe winds down. WHICH IS NO BAD THING.
ianmac2010 1 year ago
love it
amuuse1 1 year ago
While most of us mistake self awareness for intelligence, Adams was/is intelligent enough to be humorous.
So precarious is the balance that allows life on this planet, one can only laugh at the hysterics created by debating superstitious mythology.
Douglas Adams is brilliant!
dwwolf2006 1 year ago
People are stupid.
richardmulroy 1 year ago 2