Coincidence?

[amitus8]

When I looked into a hole in my wall, I noticed it wasn't my wall, and the police soon came.

[otsmah]

Hebrew song, cool

[matsebah]

He is holy, unchanging,all -powerful, and all-knowing. Ability to dismiss the concept of this kind of God would alleviate a great deal of guilt in the hearts of men.

[Sunambra]

I'm in th UK one night recently I was talking to someone online from the US right after that I sat down to watch tv and a man was standing at a grave when the camera panned in the name was the same as the person I had just spoken to is that a coincidence?

[Sunambra]

@Sunambra A follow up, I told the person about this but didn't mention the person in the grave had been a slave well in their very next email unprompted they mentioned I should visit the slave plantations in the part of the US they came from I thought it strange they should mention slaves in the very next email.

[uh0oo]

fuck skeptiks ther boring, and missrable. I would hate to live like that.

[zragisha]

BORING!

[freeze391391]

did you knw in the hebrew language there is no word for coincidence? i personally dont believe in coincidence

[Shewolfen]

yes but what about the statistics on very specific things in conjunction with high frequency? What about when things aren't general and the probabilty is astronomicaly low?

[askegg]

@Shewolfen Who is doing the specifying, and when?

[CaptainHorus]

everything is what you make it

this guy's boring... its fun to be mystical and out there, for me anyway.

[ShinigamiNeo]

I once was thinking of my grandpa, who has passed away.

The moment after i thought: grandpa, if you are in heaven, and there is a god, give me a sign.

My grandpa gave us this box, and if you open it, the birds start singing (because light comes in. an audio thing in the box starts playing)

The day i thought that, i came home.

When i got home, i came upstairs, and the box was making sounds, while closed in a room that was pretty dark.

Proof or coincidence?

[askegg]

@ShinigamiNeo Weird, but does not prove anything.

[shadapple]

@ShinigamiNeo I don't know if you're referring to Heaven Biblically speaking or not, but according to the Bible we sleep until the ressurection.

[MrMZaccone]

@ShinigamiNeo One would have to examine the box and determine if there is another explanation for it making noise at a currently unexplained time. The rational thing to do is to reserve judgement until a material explanation can be investigated. My question is ... Did you bother? or did you just do what felt good and start believing in grandpa's ghost?

[ShinigamiNeo]

@MrMZaccone I didn't find it out.

I know there is most likely another reason, and i know that everything you said is 100% true, but sometimes the truth isn't worth it imo, and this is one of the cases.

Nice answer btw, was waiting for someone to post something like this.

[willparadigm]

@ShinigamiNeo For me, the truth is always worth it.

[superfishle]

I understand why randomly believing things is bad. But rational choices have their flaws too. For example, examined rationally in a vacuum, Eugenics is a total no-brainer. Much human weakness/suffering is hereditary. Prevent the passing on of these genes and Presto! suffering is reduced. Forever. Also, I fail to see, dogmas aside, why having an invisible friend who will always love you no matter what is a fundamentally bad concept? :-)

[askegg]

@superfishle The belief in a loving god is not necessarily the issue - it's what people do to try and please this invisible deity that matters.

[superfishle]

@askegg Agreed. Basing choices on the supposed will of something apparently ineffable is crazy! I would like to say, however, as I'm sure you're already aware, that religion is very far from the sole vehicle for this sort of dellusion. For example, eugenics is purely rational, as have been attempts to micro-manage society using game theory based strategies. There are many other examples. I guess the point i'm trying to make is that systems as complex as society often defy attempts to predict...

[superfishle]

@askegg I also meant to say: "Ty, good, well-researched, thought provoking vid" and also: "Tx for taking the time to read and respond to my comment, which I freely admit was a little off-topic" :-) Paz

[askegg]

@superfishle No problem :)

[lastcall2zoe]

Being in the field of molecular and genetic biology as given me some insight. What came first RNA, DNA, or the transcription of amino acids (protein)? Neither they had to exist at the same time. First law of chemisty matter can not be created it must already exist. (big bang theory is out) First rule of science is that was must be true must be able to be repeated. How come we can not create life using the basic elements of life in a tube (nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon)? GOD EXISTS!

[M1ST3RHYDE]

GOD IS ALL LOVING - I mean god is Loving ALL this Blood & Gore. These crash numbers are nothing to this guy, remember hes the 1 that Killed 14,700 for just Complaining (Numbers 16:49)

& The 1 that all-ways leaves me in Stitches is; Chronicles 21:14 "So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men".

Good Video:)

[M1ST3RHYDE]

My Grandma used to say the RainDancer can Dance Everyday for many Sunrises with no success But the 1 time it Did Rain Was Because he Just Happened to Get It Right & the Gods saw it that Time. She was being Sarcastic of Course.

[Seionai]

Hmm. It appears that this god sucks when it comes to car-stopping.

[M1ST3RHYDE]

You have it completly right especially if you say only the first 1/2.

[SangMarocain]

bulshit

[askegg]

Nice refutation. Moron.

[Seionai]

Brilliant rebuttal!

[subcyst]

i think people should believe whatever they want to believe, whether they are coincidences or not. There is already no proof that god exists, does that mean people are not going to believe? no.

[stardust005]

What is your definition of coincidence? Things change depending on that. No matter, things do not cease to exist simply because you do not believe in them.

[raininagen5]

Personally I don't believe in coincidences.

[MrCombine]

I COMPLETELY agree with you my friend

[adamberk07]

i DIS agree

[99mees]

is it conspiracy or coincidence that the watches have angry faces on them?

[askegg]

I never saw that before :)

[99mees]

that would be a cool desktop wallpaper. lol

[Strive2BBetter]

Right after I wrote a paper "The Simple Guide to the Happy Functional Marriage" I went into a bar and met a stranger there. I told him about the paper I just wrote and so it turns out his last name is my maiden name, and my maiden name is his mother's maiden name. That's proof enough for me.

[askegg]

Proof of what exactly?

[legomad]

coincidence.

[catfishmaw]

Hi - I just want to ask how you made this video, if you'd care to go into the details.

[askegg]

Short answer - Keynote and Final Cut from Apple.

[catfishmaw]

I thought as much. I've been making mine low-budget in iMovie, but I was thinking of trying out Keynote. I just wasn't sure how easy it was to make Keynote files into movies. Can you just export them that way?

[askegg]

Yep - just choose export to quicktime or pictures and import them into FC.

[luapreteip]

Coincidentally I posted a way to long comment. So if you want to follow my hole comment, you should start reading at the first comment I posted.

[askegg]

When I saw this come in via email I thought it might be spam. I am pleased to see it is an interesting stream of thought :)

[luapreteip]

And about that god stuff. It could by coincidentally true but so unlikely, that we can reduce the chance of existence of any type of god to less than one in a billion.

[luapreteip]

That I wrote this message is a pure coincident, but I hope it coincidentally could make a difference. And I realize I coincidentally take the coincidence too/very seriously.

[luapreteip]

And for those people I happened to have a message:

If you write the Coincident, in witch you can give scientific detail of how coincident can exist end rule the universe. You might be able to convince other people in the coincident. And that one day all people can believe in coincidence, and that there would be no reasons for war or any other misunderstandings of the coincidence.

[luapreteip]

Coincidentally I don't have the scientific knowledge, to explain the entire Coincident, also my English has coincident not developed as well as my Dutch.

But I think that coincidentally people that believe in coincident will read this, and get the point and agree.

[luapreteip]

But I think it goes even further, I believe everything someone can think of is a coincident, because the ions that causes our brains to create synapses (witch cause thoughts), are caused by coincidental bouncing of atoms en molecules (or some sort of coincidence).

[luapreteip]

I totally agree whit you. I also belief in coincidence. This has been my belief for many years. I have had the plan to write my own bible about it, only I would cal it the "Coincident".

In the Coincident should be described everything that is coincidental. This includes the beginning of the earth, the universe and everything that happened or could happen.

[Drysku11]

I have a slight arguement concerning everything that you would call coincidental. Don't get me wrong, I really believe in the Big Bang Theory when concerning the creation of the universe. However, I do not believe it was just some cosmic accident. In order for there to even be a "Bang," there had to be something to cause the initial spark.

What caused the spark?

[Fuzzypanda110]

i agree, any kind of energy, whether kinetic or stored, has to come from somewhere, if there was a beginning just then, where did the energy come from? then that wouldnt be the beginning, there would have to be a beginning before that, and even before that beginning, and so on and so on......... so when you think about it, time really never had a beginning..... and then there is religion, how the beginning that never existed, happened.....

[satanicmoose]

Big bang theory states that the energy always existed, just condensed into a singularity, complying with the first law of thermodynamics. If we make the assumption that the energy was created we are breaking the first law of thermodynamics, there is no evidence that can bring us to this conclusion.

[Fuzzypanda110]

exactly, BUT, if the energy always existed..... there had to be a beginning, it is impossible for it to exist "before time", but that "beginning", had to have created the energy in an unnatural, or supernatural way.

[satanicmoose]

If we know that energy cannot be created or destroyed assuming that it was created is an assumption I am not willing to make without proper reasoning. Occams Razor.

[Seionai]

What caused the spark, you ask? We have a lot of theories, but in truth, we still don't exactly know. That's an honest answer, and one that begs that we should keep studying the universe in order to find out.

[heyawhaw]

yeah, perfect answer! i love it!

The problem is that the faith based population can't grasp the idea of not knowing, or just mark it as an unknown until somebody figure it out! They are used to this pre chewed ideas filling up their old book with supposedly answers to EVERYTHING and when they can't have that they overwhelmed by nausea!

Basically it's a problem for the educational system ... they have just screwed up!

[kazns]

nobody's immortal! nobody knows what happens after death! it would be stupid if God would let die only those who doesn't believe in his existence, because why then he would have to give us life? that makes no sense! i think God gives us a chance, a chance to live a normal life, will we succeed or not, it depends on us!

[Unateo]

Maybe I'll do some videos ike yours but in Spanish... the Hispanic world has the biggest percentage of believers... (and poverty and violence) People has no idea of how can religions interfere with politics and a country's economic development.

[majav15mg]

im cuban and im an atheist ^_^_^_^ im not a communist!!!!

[Unateo]

This video is great.

I think the same way you do.

I don't know why believers want to thank god when something bad happens, many people die but they survive, what about the ones who died?

Their morals are twisted.

Where is the miracle in an accident where 10 persons died and only 1 survived???

[askegg]

I was listening to "In touch ministries" the other day and they were interviewing an ex-navy seal. He was involved in terrible WW2 incident and their ship was sunk. Over 900 sailors went into the sea and it took 7 days to rescue them. 600 were eaten by sharks. The navy seal lead prayers the whole time and the survivors thanked god they were alive. What about the 1,200 people who died?

[Unateo]

Some years ago I was going from Guadalajara, Mexico to Tepic Nayarit, and a terrible accident happened, a big trailer crashed against a small car and killed 4 persons, my relatives think it was a miracle that I didn't die just because some minutes before I was in front of the trailer... I always ask what about the ones who lost their lives there.

Miracles do not exist... or why can god cure cancer but can't make amputations grow?

[majav15mg]

exactly, all "god's miracles" have a scientific alternative. You will never hear of a person that got cured of AIDS, or just like u said, a person with an arm that was amputed.

[whirlpoolzend]

I'm always absolutely flabbergasted how such commonsense has to be explained...after all, we don't have to be statisticians or professors of mathematics to understand!

[againstthehumanrace]

totally favorited

[ltzippy2]

A great argument for one of the facets of the "Argument from Personal Experience"

[BillDaCatt]

Well said!

Added to favorites.

[TheAtheistPaladin]

Conformational bais is a tricky thing...