Theres unlnown things in this world so what the guy says in the video 99% of it is just opinion not fact because wdk how the world began or who was really here first oe what happened so i wont say aliens are real without facts ,they migjt not even be aliens who knows
Homosexual activists understand the power of words.
Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".
The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
"just as clueless as religoius fanatics"? really.....that's a stupid statement but totally predictable...if you can't argue facts and reality just attack the messenger. The examples in this video were clearly demonstrated. Maybe you mean "THERE IS Wisdom in knowing how little we know"....that's a lot more accurate...but nevermind...I doubt you're listening at this point.
He raises the brilliant point that whatever you investigate, you taint with your own beliefs. He is just as guilty of that as the "believers" in religious faces etc as he and his like will enter into an investigation with a "this cannot be true and I will find a way to prove it" mentality. Oblivious to this irony he and his like carry on as if they are the pinnacle of human evolution and intelligence when they are just as clueless as the religious fanatics.
@lurmot He is human, on TED and is doing well for himself. Give him and his idea some credibility :) People will never agree wholly, which is part of science and part of progression. At least he is contributing something which you cannot fault him for. Peace
@lurmot Not even close. A skeptic doubts his/her own assumptions (exactly because they already understand they don't know, see and understand everything) and as such they are willing & able to adjust them. Secondly, the assumptions a skeptic makes are based on solid evidence that can be reproduced.
By contrast, the religious do not base their convictions on any reproducable evidence nor are they willing to adjust them when they contradict facts. The two mentalities are nothing alike.
Homosexual activists understand the power of words.
Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".
The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
One problem. FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL. They aren't hubcaps. Also, I have seen shadowbeings and ghosts with my oun sober eyes. These aren't youtube videos I'm talking about. Also, you talk fast which is a form of bullshit. Fast doesn't make you right. Also, you get money and I don't. Also, no, you are not going to convince me otherwise pertaining to the afformentioned. But it must be comforting to your audiences. Your paid to calm em down with carnevil showmanship.
When I make spaghetti sauce, I see an image of God swirling around in the sauce. If I add parmesan cheese, it looks like God is in heaven (sort of...).
This guy is a material reductionist. His opinions ignore dualism, non-duality, solipsism and theology plus hes very negative towards other views of reality. If he studied philsopohy with an unbiased mind he would realise mind is at the centre of the universe.
Homosexual activists understand the power of words.
Please visit my channel to watch a one-minute video clip in which popular atheist author Richard Dawkins admits that homosexual activists "hijacked the word 'gay'".
The word "homosexual" is more appropriate and accurate because it, unlike the word "gay", actually describes the behavior/attraction/relationship being discussed.
The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
HOW do these people get taling engaugments?? are people SO desperate for somethingto hear that they want to hear nonscense like this.. he calls himself a scientist yet refutes logic ..
he doesnt know the link between science and spirit?! hes willing to accept unfounded ideal from natural mind but not from the spirtual mind that was always here..
he thinks saucer tecnology is not real .. but the governments have made them from WW2
@frank0067 there is reason to believe in aliens if you look at the billions of sunlike stars, earthlike planets and so on. Even if the chance was 0.000000000000000000001% that other life than us excists; it does. Btw science hasn't even defined what life is in abstract terms (officially). So there is life on other planets, whatsoever... (because we are here too even with this small odds)
@MrBorsetti so what about spirits ghost and devils?
how does your theory fit for this too... you see now the paradox?
There is NO reason to belive in aliens because of the sheer number of rocks in space
same as saying.. there MUST be tiny clown cities in only some grains of sand due to how MANY sands there are on all the worlds beaches..with water and light present too for survivability ..
In the beginning he mentions a lot of nonsense, with the word science after them. lets just be honest, and remove the word science from those, and we'll just have pseudo, non, junk, voodoo, and a lot of other nonsense.
To assume that everything he said is in general true for all examples is a cognitive biased view and therefore not much scientific. He seems like a smart guy with logical explanations, but being sceptic about everything is also just one side of a double-sided coin. Good video, though!
science and spiritual things ARE compatable.. inteligent design DOES offer the best data .. darwinism does not
Darwinsim of evolution IS a religion. offeres NO data
about UFO which he also doesnt know... there are flying saucers but there are no such thing as aliens.. there ARE creatures that look like typicle alien.. but they are just old supernatural enties devils.
@RottenAppleSeeds I do let them.I have religious friends and relatives and we get along just fine.and Arguing isnt the same thing as "bashing".And Im not naive enough to think that the world wouldnt have problems if everyone were atheist,but the middle east sure would benefit from a few more atheists and a few less mullahs lol.As long as there are people who believe irrational things,there should be Michaels Shermers offering an alternative view
I am a science researcher with a doctorate from Oxford University so I think I know what I'm talking about when I say that "science" today is not much better than superstition. 99% of studies are fatally flawed yet they never talk about that. To know that science is fallable is to be a scientist - the world isn't a dichotomy of scientists and religious fanatics. So what science has this guy done to contribute to human learning?
@CoxJoxSox Even if you are telling the truth, your credentials don't automatically make you a logical, rational human being. It also does not mean your arguments automatically hold more water over a simpleton YouTuber. So let's not throw around credentials for show like that.
@stickybelvedere Why not? What? You rather we all just blindly believe everything people say? Pfft... no thanks. I'll leave that mentality to the religious.
umm lol i never said i would blindly believe anyone... im not in the least bit religious.. but i do believe in the fulfillment of life (through expression). and i know that you can never live a satisfied life if it is spent putting down other peoples beliefs.
Almost all of the other TEDtalks are of ideas that brilliant people came up with. This talk however is just the opposite. Rather than contributing ideas, he instead attempts to put down ideas. He isnt that great.
@stickybelvedere He isn't putting down ideas. He's actually describing how human beings by nature seek patterns. This pattern seeking is likely the result of a survival mechanism. YOU interpret it as just putting down ideas. He's just explaining it. The "putting down" part is just a casualty of intellectual war.
yeah this guy isn't much more educated than the people he criticizes - science is relatively new and we can't say that we are at the point where we can "debumk" all things we cannot see. Friendship, love isn't visible or provable either
@CoxJoxSox What are you talking about, his logic is driven by the scientific methods, evidence, and critical thinking (it essentially is the scientific approach but applied to all facets of phenomena). Friendship and love are just ideas created by humans to describe emotions and social relationships. Emotions are just physiological changes in the neurotransmitters and hormone levels that can be proven by measuring brain activity in certain parts of the brain. Keep avoiding rational thinking bud.
@CoxJoxSox Too bad Michael Shermer uses science and scientists to conduct his debunking. He isn't saying it's completely false either. Let's not get into philosophy here. Shermer presents a logical alternative explanation. Yes he jokes. He's a presenter after all. Jokes make speeches/lectures more interesting. You should watch his skeptic series or read his publications. He backs up his debunking with science.
@CoxJoxSox Actually both are just manifestations of the chemical processes in the brain and can be detected, measured and artificially generated. Not fully at the present but the full result is very close. So yea, we can pretty much "debunk" everything that we can't see or detect.
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ahh he doesnt know very much after all...
science and spiritual things ARE compatable.. inteligent design DOES offer the best data .. darwinism does not
Darwinsim of evolution IS a religion. offeres NO data
about UFO which he also doesnt know... there are flying saucers but there are no such thing as aliens.. there ARE creatures that look like typicle alien.. but they are just old supernatural enties devils.
@frank0067 Wow. you believe in devils? Do they live under your bed? Do you ask your daddy to check the closet before you go to sleep at night? Does your teddy protect you?
@AzraelI666 LOL i see so you ae willing to belive in this New UNFOUNDED IDEA OF aliens AND DARWINISM.. BUT A COMPLETE HISTORY OR THE SUPERNATURAL... AHH FORGET IT.. HUH?
EITHER YOU ARE IGNORANT SHEEP OR IGNORANT SHEEP... AND JUDGING BY THE IGNORANCE... MAYBE IGNORANT
@frank0067 judging by your complete lack of spelling capabilities i came to the conclusion you're just the average retard, with which any logical conversation is impossible. I sincerely hope you haven't bred.
@DarkSouls1011 Nikola Tesla, if you can. He was a super interesting guy that did things that people are still trying to understand. Edwin Hubble is coming up again in a recent discovery that some of his scientific principles involving our preception of space could have already been published by someone else in a journal written only in French. Stephen Hawking is an incredible man who has made some great discoveries, but there are other scientists that might make for a more engaging project.
"God" haters are a ridiculous set. Certain people will seek out thought-structures which allow them to hate, to persecute others, physically, emotionally, etc. Human institutions change; human psychology doesn't change. There is an upsetting (and a subtle) symbolic link between the old Spanish inquisitor and a modern day atheist on the offense.
Good people don't hurt others, whether or not they believe in "God."
On Shermer's website he claims to be Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University. However, on investigation, Claremont had never heard of him. So why does he say this?
Omg every atheist now sounds like they are from the "athest experience" worst show ever made. It's taught educated people to be evidence seeking robots. The trick is on them, look at any atheist profile youll likely be depressed just from glancing at it!
Without empiricism - the exciting new field of "robot-like evidence seeking" - there would be no such thing as an "educated person". We are educated (or should be) about what humanity knows based on empirical observation. Any time you believe something without evidence, you're being irrational and therefore can't be taken seriously. I invite you to "look at my profile" to facilitate your depression. Evidence matters, faith does not.
@danielkirk1 Good point. You've proved that you are vastly more intelligent than me by behaving like a fourth grader and thus staving off any intelligent rebuttal.
@24arimar I'm not here to prove who is smarter first of all. What i meant by "robot-like evidence seeking" is people need to be more open to things rather than this "see it to believe it" attitude. There are amazing things in this world today that would be impossible to discover without having faith in finding something. Archeoligists don't just say "i can't see the fossils so i doubt there is any out there" No, they have the faith there IS MORE.
@danielkirk1 That is extraordinarily silly. Archeologists believe there are fossils in the ground because fossils have been an empirically verified phenomena since basically the dawn of scientific documentation. This is the very opposite of "faith". No respectable archeologist would go to Virginia looking for the bones of the Mothman. "Faith", your Christian virtue, means "blind acceptance". It is a reasonable, empirical assumption that there are fossils in the ground, not a matter of faith.
@24arimar But just like the big bang theory, you act like things never started. For example, you can't prove to me what was the first fossil ever discovered? How did the fossil get found without the archeologists 'faith' that something would even be there? I'm sure it wasn't an accident since fossils are so below the surface. You just have to have FAITH that scientists are telling you EVERYTHING. Now don't change the subject, comment on what I just said. Thank you for your time.
@danielkirk1 Yes because everybody knows excavators are holy warriors sent from God to discover fossils to trick humans into believing there's no god.
Before you ask questions like that, do some fuckin research. 90% of athesists are people who have done independent research, and have sought answers for themselves.
When I'm hungry, I actually do have "faith" in that there's going to be food in my refrigerator. I also have "faith" in--reasonably expecting--others' refrigerators to also contain food.
In a nutshell, you are using the term "faith" in "vain."
I think it's shallow that all things must be explained or have an explanation to drive home the idea of intelligent design or for the existence of God. I mean is it possibly that not all things fit the science model? Things that cannot be tested, repeated and observed? How do we really know without knowing all things? So quick is this man to jump to conclusions based upon speculations. Are we with faith any different? No. But that's not what I"m saying here.
@121jigawatts I think it's shallow that you just want to be lazy and not get up and do something. That's what you come off as when you say things like that. We explore and try to know because we all crave that. And if you think I'm a liar then I'll have to call you out and say you are one in that if you didn't crave to want to read and write you wouldn't have written the ridiculous comment that I had to respond to.
@blinddoctorwho You know nothing about me. Your prejudiced statement is merely ignorance on your part. What do you know about me or what I read and write. I could be Billy Graham for all you know, the greatest evangelist since the Apostle Paul. These guys work tirelessy to make God known to man, as if God needed any help to begin with,. The ignorance is not on my part, but it is on yours. It must be bliss!
@121jigawatts I didn't make an ignorant statement, I made an opinion. And one more thing to sum you up, you didn't pay attention to the fact that I don't give a shit about anything you are but what you doing in which you are trying to downplay humanity in place of an imaginary bully. So now I will make a prejudice against you, that you must be a bigot for wanting some fantasy creature to have praise than your fellow man that helps and aids you. Oh, and fuck Billy Graham too.
@blinddoctorwho I don't deal well with hostile and antagonistic people. Tell me who is the bully when you re-read the commentary between us and see whom's dialogue is more edgy. Everything you attack me and my God for is actually laced throughout your last comment. In Christianity that is called hypocricy.
@121jigawatts First off, learn to spell hypocrisy. Second, Christians by nature of the holy bible are taught to be hostile and antagonistic(it goes with the whole 'only my god exists' kind of attitude Christians presume to have) when it comes to those that question your god's existence. And on one final note, you are stumbling and failing to come up with anything for a counter argument(which by the way, I didn't attack you in the first place, you attacked me. As far as I see it I'm done talking.
@blinddoctorwho What? Jesus a bully? Do you even consider how that sounds? I NEVER attacked you. I didn't use foul language and didn't undermine you ever! You commented on how stupid my original comment sounded to you and here we are. You did not re-read the dialogue between us at all, because if you did you would have to agree (I read it over again just for the record, I like to play just, not necessarily fair), if you don't agree you are lying or blind and delusional.
Attack:An aggressive and violent action against a person or place.
Criticism:1.The expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes.
I gave a criticism about your comment, and you attacked me during our first comments. You are just starting a shitstorm and if you can't handle some swearing then you really don't belong on here for a discussion of any kind. I'm not saying you are required to curse, rather that you need a thick skin.
@blinddoctorwho I want you to pull the quote from my commentary where I "attacked" you. If you do that, I will sincerely apologize. Maybe I need a thicker skin, but let's face it, nobody likes to be criticized. I'm done with you.
@121jigawatts "Your prejudiced statement is merely ignorance on your part." As well as the statement "The ignorance is not on my part, but it is on yours. It must be bliss!"
Not only one but two statements, I haven't even pulled apart any of your other comments yet. Now we are done.
It's going to be so much fun when we realize that we are being visited by extraterrestrials and that they actually came across the galaxy to make a cropcircle just for us. Why? To slowly and carefully open our minds to the fact that we are not alone and that we have been observed by extraterrestrial intelligences for hundreds of years. Sounds crazy? Absolutely. But I can't say anything else after examining all the evidence.
Yeah, people like you that believe there's no after life, or anything else mystical. Pretty strange to me. Blinkered arrogance and ignorance. Study Rupert Sheldrake's evidence, a REAL scientist in the what the terms science is really about. Skepticism is healthy as long as it doesn't evolve into a religion - like atheism, which apparently you are self proclaimed follower of. You and your organisation is not open minded to evidence, so therefore damage the saerch for truth.
@quatre420vingt - Granted, my post was pretty badly written. I'll check them carefully before posting in the future. My point was that atheism is a belief system that is often rigidly held by it's followers. Have you researched Rupert Sheldrake's involvements with Randi and Dawkins? They appear to be of this ilk. As an aside have you researched Alestair Crowley or other occult or satanic cult connections with the worlds elite and or intelligence institutions?
@psytrancehead I do appreciate your use of the word "often" in that sentence, because not all atheists are rigid, biased, close-minded people. i will have to agree with you that there are a number of people who share my beliefs that are that way. however, i would be willing to bet that there are as many hypocritical money whores that call themselves Christians feeding that stereotype, as there are close-minded Atheists. however, those people should be considered unfortunate spikes
@psytrancehead in both groups. and to answer your question, no, i have not had the opportunity to look into those 2 subjects, but will gladly oblige to, as i do not seek answers that please me, i yearn only for truth. i can assure you in reviewing the suggested material, i shall be open minded, but have no more obligation in reading this than to read the bible as an atheist.
@psytrancehead Atheism is not science, atheism is a single position on a single issue, not a religion. Science is a method of inquisition, research and learning. REAL scientists don't have to believe anything, they accept what the evidence points to, if the evidence points to an after life, then that is what will be accepted.
@psytrancehead LMAO.He's arrogant and ignorant for disbelieving outlandish claims that have virtually no evidence.Yeah,that makes PERFECT since.And atheism is not a "religion",it is simply a lack of belief in deities.That's it.Nothing else.Anything else doesn't properly qualify as "atheism".
Yeah, people like you that believe there's no after life, or anything else mystical. Pretty strange to me. Blinkered arrogance and ignorance. Study Rupert Sheldrake's evidence, a REAL scientist in the what the terms science is really about. Skepticism is healthy as long as it doesn't evolve into a religion - like atheism, we you are self proclaimed follower of. You and your organisation is not open minded to evidence, so therefore damage the saerch for truth.
@psytrancehead ok. I´ve always been told that the term that most people use is atheist. But then again, the very word translates to anti-god. But which organisation do you you speak of, that I´m apparently part of?
@Shadowunderrock "Atheist" does not mean "anti-god" it means a person who does not believe in a god or gods. Anti-god implies the person believes in god and just dislikes him/her/it.
@crazycanook102 the latter part of your comparison is wrong. anti-theists not only don't believe in a deity, but they strongly stand against religion and the need for people to believe in deities, often imposing their beliefs onto others as theists would when they preach about their god. they aren't against any individual in particular, it's the practice of "faith" that they oppose.
@RottenAppleSeeds They don't "impose their beliefs" on anyone, they just write books and try to convince people through rational argument that religion is a negative social force. I wouldn't call that "imposing".
@KingCondorIII "convince"...like the way theists try to convince people into their beliefs...that's imposing. "negative social force"...like movies, music, videogames, books, the news. there are no negative social forces. it's human nature to turn anything good into something bad. how is it exactly fair to gang up on religion? you wanna talk about a REAL negative force, then talk about applied science - medicine and technology have allowed humans to live longer, and population to sky-rocket.
@RottenAppleSeedsI refuse to call arguing with people "imposing". Everyone has a right to an opinion.If they believe that religion is a negative social force than they have a right to argue that point.Theists also have the right to argue the opposite.If they shut down churches sovietstyle,THAT would be imposing.It's fair to gang up on religion because religionists deserve to be called out on their bullshit.SOMEONE'S gotta do it.I don't think the should just be given free reign to spread bullshit
@RottenAppleSeedsI refuse to call arguing with people "imposing". Everyone has a right to an opinion.If they believe that religion is a negative social force than they have a right to argue that point.Theists also have the right to argue the opposite.If they shut down churches sovietstyle,THAT would be imposing.It's fair to gang up on religion because religionists deserve to be called out on their bullshit.SOMEONE'S gotta do it.I don't think the should just be given free reign to spread nonsense
@KingCondorIII nice double post. "religionists(if that even is a word) deserve to be called out on their bullshit."...see, you say this shortly after you say "everyone has a right to an opinion." you're passively imposing your opinion by making a generalization that all religion is bad, and then continue on to condescend theists by implying that they must be stupid for believing in "bullshit", as if there's irrefutable evidence for them to believe otherwise.
@RottenAppleSeeds i didnt like the first post because i used the word bullshit twice.So I posted again but Im not sure how to delete comments so the first one stayed
@RottenAppleSeeds Having the right to an opinion also means having the right to an opinion about other people's opinions.For hundreds of years,religious ideas dominated mainstream culture,and it was taboo to challenge them.Now we can.I think religion is childish.They have no reason to believe the way they believe other than a 2000 year old contradictary questionably translated collection of myths.I have every right to call them misguided.Plus religion has far more influence than it deserves
@KingCondorIII you can't say people have a right to an opinion, and then bash them for believing. you act as if the world would've been united if everyone were atheists. man will always be divided, wars will always happen, and anything will be used to manipulate the masses. and as much as greedy men have ruined religion, i think it has also influenced people to do great things in art, music, films, etc. if people need to find comfort in believing in heaven, or finding purpose, then let them.
@gumme1234 - I don't?! I never said I didn't believe that. I'm open to many layers, levels or dimensions to "reality" - go check some more of your apparently beloved physics.
@gumme1234 - Again if you are blinkered to only one dimension of reality existing then yes, your argument accurately relates to your subjectivity, or dare I say paradigm.
@psytrancehead But a) you have no reasonable grounds for these 'extra-dimensional realities', you are only misrepresenting quantum physics, and b) given other dimensions from the quantum physics perspective, you have no basis for asserting anything about these dimensions, only that they may exist. Even those who do research relating to the possible existence of these dimensions make no inferences about their content or structure. You, sir, are peddling woo-woo.
@gumme1234 - Anita Moorjani's experiences (as well as many other things - and screw Randi's million dollar fraudulent propogandized challange - que Ruprt Sheldrake) seriously question your statement - worth a google, listen to her 2006 interviews onocologists included.
@psytrancehead Randi's challenge, and the money, are real. Get over it. No one has claimed it, most people don't even try because they KNOW they are full of shit and don't want to get busted. Stop believing in woo-woo stuff without evidence, or opting for unfounded explanations over founded ones. NDEs are becoming more and more understood through neuroscience. There is ZERO reason to think they are confirmation of afterlife or of souls.
I only know that our world is much, much more than the eyes can see, and that their science is created not to discover but to conceal the truth from us.
@ivanovsd Science IS the truth, but alot of people ignore the amount of creativity and imagination required to understand MORE of it, look at the greatest philosophers and physicists etc, always CREATIVITY etc FIRST! It just takes a long time to actually understand the entire universe ;) but we are on our way. Concealing truth is what big corporations, bankers and shadow governments does today, creating brainwashed people :( Not science, theres too little REAL science.
Please visit my channel for the unpopular truth about homosexuality.
A person does not need hatred or any kind of phobia in order to acknowledge important differences between heterosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption and homosexual attraction / behavior / marriage / adoption. Even non-religious people know this.
Homosexual activists, with support from the media, have succeeded at framing themselves as noble victims; it's an effective way to push a social agenda.
@deefsound Watch more of his videos. I suppose someone has to do it, but I'm very glad I'm not him. There are so many special things that he'll never let himself know. And no, there is not enough room here to expand on that.
@DrLight9 I have watched many videos, listened to interviews, read blog articles by or about him and have read some of his books. Arrogant? That is an arguable point though not one I'd agree with but that he's fatuous? Really? One of the most silly and pointless people of all time? Methinks you've taken a cosmic misstep with that accusation.
Don't worry about not expanding on the 'special things'. I suspect I might not see eye to eye with you on their supposed 'specialness'.
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X1xRiGox3X 2 days ago
Theres unlnown things in this world so what the guy says in the video 99% of it is just opinion not fact because wdk how the world began or who was really here first oe what happened so i wont say aliens are real without facts ,they migjt not even be aliens who knows
X1xRiGox3X 2 days ago
Looks like the "there" backwards sounds like "Satan". From now on I'll be terrified of toolsheds.
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"just as clueless as religoius fanatics"? really.....that's a stupid statement but totally predictable...if you can't argue facts and reality just attack the messenger. The examples in this video were clearly demonstrated. Maybe you mean "THERE IS Wisdom in knowing how little we know"....that's a lot more accurate...but nevermind...I doubt you're listening at this point.
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slappythegamer 1 week ago
He raises the brilliant point that whatever you investigate, you taint with your own beliefs. He is just as guilty of that as the "believers" in religious faces etc as he and his like will enter into an investigation with a "this cannot be true and I will find a way to prove it" mentality. Oblivious to this irony he and his like carry on as if they are the pinnacle of human evolution and intelligence when they are just as clueless as the religious fanatics.
Wisdom is knowing how little we know.
lurmot 1 week ago
@lurmot He is human, on TED and is doing well for himself. Give him and his idea some credibility :) People will never agree wholly, which is part of science and part of progression. At least he is contributing something which you cannot fault him for. Peace
ClAcKeRzW 1 week ago
@lurmot not quite as clueless.
rafelingd 1 week ago
@lurmot Not even close. A skeptic doubts his/her own assumptions (exactly because they already understand they don't know, see and understand everything) and as such they are willing & able to adjust them. Secondly, the assumptions a skeptic makes are based on solid evidence that can be reproduced.
By contrast, the religious do not base their convictions on any reproducable evidence nor are they willing to adjust them when they contradict facts. The two mentalities are nothing alike.
GluttonForSex 6 days ago
Shermer needs psychedelics.
rebelsun 1 week ago
religion is nonsense.
utube2344 1 week ago
There is a world of difference between a sceptic and a scoffer.
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The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.
lightandbeautiful 1 week ago
Shit! Why am I working for a living when PT barium's axiom still holds true how much did he say schools were paying for that nonsense? Yikes!
CzechTechnik 1 week ago
my doctor advised me not to keep my farts
ueyfby31u4bgvfiu31bp 2 weeks ago
One problem. FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL. They aren't hubcaps. Also, I have seen shadowbeings and ghosts with my oun sober eyes. These aren't youtube videos I'm talking about. Also, you talk fast which is a form of bullshit. Fast doesn't make you right. Also, you get money and I don't. Also, no, you are not going to convince me otherwise pertaining to the afformentioned. But it must be comforting to your audiences. Your paid to calm em down with carnevil showmanship.
lowerarkanasadrummer 2 weeks ago
When I make spaghetti sauce, I see an image of God swirling around in the sauce. If I add parmesan cheese, it looks like God is in heaven (sort of...).
tammyterry 2 weeks ago 11
This guy is a material reductionist. His opinions ignore dualism, non-duality, solipsism and theology plus hes very negative towards other views of reality. If he studied philsopohy with an unbiased mind he would realise mind is at the centre of the universe.
atom286 3 weeks ago
@atom286 The Super-Consciousness is wise.
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@atom286
That's your philosophic view on things and as we know, there is no absolute truth in philosophy. So your argument makes no sense.
Riffeli 2 weeks ago
@atom286 Theology is the pretense of knowledge. Nothing more. It's literally on the same level as any of Scientology's nonsense.
GluttonForSex 2 weeks ago
lol at 4:00 i think he's describing quantum theory :P
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lightandbeautiful 3 weeks ago
HOW do these people get taling engaugments?? are people SO desperate for somethingto hear that they want to hear nonscense like this.. he calls himself a scientist yet refutes logic ..
he doesnt know the link between science and spirit?! hes willing to accept unfounded ideal from natural mind but not from the spirtual mind that was always here..
he thinks saucer tecnology is not real .. but the governments have made them from WW2
ok there is no reason to belive in aliens right
frank0067 3 weeks ago
@frank0067 HAHAHAHAHA Your funny.
gazthefunky39 3 weeks ago
@frank0067 there is reason to believe in aliens if you look at the billions of sunlike stars, earthlike planets and so on. Even if the chance was 0.000000000000000000001% that other life than us excists; it does. Btw science hasn't even defined what life is in abstract terms (officially). So there is life on other planets, whatsoever... (because we are here too even with this small odds)
MrBorsetti 2 weeks ago
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frank0067 2 weeks ago
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@MrBorsetti so what about spirits ghost and devils?
how does your theory fit for this too... you see now the paradox?
There is NO reason to belive in aliens because of the sheer number of rocks in space
same as saying.. there MUST be tiny clown cities in only some grains of sand due to how MANY sands there are on all the worlds beaches..with water and light present too for survivability ..
its called junk science fiction
frank0067 2 weeks ago
He just lump sums Everything into a joke .... soon enough the truth about ET's will be known with out any reservation ...
MasterMark123 3 weeks ago
@MasterMark123 because everything is fucking funny.
kane445898 3 weeks ago
what about global eh... MANBEARPIG
qnbs7 4 weeks ago
government approved thc marijuana haha
qnbs7 4 weeks ago
hate this starting music
vinayshah17 4 weeks ago
Started on bad premises.
ugandaplayer 1 month ago
In the beginning he mentions a lot of nonsense, with the word science after them. lets just be honest, and remove the word science from those, and we'll just have pseudo, non, junk, voodoo, and a lot of other nonsense.
AGrandt 1 month ago
The only time I actually want to be disappointed is when I expect retarded Youtube comments. It hasn't happened yet.
Skaarjguy 1 month ago
How does this douche have a job? Ugh :/
BradBallanger 1 month ago
This man is a fucking retard.
DroForTheLow 1 month ago
If this guy is considered to be an intellectual, I am proud to say I'm an idiot..
imax1971 1 month ago
@imax1971 Idiot.
UnitedKingdomify 1 month ago
ever actually do that with the zeppelin album? its actually there, its very creepy.
thedarkshitstain 1 month ago
@thedarkshitstain you didnt listen too carefuly, did you?
PaaX 1 month ago
@PaaX no I apparently didn't.
thedarkshitstain 1 month ago
This lying Jew spreads the 9/11 Lie, the Holocaust Lie, the Moon Walk Lie etc....
He is a shill spreading LIES.
parasitesarefunny 1 month ago
@parasitesarefunny I thought the Moon Walk Lie was spread my Michael Jackson.
deedubya286 1 month ago
@parasitesarefunny .....wow
barennis 3 weeks ago
hahahahah outstanding!!! great stuff man!! :D
Mirrodin82 1 month ago
its sad how we live in a reality where we dont know for sure the real truth of all matter and questions
charliesEyeball7duh 1 month ago
@charliesEyeball7duh Kind of makes things interesting though dont you think
BigSAK88 1 month ago
@BigSAK88 yes but it can be harmful, because what we believe is what our reality is...
charliesEyeball7duh 1 month ago
he never explained why people are attracted to strange things
Trinitysx 1 month ago
@Trinitysx Because humans tend to convince themselves to believe.
TehJedicake 1 month ago
@Trinitysx Because they're sexxxayyy! There ya go.
Rarae192 1 month ago
To assume that everything he said is in general true for all examples is a cognitive biased view and therefore not much scientific. He seems like a smart guy with logical explanations, but being sceptic about everything is also just one side of a double-sided coin. Good video, though!
ChillerMiller1987 1 month ago
Shermer is awesome!
TheSkeptic76 1 month ago
Ha, Shermer rocks!
Kochofication 1 month ago
first thing i said when i clicked on this was "hey i know you! you were on Mr. Deity!"
OcelotPwns 1 month ago
FUS RO DAH1!!!!!!!
ThePlatoon4 1 month ago 5
@ThePlatoon4 yes, yes indeed sir
phillyC100 3 weeks ago
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ahh he doesnt know very much after all...
science and spiritual things ARE compatable.. inteligent design DOES offer the best data .. darwinism does not
Darwinsim of evolution IS a religion. offeres NO data
about UFO which he also doesnt know... there are flying saucers but there are no such thing as aliens.. there ARE creatures that look like typicle alien.. but they are just old supernatural enties devils.
feel bad for this guy
frank0067 1 month ago
@frank0067 I was completely with you until the word intelligent.
cnmaster01 1 month ago
@cnmaster01 your not the only one :P
frank0067 1 month ago
@RottenAppleSeeds I do let them.I have religious friends and relatives and we get along just fine.and Arguing isnt the same thing as "bashing".And Im not naive enough to think that the world wouldnt have problems if everyone were atheist,but the middle east sure would benefit from a few more atheists and a few less mullahs lol.As long as there are people who believe irrational things,there should be Michaels Shermers offering an alternative view
KingCondorIII 1 month ago
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or not scientist at all
freakiest421 1 month ago
I am a science researcher with a doctorate from Oxford University so I think I know what I'm talking about when I say that "science" today is not much better than superstition. 99% of studies are fatally flawed yet they never talk about that. To know that science is fallable is to be a scientist - the world isn't a dichotomy of scientists and religious fanatics. So what science has this guy done to contribute to human learning?
CoxJoxSox 2 months ago
@CoxJoxSox you are a bad scientist.
freakiest421 1 month ago 7
@CoxJoxSox Even if you are telling the truth, your credentials don't automatically make you a logical, rational human being. It also does not mean your arguments automatically hold more water over a simpleton YouTuber. So let's not throw around credentials for show like that.
iz2sicc 1 month ago
@CoxJoxSox i completely doubt you're any credible. and i'm not only saying that because you think science is "done".
JohnF30Music 1 month ago
@CoxJoxSox prove it
yazzy613 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@CoxJoxSox By science at Oxford you mean sociology at a polytechnic right?
NLarsen1989 2 weeks ago
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@CoxJoxSox By science at Oxford you mean sociology at a polytechnic right?
NLarsen1989 2 weeks ago
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@CoxJoxSox By science at Oxford you mean sociology at a polytechnic right?
NLarsen1989 2 weeks ago
youre never gonna live a fullfilled life spent debunking people.
stickybelvedere 2 months ago
@stickybelvedere Why not? What? You rather we all just blindly believe everything people say? Pfft... no thanks. I'll leave that mentality to the religious.
iz2sicc 2 months ago in playlist Philosophy, Atheism and Belief
@iz2sicc
umm lol i never said i would blindly believe anyone... im not in the least bit religious.. but i do believe in the fulfillment of life (through expression). and i know that you can never live a satisfied life if it is spent putting down other peoples beliefs.
Almost all of the other TEDtalks are of ideas that brilliant people came up with. This talk however is just the opposite. Rather than contributing ideas, he instead attempts to put down ideas. He isnt that great.
stickybelvedere 2 months ago
@stickybelvedere He isn't putting down ideas. He's actually describing how human beings by nature seek patterns. This pattern seeking is likely the result of a survival mechanism. YOU interpret it as just putting down ideas. He's just explaining it. The "putting down" part is just a casualty of intellectual war.
iz2sicc 2 months ago
yeah this guy isn't much more educated than the people he criticizes - science is relatively new and we can't say that we are at the point where we can "debumk" all things we cannot see. Friendship, love isn't visible or provable either
CoxJoxSox 2 months ago
@CoxJoxSox What are you talking about, his logic is driven by the scientific methods, evidence, and critical thinking (it essentially is the scientific approach but applied to all facets of phenomena). Friendship and love are just ideas created by humans to describe emotions and social relationships. Emotions are just physiological changes in the neurotransmitters and hormone levels that can be proven by measuring brain activity in certain parts of the brain. Keep avoiding rational thinking bud.
herpderpmonkey 2 months ago
@CoxJoxSox Too bad Michael Shermer uses science and scientists to conduct his debunking. He isn't saying it's completely false either. Let's not get into philosophy here. Shermer presents a logical alternative explanation. Yes he jokes. He's a presenter after all. Jokes make speeches/lectures more interesting. You should watch his skeptic series or read his publications. He backs up his debunking with science.
iz2sicc 1 month ago
@CoxJoxSox Actually both are just manifestations of the chemical processes in the brain and can be detected, measured and artificially generated. Not fully at the present but the full result is very close. So yea, we can pretty much "debunk" everything that we can't see or detect.
AzraelI666 1 month ago
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ahh he doesnt know very much after all...
science and spiritual things ARE compatable.. inteligent design DOES offer the best data .. darwinism does not
Darwinsim of evolution IS a religion. offeres NO data
about UFO which he also doesnt know... there are flying saucers but there are no such thing as aliens.. there ARE creatures that look like typicle alien.. but they are just old supernatural enties devils.
feel bad for this guy
frank0067 2 months ago
@frank0067 Wow. you believe in devils? Do they live under your bed? Do you ask your daddy to check the closet before you go to sleep at night? Does your teddy protect you?
calladus 2 months ago
@frank0067 You are either a bad troll or a moron. Judging from the mentioning of the devils, most likely a moron.
AzraelI666 1 month ago
@AzraelI666 LOL i see so you ae willing to belive in this New UNFOUNDED IDEA OF aliens AND DARWINISM.. BUT A COMPLETE HISTORY OR THE SUPERNATURAL... AHH FORGET IT.. HUH?
EITHER YOU ARE IGNORANT SHEEP OR IGNORANT SHEEP... AND JUDGING BY THE IGNORANCE... MAYBE IGNORANT
frank0067 1 month ago
@frank0067 judging by your complete lack of spelling capabilities i came to the conclusion you're just the average retard, with which any logical conversation is impossible. I sincerely hope you haven't bred.
AzraelI666 1 month ago
@AzraelI666 well al least your emotion shows you belive something isnt as it seems huh
good ood learning is always good.. even if you hate that which may not agree with ya.
frank0067 1 month ago
@frank0067 Please...you're the one who believes that stretching my groin and taking a deep breath is going to summon some Hindu demon.
barennis 3 weeks ago
@barennis Talking about yoga.
barennis 3 weeks ago
There are a lot of bad TED speakers. He is one of the good ones :D
classictvguy1 2 months ago
Nice share
MrCIickHere 2 months ago
i need 2 do a science project about a famous scientist who should i do stephen hawking or edwin hubble ???????????????
DarkSouls1011 2 months ago
@DarkSouls1011 Nikola Tesla, if you can. He was a super interesting guy that did things that people are still trying to understand. Edwin Hubble is coming up again in a recent discovery that some of his scientific principles involving our preception of space could have already been published by someone else in a journal written only in French. Stephen Hawking is an incredible man who has made some great discoveries, but there are other scientists that might make for a more engaging project.
maniacalmania 2 months ago
@DarkSouls1011 I agree with darksouls Tesla is the way to go
Silvergordikuki 2 months ago
@DarkSouls1011 DO RICHARD DAWKINS =P
smikesmike05 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
172 people are religious.
Moisty2010 2 months ago
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"God" haters are a ridiculous set. Certain people will seek out thought-structures which allow them to hate, to persecute others, physically, emotionally, etc. Human institutions change; human psychology doesn't change. There is an upsetting (and a subtle) symbolic link between the old Spanish inquisitor and a modern day atheist on the offense.
Good people don't hurt others, whether or not they believe in "God."
Ariel62073 2 months ago
On Shermer's website he claims to be Adjunct Professor at Claremont Graduate University. However, on investigation, Claremont had never heard of him. So why does he say this?
Go check it out.
metaRising 2 months ago
That NUN BUN looks surely more like Juck Norris !
nitramko 2 months ago
Omg every atheist now sounds like they are from the "athest experience" worst show ever made. It's taught educated people to be evidence seeking robots. The trick is on them, look at any atheist profile youll likely be depressed just from glancing at it!
danielkirk1 2 months ago
@danielkirk1 Uhhh.
One point of contention.
Without empiricism - the exciting new field of "robot-like evidence seeking" - there would be no such thing as an "educated person". We are educated (or should be) about what humanity knows based on empirical observation. Any time you believe something without evidence, you're being irrational and therefore can't be taken seriously. I invite you to "look at my profile" to facilitate your depression. Evidence matters, faith does not.
24arimar 2 months ago
@24arimar *yawn*
danielkirk1 2 months ago
@danielkirk1 Good point. You've proved that you are vastly more intelligent than me by behaving like a fourth grader and thus staving off any intelligent rebuttal.
24arimar 2 months ago
@24arimar I'm not here to prove who is smarter first of all. What i meant by "robot-like evidence seeking" is people need to be more open to things rather than this "see it to believe it" attitude. There are amazing things in this world today that would be impossible to discover without having faith in finding something. Archeoligists don't just say "i can't see the fossils so i doubt there is any out there" No, they have the faith there IS MORE.
danielkirk1 2 months ago
@danielkirk1 That is extraordinarily silly. Archeologists believe there are fossils in the ground because fossils have been an empirically verified phenomena since basically the dawn of scientific documentation. This is the very opposite of "faith". No respectable archeologist would go to Virginia looking for the bones of the Mothman. "Faith", your Christian virtue, means "blind acceptance". It is a reasonable, empirical assumption that there are fossils in the ground, not a matter of faith.
24arimar 2 months ago
@24arimar But just like the big bang theory, you act like things never started. For example, you can't prove to me what was the first fossil ever discovered? How did the fossil get found without the archeologists 'faith' that something would even be there? I'm sure it wasn't an accident since fossils are so below the surface. You just have to have FAITH that scientists are telling you EVERYTHING. Now don't change the subject, comment on what I just said. Thank you for your time.
danielkirk1 2 months ago
@danielkirk1 Yes because everybody knows excavators are holy warriors sent from God to discover fossils to trick humans into believing there's no god.
Before you ask questions like that, do some fuckin research. 90% of athesists are people who have done independent research, and have sought answers for themselves.
KnivesOfTheRound 2 months ago
@danielkirk1
When I'm hungry, I actually do have "faith" in that there's going to be food in my refrigerator. I also have "faith" in--reasonably expecting--others' refrigerators to also contain food.
In a nutshell, you are using the term "faith" in "vain."
Advice, acquaint yourself with a thesaurus.
R2Mintus 2 months ago
@danielkirk1 I found a fossil in my driveway at age 9. No faith required, and they are by no means rare.
cnmaster01 1 month ago
omg so many replies to other comments D:
Jjunior130 2 months ago
I think it's shallow that all things must be explained or have an explanation to drive home the idea of intelligent design or for the existence of God. I mean is it possibly that not all things fit the science model? Things that cannot be tested, repeated and observed? How do we really know without knowing all things? So quick is this man to jump to conclusions based upon speculations. Are we with faith any different? No. But that's not what I"m saying here.
121jigawatts 2 months ago
@121jigawatts I think it's shallow that you just want to be lazy and not get up and do something. That's what you come off as when you say things like that. We explore and try to know because we all crave that. And if you think I'm a liar then I'll have to call you out and say you are one in that if you didn't crave to want to read and write you wouldn't have written the ridiculous comment that I had to respond to.
blinddoctorwho 2 months ago
@blinddoctorwho You know nothing about me. Your prejudiced statement is merely ignorance on your part. What do you know about me or what I read and write. I could be Billy Graham for all you know, the greatest evangelist since the Apostle Paul. These guys work tirelessy to make God known to man, as if God needed any help to begin with,. The ignorance is not on my part, but it is on yours. It must be bliss!
121jigawatts 2 months ago
@121jigawatts I didn't make an ignorant statement, I made an opinion. And one more thing to sum you up, you didn't pay attention to the fact that I don't give a shit about anything you are but what you doing in which you are trying to downplay humanity in place of an imaginary bully. So now I will make a prejudice against you, that you must be a bigot for wanting some fantasy creature to have praise than your fellow man that helps and aids you. Oh, and fuck Billy Graham too.
blinddoctorwho 2 months ago
@blinddoctorwho I don't deal well with hostile and antagonistic people. Tell me who is the bully when you re-read the commentary between us and see whom's dialogue is more edgy. Everything you attack me and my God for is actually laced throughout your last comment. In Christianity that is called hypocricy.
121jigawatts 2 months ago
@121jigawatts First off, learn to spell hypocrisy. Second, Christians by nature of the holy bible are taught to be hostile and antagonistic(it goes with the whole 'only my god exists' kind of attitude Christians presume to have) when it comes to those that question your god's existence. And on one final note, you are stumbling and failing to come up with anything for a counter argument(which by the way, I didn't attack you in the first place, you attacked me. As far as I see it I'm done talking.
blinddoctorwho 2 months ago
@blinddoctorwho What? Jesus a bully? Do you even consider how that sounds? I NEVER attacked you. I didn't use foul language and didn't undermine you ever! You commented on how stupid my original comment sounded to you and here we are. You did not re-read the dialogue between us at all, because if you did you would have to agree (I read it over again just for the record, I like to play just, not necessarily fair), if you don't agree you are lying or blind and delusional.
121jigawatts 2 months ago
@121jigawatts
Attack:An aggressive and violent action against a person or place.
Criticism:1.The expression of disapproval of someone or something based on perceived faults or mistakes.
I gave a criticism about your comment, and you attacked me during our first comments. You are just starting a shitstorm and if you can't handle some swearing then you really don't belong on here for a discussion of any kind. I'm not saying you are required to curse, rather that you need a thick skin.
blinddoctorwho 2 months ago
@blinddoctorwho I want you to pull the quote from my commentary where I "attacked" you. If you do that, I will sincerely apologize. Maybe I need a thicker skin, but let's face it, nobody likes to be criticized. I'm done with you.
121jigawatts 2 months ago
@121jigawatts "Your prejudiced statement is merely ignorance on your part." As well as the statement "The ignorance is not on my part, but it is on yours. It must be bliss!"
Not only one but two statements, I haven't even pulled apart any of your other comments yet. Now we are done.
blinddoctorwho 2 months ago
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@121jigawatts Oh, and if you don't like my swearing you can go fuck yourself.
blinddoctorwho 2 months ago
HEYYYYYyyy i drive by the Virgin Mary mirror wall all the time lol :D
TheatureGirl 3 months ago
Mike Shermer FTW!
Haha, i love how he destroys nonsense
sonykroket 3 months ago
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science is not verb, it's a noun
CrazyMoonlite 3 months ago
science is not verb
CrazyMoonlite 3 months ago
@CrazyMoonlite It is a verb, like happiness
Mandragara 3 months ago
I was kind of expecting Katie Melua to be played backwards...
HKOverlord117 3 months ago
It's going to be so much fun when we realize that we are being visited by extraterrestrials and that they actually came across the galaxy to make a cropcircle just for us. Why? To slowly and carefully open our minds to the fact that we are not alone and that we have been observed by extraterrestrial intelligences for hundreds of years. Sounds crazy? Absolutely. But I can't say anything else after examining all the evidence.
NLPCPNL 3 months ago
Yeah, people like you that believe there's no after life, or anything else mystical. Pretty strange to me. Blinkered arrogance and ignorance. Study Rupert Sheldrake's evidence, a REAL scientist in the what the terms science is really about. Skepticism is healthy as long as it doesn't evolve into a religion - like atheism, which apparently you are self proclaimed follower of. You and your organisation is not open minded to evidence, so therefore damage the saerch for truth.
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead Your argument would be a lot more credible with the use of Spell-check.
quatre420vingt 3 months ago
@quatre420vingt - Granted, my post was pretty badly written. I'll check them carefully before posting in the future. My point was that atheism is a belief system that is often rigidly held by it's followers. Have you researched Rupert Sheldrake's involvements with Randi and Dawkins? They appear to be of this ilk. As an aside have you researched Alestair Crowley or other occult or satanic cult connections with the worlds elite and or intelligence institutions?
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead I do appreciate your use of the word "often" in that sentence, because not all atheists are rigid, biased, close-minded people. i will have to agree with you that there are a number of people who share my beliefs that are that way. however, i would be willing to bet that there are as many hypocritical money whores that call themselves Christians feeding that stereotype, as there are close-minded Atheists. however, those people should be considered unfortunate spikes
quatre420vingt 3 months ago
@psytrancehead in both groups. and to answer your question, no, i have not had the opportunity to look into those 2 subjects, but will gladly oblige to, as i do not seek answers that please me, i yearn only for truth. i can assure you in reviewing the suggested material, i shall be open minded, but have no more obligation in reading this than to read the bible as an atheist.
quatre420vingt 3 months ago
@psytrancehead Atheism is not science, atheism is a single position on a single issue, not a religion. Science is a method of inquisition, research and learning. REAL scientists don't have to believe anything, they accept what the evidence points to, if the evidence points to an after life, then that is what will be accepted.
iseezapie 2 months ago 2
@iseezapie exactly!
RottenAppleSeeds 2 months ago
@psytrancehead LMAO.He's arrogant and ignorant for disbelieving outlandish claims that have virtually no evidence.Yeah,that makes PERFECT since.And atheism is not a "religion",it is simply a lack of belief in deities.That's it.Nothing else.Anything else doesn't properly qualify as "atheism".
KingCondorIII 2 months ago
Yeah, people like you that believe there's no after life, or anything else mystical. Pretty strange to me. Blinkered arrogance and ignorance. Study Rupert Sheldrake's evidence, a REAL scientist in the what the terms science is really about. Skepticism is healthy as long as it doesn't evolve into a religion - like atheism, we you are self proclaimed follower of. You and your organisation is not open minded to evidence, so therefore damage the saerch for truth.
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead What do you call one who don´t belive in/follow any religon?
Shadowunderrock 3 months ago
@Shadowunderrock - A non-believer in religions.
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead ok. I´ve always been told that the term that most people use is atheist. But then again, the very word translates to anti-god. But which organisation do you you speak of, that I´m apparently part of?
Shadowunderrock 3 months ago
@Shadowunderrock "Atheist" does not mean "anti-god" it means a person who does not believe in a god or gods. Anti-god implies the person believes in god and just dislikes him/her/it.
crazycanook102 3 months ago
@crazycanook102 the latter part of your comparison is wrong. anti-theists not only don't believe in a deity, but they strongly stand against religion and the need for people to believe in deities, often imposing their beliefs onto others as theists would when they preach about their god. they aren't against any individual in particular, it's the practice of "faith" that they oppose.
RottenAppleSeeds 3 months ago
@RottenAppleSeeds They don't "impose their beliefs" on anyone, they just write books and try to convince people through rational argument that religion is a negative social force. I wouldn't call that "imposing".
KingCondorIII 2 months ago
@KingCondorIII "convince"...like the way theists try to convince people into their beliefs...that's imposing. "negative social force"...like movies, music, videogames, books, the news. there are no negative social forces. it's human nature to turn anything good into something bad. how is it exactly fair to gang up on religion? you wanna talk about a REAL negative force, then talk about applied science - medicine and technology have allowed humans to live longer, and population to sky-rocket.
RottenAppleSeeds 2 months ago
@RottenAppleSeedsI refuse to call arguing with people "imposing". Everyone has a right to an opinion.If they believe that religion is a negative social force than they have a right to argue that point.Theists also have the right to argue the opposite.If they shut down churches sovietstyle,THAT would be imposing.It's fair to gang up on religion because religionists deserve to be called out on their bullshit.SOMEONE'S gotta do it.I don't think the should just be given free reign to spread bullshit
KingCondorIII 2 months ago
@RottenAppleSeedsI refuse to call arguing with people "imposing". Everyone has a right to an opinion.If they believe that religion is a negative social force than they have a right to argue that point.Theists also have the right to argue the opposite.If they shut down churches sovietstyle,THAT would be imposing.It's fair to gang up on religion because religionists deserve to be called out on their bullshit.SOMEONE'S gotta do it.I don't think the should just be given free reign to spread nonsense
KingCondorIII 2 months ago
@KingCondorIII nice double post. "religionists(if that even is a word) deserve to be called out on their bullshit."...see, you say this shortly after you say "everyone has a right to an opinion." you're passively imposing your opinion by making a generalization that all religion is bad, and then continue on to condescend theists by implying that they must be stupid for believing in "bullshit", as if there's irrefutable evidence for them to believe otherwise.
RottenAppleSeeds 2 months ago
@RottenAppleSeeds i didnt like the first post because i used the word bullshit twice.So I posted again but Im not sure how to delete comments so the first one stayed
KingCondorIII 2 months ago
@RottenAppleSeeds Having the right to an opinion also means having the right to an opinion about other people's opinions.For hundreds of years,religious ideas dominated mainstream culture,and it was taboo to challenge them.Now we can.I think religion is childish.They have no reason to believe the way they believe other than a 2000 year old contradictary questionably translated collection of myths.I have every right to call them misguided.Plus religion has far more influence than it deserves
KingCondorIII 2 months ago
@KingCondorIII you can't say people have a right to an opinion, and then bash them for believing. you act as if the world would've been united if everyone were atheists. man will always be divided, wars will always happen, and anything will be used to manipulate the masses. and as much as greedy men have ruined religion, i think it has also influenced people to do great things in art, music, films, etc. if people need to find comfort in believing in heaven, or finding purpose, then let them.
RottenAppleSeeds 2 months ago
@psytrancehead A non believer in religions doesn't rule out an "after life" or other "invisible" dimensions of reality. google anita moorjani
psytrancehead 3 months ago
Yeah, people like you that believe there's no after life, or anything else mystical. Pretty strange to me. Blinkered arrogance.
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead yeah, people lihe you who dont bellive in biological decay, or laws of physichs that cant be broken.
gumme1234 3 months ago
@gumme1234 - I don't?! I never said I didn't believe that. I'm open to many layers, levels or dimensions to "reality" - go check some more of your apparently beloved physics.
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead What i meant is that all living will die, not get more alive when it die,
gumme1234 3 months ago
@gumme1234 - Again if you are blinkered to only one dimension of reality existing then yes, your argument accurately relates to your subjectivity, or dare I say paradigm.
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead But a) you have no reasonable grounds for these 'extra-dimensional realities', you are only misrepresenting quantum physics, and b) given other dimensions from the quantum physics perspective, you have no basis for asserting anything about these dimensions, only that they may exist. Even those who do research relating to the possible existence of these dimensions make no inferences about their content or structure. You, sir, are peddling woo-woo.
ianman6 3 months ago
@gumme1234 - Anita Moorjani's experiences (as well as many other things - and screw Randi's million dollar fraudulent propogandized challange - que Ruprt Sheldrake) seriously question your statement - worth a google, listen to her 2006 interviews onocologists included.
psytrancehead 3 months ago
@psytrancehead Randi's challenge, and the money, are real. Get over it. No one has claimed it, most people don't even try because they KNOW they are full of shit and don't want to get busted. Stop believing in woo-woo stuff without evidence, or opting for unfounded explanations over founded ones. NDEs are becoming more and more understood through neuroscience. There is ZERO reason to think they are confirmation of afterlife or of souls.
ianman6 3 months ago
Three points higher per decade? (IQ scores)
Assuming he believes in the validity of IQ testing how does Dr. Shermer propose we explain group differences in IQ?
Keysteeze 3 months ago
I only know that our world is much, much more than the eyes can see, and that their science is created not to discover but to conceal the truth from us.
ivanovsd 3 months ago
@ivanovsd If science was created to conceal truth, then science is indeed the greates failure in human history.
Esson82 3 months ago
@ivanovsd Science IS the truth, but alot of people ignore the amount of creativity and imagination required to understand MORE of it, look at the greatest philosophers and physicists etc, always CREATIVITY etc FIRST! It just takes a long time to actually understand the entire universe ;) but we are on our way. Concealing truth is what big corporations, bankers and shadow governments does today, creating brainwashed people :( Not science, theres too little REAL science.
Etrajbe 3 months ago
@ivanovsd Right, because science hasn't at all expanded human knowledge, brilliant logic there
iseezapie 2 months ago
@ivanovsd Seems that you have no idea what im talkin about...
ivanovsd 2 months ago
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lightandbeautiful 3 months ago
One of the most arrogant, fatuous people of all time.
DrLight9 4 months ago
@DrLight9 Care to expand on that charge?
deefsound 4 months ago
@deefsound Watch more of his videos. I suppose someone has to do it, but I'm very glad I'm not him. There are so many special things that he'll never let himself know. And no, there is not enough room here to expand on that.
DrLight9 4 months ago
@DrLight9 I have watched many videos, listened to interviews, read blog articles by or about him and have read some of his books. Arrogant? That is an arguable point though not one I'd agree with but that he's fatuous? Really? One of the most silly and pointless people of all time? Methinks you've taken a cosmic misstep with that accusation.
Don't worry about not expanding on the 'special things'. I suspect I might not see eye to eye with you on their supposed 'specialness'.
deefsound 4 months ago