I watched this vid about bats and then I ended up caught in a debate about "gayness". I'll work my way up the message chain and find out how can discussion drift that much.
Sometimes I wonder what earth would be like if human's didn't mess with natural selection and animal populations. I never think to heavily on this subject, because if we didn't our quality of life would undoubtedly decline; still, it's fun to imagine all of the creatures we'd see (or not).
If it wasn't for my absolute phobia of bugs; and the undoubtedly massive population of insects that would exist without human involvement, I think I would actually feel like I was missing something amazing.
@FreakExceptionale hahahaha, there are 5 insects for every non-insect iorganisms on this planet, if we died out today, as far as the insects are concerned it would be insignificant
Isn't there a way to test what kind of fungus this is? As a living organism, it must have some sort of DNA fingerprint, making it's genus identifiable. Or am I simplifying things too much now?
I see that crazy farmers are using bacterium sprays . they also use a multitude of frankenstein chemicals. whats happening to the bee's ? is it that tobacco insecticide? or combinations. this looks horrific to the bats its unlikely a normal event., its probably triggered by human frankenscience.
Did any of these scientists think that these bats are breathing in mold spores that then are growing in their lungs and secreting toxic chemicals right into their soft internal tissues?? Even if mold isnt technically toxic, when it starts to grow in your lungs, or on any internal soft tissue the results are horrible, and deadly. Or how about the shear weight of being covered in mold, and not being able to hunt as a result?? Cmon scientists, pretty much failing at everything. Just wasting money.
@eSilva90 Honestly? no. i dont. figure this, if there is a problem and i have an immediate solution (or answer), that means that that problem technically no longer exists. That problem is now what you call an Ongoing Solution. And the government does not fund ongoing solutions, they only fund the investigative process in finding the issue. And when govt funds are cut, so are jobs and income. So even if they did come to that conclusion, i bet someone is withholding certain information.
@eSilva90 im glad you added intelligent thought into the conversations taking place. Youre an asset to the world, dont crash your car attempting to think youre japanese, and good at driving.
@marcoze LOL i just dont feel like arguing through the internet i just reply to one comment and go, anyways you may be right but to think that you're the only person who thought of that idea, i dont think so
@eSilva90 well if were in agreement.......im sorry for calling you japanese and a bad driver lol.
I also know im not the only one to think of it, but i do know for a fact that organizations that do this type of research will withhold information awaiting on more cash flow, mainly for other motives concerning whatever they may be researching. And ive been personally involved with situations like this so i figured id state my "Insider"esque view.
@lygophile Yeah, nature has its own reasons... But if the reason of this whole situation is to test humans and to give us the chance to show Mother Nature and ourselves that we can do more than destroy and kill our planet through science. Show that we can bring life to this animals. Why not help then?
@etreduardo. that's not natures reason. nature is not some sapient thing with a plan, not like that. the standart reason for such plagues is population control.
they fear the effects it has on the ecosystem, but the ecosystem has always managed to find a way as long as we do NOT interfere. plagues are a PART of the ecosystem.
@lygophile I have never really said that Nature is a sapient creature/thing. I only said that Nature happens in a way that we, humans, cannot explain not even understand sometimes.
You say that "ecosystem has always managed to find a way as long as we do NOT interfere", so what do say about the dinosaurs (I know it is a strong example and that if they had not died the mammal, and as consequence, we would not exist...). They were destroyed and so was THEIR ecosystem. It did not find a "way out".
@etreduardo. yeah but that was probably due to causes not natural to the earth. the most excepted hypothesis is that it was caused by a meteor strike.
and even the extinction of the dinosaurs can be said to have a reason. apparently, dinosaurs were not as apt at adapting to circumstance as certain other species. so, to ensure the vitility of it's creations, it tested them all out.
the only dinos that did survive we now know as birds. perhaps crocodiles too stem from dinos.
this has actually been going on for a while now, the USFS have been sealing caves that they believe to be contaminated with this fungus to try and stem the outbreak.
Maracachucho is right. this is a video about bats being infected with a deadly fungus on a science magazine's channel. really not the place for spewing religious opinions and besides if you're arguing which religion has killed more than the other...well you're just fools. and atheism isn't a region
about the vid i sure hope they find a way to stop that from spreading. it probably is some mutant pesticide/herbicide resistant fungi.
(Anyone wondering, you got bats eating insects, fruits, drinking blood (a few), and I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if some ate small animals.
@LooneyLopez yes; but with nothing controlling the insect population farmers will be forced to use pesticides on there crops witch is bad for the us and the environment.
hi religious debate people, the bats are dying which will have a profound effect on the ecosystem. this is happening in reality. can we agree that this is a big problem? what might cause the mould on the bats? can it be removed/controlled? will the mould spread to other bat species? etc
God is the leading cause of death in the Bible, with an estimated kill count of 2,270,365 human lives during the storyline of the Bible. Satan's kill count is 10, and even that is debatable.
come to think of it, I'm amazed that anything warm, damp, fluffy, and surrounded by oxygen ever didn't get covered in fungus after sitting in a cave for months.
Can anyone remember the Frog Chytrid fungus? It's a fungus wiping out frog species all over the planet at the moment.
And now the bats too. . . .
Ladies and gentlemen, for too long they have been waiting in the darkness, plotting their revenge against the gods of documentary film making. Finally the time has come! Tremble before the awesome might of fungus! muahahahaha!
Why the fuck are we trying to save all these stupid animals. Let nature run it course ffs, the the animal kingdom has managed trough billions of years without our intervention. Besides, what's the worst that can happen with more insects? More food other insect eating creatures? And more plant fertilization? That would be a disaster. We should rather focus our money on something more important, such as human well-being (helping people in need) or human progress (science and technology research)
the reason why we are intervening is because this is likely somehow our fault. We pollute shit-loads of everything and the mold could be our doing. If we make a mistake then we need to right it.
heh...this coming from somebody ironically named fuunguus :P
but seriously - the kind of logic you're expressing is the reason alot of things are messed up, extinct and/or overpopulated to the point of ruining our world and everything's way of living. not saying your opinion is wrong. i understand. i'm just trying to help you understand that humans should be the last priority. we already conquered and overpopulated this world. it's our job to take care of the "little things".
@fuunguus It's probably not the case, but what if it's a private entity that is funding the research to save the bats to turn a profit of the bats living?
I won't waste my time explaining God to a nonbeliever, nor will I judge you for your belief in nothing what I can do is tell you that faith even thought you don't believe in it gives the believer the will to carry on, knowing that they have the support of the most potent entity in the universe. Faith gives u comfort, a reason to live, many would comite suicide if they didn't believe in their Gods many that do not believe do. So pls, don't question my faith if I don't question urs.
@UKNMajor I can't imagine how atheists live, believing in nothing, People do have a reason to live, they live for their families for their friends, for them selves, many atheists don't believe in God because there is so much violence in this world, violence is not God's doing, it's ours, man is evil by nature faith is against all things bad, all of God's laws have been issued to make this world a better place, man did not respect the laws, hense violence, murder, carnage.
... all because they got the whole thing wrong. I've always been really pissed off at religious people trying to affect others, by trying to make them belive etc.
Depends, if a catholic priest tries to make a homeless kid who steals for a living believe in God I would say it's a good thing. The church has it's good sides too. It gathers funding to help the poor, it gathers money from those who have enough and are willing to give and give to the those who are in need, yes it cuts out it's share of the price but it does give something back. In the end I don't think the church is a bad thing, it has it's bad sides like any other thing.
"People do have a reason to live, they live for their families for their friends, (and) for them selves" Nowhere on this list is God mentioned, so I (who doesn't believe in God) seem to have just as much reason to live as someone who does believe in God. As to your point about violence, God may not have caused any violence, but "he" certainly stood idly by as untold amounts of violence took place. One would think an all powerful being, who believes in peace, would do something to stop it.
Firstly yes you do have a reason to live just like me just like any other human being on this planet. Believing in God may give u a reason to live if you don't have one and if you do He can help you accomplish your goals. If you choose not to believe it's your choice and God will respect it. As to your second point God gave us freewill so we have the right to do whatever we want. God tells us what we should do, if we do wrong and he would stop us, our freewill would be taken.
agreed, many have interpreted religion very wrong over the years. Take the crusades for example, so many dead and for what? For the desire of the Church to get rich. Let us nor forget that man killed Jesus in the first place and yet he still sacrificed himself to save us. Think about it, if you were God and ur own creation would want to kill you and make you suffer, would you forgive them? The kindness and mercy of God is to great for my understanding.
@JohnBlack666id I don't belive that there ever was a Jesus in the first place, I don't think the bible was written to tell a story, I think it was written to show people that you have a choice, that you can live good, that you should live good, and you can always achieve what you want!
I have not read the bible though, nor will I, but this is just my opinion :)
I respect your opinion and personally think you are a good man. In the end I admire those who believe in nothing and still choose to live a good life and respect others. I am how I am because God taught me, I do good things mainly because I know God will pay me back more, I don't steal because I know God will take back more, you are good just because that's the way you are, you don't steal just because you don't want to, I respect that very much I am an evil person by heart continuing
@pappegye ... and faith helped me become a better man, a good man, a man with purpose, a true purpose. Without God I would be as I once was... a bad person. I used to steal and I loved it. Faith made me realize that is not the way. You on the other hand don't need a reason such as mine. Sometimes I would do something bad and don't do it because I know something will happen to me, as always, but you don't do it(I assume) just because you can't, but I can and I don't because of my faith.
Religion is great for people who has lost their will to live etc.
I'm one of the biggest atheists you'll find, and I don't believe in any of it, BUT I think it's great as long as it gives people hope, and make them keep on trying to achieve things!
Just don't let it affect others (like almost every religion out there is doing right now)
if you cant stand criticism you dont have to call me names just stop replying. :)
to decide if something is great you have to examine it spherically. In most ppl does it just give hope and makes them try to achieve things?? i dont think so..
Also even if it gives hope somehow whats the cost? belief in irrational concepts, "divine" morality, division and hatred and all this to give comfort? Also there wouldnt be such a need for hope and comfort if we had a functionally rational society
You remind me myself some years ago. I was unable to believe in religion but i was desparetely trying to find something positive just because i was religious for so long.. i dont know maybe i loved it so much, fascinated to much by it, i didnt want to betray my parents and culture or maybe i didnt wont to hurt my ego for being religious... who knows..interesting that we all react similar.. :)
@JohnBlack666id what you could've done is taken 2 secs to look at my channel to i was a xian for 20 of my 28 yrs.
i think believers of nonsense should always be questioned and confronted, like everything else.
besides, as a xian, you're description of your god would conflict with most of the rest of xianity. your religion is quite fucked up in it's diversity.
Quite frankly dude, I don't really care how others perceive God, all I care about is that those who believe in something live in peace with others. God can be perceived in many ways, I respect those who perceive him in the right way. God and the way you understand him differs from one religion to another, what can be observed is that every1 believes in something, a higher power, for there is no logic in your belief, that nothing exists and everything is pointless. Have a nice pointless day.
I have many reasons to live. I am looking forward to my future, to my family, I want to make my parents proud of their son, I want to raise my children. God is the main reason for all of this, he gave me everything I have and now I am living to pay him back by living a good life. Because that's what I believe makes God happy. And after all.... even if as you say a fairytale would be the one single thing I would have to live for, wouldn't it be better then having nothing to live for?
@JohnBlack666id nop.. its not better for society (irrational, superstitious, divided, archaic), its not better for me (have to live in that society in a way..) and its not better for you that you ease yourself with nonsense and not facing a much more tremendous and phantasmagoric reality and waste your life which is preeety fucking unique in this universe..
So get a life. Find things that matter to u, not god. create a point in your life and go on with it.. :)
You say you have to live in such a society, how can that possibly affect you? Do people insult you because of God? Did you loose a gf or something because of religion? Did any1 hurt you because of God? Religion is better for society, it keeps a society together, under one rule, it keeps it calm, religion in the middle ages was a key factor in controlling the population, a better option then hanging, it's better for me because I know that with God's help I can accomplish my goals
People are murdered everyday by other people because of those people. Those people use religion as an excuse to murder. If religion wouldn't exist, they would find another way. People are persecuted everyday by other people because of other people, show me where it says in the Bible that God allows discrimination, that's a human thing. Albert Einstein declared that the more he studied the universe the more he believed in a higher power. But he probably is an idiot like the rest of us.
@JohnBlack666id Albert Einstein gave up religion at the age of 12, according to his 40 page autobiography which you didn't even know about. There is no evidence he believed in a higher power like the one your thinking of.
What does Albert Einstein believing in a higher power have to to with organized religion? Maybe you should read up a bit more into Einsteins own beliefs, and thoughts on organized religions, before quoting him. lol.
Trying to blame crazy people for being crazy, without holding religion accountable is a straw mans argument. You are obviously dumber than bricks.
Einstein sometimes spoke of god/s poetically, like "god does not play dice" to speak of a deterministic universe, or like "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
But he stated "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
People are murdered, persecuted, and discriminated because of race, gender, age, ethnicity and country. Don't be a dumb ass, religion is minimal compared to bigger issues around the world. Or wait you're just another one of those idiots who can't understand what religion brought to this world in the first place. I suggest you go take a philosophical class. Anyways this video is about bats and you bring religion here? GTFO.
I didn't bring up religion, I was REPLYING to someone else, Just as you are doing right now... So your "GTFO" applies to yourself as well.
Most of the things you listed usually boil down to RELIGIOUS beliefs in the end. I mean, you listed ETHNICITY which can include religion... Are you purposely being dense?
Look at how many coutnries follow some form of Sharia law to this day. google it. You can see just how one small denomination of religion has "minimal" impact.
Well I can't NAME them, but there's a lot of dead Iraqi's & Afghan's who'd strongly disagree with you. hundreds of thousands. Being an American, you should know that Christians fundamentalists like the Evangelicals in the States are bordering on insanity. They think the world is going to end in 2012. There are entire churches full of people PRAYING for peoples deaths. Mass prayer for death. And the other Christians who want to start a civil war.
@robertwc82 then why the fuck are you against murder? cause ur insane since you follow what everyone stated as moral rules (which started by religion)? why the fucking fuck are you against terrorists? why is everyone against osama if he just killed a bunchs of assholes for him who he didnt like at all (logical reasoning: why not kill them?) are you insanely stupid?
@robertwc82 ~-sorry but your quote there is fucking against you and almost everyone else on this planet (except who we actually consider mentally ill people who dont give a fuck about anything but themselves: who we call insane, quite a stupid anthitesis you got there huh?)
skrew you dude! if we get rid of religion, senseless killing isn't just going to stop. how about you quit stereotyping people because some people who say they have the same belief system but obviously don't killed some other people. black people kill a certain number of white people a year and I don't blame the african americans. maybe if it was a rule in our religion to kill people (instead of the opposite) then you would have a point.
@DRealfriknKeenan Screw me? For calling you out on stereotyping atheists and talking shit? And you have the audacity to accuse me? Did I at any point say it would end senseless killing? Did i say all christians? No, so keep your strawman at home. It does however, give us one less pointless, stupid, baseless reason to hate someone. A rule to kill people you ask for? Exodus 22:19. Deuteronomy 17:12. Leviticus 20:27. Leviticus 20:13. Deuteronomy 17.5. Again, I could go on....Educate yourself mate.
stereotyping atheists? heck no. I just pointed out that some atheists kill christians for their religious beliefs.
1. sorry, but you have to stop having sex with your dog if you want to get to heaven.
2. contempt of court/treason. it's one of our current laws.
3. don't worship satan or work w/ devils
4. don't be gay
all these are rules for jewish law that applied for that time. in the new testament, they explain explicitly that we need love and forgiveness since jesus died.
@DRealfriknKeenan No, what you tried to infer was the only atheists go around killing people. I showed you wrong and you got pissy. Now you want to be Mr funny? You think people choose to be gay? Your bigotry is appalling. You wanted examples of orders to kill, you got them, play dumb all you like but the facts are clear. So it was OK to kill in those days? Why exactly? Why gods change of character? The NT also clearly says NONE of gods laws will become invalid until the end of the earth....
@nickrose83 "yes you did! no i didn't! yes you did! no i didn't! yes you did xinfinity!"
now that that's out of the way...
gayness is a choice in the way that it is "curable." I have plenty of friends who are ex-gays with families.
why the change in character? because these sins have been paid for. if people accept forgiveness, then they are forgiven. this wasn't possible back then because the stage hadn't been set for jesus yet.
@DRealfriknKeenan More pretence. You DID infer only atheists kill, your post is clear for all to read. You asked for one Christian who killed in he last decade, as if your palms are clean, I gave you 5. Dont be a bitch just because you don't like the facts. If you don't like the answers don't ask the questions. The sins were paid for by god in human form sacrificing himself to himself, gee that makes alot of sense, because the creatures he created in his omnipotence did exactly as designed.
@DRealfriknKeenan If they were "ex-gays" as you put it, then they're probably bisexual, and chose to hide it from you because of your idiocy. Homosexuality is a common mutation, just how blue eyes are a mutation.
And just so you know, it's not "gayness" it's homosexuality.
another fungus killing a species,first bats and now flies. I hope were not next.
robertlewisvazquez 1 month ago
White nose syndrome is also affecting Hipsters across Philadelphia..
MPSecare 1 year ago 3
poor bats
jmm1233 1 year ago
Might have been smart to wear a breathing mask in there.
NigelGriff 1 year ago 3
Wasn'tthere a clip about a new crop protecting method involving mold?
Sethcitrod 1 year ago
@Sethcitrod bats don't eat crop
pissar100 1 year ago
@pissar100
Yes but they eat the insects that eat the crops was what I was getting at.
Sethcitrod 1 year ago
Maybe little side effects from chemtrail/smart dust technology...
Tressco 1 year ago
Why is she still reading the text??! The voice is just so annoing!
TheNewVideos 1 year ago
I watched this vid about bats and then I ended up caught in a debate about "gayness". I'll work my way up the message chain and find out how can discussion drift that much.
Iggy3d 1 year ago
If people would just chill the fuck out instead of reacting to some compulsion to interfere, the surviving bats just may yield mostly immune progeny.
temporaryonesix 1 year ago 4
@temporaryonesix I agree, but those poor bastards have to get their phd somehow!
breaneainn 1 year ago
Sometimes I wonder what earth would be like if human's didn't mess with natural selection and animal populations. I never think to heavily on this subject, because if we didn't our quality of life would undoubtedly decline; still, it's fun to imagine all of the creatures we'd see (or not).
If it wasn't for my absolute phobia of bugs; and the undoubtedly massive population of insects that would exist without human involvement, I think I would actually feel like I was missing something amazing.
FreakExceptionale 1 year ago
@FreakExceptionale hahahaha, there are 5 insects for every non-insect iorganisms on this planet, if we died out today, as far as the insects are concerned it would be insignificant
robertwc82 1 year ago
Isn't there a way to test what kind of fungus this is? As a living organism, it must have some sort of DNA fingerprint, making it's genus identifiable. Or am I simplifying things too much now?
Alphasys 1 year ago
SQUAIDS !!!
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I'm trying to read the comments but this new Youtube is making me mad.
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YuneShik 1 year ago
looks like bats are going the way of bees...
timidgothica 1 year ago
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tehcexymeowmix 1 year ago
it's cocaine ...... it's elementary watson
notNEWW 1 year ago
I see that crazy farmers are using bacterium sprays . they also use a multitude of frankenstein chemicals. whats happening to the bee's ? is it that tobacco insecticide? or combinations. this looks horrific to the bats its unlikely a normal event., its probably triggered by human frankenscience.
spaceshipearth999 1 year ago
Its because they aren't getting any brushie brushie brushie
eSilva90 1 year ago
Did any of these scientists think that these bats are breathing in mold spores that then are growing in their lungs and secreting toxic chemicals right into their soft internal tissues?? Even if mold isnt technically toxic, when it starts to grow in your lungs, or on any internal soft tissue the results are horrible, and deadly. Or how about the shear weight of being covered in mold, and not being able to hunt as a result?? Cmon scientists, pretty much failing at everything. Just wasting money.
marcoze 1 year ago
@marcoze hurrr don't you think scientist who specialize in this sort of field would think of the same idea as yours?
eSilva90 1 year ago
@eSilva90 Honestly? no. i dont. figure this, if there is a problem and i have an immediate solution (or answer), that means that that problem technically no longer exists. That problem is now what you call an Ongoing Solution. And the government does not fund ongoing solutions, they only fund the investigative process in finding the issue. And when govt funds are cut, so are jobs and income. So even if they did come to that conclusion, i bet someone is withholding certain information.
marcoze 1 year ago
@marcoze hurr durr
eSilva90 1 year ago
@eSilva90 im glad you added intelligent thought into the conversations taking place. Youre an asset to the world, dont crash your car attempting to think youre japanese, and good at driving.
marcoze 1 year ago
@marcoze LOL i just dont feel like arguing through the internet i just reply to one comment and go, anyways you may be right but to think that you're the only person who thought of that idea, i dont think so
eSilva90 1 year ago
@eSilva90 well if were in agreement.......im sorry for calling you japanese and a bad driver lol.
I also know im not the only one to think of it, but i do know for a fact that organizations that do this type of research will withhold information awaiting on more cash flow, mainly for other motives concerning whatever they may be researching. And ive been personally involved with situations like this so i figured id state my "Insider"esque view.
marcoze 1 year ago
if we didn't cause it, you'd better just let nature be. nature has it's own reasons.
lygophile 1 year ago
@lygophile Yeah, nature has its own reasons... But if the reason of this whole situation is to test humans and to give us the chance to show Mother Nature and ourselves that we can do more than destroy and kill our planet through science. Show that we can bring life to this animals. Why not help then?
etreduardo 1 year ago
@etreduardo. that's not natures reason. nature is not some sapient thing with a plan, not like that. the standart reason for such plagues is population control.
they fear the effects it has on the ecosystem, but the ecosystem has always managed to find a way as long as we do NOT interfere. plagues are a PART of the ecosystem.
all we can do is hurt it.
lygophile 1 year ago
@lygophile I have never really said that Nature is a sapient creature/thing. I only said that Nature happens in a way that we, humans, cannot explain not even understand sometimes.
You say that "ecosystem has always managed to find a way as long as we do NOT interfere", so what do say about the dinosaurs (I know it is a strong example and that if they had not died the mammal, and as consequence, we would not exist...). They were destroyed and so was THEIR ecosystem. It did not find a "way out".
etreduardo 1 year ago
@etreduardo. yeah but that was probably due to causes not natural to the earth. the most excepted hypothesis is that it was caused by a meteor strike.
and even the extinction of the dinosaurs can be said to have a reason. apparently, dinosaurs were not as apt at adapting to circumstance as certain other species. so, to ensure the vitility of it's creations, it tested them all out.
the only dinos that did survive we now know as birds. perhaps crocodiles too stem from dinos.
lygophile 1 year ago
this has actually been going on for a while now, the USFS have been sealing caves that they believe to be contaminated with this fungus to try and stem the outbreak.
Danzarr 1 year ago
@Danzarr. that also stems the survivers ie the resistend genes. if they do that the only thing they are hindering is evolution.
lygophile 1 year ago
"Hey look a video about dying bats! Now to randomly bring religion into this."
dinmagic 1 year ago 3
Maracachucho is right. this is a video about bats being infected with a deadly fungus on a science magazine's channel. really not the place for spewing religious opinions and besides if you're arguing which religion has killed more than the other...well you're just fools. and atheism isn't a region
about the vid i sure hope they find a way to stop that from spreading. it probably is some mutant pesticide/herbicide resistant fungi.
WildAnanas 1 year ago
for fuck's sake people go to a forum about religion.
you're flooding the comments with shit nobody cares about.
Maracachucho 1 year ago
"I've got nothing against god, its just the fan club I can't stand"
omfgwtfroflol 1 year ago 2
What's wrong with the lady voice?
jedaqia 1 year ago
the end is near!
rrebers 1 year ago
NO BAD VOICE LADY!!!!
shim2dawg 1 year ago
selective pressure
superfisto 1 year ago
I hope Batmans Ok
Bobajobimus 1 year ago 19
lolz0rs!
ariadarabi 1 year ago
I wouldn't want the bats to die. Then we'll have billions of mosquitos and bees stinging us. Do you want that? No, so we must find a cure quickly.
ariadarabi 1 year ago
@ariadarabi yup, i agree to you
izchan012 1 year ago
@calmdowngirl And why did you get a headache?
But yeah, no. ;)
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DidntKnowWhatToPut1 1 year ago
...since "THOSE" bats eat insects...
Kind of an important distinction...
(Anyone wondering, you got bats eating insects, fruits, drinking blood (a few), and I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if some ate small animals.
DorthLous 1 year ago
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NO not teh bats :c
KittehAnims 1 year ago
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KittehAnims 1 year ago
i dislike bat
ericown 1 year ago
i dislike bat
ericown 1 year ago
Its called NATURAL SELECTION let nature do its thing.
LooneyLopez 1 year ago
@LooneyLopez yes; but with nothing controlling the insect population farmers will be forced to use pesticides on there crops witch is bad for the us and the environment.
DidntKnowWhatToPut1 1 year ago
who cares...
asseeninYOURDREAMS 1 year ago
Anything that eats bug MUST LIVE. I hope they find the source of the fungus and save those poor bats.
Adrianpettit 1 year ago
OMG, so sad! Save the bats!
dtman83 1 year ago
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they are supposed to die. let them
williamwallus 1 year ago
They're so cute! poor things! hopefully this is resolved soon.
prettyinpunk4 1 year ago 2
fucking accent
luizrvgo 1 year ago
poor bats :(
Snotlingfondler 1 year ago
Bats are creepy but they're so usefull for eating those damn insects... Save the bats!
GreekBeast02 1 year ago
hi religious debate people, the bats are dying which will have a profound effect on the ecosystem. this is happening in reality. can we agree that this is a big problem? what might cause the mould on the bats? can it be removed/controlled? will the mould spread to other bat species? etc
whydie666 1 year ago
Hoy, nice little bat0-scientists. It might be a good idea to wear some protective gear or masks, before you give us all Bat-aids..... You hear?
graphattic 1 year ago
Her voice is annoying
SymbioteProductions 1 year ago
The "VOICE" is turning me on.
graphattic 1 year ago
@graphattic lol
SymbioteProductions 1 year ago
Imagine the same voice wording the phrase " And now pull your pants down".... and maybe you catch my drift....LMAO
graphattic 1 year ago
@graphattic HAW!
SymbioteProductions 1 year ago
It's probably just anthropogenic global warming.
TheRationalOracle 1 year ago
zombie bats lol
Madmonkeythegreat 1 year ago
@Madmonkeythegreat zombie vampire bats
vayuturbo66 1 year ago
@vayuturbo66 the ultimate movie monster :D
Madmonkeythegreat 1 year ago
@Madmonkeythegreat lol flying zombies would be kinda cool
vayuturbo66 1 year ago
OH NOES
LatumWay 1 year ago
Omg!! No bats to keep bugs in check = plague : (
IampureSol 1 year ago
cocaine. white nose syndrome.
Pelonetillo 1 year ago
I blame... satan
DRealfriknKeenan 1 year ago
@DRealfriknKeenan Satan doesnt kill things. God however...
WERTY1112 1 year ago
God is the leading cause of death in the Bible, with an estimated kill count of 2,270,365 human lives during the storyline of the Bible. Satan's kill count is 10, and even that is debatable.
int3rl0per 1 year ago 8
@int3rl0per so true!
atheistonly 1 year ago
I hate that narrator
shubidubar 1 year ago
@shubidubar everyone does
0rganixmatter 1 year ago
must be the evil villians
pubtor 1 year ago
come to think of it, I'm amazed that anything warm, damp, fluffy, and surrounded by oxygen ever didn't get covered in fungus after sitting in a cave for months.
Canonpixmalogitechko 1 year ago
Can anyone remember the Frog Chytrid fungus? It's a fungus wiping out frog species all over the planet at the moment.
And now the bats too. . . .
Ladies and gentlemen, for too long they have been waiting in the darkness, plotting their revenge against the gods of documentary film making. Finally the time has come! Tremble before the awesome might of fungus! muahahahaha!
Canonpixmalogitechko 1 year ago
Giant insects next.
TheLastHaze 1 year ago
Not enough oxygen in the atmosphere for insects to get much bigger.
MaxSafeheaD 1 year ago
Sounds like the chick from RT is it just me ?
Scarecrow0089 1 year ago
First the bees and now the bats..... I'm keeping a close eye on my cats
Redshift21 1 year ago
Batman!
WASDsweden 1 year ago
Why the fuck are we trying to save all these stupid animals. Let nature run it course ffs, the the animal kingdom has managed trough billions of years without our intervention. Besides, what's the worst that can happen with more insects? More food other insect eating creatures? And more plant fertilization? That would be a disaster. We should rather focus our money on something more important, such as human well-being (helping people in need) or human progress (science and technology research)
fuunguus 1 year ago
the reason why we are intervening is because this is likely somehow our fault. We pollute shit-loads of everything and the mold could be our doing. If we make a mistake then we need to right it.
scientolofag 1 year ago
heh...this coming from somebody ironically named fuunguus :P
but seriously - the kind of logic you're expressing is the reason alot of things are messed up, extinct and/or overpopulated to the point of ruining our world and everything's way of living. not saying your opinion is wrong. i understand. i'm just trying to help you understand that humans should be the last priority. we already conquered and overpopulated this world. it's our job to take care of the "little things".
WeskJago 1 year ago 8
you sound like an atheist so you must agree that humans are apes. so heres my question why are talking apes/humans better then other animals
pauldonald 1 year ago
@pauldonald Not every atheist believes in evolution. Atheism isn't the belief in evolution. It's a disbelief in gods.
Bronx11 1 year ago
better more import same thing.
pauldonald 1 year ago
@fuunguus It's probably not the case, but what if it's a private entity that is funding the research to save the bats to turn a profit of the bats living?
Mastikator 1 year ago
noooo I love bats! hope they get better
myshoescramp 1 year ago
Lets hope they find some answers soon.
9thgate 1 year ago
Wow... Poor batz.... :^(
FutureInventions 1 year ago
Looks like we've got... a murder. But not really.
Seriously NewScientist, stop misleading people.
I canceled my subscription to your magazine after the "Mysterious Monopole: Discovered at last (but not really)" issue.
And lets not forget "Darwin was wrong (but not really)!!!"
WhatIAm99 1 year ago 2
Aren't we overreacting a bit here?
godsadog 1 year ago
":save the bats ...?"
ever noticed the literature of these videos has some brain washing ideological agenda in it.
balamanti2 1 year ago
'cntd'
that goes something like this :
"we are getting better than God..."
balamanti2 1 year ago
@balamanti2
That's impossible given the fact that God is all powerful and can kill as all in one instant.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id
I picked up the sign that you are a toddler
or a wacko whose mind is the mind of a toddler
balamanti2 1 year ago
@balamanti2
Why exactly is that?
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id really? i had no idea the nonexistent had such powers.
please, tell me more....
;d
666norton420 1 year ago
@666norton420
I won't waste my time explaining God to a nonbeliever, nor will I judge you for your belief in nothing what I can do is tell you that faith even thought you don't believe in it gives the believer the will to carry on, knowing that they have the support of the most potent entity in the universe. Faith gives u comfort, a reason to live, many would comite suicide if they didn't believe in their Gods many that do not believe do. So pls, don't question my faith if I don't question urs.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id God doesn't exist, otherwise people would have a reason to live, period.
UKNMajor 1 year ago
@UKNMajor I can't imagine how atheists live, believing in nothing, People do have a reason to live, they live for their families for their friends, for them selves, many atheists don't believe in God because there is so much violence in this world, violence is not God's doing, it's ours, man is evil by nature faith is against all things bad, all of God's laws have been issued to make this world a better place, man did not respect the laws, hense violence, murder, carnage.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
... all because they got the whole thing wrong. I've always been really pissed off at religious people trying to affect others, by trying to make them belive etc.
pappegye 1 year ago
@pappegye
Depends, if a catholic priest tries to make a homeless kid who steals for a living believe in God I would say it's a good thing. The church has it's good sides too. It gathers funding to help the poor, it gathers money from those who have enough and are willing to give and give to the those who are in need, yes it cuts out it's share of the price but it does give something back. In the end I don't think the church is a bad thing, it has it's bad sides like any other thing.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
Sounds like their a bunch of socialists redistributing wealth LOL!
spongah 1 year ago
"People do have a reason to live, they live for their families for their friends, (and) for them selves" Nowhere on this list is God mentioned, so I (who doesn't believe in God) seem to have just as much reason to live as someone who does believe in God. As to your point about violence, God may not have caused any violence, but "he" certainly stood idly by as untold amounts of violence took place. One would think an all powerful being, who believes in peace, would do something to stop it.
thermodynamicist 1 year ago
@thermodynamicist
Firstly yes you do have a reason to live just like me just like any other human being on this planet. Believing in God may give u a reason to live if you don't have one and if you do He can help you accomplish your goals. If you choose not to believe it's your choice and God will respect it. As to your second point God gave us freewill so we have the right to do whatever we want. God tells us what we should do, if we do wrong and he would stop us, our freewill would be taken.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id You have what I would call a perfect understanding of religion!
I'm not a 'beliver' myself, but I understand how religion was started, and it was a GREAT thing!
The thing is, people started making rules about how you got to live if you belive in some things, and from there they just screwed up...
Religion is all about believing in that force, and the feeling that it's watching over you!
Christianity has been killing millions, so has Islam, and I think it's all so sad.
pappegye 1 year ago
@pappegye
agreed, many have interpreted religion very wrong over the years. Take the crusades for example, so many dead and for what? For the desire of the Church to get rich. Let us nor forget that man killed Jesus in the first place and yet he still sacrificed himself to save us. Think about it, if you were God and ur own creation would want to kill you and make you suffer, would you forgive them? The kindness and mercy of God is to great for my understanding.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id I don't belive that there ever was a Jesus in the first place, I don't think the bible was written to tell a story, I think it was written to show people that you have a choice, that you can live good, that you should live good, and you can always achieve what you want!
I have not read the bible though, nor will I, but this is just my opinion :)
pappegye 1 year ago
@pappegye
I respect your opinion and personally think you are a good man. In the end I admire those who believe in nothing and still choose to live a good life and respect others. I am how I am because God taught me, I do good things mainly because I know God will pay me back more, I don't steal because I know God will take back more, you are good just because that's the way you are, you don't steal just because you don't want to, I respect that very much I am an evil person by heart continuing
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
That's stupid.
Gplex 1 year ago
@pappegye ... and faith helped me become a better man, a good man, a man with purpose, a true purpose. Without God I would be as I once was... a bad person. I used to steal and I loved it. Faith made me realize that is not the way. You on the other hand don't need a reason such as mine. Sometimes I would do something bad and don't do it because I know something will happen to me, as always, but you don't do it(I assume) just because you can't, but I can and I don't because of my faith.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
"and it was a GREAT thing!"
Yaaay for superstitious non sense!! :D
all those different states of consciousness you reffer to, would be much more developed and understood without stupid fairytales to dictate them..
ffcrazy 1 year ago
@ffcrazy Please stop being a fucking douche bag.
Of course it's a great thing!
Religion is great for people who has lost their will to live etc.
I'm one of the biggest atheists you'll find, and I don't believe in any of it, BUT I think it's great as long as it gives people hope, and make them keep on trying to achieve things!
Just don't let it affect others (like almost every religion out there is doing right now)
pappegye 1 year ago
@pappegye
if you cant stand criticism you dont have to call me names just stop replying. :)
to decide if something is great you have to examine it spherically. In most ppl does it just give hope and makes them try to achieve things?? i dont think so..
Also even if it gives hope somehow whats the cost? belief in irrational concepts, "divine" morality, division and hatred and all this to give comfort? Also there wouldnt be such a need for hope and comfort if we had a functionally rational society
ffcrazy 1 year ago
You remind me myself some years ago. I was unable to believe in religion but i was desparetely trying to find something positive just because i was religious for so long.. i dont know maybe i loved it so much, fascinated to much by it, i didnt want to betray my parents and culture or maybe i didnt wont to hurt my ego for being religious... who knows..interesting that we all react similar.. :)
ffcrazy 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id what you could've done is taken 2 secs to look at my channel to i was a xian for 20 of my 28 yrs.
i think believers of nonsense should always be questioned and confronted, like everything else.
besides, as a xian, you're description of your god would conflict with most of the rest of xianity. your religion is quite fucked up in it's diversity.
but thanks for being the butt of my joke!
have a good one!
;d
666norton420 1 year ago
Quite frankly dude, I don't really care how others perceive God, all I care about is that those who believe in something live in peace with others. God can be perceived in many ways, I respect those who perceive him in the right way. God and the way you understand him differs from one religion to another, what can be observed is that every1 believes in something, a higher power, for there is no logic in your belief, that nothing exists and everything is pointless. Have a nice pointless day.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
you need a fairytale to have point in your life? loool
ffcrazy 1 year ago
@ffcrazy
I have many reasons to live. I am looking forward to my future, to my family, I want to make my parents proud of their son, I want to raise my children. God is the main reason for all of this, he gave me everything I have and now I am living to pay him back by living a good life. Because that's what I believe makes God happy. And after all.... even if as you say a fairytale would be the one single thing I would have to live for, wouldn't it be better then having nothing to live for?
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id nop.. its not better for society (irrational, superstitious, divided, archaic), its not better for me (have to live in that society in a way..) and its not better for you that you ease yourself with nonsense and not facing a much more tremendous and phantasmagoric reality and waste your life which is preeety fucking unique in this universe..
So get a life. Find things that matter to u, not god. create a point in your life and go on with it.. :)
Hope i helped... (all of us..)
ffcrazy 1 year ago
@ffcrazy
You say you have to live in such a society, how can that possibly affect you? Do people insult you because of God? Did you loose a gf or something because of religion? Did any1 hurt you because of God? Religion is better for society, it keeps a society together, under one rule, it keeps it calm, religion in the middle ages was a key factor in controlling the population, a better option then hanging, it's better for me because I know that with God's help I can accomplish my goals
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id look for sam harris in youtube.. i have to go to dinner.. steak house today!! :D cu later maybe..
ffcrazy 1 year ago
People are murdered all around the world every day because of religion.
People are persecuted and discriminated against all around the world everyday because of religion.
People are stupid, and religion acts a moral bypass for those who can't think for themselves.
Fuck religion.
mangaas 1 year ago 33
Dude you are so right. No laws for us. :)
Cookies4Next10Miles 1 year ago
I agree, but what is this comment doing on a video about bats?
1RadicalOne 1 year ago
@mangaas
People are murdered everyday by other people because of those people. Those people use religion as an excuse to murder. If religion wouldn't exist, they would find another way. People are persecuted everyday by other people because of other people, show me where it says in the Bible that God allows discrimination, that's a human thing. Albert Einstein declared that the more he studied the universe the more he believed in a higher power. But he probably is an idiot like the rest of us.
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id Albert Einstein gave up religion at the age of 12, according to his 40 page autobiography which you didn't even know about. There is no evidence he believed in a higher power like the one your thinking of.
ExhumedANDConsumed 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id
What does Albert Einstein believing in a higher power have to to with organized religion? Maybe you should read up a bit more into Einsteins own beliefs, and thoughts on organized religions, before quoting him. lol.
Trying to blame crazy people for being crazy, without holding religion accountable is a straw mans argument. You are obviously dumber than bricks.
Go read a book.
Preferably non-fiction.
mangaas 1 year ago 13
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mangaas 1 year ago
@JohnBlack666id
Einstein sometimes spoke of god/s poetically, like "god does not play dice" to speak of a deterministic universe, or like "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
But he stated "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
kaminarigaston 1 year ago
@mangaas was*
JohnBlack666id 1 year ago
@mangaas
People are murdered, persecuted, and discriminated because of race, gender, age, ethnicity and country. Don't be a dumb ass, religion is minimal compared to bigger issues around the world. Or wait you're just another one of those idiots who can't understand what religion brought to this world in the first place. I suggest you go take a philosophical class. Anyways this video is about bats and you bring religion here? GTFO.
ObliviuxProductions 1 year ago
@ObliviuxProductions
I didn't bring up religion, I was REPLYING to someone else, Just as you are doing right now... So your "GTFO" applies to yourself as well.
Most of the things you listed usually boil down to RELIGIOUS beliefs in the end. I mean, you listed ETHNICITY which can include religion... Are you purposely being dense?
Look at how many coutnries follow some form of Sharia law to this day. google it. You can see just how one small denomination of religion has "minimal" impact.
mangaas 1 year ago 5
@mangaas Couldn't have said that better myself.
Forlo12345 1 year ago
@mangaas
right name one person who was killed by a christian in the past decade.
atheists, however, seem to kill christians all the time. columbine, for example.
DRealfriknKeenan 1 year ago
@DRealfriknKeenan
Well I can't NAME them, but there's a lot of dead Iraqi's & Afghan's who'd strongly disagree with you. hundreds of thousands. Being an American, you should know that Christians fundamentalists like the Evangelicals in the States are bordering on insanity. They think the world is going to end in 2012. There are entire churches full of people PRAYING for peoples deaths. Mass prayer for death. And the other Christians who want to start a civil war.
Religion is a joke
mangaas 1 year ago 11
@mangaas sane people are atheist or agnostic. everyone else is insane (or at least insanely stupid)
"a delusion held by one man is a mental illness, a delusion held by a few is a cult, and a delesion held by many is a religion."
robertwc82 1 year ago
@robertwc82 then why the fuck are you against murder? cause ur insane since you follow what everyone stated as moral rules (which started by religion)? why the fucking fuck are you against terrorists? why is everyone against osama if he just killed a bunchs of assholes for him who he didnt like at all (logical reasoning: why not kill them?) are you insanely stupid?
jmm00702 1 year ago
@jmm00702 why the fuck am i against murder? because i have morals.
now on what is your assertion that religion invented morals based on?
you may aswell say santa claus created morals you dumb fuck
robertwc82 1 year ago
@robertwc82 ~-sorry but your quote there is fucking against you and almost everyone else on this planet (except who we actually consider mentally ill people who dont give a fuck about anything but themselves: who we call insane, quite a stupid anthitesis you got there huh?)
jmm00702 1 year ago
@DRealfriknKeenan Are you for real? You clearly don't care to know or you would have investigated before shooting your mouth off.....
- Ashley John Appoo killed a man and injured his wife in an axe attack because they were atheists (2004)
- Charles L Dalton kills family and dog(2009)
- Brian White kills elderly man for not buying his Christian CD(2007)
- Charles Carl Roberts kills 5 Amish girls in school shooting(2006)
- Scott Roeder kills George Tiller in a church(2009)
I could go on....
nickrose83 1 year ago 2
@nickrose83
skrew you dude! if we get rid of religion, senseless killing isn't just going to stop. how about you quit stereotyping people because some people who say they have the same belief system but obviously don't killed some other people. black people kill a certain number of white people a year and I don't blame the african americans. maybe if it was a rule in our religion to kill people (instead of the opposite) then you would have a point.
DRealfriknKeenan 1 year ago
@DRealfriknKeenan Screw me? For calling you out on stereotyping atheists and talking shit? And you have the audacity to accuse me? Did I at any point say it would end senseless killing? Did i say all christians? No, so keep your strawman at home. It does however, give us one less pointless, stupid, baseless reason to hate someone. A rule to kill people you ask for? Exodus 22:19. Deuteronomy 17:12. Leviticus 20:27. Leviticus 20:13. Deuteronomy 17.5. Again, I could go on....Educate yourself mate.
nickrose83 1 year ago
@nickrose83
stereotyping atheists? heck no. I just pointed out that some atheists kill christians for their religious beliefs.
1. sorry, but you have to stop having sex with your dog if you want to get to heaven.
2. contempt of court/treason. it's one of our current laws.
3. don't worship satan or work w/ devils
4. don't be gay
all these are rules for jewish law that applied for that time. in the new testament, they explain explicitly that we need love and forgiveness since jesus died.
DRealfriknKeenan 1 year ago
@DRealfriknKeenan No, what you tried to infer was the only atheists go around killing people. I showed you wrong and you got pissy. Now you want to be Mr funny? You think people choose to be gay? Your bigotry is appalling. You wanted examples of orders to kill, you got them, play dumb all you like but the facts are clear. So it was OK to kill in those days? Why exactly? Why gods change of character? The NT also clearly says NONE of gods laws will become invalid until the end of the earth....
nickrose83 1 year ago
@nickrose83 "yes you did! no i didn't! yes you did! no i didn't! yes you did xinfinity!"
now that that's out of the way...
gayness is a choice in the way that it is "curable." I have plenty of friends who are ex-gays with families.
why the change in character? because these sins have been paid for. if people accept forgiveness, then they are forgiven. this wasn't possible back then because the stage hadn't been set for jesus yet.
DRealfriknKeenan 1 year ago
@DRealfriknKeenan More pretence. You DID infer only atheists kill, your post is clear for all to read. You asked for one Christian who killed in he last decade, as if your palms are clean, I gave you 5. Dont be a bitch just because you don't like the facts. If you don't like the answers don't ask the questions. The sins were paid for by god in human form sacrificing himself to himself, gee that makes alot of sense, because the creatures he created in his omnipotence did exactly as designed.
nickrose83 1 year ago
@DRealfriknKeenan If they were "ex-gays" as you put it, then they're probably bisexual, and chose to hide it from you because of your idiocy. Homosexuality is a common mutation, just how blue eyes are a mutation.
And just so you know, it's not "gayness" it's homosexuality.
Tullidar1 1 year ago