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  • kimbo slice often mentioned that he dislikes violent jackasses

  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

    - John F. Kennedy

  • I think when I watch your videos my IQ goes up

  • @CrazyForChocolate101 I second that!

  • chyhfvsyyf78es789fsde87gyf78sd­ryf78ryy7eysay7fy7esahyu7fhvyu­dshyuhdsgvf KILL ALL THE LAWYERS

  • The gandhi statement is a lie. There is nothing of it on the internet, other than people questioning this video.

  • I've settled most conflicts through peace but, I look back and wished I used a shit ton of violence to solve it.

  • because most americans are arrogant assholes with a corrupt and hipocritic government, america does not deserve to have the right to themselves a democracy

  • @EgorPetrov1997 ur 14, no one gives a fuck about what you have to say

  • The brave Napoleon? France's most famous ITALIAN?

    On one hand France has not done anything impressive since Charles Martel. On the other hand if it wasn't for Charles Martel you'd be finding yourself using your left hand as toilet paper.

  • violence is the answer to perpetuate a world of violence as the one of today, otherwise it is NEVER the answer, as an athiest you really failed this one.

  • @cipihevent 3:38.Listen to what he says.

  • @cipihevent What ever the fuck you are saying he failed one this one, is irrelevant, because all we need to know is two things:

    - The subject ( in this case "Violence is the answer")

    - and the videos Ideology, in wich in this case I would call a fact

  • @cipihevent u arent watching the video? I HATE FUCKING RETARDS! and u are one of them

  • turn the other cheek?

    Fuck that!

  • Narcissist.

  • All believers in peace over violence are simply slaves as Nietzsche would say...finding a way to re-actively value themselves because they are too abjectly weak to bring violence into the equation.

  • lol, whats this ridiculous notion of the French being wimpy? Ever heard of the foreign legion?

  • You talk about Hitler , but at the same time he was reigning terror Blacks where still getting hung and tortured so you could say America was more hypocritical than justified to use violence against anyone

  • there's a quote stating exactly what you said now "if you want peace you must prepare for war"

  • I'm a strict pacifist and even I know violence is sometimes the answer..

  • I hope you fly

  • This guys an idiot hahahaha

  • I sometimes think this guy is bipolar or something, he's constantly switching between being a smart intellect and a stupid dick.

  • what was the question

  • Oh my god! We need to punch U.S.A in the face!

  • @halafradrimx Please do! This country is fucking pathetic.

  • The Finns actually tried that "please let us go" thing, and it worked for a while, before the soviets deiced to try to take it back (and failed)

  • 2:19 well that's why everybody hates the country on the right!

  • @Wailot6 well we can tell were you come from

  • @babyblaze2011 Right, American! and we can tell where you come from as well!

  • @Wailot6 you couldn't if i said something like '' i think american is stupid, i think that this generation is going down the tube...its pathetic, im scared of the future just because of kids of today.. the government is stupid.. celebrities of all kinda are stupid they get paid WAY TO MUCH for having their ''fans'' barely living. a nfl football man makes like 100x more then the president ...like WTF... '' want me to go on?

  • @babyblaze2011 I really don't get your point... and concerning the high pay of celebs and the lesser pay of politicians... that's " the people's choice" in a country where the people choose who should have the money you will end up with rich celebrities, however in a country where the people doesn't control squad... you will end up with rich politicians instead. like in North Korea. But if you don't like the people's free choice in America you can giiit out!

  • @Wailot6 america isnt free XD. your statement '' people's free choice '' and my point of it was i was '' bad mouthing america saying i hate it ''..just like you said '' hate the country on the right'' i toke it as you was bad mouthing america...so i was to

  • @babyblaze2011 don't give me that conspiratorial "america isn't free" crap, and I didn't say that I hated my country, why would I? I wasn't badmouthing anything. and why would you be doing that anyway?

  • if the force of the argument doesn't work, the argument of force will.

  • @nvcn86 Funny that you say that! There happens to be an informal fallacy so coincidentally called the "appeal to force" fallacy. Keep your mind in check. Stay in control.

  • occupy violence will be inevitable

    good bye domestic peace

    hello domestic change

  • @nvcn86 no, if the force of the argument doesn't work it means you failed, the argument of force is a failure itself.

  • @cipihevent you cannot use logic to argue with someone who accepted something despite logic. you need to realize that the argument might not work because the one who you're talking to just doesn't want to understand it.

  • let's grab the pitchforks, guys! xxD

  • The only reason why violence becomes the answer is someone else is committing it. Ultimately, violence begets violence though, and if nobody committed it preemptively, there'd be no reason to retaliate. So, I do still hold it as a kind of ideal for that reason. The problem with revolutionary violence is it often backfires and leads to regimes more destructive and oppressive than the one's they replaced. Case in point is the French and Russian revolutions.

  • EXACTFUCKINGLUTELY!!!!!!! PEOPLE ARE DUMB ORGANISMS. :D

  • This is probably the most enlightening video you've made, AmazingAtheist, I applaud you.

  • Can you reference that Ghandi quote ? I'd love to read up on it.

    If it be true, it would be a fascinating eye-opener....

  • @DracoAquarian1

    "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."

    -- Mahatma Gandhi

  • @cosinePINGPONG

    well ill be

  • You didn't need to go through all this effort just to disprove a commonplace motto. Most of us don't put much store by them anyways.

  • This is amazing TJ....

    What the fuck happened? You new shit sucks.

  • [citation needed]

  • 1:16 The builder went too far with "I'm gonna spank that tonight". But should we call that harassment? We know the stereotypical builders who yell compliments, that's fine right? Sometimes they do it in a "less decent way" but a compliment is a compliment right?

    It's understandable that not all women appreciate it, but is it really wrong on the builder's side?

    It's not like the ladies in question like it when they stop, because that may mean they're old/ugly

    Why condemn this kind of interaction?

  • @Lulmaarraak1 isn't that under the umbrella of 'freedom of speech'? even if the women were offended, and i doubt they were really THAT offended, no one has the right not to be offended. plus, it was his step dad that did it, and he wasn't even involved. clearly the women only cared enough to bitch about it.

  • home grown TJ terror

  • Violence is not always the answer. But it is always AN answer.

  • The british were very powerful, but they had to give in to Gandhi. No violence required. Gandhi was too good.

  • Peace is for the ones physically weak, sure but those that are strongest at heart.

  • LAMO. Nice try Tj, nice try about Gandhi wanting a war. LOLL.

  • 0:20

    LAWL GODWIN'D

  • This white guy is amazing,wow,he has so much sense,real cool person,the smartest people are the least racist.

    Black and white people like him

  • @TheNATCHALOS that is maybe because the power of racism draws its fuel from the unknown, if I understand everything about one ethnic group I do not have to fear or antagonize them

  • LOL, France, bunch of fruits, lol

  • I tend to agree with most of what you said but I think there is always an exception to anything. Like when you said who is more likely to use passive aggressive behavior "this guy or this guy?" I've met very peaceful guys that are HUGE and tough looking. I've also met really aggressive guys that are very thin and weak in appearance.

  • \m/ Atheism \m/

  • I got my shoulder disloged in a fight, but I didn't go down easy. It hurt, I lost, but I got the message that I was trying to convey to bullies for years. If you want to threaren me, or fuck with me you better come fucking packing.

    The guy thougt he woul have to chase me down and he walked away with a boodied eye and nose. Feels good to know how wrong I've proven the expectatons.

    Give the man credit, he was an idiot, but at least he was a good sport.

  • I'm just falling more and more in love with your work :D

  • Violence rules!!!!

    Mortal Kombat FTW!

  • yeah... alright, let's spend biollions of dollars on iraq war and blame a random president for having debts. Stupid war idiots -.-

  • @Markibarki94 TJ is not an idiot, he's actually against the war.

  • Actually our fore fathers tried on multiple occasions to reconcile with England but to no avail so lastly they resorted to violence. By the way, you are an obnoxious asshole.

  • @nittanylion2012 You aren't disagreeing with TJ. The point you made is the point he already made in the video.

  • @mynameisjonas45 Actually I was disagreeing with him because he stated that our fore fathers just whipped out their guns and kicked some English ass which they did not. I was just correcting his error. Now I was agreeing that he is an obnoxious asshole because he knows that he is and is proud of it.

  • @nittanylion2012 TJ never said that our forefathers, "just whipped out their guns and kicked some English ass"......

  • @mynameisjonas45 ok sorry you anal son of a bitch he basically implied that. he obviously didnt say it word for word like that, but he was implying that they didn't try non violent means. Why don't you stop riding his fucking cock.

  • @nittanylion2012 I'm not. TJ didn't really imply that. And yes they were non violent at first, but ultimately it was violence that achieved the goal. That was the main point of the video, and therefore the main point TJ was making about the particular case. (US independence from Britain.)

  • @nittanylion2012 Watch the entire video.

  • @TheGamerLand I have watched the entire video multiple times.

  • @nittanylion2012 What's the problem then?

  • @TheGamerLand Also I was just pointing out a historical inaccuracy. I'm not disagreeing with his point because his point is true and makes sense.

  • @nittanylion2012 Oh, ok.

  • @nittanylion2012 You couldn't have missed the point more.

    "if you have the choice between being peaceful and being violent, choose to be peaceful, violence causes alot of hurt, but don't become so committed to non-violence that you allow yourself to be bullied by those in power, if those in power are unjust then sometimes violence is a instrument of justice"

    understand something before you criticize it or else you'll just look like a arrogant, ignorant, dick-head.

  • @MrPyrulen Oh no sir I understand the point quite well, what you failed to miss was that I was simply pointing out a historical inaccuracy not arguing against Tj. I believe that this video is probably one of the more logical of his videos that I have seen. Why don't you understand fully before you criticize because you are the one who looks like an arrogant, ignorant, dick-head. Have a great day!

  • @nittanylion2012 "By the way, you are an obnoxious asshole."

    Nice how you run away from your convictions as soon as someone points that you were being unreasonable. I didn't address your historical reference, precisely because it was irrelevant it was already addressed in the video and the comment was unnecessary, the fact that you topped it off with that moronic comment was why I condemned you and now you will deny all of this because your to much of a dick-head to concede the issue.

  • i just got in a fight 2 days ago. first real fight ive ever been in. i tried to settle it non violently but he insisted on fighting so i kicked his ass. after i did he tried to make friends.

  • can we please pan the camera back? I keep feeling like it's gonna fly into his neckbeard

  • Im British! I have to be Evil. :)

  • TJ, become president.

    Cut the bullshit, open their eyes, change the world.

  • This is best of urs videos. Tibetians has been huge military power but they turned to uber peacefull monks.. ( not too accurate but abt right )

  • I love how tj is smart but not a nerd and/or a pussy

  • people are calling Dawkins a coward... make a video now... TAA.

  • God is love. Love is the answer.

    Rationalism. War. Vanity. Ego. Self. Bitterness. Vengeance. Bullying. Aggression.

    All indicators of people who feel powerless within their own lives. It isn't strength but rather a symptom of emotional immaturity.

    Abuse of any kind - including violence comes from those who want to feel power over others. True strength only emerges from a peaceful heart and a centred being.

    All of the above are choices. Your destiny determined by choices YOU make.

  • @telemetry9 too bad your god of love can't stop babies from starving to death. Or can he but he just doesn't want to?

  • Death is a part of life. And everything happens for a reason.

    This life is authentic and suffering is a part of life - as I'm you know. It isn't or can't be "made easy".

    I have had the blessing to have known poverty in my own life and to know someone who lost four children. To watch her grace and humility and acceptance of God's will. Well - there are no words to convey the beauty of such a soul.

    So your compartmentalizing of suffering is of course your choice of thought to make.

  • @telemetry9 so your answer is your god can't stop suffering?

  • It's my own belief that we choose our existence here in partnership with God.

    The person I knew had humility and grace to know that life isn't about understanding everything - rather accepting and finding peace in God. Some things seem extraordinarily cruel but there is a spiritual poverty as well as material poverty. The spiritual - being the greater in my opinion and experience.

    "religion is for people who are afraid to go to hell - spirituality is for those who have already been there."

  • @telemetry9 why can't you just give a straight answer? Can your god stop suffering? Yes or no is all you need to say.

  • How can i answer that? I'm only a human being.

  • @telemetry9 I'm glad you realize you can't know that but you're inconsistent.

    You told us god is love. How could you know that since you're only human? You told us everything happens for a reason. How could you know that since you're only human? Do you see how you don't know that stuff either? You just pulled it out of your butt.

  • ah. Denouncing someone's life experience is your choice.

    There's a difference between questioning and debate and outright denial of an experience of life that isn't your own.

  • who the hell made you so bitter and full of hate?

    maybe you should be angry with them rather than the rest of the world and universe.

  • @telemetry9 Your god did, who are you to question the plan?

  • why - whatever did he do to you?

  • @telemetry9 Everything happens for a reason right?

  • Violence is not the answer, violence is the question and the answer is yes...

  • This is my favorite Amazing Athiest video.

  • I only use violence if I can't get my message across through peaceful means

  • @lamareikan666 The fact that at least 29 people misunderstood the point of this video so much to like your comment sickens me.

  • @lamareikan666 ok so if you re talking to a guy and trying to tell him you dont like his pants or something and he wont understand you start beating him

  • @MrGrompo Wow way to take it so literally...

  • peace is a lie it is just preparation four violence

  • @veljkos99 You're an idiot.

  • Right on Bro ...loved it ...you are pretty spot on ....have a few slight dissagrements ..but not enough to aargue

  • how is complementing a girls ass a "nasty thing"?

  • @xlhotlx It makes them feel uncomfortable.

  • Of course violence is sometimes the answer. LMAOOOOO

  • In conclusion, peace is not the answer to situations. Instead, our efforts, if you will, are for peace. Though, there is no absolute peace in this world. That is like saying a person is perfect (not that perfect doesn't vary by opinion but that only supports my point anyway). Instead, find the peace in you. Live in your world, not 'our world'. By that note, by living your world of understanding, you help our world in the process. Use the Budduh, Siddhartha, and his famous journey as reference.

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  • Good stuff!

    I really liked your drawing of Moo Hammed on "Draw Moo Hammed Day"

  • Although he shakes his head too much when talking, and tries to get real cool artistic angles with the camera, if anyone would pay attention and listen to the end, his point is 100% valid. Don`t be a bitch. Stand up for what you believe in, and teach idiots a lesson. Had they been smacked for getting out of line as children they would be respectful mature adults.

  • Of course it is the answer for you, that's what you use to manipulate people.

    You try very hard to get social status by abusing others while stating at all times the fashionable "i don't care" phrase. But you do care, not about doing good or making others happy, and you don't care enough about your own happiness either or you don't know how to because you're still angry and overweight.

  • @aardfay 0.0 not sure of trolling... or if just stupid....

  • @aardfay *facepalm* try going up to country like china in a conflict situation and try being all happy and pacifist, they will woop the floor with you, violence is sometimes the answer

  • @BlackMetalWorld yeah, TJ is in China in a conflict situation in all his videos! Poor thing. That's why he can never be happy and pacifist :(

  • YOU ALL LOST THE GAME!!!

  • The answer is 42

  • Wow... watching this after reading The Lucifer Principle really illuminates how much influence that book's had on you.

  • Darn tootin'.

  • we kicked the shit out of napoleon! and he wasnt french he was corsican

  • @cooperTroopa1

    I SUPPOSE YOUR RUSSIAN .

    BUT YOUR PROFILE SAYS YOUR BRITISH

  • @mideastatheist no im English

  • @cooperTroopa1 yeah when you got like 3 other super powers vs France

  • @cooperTroopa1 "We"? Who is we? Did you kick the shit out of him? Whether you like it or not, he was a great military mind, and he eventually lost to England, but every leader in history was beaten at some point. That doesn't diminish him as an historical figure at all.

    And Corsica is french.

  • @meestryal i never denied that he was a military genius he is an important historical figure but he still lost

  • Violence Is ALWAYS The Answer

  • *Goes in comments*

    *Expects 42 as an answer*

    sadfaic

  • @MAYHEM1133live Nice counterargument.

  • I can't believe this is a year old. It feels like yesterday.

  • Damn this math question is hard.

    *Shoots a random toddler on the street*

    TJ: You're doing it wrong!

  • justice dictated by the supreme court (or any other court) can only come if there is someone (police, CIA, Army etc) willing to enforce such laws. if you work out and become really strong, then violence might not even be necessary because you might scare others by pure appereance. This is called strategic deterrence, and is usually what the US does. And so far it works, no more WW's. willing to enforce justice at any cost lowers threat levels. Violence, and enforcement are very different though.

  • omg... You voice is like Linkara ... O_O

  • you believe in good and evil? i thought you were atheist?

  • @ccbarryy since when does the bible have a trademark on good and evil? when a person says something is good or evil is simply their personal opinion.

  • Your right. Some times its the only thing you can do.

    Howewer, I think its only when its self - defense.

    I dont know if the invasion of Europe would have helped, though.

    Its like you yourself said, you do not fight opression with counter opression.

  • @obamazigzg92 Are you that dumb? France had no choice they shared a border with Germany. The German army was probably the best in Europe if not the world. The U.S would have given up in the same posistion probably. Be glad there is a an Ocean inbetween us and them.

  • At last someone who thinks you can't reason with the unreasonable.

  • violence is never the answer unless the question is what is never the answer hahahahahaha

  • @crowman131 dude Canada is more badass than France, so that let's you know how low you are on the totem pole.

  • Why does that guy stand on a bridge?!

  • @0DolphinLover0 why NOT stand on a bridge?

  • @soulburn2k5 - Evil has the non religious application of defining something that goes against what is commonly thought of as good and wholesome. Believe it or not religion is not the root of all things regarded as good.

  • Would someone mind sending me a link regarding Gandhi wanting a violent revolution? I've tried finding it myself but I haven't been able to find it. 

  • @soulburn2k5

    because using the word evil in his application in this video allows his viewers (which may be religious) to understand him

  • you claim to be an atheist yet you use words like evil which is born from religion and really only has religious application, there is no such thing as evil

  • @soulburn2k5 Evil is a descriptor. Evil describes something that is abhorrent, unjust, and a large variety of things. There is real evil, not supernatural but that's beyond the point. There might not be one simple way to define evil but it can't be discounted as a useful descriptor. If you have a better word, enlighten me.

  • @Slipknot808 i prefer to use aberrant behavior, Evil is more of a way to relinquish social responsibility, oh that person is just evil, there isn't any point in trying to help them if they are 'evil' because it implies that its their nature and no matter the amount of help they recive they will always fall back into an 'evil' pattern, which is not at all true. its pretty much the same as saying 'human nature' its in our nature, implying that it cannot be changed.

  • @soulburn2k5 There are people who can't be helped. Sociopaths cannot be changed, it's a combination of genetics and societal neglect that creates somebody who can be, for lack of a better word, evil. It goes beyond abhorrent behavior. People like Jeffery Dahmer are beyond help. He had a normal life, loving parents, but he was hardwired in such a way that he didn't have emotions or a conscience. By definition he understood right and wrong but he couldn't on an emotional level. Continued:

  • @soulburn2k5 I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to help as many people as possible. There are a lot of people who can be helped but you'd be delusional to believe that everyone can be changed. There is not such thing as "human nature". Why waste your time calling somebody a psychopathic sadist with a god complex when you can call them 'evil.'

    Either way, change the label if you want but we are describing the same thing.

  • @soulburn2k5 Evil does not have to have a religious connotation, although I generally avoid using the word because many people think it does. From what I've found online, the word "evil," as with many other words and concepts, has been appropriated by religion as though they invented it.

  • @soulburn2k5 actually there is, everyone has their own definiton of good and evil

  • jax teller.

  • Also, sometimes, you can't have peace without war :).

  • There's a time and place for everything. That can be a good or bad thing.

  • Living in a neutral-but-not-that-neutral country, I can tell you that the world has a higher opinion of France than America. The power hungry superiority complex America has does no favours for its image, making it look like a country full of self righteous dickheads, whereas France seems like a place that you can visit without being submitted to mass amounts of aggression and hate. No offence to the creator, but in this video, he displays the aggression and hate expected of his country.

  • Interesting points, but I disagree with you about the Civil Rights movement. The non-violence section use pacifism not to gain power for a selected group of people but to fight for the rights that the U.S. Constitution granted to all people. Jim Crow was an oppressive system that went against the constitution because it made laws that restricted peoples freedom.

  • Is violence the answer? I think that depends on the question. If the question is, "How do I stop this person from doing that?" or "What do I need to do in order to obtain that item?" then yes. I suppose violence would sometimes be the answer. But if the question is, "How should I conduct myself in order to bring about a healthier society in the future?' I don't think that violence is ever the answer.

  • actually, they had a racist, imperialist dictator called AHdolf Hitler.

    Tsk, America.

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  • what a fucking idiot i'm gonna go film this on the river no waves will hit me what a fucking prick.

  • I like how you get out and seek out a bridge, then film on it, just for the sake of the video

  • 0:45 TJ, you're completely wrong here. Our governing body did politely ask the English to stop what they were doing, it was called the Olive Branch Petition. Of course, when it fell through... well violence was the answer.