Believe or Die! -Bill Hicks-

[MrWishful100]

LOL. Believe or Die...Thank you forgiving lord for all those options

[vegaspoet]

for some great bill hicks stories told by ron shock, type in "the bill hicks chronicles" here on you tube.

[NassimHarameinVedas]

@vegaspoet - thanks so much, I'm watching it right now.

[theredmenace07]

god is dead

[the0world0sucks]

why don't you be a man and slam ISLAM with equal fervor? Notice they don't.

[djgraememaclean]

@the0world0sucks Islam is Roman Catholicism for people of colour and completely retarded. Hows that? I'd draw a picture of the prophet Mohammed if I could but it may prove impossible using only letters and a 500 character space. Listen to some Doug Stanhope if your looking for religion bashing of all kinds : )

[known12]

I dont get what the big deal is about this guy. he's not comedy funny. he just talks like ....say......Todd from the IT department about random stuff in the breakroom.

george carlin....now THERES a genuis when he talkd about God.

bill hicks,just uninspired, generic compared to a true master.

[VanDoodah]

@known12 George Carlin was massively overrated. He was never fit to lick Bill Hicks' shoes.

Also, Carlin talked down to more or less everyone; Hicks didn't.

[TheUndertakerSaysRIP]

@VanDoodah who the fuck are you to say that.... you are a nobody

[VanDoodah]

@TheUndertakerSaysRIP So according to you, someone's opinion only matters if they're famous? You're pathetic.

[TheUndertakerSaysRIP]

@VanDoodah  I personally respect and enjoy both comedians like most people but there are always disrespectful twats like you.... whatever it's just your opinion

[arielrebelfan1]

@VanDoodah yeah i agree carlin was overrated and the vast majority of his fans are hyproitacal sheep i mean so are some of hicks fans but not as bad

[charlesburch]

I believe in Christ....I just don't believe in Christians.

[Hirfel]

Yup. He was very interested in the eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism and Taoism, but just learned from them, instead of committing himself to one. That's the way to do it.

[garethac81]

Bill Hicks destroys Christianity in 27 seconds.

Quite a feat, but then again Bill was a genius, so we shouldn't be surprised.

"You better realise God loves you, mister...'cus he'll send ya to hell if you don't!"

Isn't it amazing that there are millions of Christians all over the world who don't realise how SILLY that sounds?

Unconditional love and death threats...the original odd couple.

"Love me or die!"

[djskillmaster]

we mock what we dont understand, dj poverello , ghost hunter.

[deepfreeze202]

You can't make sense or understanding out of that which has no basis in reality or logic. If it could be understood then I assure you we have the capacity to do so.

[Dalorin]

Hicks was just pointing out how conflicting religion can be.

And I think Hicks did believe in God and Jesus but he hated the people and institutions that abuse people's believe in it for control or personal gain.

[spaceoreo]

Bill was more of a pantheist. He was not a believer in an Abrahamic god AT ALL. He believed in God as a totality, an inconceivable and all-encompassing energy that we all are...and are all children of.

[NearVSMello]

I was a pantheist for a while. But I couldn't see the point in calling the Universe, God if it didn't really mean anything except Universe. Don't we have enough synonyms in the dictionary as it is? Why complicate our language further?

[spaceoreo]

I know what you mean. I'm an atheist.

[dotchoo]

maybe because being an "atheist" sounds so... unspiritual. that's the stereotype of the atheist - doesn't believe in any kind of spirituality at all - "we're all corpses-to-be".

yeah i'm an atheist.

[deepfreeze202]

The reason Atheist have such a negative image in peoples minds is because we are the minority a world of irrational belief. Religion has programmed people to believe that anyone who doesn't share their belief are evil and must be avoided and ignored ( at best). so naturally if you are an Atheist you will be despised on principle alone. It's a sad world we live in but I still prefer my freedom of thought over a "believe this or suffer for all eternity" idealism. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[sheepblitzer]

not all sects of all religions have a "believe this or suffer for all eternity" mentality, nor do they all have the white-bearded-man-floating-in-­the-clouds image of "god."

funny how you complain about being unnaccepted by "theists," the same people you generalize and then insult collectively. "atheists" speak ill about other people's beliefs just because they can be thrown into the category of "religious" are just as arrogant and unnaccepting as the most fundamentalist "theist."

[sheepblitzer]

btw i used to consider myself an atheist until i realized how ignorant and self-righteous most other "atheists" seem to be.

plus i realize that perhaps some religious teachings can still be truthful, even though many have been distorted and misused over the year.

besides, this label "atheists" so proudly take on is ridiculous. how can anyone be so certain that something doesnt exist if they dont even know what that something is; when that something is a word with infinite meanings?

[natmanprime]

a word with infinite meanings is a useless word. wake up.

[natmanprime]

@sheepblitzer lol someone's already flagged your comment as spam, and you only posted it 16 hours ago

listen carefully now.

The monotheistic and deistic god has to be: an absolute being. The 2 things are mutually exclusive. There cannot be such a god.

It's impossible.

So you are wrong, because your definition of a known word does not exist.

[sheepblitzer]

who says god has to be an absolute being? what does that even mean? I dont think anyone has the authority to set the definition of a word used by billions of different people from different sects of different religions in different cultures spoken in different languages all around the world.

no one can define this belief for everyone else, not even religious "authorities," especially not critics of religion like you.

[natmanprime]

@sheepblitze monotheists and deists do.

[sheepblitzer]

natman, you still arent addressing my point.

what does "absolute being" mean? and how do you know that some people dont define that in a way where its true and it exists? therefore making atheism, the belief that it doesnt exist, false (at least false in those cases).

some people may define god as all the energy in the universe, or life, or like bill hicks says: our collective love. those are pretty "absolute" and they certainly exist.

[natmanprime]

@sheepblitzer well, I answered your first question.

I thought you would be able to ask the second question to a member of said cults.

They'll tell you all about it.

Anyway: absolute means everything everywhere, like your thing about energy everywhere. It's not possible to be everything and still be sentient, conscious or percieve. Such things depend on ignorance of some aspect of the universe.

And I didn't refer to all religions, I said monotheism and deism.

Point addressed?

[sheepblitzer]

yes point addressed. so as an athiest your not opposed to ALL religions, and recognize that some could be "true" at least in some respects?

i just assume atheists had a vendetta against everything and anything that could be labelled "religious."

[natmanprime]

@sheepblitzer well, my religion is humanism.

And it's flexible, because although the focus is humanity as a group of gods, the way in which they can be served is developing and changing all the time, striving for better ways.

So it's not fixed like other religions, so I wouldn't realy call it one.

I DO have a vendetta against all religions that have fixed absolute rules, and are not flexible, and are focused on something other than humanity(pretty much all of them).

[sheepblitzer]

so then who says religion is fixed. have you ever heard of "liberation theology," which i believe is the true religion of jesus christ.... constantly striving for revolution...the true nature of humanity....

any religion...maintsream or not, can be, and often is, interpreted in such terms...

why do you think religious indiviuals are always the first ones targeted by authoritarian reppression?

[natmanprime]

@sheepblitzer I checked the original meaning of the word.

It comes from the combination of the root words of ligament, ligature, and rely.

In other words, to be bound together ("liga"), in reliance on something ("re").

Now, I am a humanist because that is the best way to achieve satisfaction and fulfillment personally. I want everyone to be similarly self-centred. The most intelligent way to be self centred is to be humanist. But everyone has to focus on themselves, and their personal desires

[natmanprime]

@sheepblitzer

also, can I really be religious if I consider myself as one of the gods???

If that's religious, then any behaviour of any animal etc. is religious, and so the word

becomes

pointless

you see?

[ALEXTASY123]

It is an example of sheep at their best, lots of shapes and colors...

I understand you, man, you speak well warrior

[Dreamerx47]

dont compare atheists to fundamentalists

[natmanprime]

yes!  A reasonable man at last

[rosieisahippo]

Poor guy was brainwashed by liberalism, just like George Bush.

[signalssignalssignal]

shut up you fucking retard.

[rosieisahippo]

kill yourself you fucking brainwashed piece of shit

[signalssignalssignal]

you must have a knot in your ass hair mister bitch. Im pro war and enjoy watching our armed forces drop these camel fuckers. lol (take a bath)

[darthherky]

Since your really smart (yeah right), I suppose I don't have to tell you that george bush is not a liberal.

Your not brainwashed....your an idiot.

[freedom0f5peech]

Brilliant!!!!

[safunknu]

Rant in E Minor was Bills Best CD IMO

RIP