LOL! I just thought it was hilarious that they both screamed, "you're a solipsist!?!?" and then laughed and hung up on him. LOLOL!!! The guy probably didn't even know what solipsit means.
I had never heard that term before and I hope I never hear it again. That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Nothing exists except for in the Mind?!? GTFO!
OMFSM! Freaking solipsists make me giggle. Just like the guys here did, every time that I'm having some sort of debate or discussion, and the person drops that bullshit about all things in existence are just there because we imagined them up, I just shut my mouth, smile, and turn away.
If they ask me what just happened, I tell them that if they want to continue the conversation, then they should just imagine it continuing, and I say nothing else. XD
@palerider1775 perhaps you misunderstand solipsism, and you never will if you immediately dismiss a person as soon as they say that word. And perahaps you misunderstand what "we" are (referring to when you said, "everything is existence is just because we imagined it up"). Who is the you that imagined it up? That is the question. It's not your mind, that's the illusion. Who are you?
The presenters have for once encountered someone articulate and able to argue intelligently. Their only response is to ridicule and talk over him. They pounced on his claim to be a solipsist without letting him finish. We're all solipsists to a degree - it's a normal human state of mind - I don't think he meant them to take him so literally. We'll never know because they cut him off. I've seen them allow complete morons to go on and on. They couldn't handle this guy.
@mikelheron20 What? This guy isn't rational at all. And you must seem to have not listened carefully because he tries multiple times to talk over the hosts. He didn't demonstrate anything, he keeps blabbering on with incoherent nonsense, and continues to annoy for no apparent reason. At least for most of the "morons" they are ignorant bastards. And as for solipsism being a normal state of mind? That is probably one of the most ridiculous assertions I've ever heard.
@DesmondMcMillian We must have watched different clips. Please count the number of times the hosts - two to one - talk over the top of him. I'm not saying I agree with the caller but I have heard incredibly stupid callers given far more latitude. I was referring to solipsism not as a belief but as a psychological state which I believe we all experience at times. As I said, I know perfectly well that the room exists after I shut the door. Perhaps you're lacking imagination.
@mikelheron20 I don't believe that anyone with any imagination, who has pondered such matters, has not had a "solipsistic moment". Bertrand Russell acknowledged that he cannot prove that the world isn't a figment of his imagination or that he didn't spring into existence 5 mins ago with all his "memories" intact. Everyone from Plato to Descartes to Sartre has considered it. That's not to say they believed it. I think, had he been allowed to finish, the caller would have made a similar point.
@mikelheron20 One final thing. Let's assume that the caller was a solipsist. They have callers who believe the world is 6000 years old, that Jesus was born of a virgin, that snakes can talk, that Jesus died and rose from the dead - all ridiculous. But they still let the callers talk. Also, bear in mind that Matt by his own admission bought all this crap for about 25 years and was training to be a minister. What does that say for his capacity to believe stupid things?
@mikelheron20 Ok. So if he really was a solipsist, why would he call a show that only existed in his mind? Well, I guess even solipsists need to keep themselves entertained.
And I now think, based on the synchrony in Matt's and Jeff's responses, that there's an AE Prime Directive that states "When thou meetest a solipsist, hang thine phone up on his ass."
Priceless. Gotta love solipsism: If you (I) really are (am) a solipsist, why would you (I) ever try to convince others (myself) of the validity of the theory. It would be much easier to just imagine some guy calling in to argue with two atheists on a youtube channel ;)
@ADADEL1 Let's imagine that you believe there is such a thing as the Higgs Boson & it's been demonstrably verified that it exists. You believe it based on studies & evaluations of testible results & mathematical equations. You've verified, tested & proven it's existence is true but... then some annoyingly smart guy turns around and says "sorry we got it wrong". What you thought you "knew" you no longer believe, despite your qualifiers & definition of knowledge.
SCIENTISM: refers to a belief in the universal applicability of the systematic methods and approach of science, especially the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview. making up words?
SOLOPSISM: is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is SURE to exist.
So what the fuck? How is that wrong? I'm all for critical rationalism, but fuck! Let's count the interuptions both ways. Hypocritical as fuck! This guy is smart, so quit taking the piss. Fuck this.
@MrLittletomdj I agree that the hosts barely let the guy talk but "as a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist." This is a pretty ridiculous claim. We don't exist? We're just manifestations in that guys mind? If not his mind, yours? Mine? Having a god be real seems more likely than this.
@LaCerca This caller has phoned in before and stated that he was an Atheist leaning towards Deism, simply put, his position is diffucult to explain. I don't think he intended to put any weight behind the word solopsist & he wasn't phoning in to make a God claim. His point was that there's vast amounts of philisophical study into concepts concerning the purpose & meaning of life which the AE under values & should take more seriously, or at least treat with a little more respect.(cont).
@MrLittletomdj Nothing personnel but it is always curious to me when a person thinks that just because that they take a subject seriously that others should too and/or treat it with respect. You don't see Ford or Chevy owners (for example) treats each others beliefs on the better brand with anything like respect so I don't see why other beliefs should be given any more leeway.
@ADADEL1 I see what you're saying. I knew I'd catch some heat for that comment too. I think you should treat subjects with respect though (NOT BELIEFS) just subjects & feilds of study. I don't think your analogy was appropriate (I'm not into to cars & I didn't really get it either). My analogy is a creationist sticking his amatuer beak into science is offencive. Is it that different when a positive Atheist sticks their amature beak into philosophy?
@MrLittletomdj Aaah, I misunderstood your position. However, to answer your question, a belief graduates into knowledge when it can be demonstrated to be accurate because knowledge is always demonstrable/measurable where mere beliefs may not be or cannot be. Slight detour, I would say that Man is still Monkey the same way that were still mammals.
@ADADEL1 The difficulty arises when you find what you thought you "knew" is false. Ontology is a prickly subject. What if someone said "NO! we're not monkeys, we just share a common ancestor!" They would probably assert knowledge of this but, I have evidence to the contrary that would probably convince them otherwise. Knowing isn't synonymous with truth & belief isn't synonymous with the absence of evidence. Is the life of Julias Ceasar demonstrable?? Be careful with your words. ;)
@MrLittletomdj Parts of it. The statement that Julius Caesar was the first Roman Emperor can easily be verified by any Roman historian from either the time or the generations after. Last time I checked we still have writings in his handwriting with his signature about certain laws he wanted passed. We also have collaborating accounts from the Keltoi that he conquered as a general. However, et tu Brute was probably a creation from Shakespeare.
@ADADEL1 I'm not, by any means, contending that Ceasar is a fictional character. You're reasoning is fluid & I wouldn't disagree with your methods for a second. Have a little faith that I'm not a nut bag! =D. I'm just talking about definitions.
It's just a question about ontology itself. Would you declare that you "know" Julius Ceasar existed or just say that you "believe" he did. Where do you draw the line between knowledge & belief?
@MrLittletomdj Heheh, unfortunately most people on youtube that I do talk to are nuts :). Anyway, I think that I already drew that line. Knowledge can be demonstrated for accuracy so I would say that I know Caesar existed in the same context as Lincoln, Franklin, and Tesla. Is is possible that all these people were just made up by writers of the time? Yes. Is is probable. No.
@MrLittletomdj Yes, I value intellectual honesty. So if the annoying smart guy actually showed how what I know was wrong then I would have to drop the idea. However, if our understanding of the Higgs Boson effect works at all we would still have to use it until we can replace it with another explanation that does work. You cannot replace something that works with nothing that doesn't. I think AronRa has a great run down of this exact thing but in Atomic Theory.
I think we're drifting off kilter here if we were ever on it in the first place. My point is that solopsism in its principle element; "your mind is the only thing you can be sure exists" is a perfectly valid stand point. I'm not preaching any further inclinations of metaphysical belief & I don't think the caller was either. I'm also saying what you regard as knowledge & not just belief can be overturned. So what is knowledge?
Aron Ra? Time out- That was too relevant for coincidence!?
@MrLittletomdj Of course it could be overturned. I actually enjoy it when someone convinces me that I'm wrong. It's one of the reasons that I enjoy Mythbusters. Why you say you know should change over time as you find more information. What coincidence are you talking about?
@ADADEL1 "What coincidence are you talking about?"
The "spark" for much of my recent line of reasoning is that I have had a proposition which I held as knowledge overturned very shaply by one of Aron Ra's videos. It's the origin of my first statement on this topic.
The vid's called "turns out we DID come from monkeys!".
I thought it was crazy that you mentioned him. Obviously I'm not concluding this is a result of magical thinking. I'll send you a message tomorrow, I'm a little drunk.=/
@ADADEL1 (props & part 2). First time that I've ever been flagged as spam that I'm aware of. I value the public forum massively. It's quality that you share that veiw!
@MrBlackatheist They think and are only are sure that only ones mind exist and everything eles i guess is imaginary. To me its a psychotic defensive mechanism to protect their fragile collected egos and make them belive they are always right.
I'm an atheist and I'm getting a little sick of the constant cutting of people off 3 words into any reply that the hosts deem isn't on topic. Jesus, let them say whatever inane comment they want and THEN destroy their logic. It just makes for bad tv which all the bickering over who's allowed to speak and when and frankly itmakes 'The Atheist Experience' start to look like a bully pulpit.
@michaelwitbeck The guy called up just to insult them, he doesn't care what the hosts have to say, he just wants to paint them as the bad guys, besides he doesn't have any logic to destroy to begin with.
@PurpleStorm8 Perhaps you've seen an unedited edition of this programme because he didn't do the things you accuse him of in this clip - he didn't get the chance. The other two just ganged up on him. Jeff is a natural bully anyway but I was disappointed in Matt's performance.
@DivusJuIius Except for the person that they were talking with is a Solipsist and believes that we're all figments of his imagination, anyway. So, no, they gave him multiple times to clarify what he believed. The only ignorant one of the three is Charles, the caller.
Also, you clearly don't understand the full scope of solipsism, because there is both epistemological and metaphysical solipsism. He didn't get time to clarify which. By the way, can you refute either view?
@DivusJuIius Can you prove either? All he did was waffle. When one of you wankers can actually fucking DEMONSTRATE the bullshit you go on with, then I and everyone else with an ounce of common sense will accept it.
@Psykolord1989 Only that wont work,solitair...wtfism can be true yet wrong entirely at the same time :L Aka existance is imagined by something else.So we have no control since factualy reality exists for us being born in another mind but to that dimension we dont exist.Do you kinda get it?Even simpler This plane of existence = dreamland, another plane = ppl dreaming of this dreamland and another plane = ppl dreaming of the ppl dreaming of this dreamland :L which cannot be disproven...
Hanging up on him was smart, not to say a solipsist is necessarily any more right or wrong than anyone else but arguing with one would be a pointless endeavor, although I think arguing with anybody on such big concepts is somewhat of a wast of time, nobody can really prove they are right, all they can do is assert a point and honestly I could really care less if someone believes the same thing as me, I believe what makes sense to me and I change my beliefs if it stops making sense; autonomy.
Reality is a subjective term. The so-called reality of 3000 years ago accepted the word wasn't spherical. The absolute truth is no one knows a damn thing beyond speculation influenced by their own personal experience.
@veXati0n That's retarded. Reality is only subjective if you define reality to BE subjective. There's a reality that we all take part in. It's a reality that we dont have any control to decide is different. I don't get to imagine I can fly, and then be able to fly. I don't get to imagine that I can leap tall buldings in a single bound, and then do so.
I have to deal with the reality I live in on REALITY'S terms...not my own subjective one.
@DishrackDarwin No, I just think it's hilarious that a guy/girl who's strictly hands off when it comes to the shift or caps lock keys would accidentally hit it in the middle of a word that's letters don't come anywhere near either. I can only imagine it happened while you were pounding away at the keys in a spastic rage.
For those wonderin about a kinda Solipsism definition.. it's the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. The external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist.
When I said 'to make something real', that was a typo: it was shortened from "To make something real it has to be patterns put in my body (tattoos)", it's not meant to say "to make something real" at all, I didn't think those words existed in my comment. Solipsism is true: how to be one: step one: my experiences and my feelings. step two: only I exist. Step three: spend time with people or animals if you prefer (the glass is half full), step 4: life is a dream, anyone can do these 2 b solipsists
I imagined myself normal in public until it worked, and they think I'm normal (I hope any solipsist can argue with me, I dare them to fight for their existence, bring it on, pseudoreality nearly faded away before my eyes, I am the only thing that exists, it's just a naked me with my tattoos (but everyone is seeing me wear clothes, but they're touchable holograms, to make something real. My ghost was a brain & I put it back into my head (my mind). I won't be a nihilist though: me & my brain exist
The entire Universe is just an imaginary creation of your own, WOW! I doubt this is a comedy. I heard of these solipsist clowns, they talk about themselves and bad things can happen to any solipsist at any time. I'm the real solipsist: I was put in this world and I modify the world with my imagination to make it 100% pleasant. Humans are inside a dream, and everyone in a person's dream will argue with the dreamer that they're real. Blue sky makes a person's face look blue, I created that myself!
This is what happens when somebody reads a book without any form of scepticism - or more likely, someone who took a Philosophy course at community college, then missed the lecture which started with, "Last week we talked about solipsism, today we'll discuss why it's completely absurd..."
29 solipsists imagnied that there were 28 other solipsists that down voted this video, and 1102 figments of their imagination who disagreed with them.
I am a solipsist and the only one.. and I have to question why the hell I put myself here in this world everyday, all I can say is that I'm a really sadistic fuck.
Infinity, most apparent concepts. The presumption my finger in a flame lead to the pain amoungst other notions anyone has the same dispassionate right to as the next man force dissent upon others.. The "slow levelling" as Kierkegaard put it where the individual is lost, where the infallible reflection takes the place of passion, purpose in an deception that captures every lesser individual with an inclination to accept the simplest answer. The presumption that live is valuable above freedom.
I mean the collective can be just as dangerous as the solipsist, if they believe in things they've never seen before, abstract concepts of guilt at the forefront of their mind propounding itself onto an innocent man, innocent of the action and our bias solopsism condemning him because logically the arguements pertain to his guilt. Once again, "The Stranger" by Camus is the creme de le creme outline of this threat to freedom.
@Harizl The truth.. Yes I believe in that as openly as any priest with a conscience for the universal. A superceding category transcending the tangential bias of our existence. These hosts are true then? If that's so, why does solipsism propogate such filth to them?... You probably think this is funny the rest of you. Let me tell you, it isn't. You probably imagine the pure dialectic conscience the most honest, the least burdened, swathed in honesty? It isn't. The solipsist's is.
I disagree that is both more honest or less burdened.
If solipsism is true then he is burdened with the entire universe and his own justification, if false he is carrying an unjustified assumption about all the universe. Until the assumption of solipsism is found supported for or against then it is simply irrelevant to this universe. I never found solipsism to have any use, other then defining use as pointless.
@Harizl When I say less burdened, what I mean to say is less burdened of the fear which is a necessity when people know secretly it becomes hypocrisy to speak of "other people's passions" so governments inflict where experience ends? Solopsism isn't a permanent position. Fear is persuasive, so maybe it becomes so. To me, it's empowering. Why should everything meaningful derive collectively? To be a solipsist is to surely say "I grant my own life meaning, that is my concern, not murder."
@Harizl If other people do exist as an incling to a solipsist and he sees that inkling which may well alter his world despite people's inexistence presently, I can understand why he might worry someone else deprives him of a link to others permanently through hypocrisy. I'm all for the existentialists, Camus, Kierkegaard as well as others like Kafka who to me are like studies on the essence of the solipsist and offer creative, empowering ways to view the world than just presume inscrutable.
I see no reason for his worry. If he is a self-admitted solipsist then being separated from non-existent or even existent others is irrelevant. To him there is no distinguishing between nor should being deprived of self-created entities be worrisome. That is unless the solipsist is irrational or in denial.
@Harizl What are you saying exactly? You think solipsism is as precise as that? Don't they still see the impression people make, a shadow. A solipsist isn't necessarily a dispassionate person. He hears the others conversing and, like a dream where your feet don't move as fast as you like, despite the fact you've never moved through a shroud as fast before in your life, the internal sense it were possible calling him/her forward still applies itself?
@fredbloggs02 A solipsist wouldn't feel drawn to people if they were outside himself? If it were natural for man to feel a connection with others, then perhaps this is only natural a trace of this is left as a veil of past centuries and, wether a solipsist believes he currently imagines the world or not, the world is still the crux of his imagination thus far and so perhaps still precious in that sense.
Sure, he could feel lonely to be without the non-existant but he shouldn't be worried about it. When you are within a dream you have as much if not less control over it as to real life. If separation and loneliness is how the dream pans out there is still no reason for worry because that is simply the outcome. I guess if I was a honest solipsist I simply couldn't worry about false-comfort of non-existent, but that's just me.
The Stranger-Camus, great book, especially at the end where he assaults the priest endeavouring to impose on him more than he knew in the instantaneous. Great film too, the Spsnish version especially. You can watch it here on youtube as well.
@SubTachyon When I see this clip, there was always a limit to how interesting his points were gunna be however: when I hear it I imagine a world where everyone felt the same yet presumed without conviction they were wrong. A funnel where everything outside bears the same significance, all unknown in distinctly impossible ways it became the imperative everyone else felt, demons replacing people's passions we couldn't account for when It's surely impossible to imagine everyone else's passions.
@SubTachyon Oh yeah, I read the Outsider version too, it just sounds fucking sophisticated to say the Strangeror Etrangee , people just presume you've read it in French:D
@LuniaVideo very true (descartes doubt principle), we just have varying degrees of accepting the solipsism in us.. those that are deep into it are considered 'weirdos', 'self-centered' and 'egocentric' by those that can easily brush it off :)
@John27346 I understand Solipsism just fine, thank you.
To say someone is completely not a Solipsist is a blatant lie, and frankly quite disconcerting that someone is in such a state of denial that they can't even admit to themselves that the world around them MAY be manufactured by their own id.
You can't prove it isn't. You also can't prove it is.
@LuniaVideo "You can't prove it isn't. You also can't prove it is." And because you can't "prove" either, the whole nature of solipsistic thinking is nonsensical. Arguments that cannot be falsified are nonsense. And, unless you can provide sufficient reason to question the nature of reality, then solipsistic thinking at all is mere mental masturbation. Go outside and interact with people, you'll learn something.
@lautaa33 Yeah, that was great - a totally impromptu moment. The hosts on this show never fail to put me in a good mood and give me hope for humanity :)
Caller gets owned early anyway, at 1:06 actually, Matt tries to get straight to the fallacy , which is nothing more than a big old argumentum ad consequentiam.
I'd be pretty sure the guy is only talking about what Matt calls "soft solipsism". That he can only be SURE that his own mind exists, but it doesn't preclude the existence of others. So I think hangin up on him was a bit harsh, at least before he explained if he was a "soft" or "hard" solipsist.
LOL! I just thought it was hilarious that they both screamed, "you're a solipsist!?!?" and then laughed and hung up on him. LOLOL!!! The guy probably didn't even know what solipsit means.
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YOU'RE A SOLIPSIST?!
whitelighter27club 6 days ago
I had never heard that term before and I hope I never hear it again. That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Nothing exists except for in the Mind?!? GTFO!
wildfire2k5 1 week ago
OMFSM! Freaking solipsists make me giggle. Just like the guys here did, every time that I'm having some sort of debate or discussion, and the person drops that bullshit about all things in existence are just there because we imagined them up, I just shut my mouth, smile, and turn away.
If they ask me what just happened, I tell them that if they want to continue the conversation, then they should just imagine it continuing, and I say nothing else. XD
palerider1775 1 week ago
@palerider1775 perhaps you misunderstand solipsism, and you never will if you immediately dismiss a person as soon as they say that word. And perahaps you misunderstand what "we" are (referring to when you said, "everything is existence is just because we imagined it up"). Who is the you that imagined it up? That is the question. It's not your mind, that's the illusion. Who are you?
fnog9 3 days ago
'YOU'RE A SOLIPSIST??' lmao! I love the way the say that at the same time then chubby guy hangs up ;D
cun7us 1 week ago
The caller ain't just a solipsist, he's a masochistic, solipsistic pessimist.
Kailoa36 2 weeks ago
One of the funniest calls I've heard !
snuffsan 3 weeks ago
Such a funny episode.
Solipsism: "Reality is complex, therefore I imagined it all up."
XD
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@abloogywoogywoo more like: "ignorance of solipsism" = "Reality is complex, therefore I imagined it all up."
fnog9 3 days ago
Best call ever "YOU'RE A SOLOPSIST?!?!"
KingOrcus 4 weeks ago
so if that guy is a Solipsist and i kick the shit out of him would that be classed as selfharm on his part ;)
ubernagash 4 weeks ago 4
This is now my favourite Atheist Experience video :p what an amazing unison at the end there :D
Powerman3772 1 month ago
The presenters have for once encountered someone articulate and able to argue intelligently. Their only response is to ridicule and talk over him. They pounced on his claim to be a solipsist without letting him finish. We're all solipsists to a degree - it's a normal human state of mind - I don't think he meant them to take him so literally. We'll never know because they cut him off. I've seen them allow complete morons to go on and on. They couldn't handle this guy.
mikelheron20 1 month ago
@mikelheron20 What? This guy isn't rational at all. And you must seem to have not listened carefully because he tries multiple times to talk over the hosts. He didn't demonstrate anything, he keeps blabbering on with incoherent nonsense, and continues to annoy for no apparent reason. At least for most of the "morons" they are ignorant bastards. And as for solipsism being a normal state of mind? That is probably one of the most ridiculous assertions I've ever heard.
DesmondMcMillian 1 month ago
@DesmondMcMillian We must have watched different clips. Please count the number of times the hosts - two to one - talk over the top of him. I'm not saying I agree with the caller but I have heard incredibly stupid callers given far more latitude. I was referring to solipsism not as a belief but as a psychological state which I believe we all experience at times. As I said, I know perfectly well that the room exists after I shut the door. Perhaps you're lacking imagination.
mikelheron20 1 month ago
@mikelheron20 I don't believe that anyone with any imagination, who has pondered such matters, has not had a "solipsistic moment". Bertrand Russell acknowledged that he cannot prove that the world isn't a figment of his imagination or that he didn't spring into existence 5 mins ago with all his "memories" intact. Everyone from Plato to Descartes to Sartre has considered it. That's not to say they believed it. I think, had he been allowed to finish, the caller would have made a similar point.
mikelheron20 1 month ago
@mikelheron20 One final thing. Let's assume that the caller was a solipsist. They have callers who believe the world is 6000 years old, that Jesus was born of a virgin, that snakes can talk, that Jesus died and rose from the dead - all ridiculous. But they still let the callers talk. Also, bear in mind that Matt by his own admission bought all this crap for about 25 years and was training to be a minister. What does that say for his capacity to believe stupid things?
mikelheron20 1 month ago
@mikelheron20 Ok. So if he really was a solipsist, why would he call a show that only existed in his mind? Well, I guess even solipsists need to keep themselves entertained.
mikelheron20 1 month ago
The presenters interrupted the caller much more than the caller interrupted the presenters.
mikelheron20 1 month ago
why do americans always interupt each other?
Thronsohn 1 month ago
"You're a solipsist?!" In stereo! *lol*
Akira625 1 month ago
Wow, that guy was a shithead.
And I now think, based on the synchrony in Matt's and Jeff's responses, that there's an AE Prime Directive that states "When thou meetest a solipsist, hang thine phone up on his ass."
YaleBreaker 1 month ago
Priceless. Gotta love solipsism: If you (I) really are (am) a solipsist, why would you (I) ever try to convince others (myself) of the validity of the theory. It would be much easier to just imagine some guy calling in to argue with two atheists on a youtube channel ;)
studiocire 1 month ago
@studiocire Well said.
TheOutzman 1 month ago
Solipsists should be required to wear big huge signs saying, "WARNING! SOLIPSIST!" so that human beings can avoid feeding their imaginations.
Kailoa36 1 month ago 2
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StairwaytoZoSo 1 month ago
Gentlemen, the solution is simple. Take care of yourself, and the people you care about. And they will take care of theirs.
DamionCrane 1 month ago
"I think it's dangerous to live in world with like nuclear bombs when there are solipsists running around"
Enough fucking said.
bigredphenom 1 month ago
Epic face-palm by Matt at 4:00
dingodavid 2 months ago
HEY CALLER
over a year later and I AM STILL A FIGMENT OF YOUR IMAGINATION, lol.
LogicalStatements1 2 months ago 12
Did he say "the ghetto of conception"..? :-|
DaToNyOyO 2 months ago 2
Did he say "pseudo-modern"..? :-|
DaToNyOyO 2 months ago
matt and jeff: 'YOU'RE A SOLIPSIST!!!".
click.
theeyeisblind 2 months ago
7:13 is just doo damn priceless!
HolyEggRollys 2 months ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FUCK YA!!!!!!!
elissbern 2 months ago
i love the fact that they both yelled " YOUR A SOLIPSIST!!!" at the same time
bonkuraysan 2 months ago
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@ADADEL1 Let's imagine that you believe there is such a thing as the Higgs Boson & it's been demonstrably verified that it exists. You believe it based on studies & evaluations of testible results & mathematical equations. You've verified, tested & proven it's existence is true but... then some annoyingly smart guy turns around and says "sorry we got it wrong". What you thought you "knew" you no longer believe, despite your qualifiers & definition of knowledge.
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
i could watch 7:13 over and over again lol
mystarmach 2 months ago 28
@mystarmach aye i loved that reaction
ubernagash 4 weeks ago
@mystarmach I have been,
Jordog05 4 days ago
SCIENTISM: refers to a belief in the universal applicability of the systematic methods and approach of science, especially the view that empirical science constitutes the most authoritative worldview. making up words?
SOLOPSISM: is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is SURE to exist.
So what the fuck? How is that wrong? I'm all for critical rationalism, but fuck! Let's count the interuptions both ways. Hypocritical as fuck! This guy is smart, so quit taking the piss. Fuck this.
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj I agree that the hosts barely let the guy talk but "as a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist." This is a pretty ridiculous claim. We don't exist? We're just manifestations in that guys mind? If not his mind, yours? Mine? Having a god be real seems more likely than this.
LaCerca 2 months ago
@LaCerca This caller has phoned in before and stated that he was an Atheist leaning towards Deism, simply put, his position is diffucult to explain. I don't think he intended to put any weight behind the word solopsist & he wasn't phoning in to make a God claim. His point was that there's vast amounts of philisophical study into concepts concerning the purpose & meaning of life which the AE under values & should take more seriously, or at least treat with a little more respect.(cont).
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj Nothing personnel but it is always curious to me when a person thinks that just because that they take a subject seriously that others should too and/or treat it with respect. You don't see Ford or Chevy owners (for example) treats each others beliefs on the better brand with anything like respect so I don't see why other beliefs should be given any more leeway.
ADADEL1 2 months ago
@ADADEL1 I see what you're saying. I knew I'd catch some heat for that comment too. I think you should treat subjects with respect though (NOT BELIEFS) just subjects & feilds of study. I don't think your analogy was appropriate (I'm not into to cars & I didn't really get it either). My analogy is a creationist sticking his amatuer beak into science is offencive. Is it that different when a positive Atheist sticks their amature beak into philosophy?
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj Aaah, I misunderstood your position. However, to answer your question, a belief graduates into knowledge when it can be demonstrated to be accurate because knowledge is always demonstrable/measurable where mere beliefs may not be or cannot be. Slight detour, I would say that Man is still Monkey the same way that were still mammals.
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@ADADEL1 The difficulty arises when you find what you thought you "knew" is false. Ontology is a prickly subject. What if someone said "NO! we're not monkeys, we just share a common ancestor!" They would probably assert knowledge of this but, I have evidence to the contrary that would probably convince them otherwise. Knowing isn't synonymous with truth & belief isn't synonymous with the absence of evidence. Is the life of Julias Ceasar demonstrable?? Be careful with your words. ;)
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj Parts of it. The statement that Julius Caesar was the first Roman Emperor can easily be verified by any Roman historian from either the time or the generations after. Last time I checked we still have writings in his handwriting with his signature about certain laws he wanted passed. We also have collaborating accounts from the Keltoi that he conquered as a general. However, et tu Brute was probably a creation from Shakespeare.
ADADEL1 2 months ago
@ADADEL1 I'm not, by any means, contending that Ceasar is a fictional character. You're reasoning is fluid & I wouldn't disagree with your methods for a second. Have a little faith that I'm not a nut bag! =D. I'm just talking about definitions.
It's just a question about ontology itself. Would you declare that you "know" Julius Ceasar existed or just say that you "believe" he did. Where do you draw the line between knowledge & belief?
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj Heheh, unfortunately most people on youtube that I do talk to are nuts :). Anyway, I think that I already drew that line. Knowledge can be demonstrated for accuracy so I would say that I know Caesar existed in the same context as Lincoln, Franklin, and Tesla. Is is possible that all these people were just made up by writers of the time? Yes. Is is probable. No.
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MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj Yes, I value intellectual honesty. So if the annoying smart guy actually showed how what I know was wrong then I would have to drop the idea. However, if our understanding of the Higgs Boson effect works at all we would still have to use it until we can replace it with another explanation that does work. You cannot replace something that works with nothing that doesn't. I think AronRa has a great run down of this exact thing but in Atomic Theory.
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I think we're drifting off kilter here if we were ever on it in the first place. My point is that solopsism in its principle element; "your mind is the only thing you can be sure exists" is a perfectly valid stand point. I'm not preaching any further inclinations of metaphysical belief & I don't think the caller was either. I'm also saying what you regard as knowledge & not just belief can be overturned. So what is knowledge?
Aron Ra? Time out- That was too relevant for coincidence!?
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj Of course it could be overturned. I actually enjoy it when someone convinces me that I'm wrong. It's one of the reasons that I enjoy Mythbusters. Why you say you know should change over time as you find more information. What coincidence are you talking about?
ADADEL1 2 months ago
@ADADEL1 "What coincidence are you talking about?"
The "spark" for much of my recent line of reasoning is that I have had a proposition which I held as knowledge overturned very shaply by one of Aron Ra's videos. It's the origin of my first statement on this topic.
The vid's called "turns out we DID come from monkeys!".
I thought it was crazy that you mentioned him. Obviously I'm not concluding this is a result of magical thinking. I'll send you a message tomorrow, I'm a little drunk.=/
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj PS If the person who marked the post I replied to as spam is reading this could they please knock it off. Were having a conversation.
ADADEL1 2 months ago
@ADADEL1 (props & part 2). First time that I've ever been flagged as spam that I'm aware of. I value the public forum massively. It's quality that you share that veiw!
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@LaCerca (part 2) Can I try a thought experiment on you?
Take the claim "Man evolved from monkeys". Do you agree with this statement?
Is it a fact?
If it is a fact, would you say that you know this to be true?
There's a wealth of good evidence that this is true, so when do your beliefs stop being beliefs & start being knowledge?
When do stop qualifying your statements with "I believe" and just state "this is true."?
Or am I wrong & this statement is false?
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
I love how Jeff and Matt are in unison when they yell "you're a solipsist?"
GenghisKant 2 months ago
So,.... what's kaslopisism? Is it worship of the kaslopis?
politicoochie09 2 months ago
what is Solipsism
MrBlackatheist 3 months ago
@MrBlackatheist Solipsism is the philosophy which teaches that other people are figments of their imagination, and that only they exist.
AdonTimasu 3 months ago
@MrBlackatheist They think and are only are sure that only ones mind exist and everything eles i guess is imaginary. To me its a psychotic defensive mechanism to protect their fragile collected egos and make them belive they are always right.
sclf 2 months ago
I love the ending!
quidproquo2004 3 months ago
what do u do with solpisism syndrome? idk how to approach it
atcscc 3 months ago
I'm an atheist and I'm getting a little sick of the constant cutting of people off 3 words into any reply that the hosts deem isn't on topic. Jesus, let them say whatever inane comment they want and THEN destroy their logic. It just makes for bad tv which all the bickering over who's allowed to speak and when and frankly itmakes 'The Atheist Experience' start to look like a bully pulpit.
michaelwitbeck 3 months ago
@michaelwitbeck Yeah I'm a fan of the show but the way they handled this caller was definitely over the top.
LaCerca 2 months ago
@michaelwitbeck The guy called up just to insult them, he doesn't care what the hosts have to say, he just wants to paint them as the bad guys, besides he doesn't have any logic to destroy to begin with.
PurpleStorm8 4 weeks ago
@PurpleStorm8 Perhaps you've seen an unedited edition of this programme because he didn't do the things you accuse him of in this clip - he didn't get the chance. The other two just ganged up on him. Jeff is a natural bully anyway but I was disappointed in Matt's performance.
mikelheron20 3 weeks ago
So he is a solipsists, who KNOWS there is something else going on.
Oh dear,,,,
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StairwaytoZoSo 3 months ago
They didn't even give him time to clarify what he believed.
What a bunch of ignorant louts.
DivusJuIius 3 months ago
@DivusJuIius Except for the person that they were talking with is a Solipsist and believes that we're all figments of his imagination, anyway. So, no, they gave him multiple times to clarify what he believed. The only ignorant one of the three is Charles, the caller.
HunterJosephPalmer93 3 months ago
@HunterJosephPalmer93 Except they didn't, and they shut him out.
Also, you clearly don't understand the full scope of solipsism, because there is both epistemological and metaphysical solipsism. He didn't get time to clarify which. By the way, can you refute either view?
DivusJuIius 3 months ago
@DivusJuIius Can you prove either? All he did was waffle. When one of you wankers can actually fucking DEMONSTRATE the bullshit you go on with, then I and everyone else with an ounce of common sense will accept it.
gillyssquashball 3 months ago
I love how there was a second delay between him saying it and them reacting.
Sean1Sullivan 3 months ago
Guys, don't insult a solipsist. If you do, they'll just unimagine you. And THEN what will you do? Nothing. Because you won't be there. :(
Psykolord1989 3 months ago
@Psykolord1989 what an evil philosophical concept
Freethinker12341 3 months ago
@Freethinker12341 Evil is a religious concept.
So much for free thinking.
DivusJuIius 3 months ago
@DivusJuIius um actually its not, its just a concept.period
Freethinker12341 3 months ago
@Psykolord1989 Only that wont work,solitair...wtfism can be true yet wrong entirely at the same time :L Aka existance is imagined by something else.So we have no control since factualy reality exists for us being born in another mind but to that dimension we dont exist.Do you kinda get it?Even simpler This plane of existence = dreamland, another plane = ppl dreaming of this dreamland and another plane = ppl dreaming of the ppl dreaming of this dreamland :L which cannot be disproven...
Thelondonbadger 3 months ago
This guys problem is that he wont listen, he called with what he wanted to say and would not let anyone say anything unless you kind of forced it.
deathman1021 4 months ago 17
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solipsist?? So what ??
Why you guys hanged up on him?
I don't think it was smart to do so as everyone is entitled to his own ideas and beliefs
chakooch1 4 months ago
Hanging up on him was smart, not to say a solipsist is necessarily any more right or wrong than anyone else but arguing with one would be a pointless endeavor, although I think arguing with anybody on such big concepts is somewhat of a wast of time, nobody can really prove they are right, all they can do is assert a point and honestly I could really care less if someone believes the same thing as me, I believe what makes sense to me and I change my beliefs if it stops making sense; autonomy.
huhhhhhhhhhhhh09 4 months ago 2
Apparently he's a solipsist
ImpossibleCertainty 4 months ago
Reality is a subjective term. The so-called reality of 3000 years ago accepted the word wasn't spherical. The absolute truth is no one knows a damn thing beyond speculation influenced by their own personal experience.
veXati0n 4 months ago
@veXati0n That's retarded. Reality is only subjective if you define reality to BE subjective. There's a reality that we all take part in. It's a reality that we dont have any control to decide is different. I don't get to imagine I can fly, and then be able to fly. I don't get to imagine that I can leap tall buldings in a single bound, and then do so.
I have to deal with the reality I live in on REALITY'S terms...not my own subjective one.
BigLundi 3 months ago
When you start arguing possibility instead of reality, then you lose all hope of making sense.
MunkyDrag0n 4 months ago
@DishrackDarwin No, I just think it's hilarious that a guy/girl who's strictly hands off when it comes to the shift or caps lock keys would accidentally hit it in the middle of a word that's letters don't come anywhere near either. I can only imagine it happened while you were pounding away at the keys in a spastic rage.
jussts 4 months ago
@DishrackDarwin "doucHebag"
For a guy that's averse to using capitalization and punctuation, that's a pretty odd place for a capital letter.
jussts 4 months ago
@DishrackDarwin LOL, nothing you have said (or, I'd wager, will ever say) is hard to follow. It's just idiotic.
jussts 4 months ago
@DishrackDarwin Oh, so I'm an idiot because you're too dumb to read the title? Keep telling yourself that.
jussts 4 months ago
PS: Why would I have to look in a thesaurus for a word that's in the title of this video? Thinking isn't your strong suit, is it?
jussts 4 months ago
@DishrackDarwin A big word... seriously? How was your secondary school education? Not great, huh?
jussts 4 months ago
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I like TAE, but Jeff Dee should never complain about people interrupting him. He does it A LOT on this show and TNP.
t0f0b0 4 months ago
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t0f0b0 4 months ago
lol "and for that im almost willing to thank god" lmao
IRaP3U 4 months ago
For those wonderin about a kinda Solipsism definition.. it's the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. The external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist.
ViperRob42 4 months ago
click 7:13 for best mutual reaction
bogdan1231 4 months ago in playlist atheistexperience
So much Jargon that he doesn;t understand...
neverfearchrisishere 4 months ago
Hahahaha 7:13 perfect unison
201Perone239 4 months ago
lol
JacksInn 5 months ago
When I said 'to make something real', that was a typo: it was shortened from "To make something real it has to be patterns put in my body (tattoos)", it's not meant to say "to make something real" at all, I didn't think those words existed in my comment. Solipsism is true: how to be one: step one: my experiences and my feelings. step two: only I exist. Step three: spend time with people or animals if you prefer (the glass is half full), step 4: life is a dream, anyone can do these 2 b solipsists
Hoobifta 5 months ago in playlist religion debate/comedy
I imagined myself normal in public until it worked, and they think I'm normal (I hope any solipsist can argue with me, I dare them to fight for their existence, bring it on, pseudoreality nearly faded away before my eyes, I am the only thing that exists, it's just a naked me with my tattoos (but everyone is seeing me wear clothes, but they're touchable holograms, to make something real. My ghost was a brain & I put it back into my head (my mind). I won't be a nihilist though: me & my brain exist
Hoobifta 5 months ago in playlist religion debate/comedy
The entire Universe is just an imaginary creation of your own, WOW! I doubt this is a comedy. I heard of these solipsist clowns, they talk about themselves and bad things can happen to any solipsist at any time. I'm the real solipsist: I was put in this world and I modify the world with my imagination to make it 100% pleasant. Humans are inside a dream, and everyone in a person's dream will argue with the dreamer that they're real. Blue sky makes a person's face look blue, I created that myself!
Hoobifta 5 months ago in playlist religion debate/comedy
solipsism might not be true... BUT IT MAKES SOME GODAMN GOOD MOVIES
lionatemeboy 5 months ago
solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. there, now you dont have to google it :D
managarm1349 5 months ago in playlist Weitere Videos von TheAtheistExperience
This is the funniest exchange I've seen on this show. The end, that was just too perfect. I could not stop laughing.
HubbellKent 5 months ago
WHAT is a novel? He's not talking about a book, is he? I'm lost...
Protoman85 5 months ago
This is what happens when somebody reads a book without any form of scepticism - or more likely, someone who took a Philosophy course at community college, then missed the lecture which started with, "Last week we talked about solipsism, today we'll discuss why it's completely absurd..."
urcritic 6 months ago
29 solipsists imagnied that there were 28 other solipsists that down voted this video, and 1102 figments of their imagination who disagreed with them.
1stCainite 6 months ago 25
Who wants to see their imagination destroyed? To be a solipsist isn't to believe you have the potential to imagine differently is it.
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
I am a solipsist and the only one.. and I have to question why the hell I put myself here in this world everyday, all I can say is that I'm a really sadistic fuck.
MrChoronzon333 6 months ago
Infinity, most apparent concepts. The presumption my finger in a flame lead to the pain amoungst other notions anyone has the same dispassionate right to as the next man force dissent upon others.. The "slow levelling" as Kierkegaard put it where the individual is lost, where the infallible reflection takes the place of passion, purpose in an deception that captures every lesser individual with an inclination to accept the simplest answer. The presumption that live is valuable above freedom.
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
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fredbloggs02 6 months ago
Anybody count how many quasi-philosophical buzzwords he manages to cram into this phonecall...
"Ask yourself why you're imagning a couple of guys like us who're gonna sit here and argue with you..."
lolz.
JMUDoc 6 months ago
I mean the collective can be just as dangerous as the solipsist, if they believe in things they've never seen before, abstract concepts of guilt at the forefront of their mind propounding itself onto an innocent man, innocent of the action and our bias solopsism condemning him because logically the arguements pertain to his guilt. Once again, "The Stranger" by Camus is the creme de le creme outline of this threat to freedom.
fredbloggs02 7 months ago
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Well, it all depends which reality exists. In this, the truth actually is of most import.
Harizl 6 months ago
@Harizl The truth.. Yes I believe in that as openly as any priest with a conscience for the universal. A superceding category transcending the tangential bias of our existence. These hosts are true then? If that's so, why does solipsism propogate such filth to them?... You probably think this is funny the rest of you. Let me tell you, it isn't. You probably imagine the pure dialectic conscience the most honest, the least burdened, swathed in honesty? It isn't. The solipsist's is.
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
@fredbloggs02
I disagree that is both more honest or less burdened.
If solipsism is true then he is burdened with the entire universe and his own justification, if false he is carrying an unjustified assumption about all the universe. Until the assumption of solipsism is found supported for or against then it is simply irrelevant to this universe. I never found solipsism to have any use, other then defining use as pointless.
Harizl 6 months ago
@Harizl When I say less burdened, what I mean to say is less burdened of the fear which is a necessity when people know secretly it becomes hypocrisy to speak of "other people's passions" so governments inflict where experience ends? Solopsism isn't a permanent position. Fear is persuasive, so maybe it becomes so. To me, it's empowering. Why should everything meaningful derive collectively? To be a solipsist is to surely say "I grant my own life meaning, that is my concern, not murder."
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
@Harizl If other people do exist as an incling to a solipsist and he sees that inkling which may well alter his world despite people's inexistence presently, I can understand why he might worry someone else deprives him of a link to others permanently through hypocrisy. I'm all for the existentialists, Camus, Kierkegaard as well as others like Kafka who to me are like studies on the essence of the solipsist and offer creative, empowering ways to view the world than just presume inscrutable.
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
@fredbloggs02
I see no reason for his worry. If he is a self-admitted solipsist then being separated from non-existent or even existent others is irrelevant. To him there is no distinguishing between nor should being deprived of self-created entities be worrisome. That is unless the solipsist is irrational or in denial.
Harizl 6 months ago
@Harizl What are you saying exactly? You think solipsism is as precise as that? Don't they still see the impression people make, a shadow. A solipsist isn't necessarily a dispassionate person. He hears the others conversing and, like a dream where your feet don't move as fast as you like, despite the fact you've never moved through a shroud as fast before in your life, the internal sense it were possible calling him/her forward still applies itself?
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
@fredbloggs02 A solipsist wouldn't feel drawn to people if they were outside himself? If it were natural for man to feel a connection with others, then perhaps this is only natural a trace of this is left as a veil of past centuries and, wether a solipsist believes he currently imagines the world or not, the world is still the crux of his imagination thus far and so perhaps still precious in that sense.
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
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Sure, he could feel lonely to be without the non-existant but he shouldn't be worried about it. When you are within a dream you have as much if not less control over it as to real life. If separation and loneliness is how the dream pans out there is still no reason for worry because that is simply the outcome. I guess if I was a honest solipsist I simply couldn't worry about false-comfort of non-existent, but that's just me.
Harizl 6 months ago
The Stranger-Camus, great book, especially at the end where he assaults the priest endeavouring to impose on him more than he knew in the instantaneous. Great film too, the Spsnish version especially. You can watch it here on youtube as well.
fredbloggs02 7 months ago
@fredbloggs02 I've read it as "The Outsider". :)
SubTachyon 6 months ago
@SubTachyon When I see this clip, there was always a limit to how interesting his points were gunna be however: when I hear it I imagine a world where everyone felt the same yet presumed without conviction they were wrong. A funnel where everything outside bears the same significance, all unknown in distinctly impossible ways it became the imperative everyone else felt, demons replacing people's passions we couldn't account for when It's surely impossible to imagine everyone else's passions.
fredbloggs02 6 months ago
@SubTachyon Oh yeah, I read the Outsider version too, it just sounds fucking sophisticated to say the Strangeror Etrangee , people just presume you've read it in French:D
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fredbloggs02 7 months ago
Everyone is a Solipsist, whether or not they know it or not (or agree with that label.)
The only mind we can prove exists is our own.
LuniaVideo 7 months ago
@LuniaVideo very true (descartes doubt principle), we just have varying degrees of accepting the solipsism in us.. those that are deep into it are considered 'weirdos', 'self-centered' and 'egocentric' by those that can easily brush it off :)
sasamuraki 7 months ago
@LuniaVideo You don't understand the ridiculous idea of solipsism.
John27346 6 months ago
@John27346 I understand Solipsism just fine, thank you.
To say someone is completely not a Solipsist is a blatant lie, and frankly quite disconcerting that someone is in such a state of denial that they can't even admit to themselves that the world around them MAY be manufactured by their own id.
You can't prove it isn't. You also can't prove it is.
LuniaVideo 6 months ago
@LuniaVideo That sort of watered-down idea of solipsism could be called arrogance or egotism.
I'm talking about Solipsism.
John27346 6 months ago
@LuniaVideo I can't prove Santa Claus doesn't exist. I don't want to prove he does, because it would be a waste of time.
John27346 6 months ago
@John27346 Well...actually you can prove Santa doesn't exist.
Santa is a mythical being modeled after Saint Nicholas of Myra, who was a real person.
Santa is a human invention.
LuniaVideo 6 months ago
@LuniaVideo Santa is a human invention, but who is this human? Only one of us exists.
John27346 6 months ago
@LuniaVideo "You can't prove it isn't. You also can't prove it is." And because you can't "prove" either, the whole nature of solipsistic thinking is nonsensical. Arguments that cannot be falsified are nonsense. And, unless you can provide sufficient reason to question the nature of reality, then solipsistic thinking at all is mere mental masturbation. Go outside and interact with people, you'll learn something.
LicoriceLain 5 months ago
@LicoriceLain Solipsists interact with people, they're afraid to be alone.
Hoobifta 5 months ago in playlist religion debate/comedy
@LuniaVideo Other minds can kill my mind, it's a pretty safe bet that the other minds exist. Stupid philosophy.
kaga13 6 months ago
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....adding "ism" to something does not make it a real word
gr8z0mbiejesus 7 months ago
"You're a SOLIPSIST?????" **Click** That was epic XD
FM897 7 months ago 48
@FM897 my god that was really epic, the two guys at the same time "YOU'RE A SOLIPSIST?"
lautaa33 7 months ago
@lautaa33 Yeah, that was great - a totally impromptu moment. The hosts on this show never fail to put me in a good mood and give me hope for humanity :)
FM897 7 months ago
@lautaa33 Intellectual stimulation and humor are a combination made in atheist heaven.
FM897 7 months ago
I love how they found out that he was a solipsist and just hung up on him. Very good call.
jebus6kryst 7 months ago
LOLOLOLOL
That was classic!
Zentz29 7 months ago
"YOU'RE A SOLIPSIST!?!" lmfao!
halflifefan84 7 months ago 6
I agree with Matt 100%; however, I believe that letting the caller "diffuse" (talk more) a little bit would encourage dialogue...
xander55577 7 months ago
@xander55577 It would also be more entertaining. I like hearing the insane drivel that comes out of some of these people's mouths.
Setzer 7 months ago
@Setzer true... true...
xander55577 7 months ago
Caller gets owned early anyway, at 1:06 actually, Matt tries to get straight to the fallacy , which is nothing more than a big old argumentum ad consequentiam.
elvigia666 8 months ago
What a fuckwit... lol
wl0883 8 months ago
7:11
LMAO
June28July 8 months ago 2
I went to the site to see Matt's explanation.
I'd be pretty sure the guy is only talking about what Matt calls "soft solipsism". That he can only be SURE that his own mind exists, but it doesn't preclude the existence of others. So I think hangin up on him was a bit harsh, at least before he explained if he was a "soft" or "hard" solipsist.
narco73 8 months ago
Don't mess with logic son..]-= wah wah wahhhhhhhh
Revolution2pointO 8 months ago
The Atheist Experience Drinking Game:
Take a shot every time the word 'Charles' is said.
Malakke5 8 months ago
best moment on the AE ever.
quirkyrecords 8 months ago
5:03 - 5: 09 " 'cause you got a brain, despite evidence to the contrary..."
ROFLMAO
nightvidcole 8 months ago 14
Let's go back to my favorite part. 7:09
Etsihcrana 9 months ago
i am a scientismist, apparently- but certianly NOT a transhumanist...
kyrior 9 months ago