Fallujah was destroyed by the U.S. military. 60% of the city was razed. Males 15-55 were prevented from leaving, then anything that moved was blasted to smithereens - even sheep! 200,000 people were displaced; many had nowhere to go.
Would Americans have tolerated N.Y. city being obliterated in order to catch a few "terrorists"?
Iraq was created by Britain in 1921 to meet the demands of an empire, an empire that required oil. Britain wanted to shape the world to its SECULAR needs.
To claim religion turns a person into a cold-blooded murderer is like saying violent video games turn children into killers.
Humans will use ANY pretext to perpetrate an atrocity. Hitler showed that even evolution could be used to facilitate evil.
At least religion recognizes the conscious self. If I take atheism and materialism literally, then humans are just lumps of expendable matter. I can murder a child and feel no guilt. Killing a human would be the equivalent of smashing a rock.
@jakeZaks2012 Oh, and kiddo? Hitler was not an atheist.
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 2.
"...I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 5.
Hitler was not an atheist. He was an upstanding, faithful Catholic man. I'm sorry, but check your facts.
If you block me for being an agnostic - FOR USING MY MIND & FREE WILL to think for myself - then u are no better than the religious dictators u condemn.
Hitler was an atheist, believed in eugenics, wanted to create a master race - he slaughtered millions. General Suharto of Indonesia, also an atheist, butchered over 1.2 million. Pinochet of Chile killed thousands to get into power. Stalin murdered, tortured & imprisoned millions. The list goes on and on!
So, that's a problem there for science to attempt to solve, but atheists would rather spout their beliefs instead of doing science
I've read research papers by neuroscientists, so please don't lie and claim that science knows how matter causes conscious experience - because it doesn't! Einstein said science will NEVER be able to explain consciousness. If it's not a physical phenomenon, he is right. How are you going to explain conscious experience in terms of particles moving about?
@jakeZaks2012 Atheists are atheists because their is no scientific evidence to support religion, but there is evidence to disprove religious "fact". Ask an atheist how they think of themself and they might use the word "freethinker". That's because we're open to new input, whether that be social or scientific.
And, I suppose in closing, a lot of violence is fueled by religion. The Inquisition, Crusades, fatwas, ceremonial suicide, murdering abortion doctors. Atheism promotes being a good guy.
Atoms moving about are just atoms moving about - they can't create what doesn't exist in the matter universe: conscious experience!
Either consciousness - like gravity - is real, or it isn't. If it isn't real, then we're just atoms, and we're not conscious - yet we are conscious! I feel pain, see color, hear sound, taste flavors, yet none of these exist in the matter universe.
Could you athesits STOP RAMMING YOUR BELIEF DOWN EVERYONE'S THROATS. People will decide what to believe themselves. If you want to upload science videos, upload science videos - don't babble on about the fact that you BELIEVE there is no "God" and mocking other religions. It's churlish!
NOTHING you can say can change my belief. I'm AGNOSTIC!
Until science - as opposed to your belief! - can show how atoms moving about can create conscious experience, I will remain agnostic.
@jakeZaks2012 Why aren't you criticizing theists, too? If anything, they "ram their beliefs down everyone's throats" far more than us atheists. Take a walk to the nearest movie theater. You come across churches with religious slogans on their signs, religious protesters, ichthus signs on car bumpers. I witness people blessing their meals in restaurants. The majority of atheist YouTube videos are made for atheists. They're not here to specifically turn you into an atheist.
Of course. You don't think critically, and when I do, you make sure I cannot comment on your channel or videos. Well, I'm not going to block you, but as I don't want to have anything to do with people that condone the killing of the innocent or that stereotype billions (Christians and Muslims, in this case): please don't come back.
"THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO STAND UP FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH! WAYS THAT DO NOT INSULT 1.57 BILLION PEOPLE! GOD F*CKING DAMNIT YOU ARE STUPID"
Again, reproducing the censored material is the best way to fight censorship. It shows the censorers that their tactics are ineffective. I dont want to stoop to your level of name-calling, but this is an easily understood concept, and your petty insults in place of a logical addressing of this is telling.
I didn't say all; I said most. And I have told you why I depicted Mohammed—not to offend the majority of peaceful Muslims—but to stand up for freedom of speech and expression by reproducing what was censored with threats of violence. Please take your unfair generalizations of Muslims and Christians, and your repugnant character assassinations of me elsewhere, zafar112233445566.
"Think for a second. The average muslim would not subscribe to you, or even be friends with you. Muslim people don't like atheist, nor do christians. The average muslim would hate you for doing this, believe me. Think about that for a second. Please for once, don't argue, you can't always be right"
I happened to talk frequently with about 15-25 Muslims, and many of them call me their friend. I've told some of them of this, and they have seen the video.
"You find it ironic?? That's because you're narrow-minded."
What? For a non-Muslim to respond radically, while Muslims respond reasonably to something that is potentially offensive to Muslims is the definition of ironic.
Also, I find it ironic that the Muslims I know have taking the high road by responding to this in a constructive, civil manor, yet you (a self-proclaimed non-Muslim) have responded with "I don't even care if Bin Laden [kills innocent civilians by dropping] a bomb on NY."
All militaries commit atrocities. But your response is to say that innocent American civilians and their children being slaughtered is what "America as a country" deserves. ...as if a country isnt made up of people...
So I suppose murderers deserve to have their babies slaughtered, zafar112233445566? I mean, who cares about the innocent, right? You explicitly stated that you don't.
What you are doing, zafar112233445566, is no better than the hate-mongers that latched onto Draw Mohammed day. You took one look at a nuanced issue, and over-simplified—painting me as a racist hate-monger, simply for partaking in the event, assuming my intentions without bothering to consider what they might be or to ask me about them.
"What I meant with 'They deserved it' is that America as a country deserves it, not all individual people"
It is the individual people that were murdered and suffered. But you care so little about them, that you said "I don't even care if Bin Laden drops a bomb on NY." How repugnant and apathetic.
"Lets use this as an example... the amount of Muslims killed by countries like America and Russia is huge....Take the Russian Invasion: More than 2 million Afghan People were killed by those savages, for no reason at all."
Unlike your statements about Americans, I do not think those Muslims deserved it, simply because of the actions of their countries.
"The amount of Muslim 'terrorists' is dwarfed by the amount of people who discriminate Muslims."
Right. And most Muslims are not violent or censoring. Interesting how you assumed I didn't know this. That's also why I didn't depict Mohammed in an demeaning or overly offensive way.
"Draw Mohammed Day was started to piss Muslims off."
No, it was started to oppose censorship via threats of violence by reproducing that which was censored.
Respect: 3 a : high or special regard : esteem b : the quality or state of being esteemed c plural : expressions of respect or deference (paid our respects)
I made this image in response to death threats to scare a group of people into self-censorship. I do not respect death threats or censorship.
Also, this is odd coming from someone who just advocated mass murder.
"first I felt sad for the people who died, know I don't even care if Bin Laden drops a bomb on NY...you deserved it."
...what? Why did the children deserve to be murdered? What did they do?
"Unsubbed"
I will sleep better, now that I know I am no longer being surveilled by someone that watches civilian men, women, and children be murdered and says they "deserved it."
"god Americans are dumb, they cry about 2000 people getting killed, and still do shit like 'Draw Mohammed Day'....."
So you are saying that people should respond to acts of violence for the purpose censoring them by self-censoring? Perhaps that is dumb if you do not value the freedom to express and share one's ideas and to make various works, but for those that do, refraining is "dumb."
I'm not sure I get this, I understand you're playing on the coding for RNA with the letters ACGU, but I don't get how you code M as AUG, O as UGA etc. Maybe I'm just too dumb :p
just today i heared they made the first synthetic cell. which is a milestone in history. its alive and reproducing. and they came up with a code that allows letters, numbers and puctuation, in order to sign the DNA of the new species with all their names and some additional information, like an email adress you can contact if you manage to decode it. i think thats where secularastronomer got the idea and the code, but im not sure.
@Chiflado21 In RNA translation to proteins, each triplet of bas pairs translates to one amino acid. The sequence AUG codes for Methionine, M. And every other combination of 3 codes for some amino acid.
Suharto was indeed responsible for deaths in excess of one million, but he was a Muslim.
Odraciralot 2 months ago
Fallujah was destroyed by the U.S. military. 60% of the city was razed. Males 15-55 were prevented from leaving, then anything that moved was blasted to smithereens - even sheep! 200,000 people were displaced; many had nowhere to go.
Would Americans have tolerated N.Y. city being obliterated in order to catch a few "terrorists"?
Iraq was created by Britain in 1921 to meet the demands of an empire, an empire that required oil. Britain wanted to shape the world to its SECULAR needs.
jakeZaks2012 1 year ago
To claim religion turns a person into a cold-blooded murderer is like saying violent video games turn children into killers.
Humans will use ANY pretext to perpetrate an atrocity. Hitler showed that even evolution could be used to facilitate evil.
At least religion recognizes the conscious self. If I take atheism and materialism literally, then humans are just lumps of expendable matter. I can murder a child and feel no guilt. Killing a human would be the equivalent of smashing a rock.
jakeZaks2012 1 year ago
@jakeZaks2012 Oh, and kiddo? Hitler was not an atheist.
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 2.
"...I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time." -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Vol. 1, Chapter 5.
Hitler was not an atheist. He was an upstanding, faithful Catholic man. I'm sorry, but check your facts.
justslashandbleed 1 year ago
If you block me for being an agnostic - FOR USING MY MIND & FREE WILL to think for myself - then u are no better than the religious dictators u condemn.
Hitler was an atheist, believed in eugenics, wanted to create a master race - he slaughtered millions. General Suharto of Indonesia, also an atheist, butchered over 1.2 million. Pinochet of Chile killed thousands to get into power. Stalin murdered, tortured & imprisoned millions. The list goes on and on!
Don't blame religion for human nature!
jakeZaks2012 1 year ago
Part III
So, that's a problem there for science to attempt to solve, but atheists would rather spout their beliefs instead of doing science
I've read research papers by neuroscientists, so please don't lie and claim that science knows how matter causes conscious experience - because it doesn't! Einstein said science will NEVER be able to explain consciousness. If it's not a physical phenomenon, he is right. How are you going to explain conscious experience in terms of particles moving about?
jakeZaks2012 1 year ago
@jakeZaks2012 Atheists are atheists because their is no scientific evidence to support religion, but there is evidence to disprove religious "fact". Ask an atheist how they think of themself and they might use the word "freethinker". That's because we're open to new input, whether that be social or scientific.
And, I suppose in closing, a lot of violence is fueled by religion. The Inquisition, Crusades, fatwas, ceremonial suicide, murdering abortion doctors. Atheism promotes being a good guy.
justslashandbleed 1 year ago
Part II
Atoms moving about are just atoms moving about - they can't create what doesn't exist in the matter universe: conscious experience!
Either consciousness - like gravity - is real, or it isn't. If it isn't real, then we're just atoms, and we're not conscious - yet we are conscious! I feel pain, see color, hear sound, taste flavors, yet none of these exist in the matter universe.
jakeZaks2012 1 year ago
Part I
Could you athesits STOP RAMMING YOUR BELIEF DOWN EVERYONE'S THROATS. People will decide what to believe themselves. If you want to upload science videos, upload science videos - don't babble on about the fact that you BELIEVE there is no "God" and mocking other religions. It's churlish!
NOTHING you can say can change my belief. I'm AGNOSTIC!
Until science - as opposed to your belief! - can show how atoms moving about can create conscious experience, I will remain agnostic.
jakeZaks2012 1 year ago
@jakeZaks2012 Why aren't you criticizing theists, too? If anything, they "ram their beliefs down everyone's throats" far more than us atheists. Take a walk to the nearest movie theater. You come across churches with religious slogans on their signs, religious protesters, ichthus signs on car bumpers. I witness people blessing their meals in restaurants. The majority of atheist YouTube videos are made for atheists. They're not here to specifically turn you into an atheist.
justslashandbleed 1 year ago
I didn't expect such a video from Jon. You didn't have to condone the "freedom of insults".
P.S. this zafar112233.... guy is piece'o crap.
AntiHypocrisy 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566 You just dont get it, do you? The right of free speach is the right to offend others
rugbyanden 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
"Go fuck yourself, blocked you "
Of course. You don't think critically, and when I do, you make sure I cannot comment on your channel or videos. Well, I'm not going to block you, but as I don't want to have anything to do with people that condone the killing of the innocent or that stereotype billions (Christians and Muslims, in this case): please don't come back.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
And again; I intentionally refrained from making my depiction overly offensive for this very reason.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
"THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO STAND UP FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH! WAYS THAT DO NOT INSULT 1.57 BILLION PEOPLE! GOD F*CKING DAMNIT YOU ARE STUPID"
Again, reproducing the censored material is the best way to fight censorship. It shows the censorers that their tactics are ineffective. I dont want to stoop to your level of name-calling, but this is an easily understood concept, and your petty insults in place of a logical addressing of this is telling.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
I didn't say all; I said most. And I have told you why I depicted Mohammed—not to offend the majority of peaceful Muslims—but to stand up for freedom of speech and expression by reproducing what was censored with threats of violence. Please take your unfair generalizations of Muslims and Christians, and your repugnant character assassinations of me elsewhere, zafar112233445566.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
As for Christians, most of my fiends are Christians. I still visit the Church I grew up in from time to time, and my entire family is Christian.
Your generalizations are appalling. Please don't talk of things you know little about.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
"Think for a second. The average muslim would not subscribe to you, or even be friends with you. Muslim people don't like atheist, nor do christians. The average muslim would hate you for doing this, believe me. Think about that for a second. Please for once, don't argue, you can't always be right"
I happened to talk frequently with about 15-25 Muslims, and many of them call me their friend. I've told some of them of this, and they have seen the video.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
"You find it ironic?? That's because you're narrow-minded."
What? For a non-Muslim to respond radically, while Muslims respond reasonably to something that is potentially offensive to Muslims is the definition of ironic.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
Also, I find it ironic that the Muslims I know have taking the high road by responding to this in a constructive, civil manor, yet you (a self-proclaimed non-Muslim) have responded with "I don't even care if Bin Laden [kills innocent civilians by dropping] a bomb on NY."
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
All militaries commit atrocities. But your response is to say that innocent American civilians and their children being slaughtered is what "America as a country" deserves. ...as if a country isnt made up of people...
So I suppose murderers deserve to have their babies slaughtered, zafar112233445566? I mean, who cares about the innocent, right? You explicitly stated that you don't.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
And then you say that it wouldnt bother you if innocent men, women, and children are murdered for the transgressions of tier country's military.
I don't want people like you subscribed to me, zafar112233445566. Please don't come back.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
What you are doing, zafar112233445566, is no better than the hate-mongers that latched onto Draw Mohammed day. You took one look at a nuanced issue, and over-simplified—painting me as a racist hate-monger, simply for partaking in the event, assuming my intentions without bothering to consider what they might be or to ask me about them.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
"What I meant with 'They deserved it' is that America as a country deserves it, not all individual people"
It is the individual people that were murdered and suffered. But you care so little about them, that you said "I don't even care if Bin Laden drops a bomb on NY." How repugnant and apathetic.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
"Lets use this as an example... the amount of Muslims killed by countries like America and Russia is huge....Take the Russian Invasion: More than 2 million Afghan People were killed by those savages, for no reason at all."
Unlike your statements about Americans, I do not think those Muslims deserved it, simply because of the actions of their countries.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
"The amount of Muslim 'terrorists' is dwarfed by the amount of people who discriminate Muslims."
Right. And most Muslims are not violent or censoring. Interesting how you assumed I didn't know this. That's also why I didn't depict Mohammed in an demeaning or overly offensive way.
"Draw Mohammed Day was started to piss Muslims off."
No, it was started to oppose censorship via threats of violence by reproducing that which was censored.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
Respect: 3 a : high or special regard : esteem b : the quality or state of being esteemed c plural : expressions of respect or deference (paid our respects)
I made this image in response to death threats to scare a group of people into self-censorship. I do not respect death threats or censorship.
Also, this is odd coming from someone who just advocated mass murder.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
"P.S. no, I'm not a muslim"
Thank god. The Muslims I know are responding reasonably. You know; as in *not* saying all Americans deserve mass murder.
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
"first I felt sad for the people who died, know I don't even care if Bin Laden drops a bomb on NY...you deserved it."
...what? Why did the children deserve to be murdered? What did they do?
"Unsubbed"
I will sleep better, now that I know I am no longer being surveilled by someone that watches civilian men, women, and children be murdered and says they "deserved it."
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
"god Americans are dumb, they cry about 2000 people getting killed, and still do shit like 'Draw Mohammed Day'....."
So you are saying that people should respond to acts of violence for the purpose censoring them by self-censoring? Perhaps that is dumb if you do not value the freedom to express and share one's ideas and to make various works, but for those that do, refraining is "dumb."
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
@zafar112233445566
"Didn't know you were a racist...."
Nor did I... interesting how you assume my intentions. And are you under the mistaken impression that Muslim is a race?
SecularAstronomer 1 year ago
Clever! Thanks.
1Weemaryanne 1 year ago
lovely:-)
TheSensuousAtheist 1 year ago
Yes, but does this self-replicate? (Ref: the recent Craig Ventor thing.)
websnarf 1 year ago
herro
nanashimara 1 year ago
Junk DNA :)
BGenerous 1 year ago
Oh, that's clever!!
hunaynay 1 year ago
Damned Nice Artistry (DNA)! :-)
CousinoMacul 1 year ago
I'm not sure I get this, I understand you're playing on the coding for RNA with the letters ACGU, but I don't get how you code M as AUG, O as UGA etc. Maybe I'm just too dumb :p
Chiflado21 1 year ago
@Chiflado21
I would imagine each triplet is the code for the amino acid ie: M is AUG.
QuarkyGideon 1 year ago
@QuarkyGideon OK thanks
Chiflado21 1 year ago
@Chiflado21
just today i heared they made the first synthetic cell. which is a milestone in history. its alive and reproducing. and they came up with a code that allows letters, numbers and puctuation, in order to sign the DNA of the new species with all their names and some additional information, like an email adress you can contact if you manage to decode it. i think thats where secularastronomer got the idea and the code, but im not sure.
kurtilein3 1 year ago
@Chiflado21 In RNA translation to proteins, each triplet of bas pairs translates to one amino acid. The sequence AUG codes for Methionine, M. And every other combination of 3 codes for some amino acid.
lotrrocks0 1 year ago
Wonderful video, thanks for contributing to the May 20th Draw Muhammad Day.
Kujien 1 year ago