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  • Such perverse and dangerous loyalty does exist and is alarming. I'd be horrified if one of my family expressed that sociopathic level of "unconditional love". A willingness to be an accomplice to murder is not a virtue, nor is allowing someone to be killed really doing a service to the murderer. I wonder if she would have admired the sentimentality of someone who remained protectively silent while their sibling killed Penn?

  • I wish you were still making these, Penn. You were pushing the envelope with what a vlog can be.

  • @ex0rdium

    He still is making these, their now called "Penn Point". Check it out.

  • i would never turn my brother in for any crime (murder included)...never ever. even though i know he would turn me in

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  • Hi Penn fans. Penn Says videos have been discontinued, so you won't be seeing any new content on here. You can check out our Profile on our Channel Page for more info. We'll still be checking in, so hope to keep chatting with you all! Thanks!

  • lol i remember when i found out that my "sister" was actually my biological mother

  • It would be a very difficult decision to make but yes I would do what was necessary to stop a family member from harming others.

  • I've seen this Penn Jillette expound pretentiously that there should be no government funding to aid the needy. He claims wealthy people like him should be allowed to decide who lives and dies via voluntary charity. It begs the question of when. With 10,000 children under five years old dying yearly from preventable causes -- mostly lack of clean drinking water -- in developing countries with no aid to the needy, how can Penn Jillette want that for the US? He wants empathy but gives none.

  • funboy isn't very fun. he's kind of a douche.

  • Here is another very honest and heartwarming Penn Says: /watch?v=A-2PcEmf7c4

  • This here is one of the best vLogs I have ever seen. Great stuff.

  • So I'll cry for Penn's dead sister after I get through crying for the little kids blown up by Israeli/US missiles and kids dying in their own shit from terminal diarrhea as a result of policies Penn Jillette supports. If Penn Jillette wants to tailor his political views to be a figurative blowjob on his criminally insane boss Sumner Redstone -- hey, ok, fat fuck mediocrity can't really make a buck any other way. Just don't ask the public to respect you in the morning, you unfunny loser.

  • @funboy7979 LOGICAL FALLACIES

  • Fat, greedy professional liars who suck the life out of working people and support policies perpetuating a permanent underclass need a reality check. If fat fuck wants to mourn his sister let him do it in private. This is so very vulgar. All might be forgiven if his Acting 101 style were slightly less cliche.

  • wow, sombodys life sucks. Spend your time doing something else then leaving these vulgar pathetic comments on youtube. You're sad.

  • I think all of us would turn in members of IbanezJFS's family if we could.

  • It appears to me that the subject of this video has nothing at all to do with Penn's opinions/beliefs about politics or religion. He is just expressing his grief about his sister's death. I think that the reason he told the story about that conversation he and his friends and his sister had at Starbucks was because he wanted to illustrate the magnitude of [unconditional] love she feels for him and, therefore, the extent of grief he is experiencing. Pls. accept my condolence on your loss, Penn.

  • Thats easier said then done. I love my family but if I knew that 1 of them was behind 9/11 I would turn them in, in a second.

  • @IbanezJFS I'd knock my brother out cold if he was a murderer, terrorist, etc. Knock him flat. I wouldn't have to turn him in, he'd be tied up in my basement eating oatmeal and shitting in a bucket.

  • Disturbing number of hate filled comments, or more correctly rants. Some seem to see the web as a form of "stand-of weapon" for inflicting injury at a safe distance from themselves. Unseemly. Penn stands up and presents his views and values honestly and clearly, using his own name, and I wish to recognize him for that. I disagree with a great many of his views but not his character.

  • Personal attacks are terribly inappropriate in an argument, you we're doing good too! Good grammar, but whatever, you guys think differently the internet isn't the place to convey that, where everyone can hate you for your opinion.

  • My heart goes out to you and your sister Penn. Hang in there buddy.

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  • penn is a narcissist lol it's so easy to see

  • LMAO. Exactly.

    >>>"Was she as fat, greedy, ugly, stupid and racist as you? What a loss to the world."

  • This from the guy who made jokes about the Indians killed in the recent terror attack on Mumbai. Sloppy narcisism. Unattractive.

  • I would turn in anyone in my family that was going to kill other people for no good reason. Penn you was going to set off a Nuke in Boston and another family member was living in Boston. would then your sister turn you in to save that other family member? I would.

  • damn right,they would have to lock that dumbass up

  • My Grandma was like that. A couple of years ago I came across a bottle of perfume in the mall that I just had to have. It was old lady perfume but it reminded me of my Grandma and in the store it nearly brought me to tears. Sometimes, I just spray it in the air and it brings me back to my grandma for awhile.

  • touching.

  • Cold fat fuck.

    >"Children hungry, dying from chronic diarrhea for lack of clean drinking water, & this fatcat asshole & other Cato Institute shills advocate for no govt programs to save them. He says lucky wealthy people like him will come to the rescue as long as they do it through volunteer charity instead of taxes. When? 1,000s of children are dying needlessly & painfully every day worldwide. Gee, sorry your sister had the luxury of dying old of natural causes after a comfortable life."

  • It is not his sister or his fault that they were born into better circumstances than most of the unfortunates that you speak of. You can't blame anyone for being born into a life of poverty or a life of good health and a good life. It just makes you look all the more foolish when you honestly believe it is anyone's responsibility to have to clean up the misery and suffering of those improvised nations OTHER than their own leaders.

  • Oh, yeah "great story." Sister knows you're going to blow up NYC, or crash a plane into a skyscraper, killing thousands, but she's NOT going to turn you in. She sounds like a real "peach."

    Meandering, self-indulgent stories that you'd tune-out at a family reunion.

    Penn, you need new material, new writers, or both.

  • Unconditional love, there's nothing like it. Great story Penn.

  • Wow Penn! That was a wonderful and sincere story on sibling relationships. Your sister was a very special woman. You are so fortunate to have experienced love like that Im gonna call my brother right now.

  • get a grip u tards its not about what she said its about how she truely felt about her family.

  • That's stupid, and incredibly beautiful. She must have been quite a person. Many condolences.

  • whait howd she die

  • your insane to say that and i have no idea why you would.

    Penn, i'm sorry to hear this and wish you strength in this hard time.

  • Great story, dont lose sight of her image.

  • Yup.

    >>"This same guy makes unfunny jokes about the people killed in the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks. Empathy is a one-way street w/ him."

    >"I am crying ... for the 100s of Palestinians ... being slaughtered ... by the genocidal Zionist criminals controlling the US/Israeli governments. Zionist media have been dehumanizing Muslims just as Goebbels & Julius Streicher dehumanized Jews for the Nazis. Penn Jillette's 911 propaganda piece was an anti-Muslim hate propaganda cluster fuck."

  • I was sitting at a stop light in LV one day. I looked to my left and I saw these two giants sitting in a Mini Cooper. I noticed it was Penn driving and a woman older than him that looked like him in drag. That must have been his sister. She sounds like a wonderful human.

  • Beautiful story Penn... I'm sorry for your loss

  • Your sister sounds like she was a wonderful person.  thank you for sharing Penn.

  • Saving kids in Africa so they can grow up and have more kids they can't feed is hardly going to fix the suffering and dying there.

  • My thoughts are with you Penn. That was beautifully put. Thank you for sharing.

  • So rare a gift....

    Your telling of this event, brought me to tears. You are a fortunate man. As long as you have your memories, she is never lost to you.

  • I need to give you a hug now Penn. I really hope I can get to the Atlantic City show

  • I am sorry for your loss Penn... you were lucky to have her and she you.

  • Sorry for your loss Penn. Thats a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it with us

  • I'm quite late, but Sorry for your loss. She sounds like a great person.

  • That's actually a beautiful story.

  • Medart, You may believe you're doing a good thing by taking a cheap shot at Penn here and making a proselytute of yourself, but you're not. You're being a goddamned vulture.

    -jcr

  • Great story, Penn. I'm glad you told your story to us, knowing how venomous people can be over the internet. I couldn't help but tear up, stories of lost loved ones always get me. I'm sorry for your loss, she sounded like a wonderful woman.

  • Nah, nah the thing is (I guess) that she meant she would never turn a member of her family in. But I dont think she would in any way agree with what the familymember was doing. Instead try reasoning him/her into doing the right thing... think that I would have done the same

  • I guess it may seem strange to say you would not stop a terrible thing from happening out of your love for the person planning on doing the terrible thing, but unconditional love is just that- unconditional, meaning that you love someone in a way that makes it impossible for you to make decisions for that other person that will negatively effect the way they live their lives. It takes a large level of commitment to do something like that, and to deny that conviction is the opposite of real love.

  • Sententious drivel.

  • >>itsgeorgeman

    That was a really insensitive comment. You used his sister's death to promote your religion. You should be ashamed for yourself.

  • Very touching.

  • Word.

    >"This same guy makes unfunny jokes about the people killed in the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks. Empathy is a one-way street w/ him."

    >"I am crying ... for the 100s of Palestinians ... being slaughtered ... by the genocidal Zionist criminals controlling the US/Israeli governments. Zionist media have been dehumanizing Muslims just as Goebbels & Julius Streicher dehumanized Jews for the Nazis. Penn Jillette's 911 propaganda piece was an anti-Muslim hate propaganda cluster fuck."

  • Hmmmm I don't think not turning in your brother when he is planning a horrendous attack and death

    of innocent people is really unconditional love.

    It is non logical and a pretty silly way to show

    your Brother you love him....no offence to her

    memory but this is just pure stupidity...look

    at the terrible cause he would have made for his own life...at least if he was turned in he

    may have the sense to turn his life around..

  • I on the other hand wouldnt think twice about turning one of my family members in.. especially if they were killing or harming other people

    I do love each and every one of my siblings but Id have to draw the line at murder. If you kill someone else youre killing someones brother, uncle, son, etc etc

    I cant put my family above everyone elses family in the world. Id have no choice but to turn them in. I would hate myself but it would have to be done before more people lost their lives

  • What the hell is wrong with you people? If this helps Penn with his loss then so be it.

  • Thats was really sad, and heart-warming at the same time. Hope you're doing alright.

  • Wow. She probably died of the shame of having an idiot like you for a brother. I agree with another post here - telling a joke about the Mumbai bombing to bolster the credibility of your shit, racist opinion about Slumdog Millionaire is so lacking in humanity that we will never show you any compassion.

  • This same guy makes unfunny jokes about the people killed in the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks. Empathy is a one-way street with him.

  • Children hungry, dying from chronic diarrhea for lack of clean drinking water, and this fatcat asshole and the other Cato Institute shills advocate for no government programs to save them. He says lucky wealthy people like him will come to the rescue as long as they do it through volunteer charity instead of taxes. When? Thousands of children are dying needlessly and painfully every day worldwide. Gee, sorry your sister had the luxury of dying old of natural causes after a comfortable life.

  • Around the world thousands of children die daily from chronic diarrhea. Their brothers weep too. Thoroughly preventable if clean drinking water were provided. Penn Jillette advocates for minimal government, and boasts that fatcats like him will volunteer charity to help the unfortunate. Thousands of children are still dying daily of this thoroughly preventable epidemic. All it takes is money. Where is the Penn Jillette/Sumner Redstone Foundation to save these children from agonizing death?

  • (2/2) I've had hypothetical discussions with my mother on what if one of her siblings (putting the weight of the what if on me - i'm not gay, but very (or at least think I am) comfortable with my sexuality. She did not want to even consider it. What kind of "unconditional" love is this? It just pains me to see that this is the cloth that I am cut from.

    Any advice?

  • My condolences to you, Penn. I wish I had a sister like that, or even a friend. There has not been one moment in all of my existence that I had not thought and my family has strictly conveyed over my lifetime, that if I wasn't trying my hardest to be the child/sibling that my family wants/sees me to be, I would not be accepted, loved or wanted.

  • Good stuff. Thanks for sharing, Penn.

  • Penn

    You look good for your age.

    I thought you were more like maybe 46-48. 50 tops.

    Nice story. Thanks for sharing it.

    I wouldn't turn in a member of my family under any circumstances.

    No matter how wrong they may be. I might shoot them before they do more harm, but I would never turn them in.

    You had a noble sister. You must have had wonderful parents.

  • Your sharing the story, making me wish I knew your sister, does her justice. You are worthy.

  • Dude the one downside to being an atheist is we dont believe we will see our loved ones again, which makes the pain of death ever so much more awful, as we believe life and death are the beginning and end. I have a sister, i hope i die before her, i couldnt imagine losing that piece of me.

  • Penn, thanks so much for sharing that story about your sister. I lost one of my brothers with whom I shared the same close relationship. It's a huge loss. Please know that I keep you and your family in my thoughts.

  • Maybe Penn's sister wasn't exactly telling the truth but she wanted Penn to know that she was loyal.

  • hmmm, where is your "your capacity for empathy" mmmrazor? jackass.

  • Don't get pissy over something he said on the show about a book.

  • I dont agree with her on any level but it must have been nice to know that your sister loved you that much. It must be horrible to lose someone like that.

  • Penn, some people go through thier whole life with no one who cares that much, or not at all what happens to them, so you was truely blessed.

    As for your sister, as long as you carry her in your heart, she is not really gone.

  • I am sorry to hear about your sister. My husband's father just passed away last week.

  • Penn, my deepest sympathies on your loss. It is fabulous that you experienced that kind of intense and loving relationship with your sister. She loved you without judgement or condition. Wow!!! Most of us, myself included, wonder what that's like. You are indeed fortunate to have experienced such a rare and exquisite phenomenon.

  • I'm sorry to hear about you losing your sister. I'm glad you told that story.

  • It's good that you were close.

    Yet, so far.

  • My condolences, I am very sorry for your loss. I have always admired your activism for reason and freedom. I don't agree with your sister's reasoning, but she sounds like a great person.

  • That was beautiful. Thank you Penn, for sharing that.

  • my condolences

  • Thanks for sharing that story about your sister Penn. I like all your videos, but this one is special.

  • No bullshit- unconditional love heals all! Peace and love Penn!

  • my only question is - would penn ever rat out his own family, if he knew they were going to do, or did do something that harmful to society?

  • Do you have questions for Penn or topics you would like to hear his opinion on? Please send a message! =)

  • 1 more ? please. I believe from every angle you can examine it, that when we die, we go exactly back to the "place" we were before we were conceived. A sort of anti-state. An if you close your eyes and try to force a memory of that "place", it was pretty fuckin good. Why do we feel a need to make up afterlife resorts when nature has already seen to that? Are we so arrogant a creature that the eternal cosmos doesn't cut it? We really are stardust.

    ThnX Sir, RonnieLee aka MajorDoody

  • Are you seriously claiming that you can remember what it was like to not be born? Because that makes absolutely no sense.

  • There's a rumor going around that Barrack Obama was born in Kenya.If that were true Obama would not qualify to become the U.S. President.Candidates for the job have to be born in the U.S.

    Let's say that Obama was born outside the U.S. and it came to light AFTER the election.

    (I'm not saying that he was, I'm asking you to imagine that he was for the sake of the topic).Would you remove the first black U.S.President or would you overlook the rule to avoid the consequences (cries of racism, riots)?

  • The consequences that MAY come about if Obama were to be removed from office on a technicality?I'm assuming that the vice President would become the President under such circumstances.

  • My condolences. A very moving story. That is truly unconditional love. You can only get it from the family.

  • My condolences for your loss. However, I understand how this is a positive memory for you; yet I don't agree to condone serious crime.

  • I am sorry for your loss Penn. I have been a fan of yours for a long time.

  • I am glad you shared this story with somebody, because I am sure you wished you could have done that at her "gathering." Youtube is odd in the sense that you can speak to millions by speaking to yourself.

    Your story reminds me of my best friends fathers words to his son. He essentially conveyed the same message. Thanks again.

  • a true tear-jearker. venustat2 said it best: just hugs. on a side note Penn, did you notice how you kept saying "faith" instead of "face" at one point? i'm an agnostic, just found it interesting. i think you could appreciate something like that

  • my condolences for your loss penn

  • No words, just {{{HUGS}}}.

  • Penn, you have my DEEPEST condolences for your loss. I pray that she'll be with us in Heaven.

  • ...dude that's like the opposite of what an atheist wants to hear!

  • Very powerful story.

  • I'm remembering how hard we laughed when she read the (paraphrasing) "the top 10 ways you know you're listening to too much Penn Radio". I could plainly sense your affection for her, Penn. I'm sorry she's gone.

  • It is always hard losing someone so close to you, especially since so few can truly reach that level. I appreciate hearing your story. Not only did it help you, it helped me too. I lost my mother at a young age, and I lost an irreplaceable unconditional love as well. I couldn't speak at her funeral either, but I think about her every day too. Sentiments like the one you've shared here are priceless to all who experienced such.

  • Whoa! That really choked me up. It must of been difficult to concede such intimate feelings about your sister. I'm sorry that you lost such a prodigious person in your life.

  • My condolences Penn.

  • I'm so sorry for your loss.

  • Well said Penn. Sorry for your loss. :/...and you're right Ted's brother did the right thing. But I don't see any problem with letting your unconditional love exist and if it ever came to you having to turn a family member in, you let the law handle it.

  • it seems to me, ..you've obtained

    the higher being with your sister.

    you're not an athiest anymore.

    ..and this video proves it.

    Love Always,

    Teribelle Swiftsword

  • It seems to me, you parents named you Terrible. Teribelle is way too close to be an accident.

  • I dad was essentially agnostic, my mom raised us as Neo-Pagans, and we ended up as pretty much an atheist family. When my dad died, recently as well, we had a similar ceremony. Read the obit, played some music, and then told stories. The fact that we played "Spirit in the Sky" was about as religious as it got (and that was kinda an inside joke). My dad hated preachy funerals, where instead of memorializing the dead, they told us we were all going to Hell. I made sure his was different.

  • very good story,and you have my sympathies on the loss of your sister.i lost my sister some28 years ago and i still miss her every day.

  • Sorry for your loss.

    You can unconditionally love someone and still turn them in. Especially to prevent something horrible from happening. I think it would be more loving to protect those other people and get your family member help (if only that's what prisons actually did).

  • Nice Tribute Man R.I.P

  • Mr. Jillette, that is dark love. Dark love does not live in the brain, it lives in the depths of the heart. If you begin to understand it, it will lead you to why God allows suffering.

    I love my sister dearly. She and I stood against the world, once. Now I am alone, too. But she will come back to me. And just because you are an atheist, doesn't mean you have to believe that when we die we disappear. There's no atheistic law against the idea that we go on, is there?

  • Hello: I`m mexican and i don´t understand the all story, but I deeply catch the last words. Recently my father died and form me, that love, that exactly same love that you talk about, is my biggest lost. I deal with his dead, but the fact that anybody in the rest of my life is ever going to love me as he did. I think that when two diferent people in two diferent countries finf out that they feel the same about this kind of pain, the path that they are following is not the wrong one.Mariana

  • this was a wonderful story thanks for sharing it.

  • My condolences, Penn. That was a touching story.

  • This comment pertains to all your videos. I would like to thank you for the honesty. Honesty is almost imposable to find these days.

    anewsome