Genius - Pythagoras 1 of 5

[SovereignBeing]

and boy could he add up...

[normalguyable]

'EVERYTHING HUAMNS DO TO ANIMALS COMES BACK ON THEM. HE WHO CUTS THE THROAT OF THE COW AND DOES NOT HEAR ITS SCREAMS,HOW FAR IS SUCH A ONE STILL FROM CRIME." HE WAS A DEVOUT VEGAN AND SPOKE UP AGAINST RELIGIONS THAT KILLED ANIMALS CAUSE GOD TOLD THEM SO, HE WAS A HERO OF ITS TIME AND WOULD TURN OVER IN HIS GRAVE TO SEE TODAYS FACTORY FARM DEATH HOUSES.

[whatslifespurpose]

The indians had come up with Pythagoras's theorem far before Pythagoras. It was a part of Vedic Mathematics.

[americanliberal09]

hmmm sounds very close to Buddhism but in western version oh boy

[br3ntor]

Pythagoryanismexpialidoscious!­

[edthewise]

Brian Blessing is one of the greatest.

[AeonBlue07]

Pythagoras was a vegetarian.

[BartRamone]

Pyhagoras, thats a familiar name. Reminds me of the school. He invented the spitball pipe.

[cyagnusxi]

Santa is fake. Therefore God is fake.

[Knossos22]

@cyagnusxi

Brilliant! As simple as that. This is an argument I use often. Why believe one fairytale over another? Logic, rationality, contradiction, fallacies... Should be studied by all, so we can root out silly-think and get on with the business of survival within this thin bio-layer of life on earth... Our perspectives are profoundly skewed because we have grown up, as a species, on this jewel of a planet... A place unique among all the places we have scene so far...

[Knossos22]

@Knossos22 Oops: seen not scene...

[votumseparatum1]

@Knossos22 It is not as simple as you make it sound. Aside from logic and reason, there's faith and intuition.  Until someone prove that god does not exist, some people will always lean towards belief than logic as logic is more limited than belief (or as an atheist may put it - the imagination). Even if there was concrete proof that deities do not exist - some would still believe because for most people, there has to be more to this world than what we see.

[Knossos22]

@votumseparatum1 Google this: wikipedia list of fairy tales

Which to believe? Post a list on the wall and throw a dart. There is no rational reason to believe one over any other. Employ the scientific method, logic, rational and critical thinking and they all fall to pieces. If you think otherwise, you took a leap of faith. You are back at the beginning trying to decide which fairy tale to explain the universe. Except they don't. They fail miserably. You do not get to have it both ways.

[votumseparatum1]

@Knossos22 1. Fairy tale comparison is a silly argument b/c fairy tales are not philosophies that tell you how to live your life. 2.The world isn't based entirely on logic or rationality - at least not humans. 3. As I said before, science, logic have their limits. 4. Life employs both logic, reason, AND faith and intuition. 5. Science may NOT be able to explain everything. Intuition can play a role in that which we CANNOT understand logically.

Science/Reason will not explain everything.

[Knossos22]

@votumseparatum1

"1. Fairy tale comparison is a silly argument b/c fairy tales are not philosophies that tell you how to live your life."

Thanks for stepping into the trap. Google: wikipedia list of religions

Print it out. Stick it on the wall, throw another dart. Feel any better about believing?

Why believe any fairy tale (replace with religion) over another?

You have the same problem. There is no rational reason to believe. People do it because they don't know any better.

[votumseparatum1]

@Knossos22 Things evolution. Science used to be "magic" "alchemist" and reliance on the occult but not anymore. Religion began with the creation of myths and legends, which may be false but are not fairy tales. You are so anti-religious that you can't use reason and distinguish between fairy tales and philosophies, myth and legend.

If you are going to claim to be rational, at least show it by not being dismissive about religion. Dismissiveness is the ultimate sign of ignorance.

[Knossos22]

@votumseparatum1

Help! I've fallen on the floor laughing and I can't get up!

[Knossos22]

@votumseparatum1

2. "The world isn't based entirely on logic or rationality" - Boring!

2. "- at least not humans." No shit? That is the point!

3. "science, logic have their limits." - Please educate us.

4. "Life employs both logic, reason, AND faith and intuition." - Life employs? what on earth (or in the heavens) could you be talking about? Again, please educate us.

5. ... Yeah, like what?

Pretty much all, touchy-feely new age irrational crap!

[votumseparatum1]

@Knossos22 Your second comment is just childish. Notice you responded to my "world isn't entirely logical" by saying "boring". Are you serious?

The rest of your comment is not worth a response because you sound as stubborn as a religious person. Also, you have made science into your religion thus reason, logic, and rationale is absence in you and your argument.

I didn't conflate. You just have a lack of understanding of BOTH sides thus debating with you is useless. I'm finished here.

[Knossos22]

@votumseparatum1

5. "Science may NOT be able to explain everything. Intuition can play a role in that which we CANNOT understand logically."

Really?

Do you confuse the purpose of philosophy / religion

With the cosmology / world view contained within philosophies / religions

And the scientific method that is used to weed-out failed explanations within philosophies / religions?

It appears you are conflating...

[votumseparatum1]

@Knossos22 Remember, science is NOT a religion so stop making it as such by assuming it is entirely trustworthy and absolute. 

[Knossos22]

@votumseparatum1

Your display of ignorance about the scientific method is astonishing. Belief is antithetical to science. One who understands how science works is profoundly un-trusting. Skepticism, doubt, and challenging prejudice and ignorance is the engine of the scientific thought-process. Belief is the irrational acceptance of a fairy tale. You want to make science and religion both just a belief, and so equate them as the same. They most certainly are not! They are entirely different.

[theoddsender]

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Seems pretty airtight to me, unless you have faith,inwhich case logic doesnt apply Its the Riddle of Epicurus

[Knossos22]

@theoddsender

People believe because they want to believe. Faith has nothing to do with logic or being rational. Faith is the act of a stubborn little child unable to deal with the world the way it is. Every believer should go jump off a cliff and ask their personal god to save them before they hit the ground. That would weed out any genetic disposition for belief in short order.

[CandlesOfUnity]

1/2

Did you know that Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith praises the Greek philosophers In His Writings, naming at least Empedocles, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Apollonius of Tyana (Balinus) and the Hermetic corpus, His son, Abdu'l-Baha, telling us that « the celebrated philosophers of Greece journeyed to Jerusalem in order to study with the Israelitish sages, and many were the lessons of philosophy and wisdom they received. »

[beatlefied70]

@CandlesOfUnity Are you horny or something?

[CandlesOfUnity]

2/2

Greek sages were inspired, Israelites prophets and kings were illumined. The difference reside not in the source of their wisdom (God) but in their station, human or supra-human (prophethood).

[GlenKirkhamMusic]

Pythagoras = Damon Hill ?

[qaplatlhinganmaH]

Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE

[MichaelJ192]

Why does Brian Blessed turn up at the beginning?

[neothomist1275]

"The early Greek philosophers, some of them still poets, could imagine the vast process of nature producing and dissolving all forms of life, without giving man any special privilege or any special blame...This was the philosophy of the true philosophers...(before) the philosophers scattered into sects." -- George Santayana

[doctorw2]

i love the ancient greek philosophers especialy pythagoras

[Tedsuzan]

Your mom was an agricultural community....I'm handsome and personable...lol, the hopkido of philosophy...What is a soul? Try Schopenhauer if you haven't yet...sorry for this random comment; I was just entertaining myself during the video...

[EuRoPeaNDoGg]

Schopenhauer is a good philosopher no doubt about that, but his lore is basicly nothing more then buddhsm and hidnusim, cause his WiL to life, is nothng more what they call 'the force' or Atman/brahman, the principium individuationis, the objectivation of plato's idea,s is nothing more then the vaile of Maya, the world of appearence, he talks about all those things, but his idea of a good life, is sitting at home, having enough with oneself, and even become a cranky old man, and womanhater

[samu999]

lol

[semicloud]

bullshit. no primary source survived. they got his writings locked up somewhere in a vault

[daniel1402002]

Is that Sam Waterston?

[Seirios86]

awesome video.

btw, the actor looks nothing like Pythagoras

and learn to pronounce, its Pee-tha-ghό-ras (ΠΥΘΑΓΟΡΑΣ)

[cannofbliss]

great vid.

[wilsparky]

What amzes me as much as his mathematical genius is his linguistic abilities...he must have learned languages as he moved from country to country....quite incredible. The learning of these guys is amazing.

[Heartkissing7]

Thank you Emit...great Video you have share!!!

5***** and fav it

Tina XxX

[sliven66]

Small mistake: at 08:30 they show the bust of Socratis, but are talking about Plato. What can you expect journalists.;)

Nice vid- thx.

[placeborick]

wow brian blessed and hes not shouting :-O

[Tinkachelle]

lol? Are you too school for school?

Great video, Thank You.

[Rombuzz]

lol

[pennyv]

Thank you!