Why is it that when you have some epiphany and understanding of the universe and how it works...it's so hard to put it into words to share with other people? This video really explains nothing in the end.
I have those "why didn't anybody tell me" moments less and less, the universe ever less beyond my grasp and when i hear large numbers they settle peacefully into an area of my mind made of things i can only just grasp, things I can now actually visualise. What I get more frequently are moments of N.DG. Tysonesque desire to grab people in the streets and demand that they understand these exquisite, shattering things. I talk about the universe to anyone who will listen, or even if they won't.
I've never been religious.. and a lot of things, people DID tell me. I remember when they told me. Told me I was an animal, told me time and space were infinite, told me everything was made of tiny little particles with empty space in between. I remember. But I've still said "why didn't anyone tell me?" Because some of the most incredible things I've learned, I had to learn from obscure corners of the Internet. Things that should have been all over the news. Why weren't they???
@GuacamoleKun Me too. Damn xian suppression. Brainwashing indoctrination from birth. I thank the god(s) I no longer believe in for YouTube. Except for that they now want to censor us. Bastards. But, I feel lucky to be witnessing a revolution for, and evolution of, sanity and reason. We'll fight the good fight! Ramen
I learned that I am genetically inferior trash and my continued existence is morally indefensible. the only just thing to do would be to kill myself but then id rather live then die and I guess that makes me incredibly selfish but meh. I was not happy when I finally lost my faith and saw the truth. but at least I didn't cling to bull shit because i wanted it to be so.
@daveforfun22 I'm right there with you, now that I have some fundamental grasp of the universe, I just feel like a complete waste of space and energy, I wish I had some natural talent for sharing these things that I know but instead I pursue pointless education in pursuit of desperately needed money. I begin to loathe myself for not being Carl Sagan, for not having that broad and yet acute understanding, and not having the facilities to share it fast enough.
What an amazing video. I was 56, my son,26. It was he, by constantly questioning my beliefs, not to mention his sniggering, made me mad enough to search out the truth for myself. Thank you my son. Love Dad. When you 'get it', the enlightenment is like comparing all your birthday candles to the sun.
Thank you. I'm so tired of encountering people who dismiss science as cold and cynical without understanding it, that it is always a pleasure to encounter someone who emphasizes the breathtaking wonder and jaw-dropping, counterintuitive surprises revealed to us by the tool of science. The irony is that the reality revealed to us by open inquiry exposes the "wonders" that science has shown to be false as simplistic, provincial products of human conceit.
Of course religion is easier. It is a way of anthropomorphizing the universe, a way of attributing agency to nature in an attempt to anticipate and influence it to our survival advantage. The ability to do this with members of our own species is so critical to our evolution as social creatures, the instinct to model the minds of others so strong, that, looking back on it, it seems almost inevitable that gods would evolve within the collective human psyche.
i kind of understand where he's coming from, though not entirely. I'm not sure what he means by finally realising and understanding everything. and when he said he broke out laughing, I've laughed about things randomly in fascination and amazement of how things work but I don't quite understand what he's trying to convey in this video. I just don't get it yet :(
It's so comforting to know that I wasn't the only person who has had this experience. The value of this video is infinite. The initiation of free-thought is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
Very nice hypnosis video....some parts didn't fit but i think you successfully instilled your message into the viewers, do you have any guides im also trying to learn hypnosis
@1984LizardKing They wouldn't touch this page, nor any like it, with a barge pole. Unless, of course, there were some provocation to acquire "evidence" against the heretics. Hmmmm, EVIDENCE.
Anyway, I agree with you, except that I long ago realized we are in big trouble. Consider the two problems of nuclear power/weapons/waste and human trafficking/slavery, both of which are growing and show absolutely no signs of abating. Will this civilization put the lie to Drake's equation? Details at 11..
@xlsyor More like the fact we have religious whackos with their fingers on the button of nucleur weapons, that is the biggest worry for me. Religious nuts shouldn't be allowed in charge of a remote control nevermind nucleur weapons.
@robbegx Yeah....ain't it grand? I'm an old fart and I still remember living in Puerto Rico before so damn many people cluttered the place up and light pollution was mostly unheard of. Nights there were glorious, in every sense of the word.
Now I live in northern Maine and need only travel a few miles outside of town to get a face full of universe. The Milky Way.....it really does do the body good.
When i was a child i use to wonder how any one could not believe in god. I would get this sort of tingling and sadness for those who chose to look away from the truth. As i grew older and older i learned all that i could. Yesterday i got that same tingling feeling and the same sadness in my heart, for those that chose to take the easy out of saying "God Did It".
this only applies to matter; every single word to it which leaves the main question unanswered: what has led to the big bang if there has been one? also a couple of other questions such as why does history repeat it self? why is the whole universe made of cycles? if destiny doesn't exist then why death is inevitable? and where is mind from all this? I don't mean mind in a scientific term..
@deadorfree Don't forget matter IS energy. NOBODY knows (yet) what caused the big bang. Anyone who says they do is a liar. HOWEVER, every step SINCE then is natural so there's no reason to think the beginning was supernatural. History repeats because the generation that learned the lesson died and the generation that followed didn't learn from them. Biology rather than "destiny" is to blame for death. Mind? If you mean consciousness, don't forget chimps and dolphins have it too. :)
@philhellenes thanks I respect your opinion and true matter is energy but this explanation does not quite answer it rather raises more questions, it's a very grey area but when I go into mind before matter concept it just makes sense to me, may be it's just me, subconscious appeals to me for some reason that I'm trying to find out
@deadorfree If you're really trying, you'll succeed one day. There aren't answers to some questions, but the what answers there are paint a picture, like a big jigsaw with a few pieces missing.
I couldn't decide where to start SERIOUSLY looking for understanding until I was 28. Then, fed up of "the fog" I decided to go with the most respected mind I knew of. I started with Einstein. What did HE think, and WHY? That was MY "way in" anyway. Good luck. :)
@philhellenes Hey Phil: What if the observations we make are correct, but we infer INcorrectly what they mean?
For instance, the BB theory's evidence is rock solid but what if instead of a singularity it was something else entirely? What if the universe expanded just as BB theory suggests, but what we call the singularity wasn't a singularity at all, much less a beginning of anything?
My idea (scientifically baseless) is the theoretical white hole. Where in the universe could they be?
I think the idea is that the white hole is the theoretical and as-of-yet undiscovered counterpart to the black hole. Instead of 'consuming' matter, it ejects it. The inside of a black hole is thought to be a singularity, aka our ignorance, but WHAT IF a black/white hole singularity could be massive enough to create the forces predicted by the BB?
The early universe is basically shredded, disjointed matter. Free electrons, right?
@2eelShmeal I don't rule anything out, apart from the supernatural. A "white hole" has little or no detailed physics behind it. "Maybe" is the best answer I can give. However, I think that if we could understand the extremes of physics in a black hole we would be a lot closer to understanding the big bang.
P.S. A LOT happened before there were electrons (albeit in fractions of a second).
@philhellenes Thanks for the reply. It IS a bit of a stretch huh? =) We are always learning. I just try to imagine which of the things we think are true today will be laughed at in 100 years and which will stand the test of time and expert scrutiny. It's fun to try and guess.
PS. I just finished my trek through your evolution on the tube (chronologically) and I must say I enjoyed it. It's like I took a tour of your brain in two days as the playlist played and I listened as I worked. Thanks.
@philhellenes When is your next video? It's been a while since your last one. Your videos are high quality. I can almost feel my mind expanding with knowledge when I listen to your godly voice. You make such great points.
I got another question that just came to mind. Did you see the film The Tree of Life? Very interesting film, I think it's right up your ally.
Maybe...but I don't really think we will ever know what happened leading up to the big bang. Nothing that happened before the big bang has any influence on what happened after. Because every method of observation that we have relies on things interacting with other things we will never be able to observe the aftereffects of events prior to the big bang.
@philhellenes I am just a simple college student. and not a quantum physicist. I don't claim what anything I'm about to say is true. But I imagine.. What if, a universe was pulled together by gravity. Down into itself past the point of a singularity. Space and time are condensed in. What if it is so small, it slips through reality and expels into what is what would be the universe. matter races to fill the gap. that is what I honestly believe now. Though I have no proof and no theories.
@ampix0 There may be something to part of what you said. There seem to be similarities between the equations for black holes and the Big Bang, so it might be that our universe exists within the event horizon of a black hole in another universe. But rather than believing something for which you have no evidence, would it not be better to regard such ideas as possible without committing yourself to them?
@FosterZygote I agree. I would never close myself out to new information. Ever, this seems to be the most logical solution to me at the moment. I wish I was able to say there is any kind of hard evidence to it, but there is not, maybe someone someday will get the same idea and be able to do more with it, or maybe someone will have a better explanation to where the big bang came from that will make much more sense.
Phill. I'm 16 and you've been a great inspiration to me in my shirt life. I hope to be similar to you when I grow up. Thank you for doing what you have done :)
aaaah the power of understanding.a real epiphany ! it cannot be controlled, nor directly triggered. you cannot decide to understand something. even when you have all the pieces of the puzzle, you still may not understand yet !!
when you didn't understand something, you just didn't and you can't pretend you did. if you do that, you will be laughed at.
once you did, you DID understand. what have been seen cannot be unseen !!
soft machine...great. i think one can be spiritual and knowledgeable at the same time. people from australia described the moon's surface long before people went there by rockets. there are all kinds of ways to experience the universe. the tao describes a lot of physics. i see a lot of awe and beauty in this video and the big bang of course. but i don't see why it can not work with spirituality. organized religion is a whole other matter tho.
If you have ever been curious as to how a Christian can call Atheism just as much as a religion as Christianity, it is indirectly due to videos like this one. The epiphany that occurred to give such understanding is so incredibly similar to the epiphany I've had. Only mine was such that I fully understood the existence of God. Still, I do not know how everything works and like was said that gives purpose for tomorrow.
Nice video. Science/metaphysics- Hawkins, Einstein, Shroedinger (sp?) are all quite interesting and i read/understand what i can, but revelations are absolutely personal and, oddly, rather random. Twas ever thus.
I've had this realization. As in, the real thing. I was already an atheist. I already believed in evolution and the big bang and all that. And THEN came this realization. I was depressed for a week, when I realized how insignificant we really are. How unbelievable the universe is and how small we are in it. I'm all okay again though. :)
@shackchaser it is both for me and a whole lot of people that i know of ....i dont know where this notion that science and religion dont co exist came from. Im sorry if it was complicated if u want me to explan , i will.
Last night I was walking home, worried about some big problem, and I stopped a moment to look up into that cold, clear winter sky. I smiled. I am a momentary spark in an explosion so big, we use words like "infinite" to describe it.
...It is, of course, a momentary respite, because we live on Earth, and our day to day experience is from the much smaller perspective of risen apes. All the same, it is comforting to me that I understand enough about reality to be able to step out once and awhile, take a breath, and notice the mechanisms of existence on a cosmic scale.
Perhaps you already made one but could you please make a "to read" list. As a 19 year old kid it is often hard where to start. What books would you advise ?
@ForYeensSake I'd start by Carl Sagan books: Cosmos, The varieties of Scientific Experience, The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark. Simon Singh's Big Bang is also a good read.
@NMRkid Already got Sagan's. Not really into cosmology. I mean I get the whole concept of the enourmous grandure of the cosmos and it DOES inspire me, but it pales compared to the kick I get when reading about microbiology or sociobiology for example. Thanks for commenting though, and happy holidays! (:
@ForYeensSake Happy holidays to you too. If I may make more suggestions: The invisible enemy by Dorothy Crawford (about viruses), A life decoded by Craig Venter, Seven daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes. This one is more philosophy than science, but very well written nonetheless: Evolution and the big questions by David Stamos.
i am not an atheist but this was really good,i believe in God and i also believe in science, religion doesnt go againt science, to me science proves the existance of God. i dont think that the big bang was a mere accident .i believe the big bang is how creation began, i see the pattern of the bang, from the explonsion that created the universe due to interaction of 2 matters to the creation of a person from the sperm of a man and the egg of a woman in an explosion of rapped cell multiplication
@fdasherv last that i know of is that it is 3-4 billion years ,please correct me if i am wrong. And yes i do believe they were real and that they existed and all humanity is their descendant. if u dont believe me science is catching up or should i say proving it,its a process that still needs refining, there was a documentary on the national geographic, ummm i think it was called the human tree. check it out if u like
Well done. The earth is approx. 4.6 b years old. You are now considered a heretic. Congratulations.
"i do believe they were real...there was a documentary on the national geographic"
You are referring to the "Mitochondrial Adam and Eve" and, yes, genetics verifies their existence. They also lived approx.150,000 years apart. Your next assignment is to understand how that's possible. I think you value learning and I'm sure your research will impress me.
@fdasherv hahaha believe me i am concidered normal in my circle. Infact i would be called an ignorant if i didnt know atleast this much.Thank you i dint know it was called that.To the 150,000 i would say it was believed that earth was the centre of the world but was proven wrong. Women determined the sex of the babies, in time proven wrong.Humans evolved from apes, proven impossible recently.Theoretically we could travel in the speed of light proven not possible...just needs time continued
@fdasherv i will research the mitochondrial Adam and eve cuz it sounds interesting....are you a teacher or a prof. probably a mother. You sound very willing to teach and enlight and very nurturing as well "i think you value learning and im sure your research will impress me" ?
how could the big bang theory be true?You say the earth was made from molocules crashing together,but molocules crash together all of the time.and what could have made those molocules?
Unfortunately, beginnings and endings are human concepts based on our own experiences. In science, things are always "common sense" and some concepts, like Einstein's theory of Relativity and quantum mechanics defy "common sense".
As for the Big Bang, look into supercolliders to find out what conditions are required for this reaction.
In hundreds of trillions of years, maybe conditions will come about simultaneously for another big bang. Statistics will dictate.
what if this is just a video game we (or maybe just a few people) are playing in a world were there is no "universe". That means everything you think is real was just created for you to experience. You can't say you know anything certain in this world or you are giving yourself too much credit. Just saying.
doesnt really work, unless the computer game is as complex as the universe. You could naively say maybe the game is more simple, and whenever scientists do experiments the ppl running the simulation notice and fill in more complicated things. But now every cellphone uses quantum mechanical effects, and i do experiments to show quantum mechanical effects using polarized light for fun at parties.
So the game would need to be as complex as the universe, back to square one.
So I know South Park said it best with their episode about atheism, but can't science explain how, and having a creator in a different parallel universe where the rules are completely different, be the answer to why? I personally don't believe any religion because of they are very canceled out by their own definition of wanting power in this world. But I would never say that because I kind of understand how things work, that means thats all there is and ever will be. Its all possible in theory
by definition, everything where we know for certain that it exists is part of our universe. That screws up many of your ideas: you need to show that things you assume exist actually exist. As long as you have no evidence, these things are supernatural and science considers them non-existent. As soon as you have evidence that it exists, its part of the universe, and science will study it.
Theories rule out so many possibilities, i suggest you start with general relativity.
in fact, all scientific theories are falsifiable. Most of them are (seemingly) easily falsifiable. You hold a stone, let it go, it falls down. Would it fall up, and you could repeat it, general relativity and the theory of gravity would be falsified. Find a fossil of a modern rabbit in precambrian rock, and the theory of evolution is falsified.
@kurtilein3 that are much older than ours, like lets say 100 times older, who have actually figured out how to make other universes, and they jump the barrier and actually made our fission start out of scratch. I don't believe in this omnipotent being so much as I do this theory that our little bubble called our universe might have been sparked by other life period. Or maybe even just our solar system from another galaxy or star. The universe might not be infinite, but existence might.
@kurtilein3 No the rabbit fossil would only show that the rabbit was such a great model that it fit so pefrectly into its enviorment that it didnt change over a long period of time it might even show that rabbits were time travelers but in the end no one fossil will be able to show the theroy of evolution is false
No. That discovery would destroy evolutionary theory for good. I said: a rabbit skeleton in the PRECAMBRIAN. And that would totally destroy the theory of evolution by natural selection.
ALL big theories in science are easily falsifiable, and how they could be falsified is specified. The fact that falsification, while it is easy, never happens, causes us to assume that these theories reflect reality.
@kurtilein3 I guess your reply shows that you take stuff way to serious. I thought my time traveling rabbit would be sure a sure indication that I was just being sarcastic. Sorry I wasted you time, I thought you would just ignore my comment made of of pure boredom. I started to say something about it being a one celled rabbit; like I said just killing time.
Put 3 polarisation filters on top of each others at a 45 degree angle, if no light passesthrough, quantum electrodynamics is falsified, and with it all higher theories in quantum mechanics like supersymmetry and strong theory. 2 polarisation filters at a 90 degree angle block all light, put in a third filter at a diagonal angle so that its two times 45 degrees, and light passes.
All scientirfic theories, BECAUSE they are falsifiable, rule out quite a lot.
@kurtilein3 Im know that what we can observe and measure in our universe is what we can call real. Thats all we know right now. But Ive heard that we might be one of 16 sextillion universes, or even worse yet infinite universes. If that is ever concluded to be true, then is there really such a thing as real in that situation? unless all the universes are pretty close to the same. If there are infinite possibilities, then its all real, including that there might be universes out there.. (cont)
@Harris91 exactly, they aren't and never were. They are probably more likely in perfect harmony. People that say you either have to have one or the other are missing the point of it all I think.
ha ha - now we have the madness of glorifying the creation and forgetting the creator - men beating their litle chests like monkeys and thinking like the kid who takes apart a toy and suddenly thinks he is now the centre of the universe because he knows how the toy works. The madness of atheism continues with little movies and english accents and spooky music. morality in test tubes ...why didn't anyone tell me?
@whiteliketar ,,,,,,,and then an idiot walks in, and demonstrates exactly why intelligent people feel the need to make videos like this. Please, by all means, go back to your reasonable ancient holey books and leave the mad atheists to wonder.
As for myself, I don't worship any "gods" anymore, not because I don't believe in them, I ust don't like to give them encouragement. To me, if there is a real multiverse the way they say there is, the gods exists, all o them, somewhere. Of course by that logic all cartoons actually have their own universe, all the planes of D&D exists, an there is a universe where my hands are my feet and my feet are my hands.
@philhellenes, YOU, sir, are my soap bubble. 39 yrs of trying to rationalize what I knew could not be, even as a child, well, thanks to you i've begun my journey of clarity... you helped me find true fee will, i'm eternally grateful.
Jesus fucking christ but mid-life de-conversions bore me. Imagine being an atheist your whole life and not only having to listen to crazy theistic crap, but this kind of dewy eyed childlike awe that is sooo darling I can puke.
@philhellenes Haha. Oh I think it's a good piece and has a persuasive quality, but I'm old and cranky without nicotine and I never had a de-conversion. My dad was a physicist so I never had a 'why didn't anybody tell me' moment. I just wondered why no one knew what I did. I would tell people (usually in science class) what my dad taught me, and I'd be admonished as an atheist when I didn't even know what an atheist was. I was a teenager when I realized people thought god was real. It was spooky.
@fdasherv No probs. I was kinda curious. Looking at your channel YOU didn't seem like a troll. Hence my curiosity. I understand your reaction now. Permission to puke freely granted. :)
But this vid WASN'T about a de-conversion. I saw through Christianity at 6 and was laughing at it by 7. But my science education was "shallow". I just didn't "get it" at school. This video is about how it felt, to me, to "get it" after 28 years of thinking I never could or would.
@philhellenes No, thank you. I was hasty to hit the puke button. My apologies, I'll rewatch it and listen this time. Funny how I thought someone lost their religion in a bubble bath.
@fdasherv Having watched again I can see how I gave you the wrong impression. It was all the "jesuses". They're there because I make vids to try and get through to the ("Abraham-ically inclined") believer with an atom of reason left, or to embolden isolated atheists, or to provoke thought, or to show people that any idiot can get a reasonable understanding of the Universe (by being that idiot).
You just didn't know where I was coming from or what I was trying to do, and that's my fault. :)
@fdasherv I have 'why didn't anyone tell me moments' every time I learn about crazy things religious people believe. In school we all thought the Jehovahs Witness girl was weird (but I didn't realise that wasn't because others weren't like me). I lived in my vacuous world where I knew superficially about beliefs but not the ins and outs. I'm convinced that until I saw Marjoe on Youtube I never actually thought that the whole speaking in tongues thing was anything other then a TV joke.
@O2BSoLucky I love Youtube so much because I like to hear about what people 'used to believe' - for a lot of my life it was a mystery to me. As an adult I gravitated to people that just didn't talk about religion (if they believe or not). None of my family or close friends are practising religionists. Of my acquaintances who do have (what I consider strong) beliefs (church going etc) we just dont' talk about it. It isn't important. So I never learned about the crazy.
"I was a teenager when I realized people thought god was real. It was spooky."
Only discovered that so many Americans believed in this God shit at the age of 18 here, rofl. Didn't know what atheist means till I was like 20. I live in Europe obviously.
@Londron "I live in Europe obviously" I'm in New York and it's not nearly as bad as middle America with the in-your-face religion. But I travel a bit to small towns in the U.S. and if they hear 'atheist' some just don't come near me. Which I can live with.
@Londron In Manhattan we have a saying: "It's one of the few cities in the world here you can walk into any room and in it there will be at least ten people smarter than you."
@Tuber77 The difference is most people come to religion in very outlined, well established ways. No real surprises there. However, people come to atheism, each independently, each separately, but all to the same invariable conclusion. More concisely and more powerfully than any religion. If any religion could perform like that, religion wouldn't be dying.
Ive had the same experience when i was walking along one late evening and I happened to look up and catch the moon. I stared at it as any person would but then i thought, "wow, weve walked on that." At that moment all of the reality hit me and took my breath away. All i could think about for that split second was how we are apart of this unbelievable force at work and every emotion that I have ever experienced in my life went through me in that moment but it only lasted a moment.
I understand exactly what he is talking about. After a salvia experience, I was on a two week "high" of clarity and understanding. I would often just laugh out loud or shed a few tears....because I felt like I finally knew that everything was going to be OK, even upon my death. And yes...I had that feeling of being pissed that I was never told what life really was. At 42, I really feel like I wasted a lot of time on a lot of stupid shit. Young people..pay attention. Run with your life. Have fun!
I can honestly say that you deserve an Oscar for these. Your videos have seriously changed my life. Wish more people would not be afraid to post these videos on their facebooks... these need more views!! Thanks for all the work you put into these man. :)
We all have to live and die, so the truth about life and death concerns and applies to us all. True or false? Search "TRUTH CONTEST" in Google and click the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says to learn the Truth. Let's get serious and honest about the truth of life.
This is exactly what happened to me, only that I do not see it in contrast with faith bit in agreement with it. It suddenly explains the bible, the concept of God, the birth of Jesus out of the logic of God and the shortfalls of those who tried to describe it. Helps to have love and faith.
My revelation was a quite a bit less jarring, but it allowed me to embrace science, physics and the universe through a slow understanding of how the many branches of math and science come together, and the parallels between them. I've seen beauty I can't articulate with the grace it requires, something that comes with understanding. I may not always be happy, but I comprehend the forces that used to be simply things I couldn't control... I always feel secure, at the very least.
It is remarkably funny that i watched this video today. because i had that feeling yesterday....while i was in the bath no less... I started to think of a bubble. not like a soap bubble, but an information bubble. in this bubble of information there was the word religion. I started to think of all of the conections to religion and then got lost in the abbyss into the interconnecting information almost like a endless net of bubbles within bubbles with in bubbles, if this makes sence to anyone.
Why is it that when you have some epiphany and understanding of the universe and how it works...it's so hard to put it into words to share with other people? This video really explains nothing in the end.
snwdreams 22 hours ago
I LOVE SOFT MACHINE
bonerman345 1 day ago
Fantastic!!!
owrunow 3 days ago
Got to say excellent video.
moggy041279 3 days ago
I have those "why didn't anybody tell me" moments less and less, the universe ever less beyond my grasp and when i hear large numbers they settle peacefully into an area of my mind made of things i can only just grasp, things I can now actually visualise. What I get more frequently are moments of N.DG. Tysonesque desire to grab people in the streets and demand that they understand these exquisite, shattering things. I talk about the universe to anyone who will listen, or even if they won't.
325982668 5 days ago 2
I've never been religious.. and a lot of things, people DID tell me. I remember when they told me. Told me I was an animal, told me time and space were infinite, told me everything was made of tiny little particles with empty space in between. I remember. But I've still said "why didn't anyone tell me?" Because some of the most incredible things I've learned, I had to learn from obscure corners of the Internet. Things that should have been all over the news. Why weren't they???
GuacamoleKun 5 days ago
@GuacamoleKun Me too. Damn xian suppression. Brainwashing indoctrination from birth. I thank the god(s) I no longer believe in for YouTube. Except for that they now want to censor us. Bastards. But, I feel lucky to be witnessing a revolution for, and evolution of, sanity and reason. We'll fight the good fight! Ramen
eutahbear1952 1 day ago
I learned that I am genetically inferior trash and my continued existence is morally indefensible. the only just thing to do would be to kill myself but then id rather live then die and I guess that makes me incredibly selfish but meh. I was not happy when I finally lost my faith and saw the truth. but at least I didn't cling to bull shit because i wanted it to be so.
daveforfun22 6 days ago
@daveforfun22 I'm right there with you, now that I have some fundamental grasp of the universe, I just feel like a complete waste of space and energy, I wish I had some natural talent for sharing these things that I know but instead I pursue pointless education in pursuit of desperately needed money. I begin to loathe myself for not being Carl Sagan, for not having that broad and yet acute understanding, and not having the facilities to share it fast enough.
325982668 5 days ago
What an amazing video. I was 56, my son,26. It was he, by constantly questioning my beliefs, not to mention his sniggering, made me mad enough to search out the truth for myself. Thank you my son. Love Dad. When you 'get it', the enlightenment is like comparing all your birthday candles to the sun.
eutahbear1952 1 week ago 2
@eutahbear1952 your comment almost brought tears to my eyes, dunno why but it was beautiful :)
JuvelRubin 1 week ago
@eutahbear1952
Brilliant isn't it !!!!!
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@owrunow A welders mask wouldn't stop this shine! Whoo Hooo!
eutahbear1952 1 day ago
half way though and I love this video! good work :)
jadagod 1 week ago
Awesome video + prog rock outro :)
burcht92 1 week ago
Thank you. I'm so tired of encountering people who dismiss science as cold and cynical without understanding it, that it is always a pleasure to encounter someone who emphasizes the breathtaking wonder and jaw-dropping, counterintuitive surprises revealed to us by the tool of science. The irony is that the reality revealed to us by open inquiry exposes the "wonders" that science has shown to be false as simplistic, provincial products of human conceit.
FosterZygote 2 weeks ago
Of course religion is easier. It is a way of anthropomorphizing the universe, a way of attributing agency to nature in an attempt to anticipate and influence it to our survival advantage. The ability to do this with members of our own species is so critical to our evolution as social creatures, the instinct to model the minds of others so strong, that, looking back on it, it seems almost inevitable that gods would evolve within the collective human psyche.
FosterZygote 2 weeks ago
"Cosmic consciousness" is a strong sense that we are one with everything as it
is a nonverbal and nondifferentiating experience. It gives a person the sense of complete
understanding.
mentalphysicalism 2 weeks ago
"The big bang almost certainly happened."
campion1211 2 weeks ago
i kind of understand where he's coming from, though not entirely. I'm not sure what he means by finally realising and understanding everything. and when he said he broke out laughing, I've laughed about things randomly in fascination and amazement of how things work but I don't quite understand what he's trying to convey in this video. I just don't get it yet :(
wolfvckingvision 2 weeks ago
Can't ever watch this without crying.
Grak70 3 weeks ago
Gives me goosebumps every time.
GuitarMannnnnn 3 weeks ago
It's so comforting to know that I wasn't the only person who has had this experience. The value of this video is infinite. The initiation of free-thought is the best thing that has ever happened to me.
GuitarMannnnnn 3 weeks ago
@GuitarMannnnnn He is describing the experience of "cosmic consciousness" aka
"at one ment".
mentalphysicalism 2 weeks ago
@mentalphysicalism I know. It's something everybody should get to feel in their lives.
GuitarMannnnnn 2 weeks ago
fantastic work! brilliant! :)
pornoopel 4 weeks ago
Very nice hypnosis video....some parts didn't fit but i think you successfully instilled your message into the viewers, do you have any guides im also trying to learn hypnosis
ionveau 1 month ago
Epic man Well done m8
2drawpass 1 month ago
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LiftYourSkinnyFist 1 month ago
Beautiful man... Beautiful. Thank you for putting my thoughts into this video (: subbed.
LiftYourSkinnyFist 1 month ago
I cannot like this clip enough. This video is great, thank you!
KiraNirvanna 1 month ago
religion taxes the brain thats why we only use 8%?
Mee551able 1 month ago
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Mee551able 1 month ago
If religious fools watch this and it doesn't make them "see the light" we are in bigger trouble than we thought.
1984LizardKing 1 month ago
@1984LizardKing They wouldn't touch this page, nor any like it, with a barge pole. Unless, of course, there were some provocation to acquire "evidence" against the heretics. Hmmmm, EVIDENCE.
Anyway, I agree with you, except that I long ago realized we are in big trouble. Consider the two problems of nuclear power/weapons/waste and human trafficking/slavery, both of which are growing and show absolutely no signs of abating. Will this civilization put the lie to Drake's equation? Details at 11..
xlsyor 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@xlsyor More like the fact we have religious whackos with their fingers on the button of nucleur weapons, that is the biggest worry for me. Religious nuts shouldn't be allowed in charge of a remote control nevermind nucleur weapons.
1984LizardKing 1 month ago
I had this experience in November 2010, best day of my life.
robbegx 1 month ago
@robbegx Yeah....ain't it grand? I'm an old fart and I still remember living in Puerto Rico before so damn many people cluttered the place up and light pollution was mostly unheard of. Nights there were glorious, in every sense of the word.
Now I live in northern Maine and need only travel a few miles outside of town to get a face full of universe. The Milky Way.....it really does do the body good.
xlsyor 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
When i was a child i use to wonder how any one could not believe in god. I would get this sort of tingling and sadness for those who chose to look away from the truth. As i grew older and older i learned all that i could. Yesterday i got that same tingling feeling and the same sadness in my heart, for those that chose to take the easy out of saying "God Did It".
Mrlaged 1 month ago
What is the name of the song that plays throughout the video? Wonderful video by the way.
RicoSeattle 1 month ago
this only applies to matter; every single word to it which leaves the main question unanswered: what has led to the big bang if there has been one? also a couple of other questions such as why does history repeat it self? why is the whole universe made of cycles? if destiny doesn't exist then why death is inevitable? and where is mind from all this? I don't mean mind in a scientific term..
deadorfree 1 month ago
@deadorfree Don't forget matter IS energy. NOBODY knows (yet) what caused the big bang. Anyone who says they do is a liar. HOWEVER, every step SINCE then is natural so there's no reason to think the beginning was supernatural. History repeats because the generation that learned the lesson died and the generation that followed didn't learn from them. Biology rather than "destiny" is to blame for death. Mind? If you mean consciousness, don't forget chimps and dolphins have it too. :)
philhellenes 1 month ago 6
@philhellenes thanks I respect your opinion and true matter is energy but this explanation does not quite answer it rather raises more questions, it's a very grey area but when I go into mind before matter concept it just makes sense to me, may be it's just me, subconscious appeals to me for some reason that I'm trying to find out
deadorfree 1 month ago
@deadorfree If you're really trying, you'll succeed one day. There aren't answers to some questions, but the what answers there are paint a picture, like a big jigsaw with a few pieces missing.
I couldn't decide where to start SERIOUSLY looking for understanding until I was 28. Then, fed up of "the fog" I decided to go with the most respected mind I knew of. I started with Einstein. What did HE think, and WHY? That was MY "way in" anyway. Good luck. :)
philhellenes 1 month ago 4
@philhellenes Hey Phil: What if the observations we make are correct, but we infer INcorrectly what they mean?
For instance, the BB theory's evidence is rock solid but what if instead of a singularity it was something else entirely? What if the universe expanded just as BB theory suggests, but what we call the singularity wasn't a singularity at all, much less a beginning of anything?
My idea (scientifically baseless) is the theoretical white hole. Where in the universe could they be?
2eelShmeal 1 month ago in playlist Phil
@2eelShmeal CONT.
I think the idea is that the white hole is the theoretical and as-of-yet undiscovered counterpart to the black hole. Instead of 'consuming' matter, it ejects it. The inside of a black hole is thought to be a singularity, aka our ignorance, but WHAT IF a black/white hole singularity could be massive enough to create the forces predicted by the BB?
The early universe is basically shredded, disjointed matter. Free electrons, right?
Doesn't a black hole SHRED matter? Hmmmm....
2eelShmeal 1 month ago in playlist Phil
@2eelShmeal I don't rule anything out, apart from the supernatural. A "white hole" has little or no detailed physics behind it. "Maybe" is the best answer I can give. However, I think that if we could understand the extremes of physics in a black hole we would be a lot closer to understanding the big bang.
P.S. A LOT happened before there were electrons (albeit in fractions of a second).
philhellenes 1 month ago
@philhellenes Thanks for the reply. It IS a bit of a stretch huh? =) We are always learning. I just try to imagine which of the things we think are true today will be laughed at in 100 years and which will stand the test of time and expert scrutiny. It's fun to try and guess.
PS. I just finished my trek through your evolution on the tube (chronologically) and I must say I enjoyed it. It's like I took a tour of your brain in two days as the playlist played and I listened as I worked. Thanks.
2eelShmeal 1 month ago
@philhellenes When is your next video? It's been a while since your last one. Your videos are high quality. I can almost feel my mind expanding with knowledge when I listen to your godly voice. You make such great points.
I got another question that just came to mind. Did you see the film The Tree of Life? Very interesting film, I think it's right up your ally.
wtfisditvoorbullshit 2 weeks ago
@philhellenes Maybe gravity initiated the big bang?
LiftYourSkinnyFist 1 month ago
@LiftYourSkinnyFist
Maybe...but I don't really think we will ever know what happened leading up to the big bang. Nothing that happened before the big bang has any influence on what happened after. Because every method of observation that we have relies on things interacting with other things we will never be able to observe the aftereffects of events prior to the big bang.
supermansam565 3 weeks ago
@supermansam565 I think we may be able to reach a reasonable conclusion
LiftYourSkinnyFist 3 weeks ago
@supermansam565 When we get a better understanding of what caused the
big bang, we will be still left with needing to know what caused the cause of the
big bang. Knowing about an endless chain of events can not give us an absolute
understanding of our world as it only describes our world. What is it about the human
mind that causes us to ask meaningless questions?
mentalphysicalism 2 weeks ago
@philhellenes I am just a simple college student. and not a quantum physicist. I don't claim what anything I'm about to say is true. But I imagine.. What if, a universe was pulled together by gravity. Down into itself past the point of a singularity. Space and time are condensed in. What if it is so small, it slips through reality and expels into what is what would be the universe. matter races to fill the gap. that is what I honestly believe now. Though I have no proof and no theories.
ampix0 2 weeks ago
@ampix0 There may be something to part of what you said. There seem to be similarities between the equations for black holes and the Big Bang, so it might be that our universe exists within the event horizon of a black hole in another universe. But rather than believing something for which you have no evidence, would it not be better to regard such ideas as possible without committing yourself to them?
FosterZygote 2 weeks ago
@FosterZygote I agree. I would never close myself out to new information. Ever, this seems to be the most logical solution to me at the moment. I wish I was able to say there is any kind of hard evidence to it, but there is not, maybe someone someday will get the same idea and be able to do more with it, or maybe someone will have a better explanation to where the big bang came from that will make much more sense.
ampix0 2 weeks ago
Great video. Really enjoyed it. Who's doing the narration? Kind of sounds like Ricky Gervais:)
anubis1974 1 month ago
@anubis1974 Nah its not Ricky Gervais, pretty sure he doesn't make amateur youtube videos about the universe in his spare time lol
Its just some English dude, smarter than Gervais anyway :)
1984LizardKing 1 month ago
I remember going to church once, My parents had to make me go but I think I was still religious at the time.
Sitting in church I listened to the preacher talk about destiny and how everyone's life is planned out by God.
I was thinking to myself, after learning about biology staring at the audience in front of me. I didn't see the outside, I thought about what was in.
How could a creator so genius and complex of life, be so foolish of what they do, to set such ridiculous rules in any Holly book.
ComedianFromNASA 1 month ago
I listen to this and it sounds like me.. I didn't know I was British.. oh well tally ho !!!....
koodahquake 1 month ago
I can't take life seriously either- probably why I can't hold a job. Reality sucks unless you bend it to your will.
CRhetoric1 1 month ago
Phill. I'm 16 and you've been a great inspiration to me in my shirt life. I hope to be similar to you when I grow up. Thank you for doing what you have done :)
Nickt121111 1 month ago
Such a beautiful video. I can't imagine the video that takes its place.
ProportionalResponse 2 months ago 10
@ProportionalResponse Always nice to see a connoisseur in the gallery. :)
philhellenes 1 month ago
aaaah the power of understanding.a real epiphany ! it cannot be controlled, nor directly triggered. you cannot decide to understand something. even when you have all the pieces of the puzzle, you still may not understand yet !!
when you didn't understand something, you just didn't and you can't pretend you did. if you do that, you will be laughed at.
once you did, you DID understand. what have been seen cannot be unseen !!
this is wonderful.
zecle 2 months ago
soft machine...great. i think one can be spiritual and knowledgeable at the same time. people from australia described the moon's surface long before people went there by rockets. there are all kinds of ways to experience the universe. the tao describes a lot of physics. i see a lot of awe and beauty in this video and the big bang of course. but i don't see why it can not work with spirituality. organized religion is a whole other matter tho.
Wildwoodflowerify 2 months ago
If you have ever been curious as to how a Christian can call Atheism just as much as a religion as Christianity, it is indirectly due to videos like this one. The epiphany that occurred to give such understanding is so incredibly similar to the epiphany I've had. Only mine was such that I fully understood the existence of God. Still, I do not know how everything works and like was said that gives purpose for tomorrow.
Andrewizner 2 months ago
@Andrewizner you have an imaginary friend. Congrats
DerrenBrown100 1 month ago
Has the sound quality on this video decayed? I seem to remember it being higher quality.
michalchik 2 months ago
That last little ramble there is basically 'intuition'
justbenicetopeople 2 months ago
very good
SonicRainbowStar 2 months ago
Nice video. Science/metaphysics- Hawkins, Einstein, Shroedinger (sp?) are all quite interesting and i read/understand what i can, but revelations are absolutely personal and, oddly, rather random. Twas ever thus.
uncasist 2 months ago
I've had this realization. As in, the real thing. I was already an atheist. I already believed in evolution and the big bang and all that. And THEN came this realization. I was depressed for a week, when I realized how insignificant we really are. How unbelievable the universe is and how small we are in it. I'm all okay again though. :)
Sanquinity 2 months ago
Jesus, a man after Sagan's own heart. Love it.
Atchuu2004 2 months ago
@shackchaser it is both for me and a whole lot of people that i know of ....i dont know where this notion that science and religion dont co exist came from. Im sorry if it was complicated if u want me to explan , i will.
TheAquatender 2 months ago
Last night I was walking home, worried about some big problem, and I stopped a moment to look up into that cold, clear winter sky. I smiled. I am a momentary spark in an explosion so big, we use words like "infinite" to describe it.
b3nmitchell 2 months ago
...It is, of course, a momentary respite, because we live on Earth, and our day to day experience is from the much smaller perspective of risen apes. All the same, it is comforting to me that I understand enough about reality to be able to step out once and awhile, take a breath, and notice the mechanisms of existence on a cosmic scale.
b3nmitchell 2 months ago
now you got me listenning to soft machine :) watch?v=SQ5qoaSSyFs
jmm1233 2 months ago
Yes, yes!
JolexDB 2 months ago
Perhaps you already made one but could you please make a "to read" list. As a 19 year old kid it is often hard where to start. What books would you advise ?
ForYeensSake 2 months ago 2
@ForYeensSake There's one on my channel. :)
philhellenes 2 months ago 4
@ForYeensSake I'd start by Carl Sagan books: Cosmos, The varieties of Scientific Experience, The demon-haunted world: science as a candle in the dark. Simon Singh's Big Bang is also a good read.
NMRkid 2 months ago
@NMRkid Already got Sagan's. Not really into cosmology. I mean I get the whole concept of the enourmous grandure of the cosmos and it DOES inspire me, but it pales compared to the kick I get when reading about microbiology or sociobiology for example. Thanks for commenting though, and happy holidays! (:
ForYeensSake 2 months ago
@ForYeensSake Happy holidays to you too. If I may make more suggestions: The invisible enemy by Dorothy Crawford (about viruses), A life decoded by Craig Venter, Seven daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes. This one is more philosophy than science, but very well written nonetheless: Evolution and the big questions by David Stamos.
NMRkid 2 months ago
@NMRkid I'll check them out thanks (: .
ForYeensSake 2 months ago
@ForYeensSake I recommend BBC's Horizon documentaries. Episodes are standalone, subjects are varied but profound.
arna11420 2 months ago
@ForYeensSake you could also watch, What the bleep do we know! down the rabbit hole... intresting docu about quantum mechanics and the brain
harderwijk11 1 month ago
I think I would like to write a book about you philhellenes
InternetGuy1975 2 months ago
i am not an atheist but this was really good,i believe in God and i also believe in science, religion doesnt go againt science, to me science proves the existance of God. i dont think that the big bang was a mere accident .i believe the big bang is how creation began, i see the pattern of the bang, from the explonsion that created the universe due to interaction of 2 matters to the creation of a person from the sperm of a man and the egg of a woman in an explosion of rapped cell multiplication
TheAquatender 2 months ago
@TheAquatender So tell us: How old is the planet Earth, do you think? And do you think Adam and Eve were real people?
fdasherv 2 months ago
@fdasherv last that i know of is that it is 3-4 billion years ,please correct me if i am wrong. And yes i do believe they were real and that they existed and all humanity is their descendant. if u dont believe me science is catching up or should i say proving it,its a process that still needs refining, there was a documentary on the national geographic, ummm i think it was called the human tree. check it out if u like
TheAquatender 2 months ago
@TheAquatender "it is 3-4 billion years"
Well done. The earth is approx. 4.6 b years old. You are now considered a heretic. Congratulations.
"i do believe they were real...there was a documentary on the national geographic"
You are referring to the "Mitochondrial Adam and Eve" and, yes, genetics verifies their existence. They also lived approx.150,000 years apart. Your next assignment is to understand how that's possible. I think you value learning and I'm sure your research will impress me.
fdasherv 2 months ago
@fdasherv hahaha believe me i am concidered normal in my circle. Infact i would be called an ignorant if i didnt know atleast this much.Thank you i dint know it was called that.To the 150,000 i would say it was believed that earth was the centre of the world but was proven wrong. Women determined the sex of the babies, in time proven wrong.Humans evolved from apes, proven impossible recently.Theoretically we could travel in the speed of light proven not possible...just needs time continued
TheAquatender 2 months ago
@fdasherv i will research the mitochondrial Adam and eve cuz it sounds interesting....are you a teacher or a prof. probably a mother. You sound very willing to teach and enlight and very nurturing as well "i think you value learning and im sure your research will impress me" ?
TheAquatender 2 months ago
how could the big bang theory be true?You say the earth was made from molocules crashing together,but molocules crash together all of the time.and what could have made those molocules?
moosegod11 2 months ago
@moosegod11
Unfortunately, beginnings and endings are human concepts based on our own experiences. In science, things are always "common sense" and some concepts, like Einstein's theory of Relativity and quantum mechanics defy "common sense".
As for the Big Bang, look into supercolliders to find out what conditions are required for this reaction.
In hundreds of trillions of years, maybe conditions will come about simultaneously for another big bang. Statistics will dictate.
brendanmcwilliams 2 months ago
what the fuck is up with the related videos
then00best 3 months ago
best explanation yet ! the reference to "car mechanic" inspired ! and very true ...good video :):)
dooksization 3 months ago
what if this is just a video game we (or maybe just a few people) are playing in a world were there is no "universe". That means everything you think is real was just created for you to experience. You can't say you know anything certain in this world or you are giving yourself too much credit. Just saying.
beneathredrock 3 months ago
@beneathredrock
doesnt really work, unless the computer game is as complex as the universe. You could naively say maybe the game is more simple, and whenever scientists do experiments the ppl running the simulation notice and fill in more complicated things. But now every cellphone uses quantum mechanical effects, and i do experiments to show quantum mechanical effects using polarized light for fun at parties.
So the game would need to be as complex as the universe, back to square one.
kurtilein3 3 months ago
So I know South Park said it best with their episode about atheism, but can't science explain how, and having a creator in a different parallel universe where the rules are completely different, be the answer to why? I personally don't believe any religion because of they are very canceled out by their own definition of wanting power in this world. But I would never say that because I kind of understand how things work, that means thats all there is and ever will be. Its all possible in theory
beneathredrock 3 months ago
@beneathredrock
by definition, everything where we know for certain that it exists is part of our universe. That screws up many of your ideas: you need to show that things you assume exist actually exist. As long as you have no evidence, these things are supernatural and science considers them non-existent. As soon as you have evidence that it exists, its part of the universe, and science will study it.
Theories rule out so many possibilities, i suggest you start with general relativity.
kurtilein3 3 months ago
@beneathredrock
... second comment
in fact, all scientific theories are falsifiable. Most of them are (seemingly) easily falsifiable. You hold a stone, let it go, it falls down. Would it fall up, and you could repeat it, general relativity and the theory of gravity would be falsified. Find a fossil of a modern rabbit in precambrian rock, and the theory of evolution is falsified.
kurtilein3 3 months ago
@kurtilein3 that are much older than ours, like lets say 100 times older, who have actually figured out how to make other universes, and they jump the barrier and actually made our fission start out of scratch. I don't believe in this omnipotent being so much as I do this theory that our little bubble called our universe might have been sparked by other life period. Or maybe even just our solar system from another galaxy or star. The universe might not be infinite, but existence might.
beneathredrock 3 months ago
@kurtilein3 No the rabbit fossil would only show that the rabbit was such a great model that it fit so pefrectly into its enviorment that it didnt change over a long period of time it might even show that rabbits were time travelers but in the end no one fossil will be able to show the theroy of evolution is false
berrywoke 2 months ago
@berrywoke
No. That discovery would destroy evolutionary theory for good. I said: a rabbit skeleton in the PRECAMBRIAN. And that would totally destroy the theory of evolution by natural selection.
ALL big theories in science are easily falsifiable, and how they could be falsified is specified. The fact that falsification, while it is easy, never happens, causes us to assume that these theories reflect reality.
kurtilein3 2 months ago
@kurtilein3 I guess your reply shows that you take stuff way to serious. I thought my time traveling rabbit would be sure a sure indication that I was just being sarcastic. Sorry I wasted you time, I thought you would just ignore my comment made of of pure boredom. I started to say something about it being a one celled rabbit; like I said just killing time.
berrywoke 2 months ago
@beneathredrock
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Put 3 polarisation filters on top of each others at a 45 degree angle, if no light passesthrough, quantum electrodynamics is falsified, and with it all higher theories in quantum mechanics like supersymmetry and strong theory. 2 polarisation filters at a 90 degree angle block all light, put in a third filter at a diagonal angle so that its two times 45 degrees, and light passes.
All scientirfic theories, BECAUSE they are falsifiable, rule out quite a lot.
kurtilein3 3 months ago
@kurtilein3 Im know that what we can observe and measure in our universe is what we can call real. Thats all we know right now. But Ive heard that we might be one of 16 sextillion universes, or even worse yet infinite universes. If that is ever concluded to be true, then is there really such a thing as real in that situation? unless all the universes are pretty close to the same. If there are infinite possibilities, then its all real, including that there might be universes out there.. (cont)
beneathredrock 3 months ago
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beneathredrock 3 months ago
I can believe in God and the big bang. I don't see why those two things need to be in conflict.
Harris91 3 months ago
@Harris91 exactly, they aren't and never were. They are probably more likely in perfect harmony. People that say you either have to have one or the other are missing the point of it all I think.
beneathredrock 3 months ago
ha ha - now we have the madness of glorifying the creation and forgetting the creator - men beating their litle chests like monkeys and thinking like the kid who takes apart a toy and suddenly thinks he is now the centre of the universe because he knows how the toy works. The madness of atheism continues with little movies and english accents and spooky music. morality in test tubes ...why didn't anyone tell me?
whiteliketar 3 months ago
@whiteliketar ,,,,,,,and then an idiot walks in, and demonstrates exactly why intelligent people feel the need to make videos like this. Please, by all means, go back to your reasonable ancient holey books and leave the mad atheists to wonder.
TheTazTN 3 months ago
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whiteliketar 3 months ago
I had a similar awakening by Carl Sagan.
Great videos dude. Cosmic poetry...
UndefinedMadrid 3 months ago 2
Yea acid does that to your head
cyberpup1000 3 months ago
Well said. Thank you.
Helpmedrronda 3 months ago
Why don't believers want to open their minds towards science ?
Science are so much more than evolution, and the big bang.
All the things we use today, came because of science. All the things we know about nature, and space, came because of science.
All electrical items, and electronics we use, came to be, because of science.
Why don't they see how amazing it is, to finally understand how things work ?
How can they just settle with the easy answer ?
Why don't they want to KNOW ?
BelieveNoGod 4 months ago
Weird dude, just weird.
Darthreloy 4 months ago
The car analogy is a good one. Unfortunately too many don't even see the spark plugs or battery.
uknowispeaksense 4 months ago
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0001kees 4 months ago
u have nice sense of humor
0001kees 4 months ago
Who could dislike this?
dementor19 4 months ago
@philhellenes Thank-you for the correct grammar and spelling.
Sknabc 4 months ago
You're trite and LCD
fringeelements 4 months ago
He was on acid in the bath
HobosRockEmTrashCans 4 months ago
Soft Machine!! Doesn't a cosmic perspective just intensify the mystery that is music?? Organic beings suuuure do love music
UndefinedMadrid 4 months ago
As for myself, I don't worship any "gods" anymore, not because I don't believe in them, I ust don't like to give them encouragement. To me, if there is a real multiverse the way they say there is, the gods exists, all o them, somewhere. Of course by that logic all cartoons actually have their own universe, all the planes of D&D exists, an there is a universe where my hands are my feet and my feet are my hands.
effigytormented 4 months ago
This guy took shrooms.
ramalama246 5 months ago
@philhellenes, YOU, sir, are my soap bubble. 39 yrs of trying to rationalize what I knew could not be, even as a child, well, thanks to you i've begun my journey of clarity... you helped me find true fee will, i'm eternally grateful.
screenpuller 5 months ago
Jesus fucking christ but mid-life de-conversions bore me. Imagine being an atheist your whole life and not only having to listen to crazy theistic crap, but this kind of dewy eyed childlike awe that is sooo darling I can puke.
fdasherv 5 months ago
@fdasherv So why subscribe?
philhellenes 5 months ago 14
@philhellenes Haha. Oh I think it's a good piece and has a persuasive quality, but I'm old and cranky without nicotine and I never had a de-conversion. My dad was a physicist so I never had a 'why didn't anybody tell me' moment. I just wondered why no one knew what I did. I would tell people (usually in science class) what my dad taught me, and I'd be admonished as an atheist when I didn't even know what an atheist was. I was a teenager when I realized people thought god was real. It was spooky.
fdasherv 5 months ago 24
@fdasherv No probs. I was kinda curious. Looking at your channel YOU didn't seem like a troll. Hence my curiosity. I understand your reaction now. Permission to puke freely granted. :)
But this vid WASN'T about a de-conversion. I saw through Christianity at 6 and was laughing at it by 7. But my science education was "shallow". I just didn't "get it" at school. This video is about how it felt, to me, to "get it" after 28 years of thinking I never could or would.
Thanks for clarifying.
philhellenes 5 months ago 5
@philhellenes No, thank you. I was hasty to hit the puke button. My apologies, I'll rewatch it and listen this time. Funny how I thought someone lost their religion in a bubble bath.
fdasherv 5 months ago 5
@fdasherv Having watched again I can see how I gave you the wrong impression. It was all the "jesuses". They're there because I make vids to try and get through to the ("Abraham-ically inclined") believer with an atom of reason left, or to embolden isolated atheists, or to provoke thought, or to show people that any idiot can get a reasonable understanding of the Universe (by being that idiot).
You just didn't know where I was coming from or what I was trying to do, and that's my fault. :)
philhellenes 5 months ago 4
@fdasherv I have 'why didn't anyone tell me moments' every time I learn about crazy things religious people believe. In school we all thought the Jehovahs Witness girl was weird (but I didn't realise that wasn't because others weren't like me). I lived in my vacuous world where I knew superficially about beliefs but not the ins and outs. I'm convinced that until I saw Marjoe on Youtube I never actually thought that the whole speaking in tongues thing was anything other then a TV joke.
O2BSoLucky 5 months ago
@O2BSoLucky I love Youtube so much because I like to hear about what people 'used to believe' - for a lot of my life it was a mystery to me. As an adult I gravitated to people that just didn't talk about religion (if they believe or not). None of my family or close friends are practising religionists. Of my acquaintances who do have (what I consider strong) beliefs (church going etc) we just dont' talk about it. It isn't important. So I never learned about the crazy.
O2BSoLucky 5 months ago
@fdasherv
"I was a teenager when I realized people thought god was real. It was spooky."
Only discovered that so many Americans believed in this God shit at the age of 18 here, rofl. Didn't know what atheist means till I was like 20. I live in Europe obviously.
Londron 5 months ago
@Londron "I live in Europe obviously" I'm in New York and it's not nearly as bad as middle America with the in-your-face religion. But I travel a bit to small towns in the U.S. and if they hear 'atheist' some just don't come near me. Which I can live with.
fdasherv 5 months ago
@fdasherv
Yea, I heard that the big cities are still decent to live in.
Londron 5 months ago
@Londron In Manhattan we have a saying: "It's one of the few cities in the world here you can walk into any room and in it there will be at least ten people smarter than you."
fdasherv 5 months ago
@fdasherv
This one is ok... but 'This Remarkable Thing' is the one I shove at all the Christers.
silentthunderstorm 3 months ago
Or 'Science Saved My Soul'
silentthunderstorm 3 months ago
@fdasherv I got to agree it is quite boring. We get it your an atheist. Like anybody gives a crap how you became an atheist.
Tuber77 2 months ago
@Tuber77 The difference is most people come to religion in very outlined, well established ways. No real surprises there. However, people come to atheism, each independently, each separately, but all to the same invariable conclusion. More concisely and more powerfully than any religion. If any religion could perform like that, religion wouldn't be dying.
fdasherv 2 months ago
@Tuber77 Considering the number of views and likes, I would say quite a few people "give a crap."
nachtfee957 2 months ago
It is called consciousness dude. Me also got this sense. I'm 22 years old. And trust me, this consciousness sense can make me crazy!! :"(
vskynet 5 months ago
Ive had the same experience when i was walking along one late evening and I happened to look up and catch the moon. I stared at it as any person would but then i thought, "wow, weve walked on that." At that moment all of the reality hit me and took my breath away. All i could think about for that split second was how we are apart of this unbelievable force at work and every emotion that I have ever experienced in my life went through me in that moment but it only lasted a moment.
true story
burntlozer2 5 months ago
I understand exactly what he is talking about. After a salvia experience, I was on a two week "high" of clarity and understanding. I would often just laugh out loud or shed a few tears....because I felt like I finally knew that everything was going to be OK, even upon my death. And yes...I had that feeling of being pissed that I was never told what life really was. At 42, I really feel like I wasted a lot of time on a lot of stupid shit. Young people..pay attention. Run with your life. Have fun!
FreddysOpenMind 5 months ago
I can honestly say that you deserve an Oscar for these. Your videos have seriously changed my life. Wish more people would not be afraid to post these videos on their facebooks... these need more views!! Thanks for all the work you put into these man. :)
racingactor 5 months ago
Love the pictures of 'bull shit' and 'stupidity'
gregrutz 5 months ago
@ganados0 Thanks. I recognized them both but I couldn't place Kent Hovind.
juliaofthenorth 5 months ago
Amazing!! Agree totally. Very well made too, a pleasure to watch!
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DemianHermann 5 months ago
Science is it self a religion, im glad to be part tht religion
>: D
INMATE2468 5 months ago
@INMATE2468 If you think of science as a religion then you have completely missed the point of science.
Anacronian 5 months ago 5
To open your eyes and then open them again.
To see the universe as it is with nothing in the way,
It is one the best things that happens
Mindinglife 5 months ago
This is exactly what happened to me, only that I do not see it in contrast with faith bit in agreement with it. It suddenly explains the bible, the concept of God, the birth of Jesus out of the logic of God and the shortfalls of those who tried to describe it. Helps to have love and faith.
fourteatwo 6 months ago
Fortunately, and unfortunately, being raised into an atheist family, I never had this sort of revelation.
glitchuser4 6 months ago
Ricky gervais....
MrAquinoflavio 6 months ago
Carl Sagan still the man. Mr. T, is right behind him in awesomeness.
InfinityWarriorInc 6 months ago
My revelation was a quite a bit less jarring, but it allowed me to embrace science, physics and the universe through a slow understanding of how the many branches of math and science come together, and the parallels between them. I've seen beauty I can't articulate with the grace it requires, something that comes with understanding. I may not always be happy, but I comprehend the forces that used to be simply things I couldn't control... I always feel secure, at the very least.
MrUppertorso 6 months ago
I only wish that I could put things into words like you could.
DanHernbrott 6 months ago
It is remarkably funny that i watched this video today. because i had that feeling yesterday....while i was in the bath no less... I started to think of a bubble. not like a soap bubble, but an information bubble. in this bubble of information there was the word religion. I started to think of all of the conections to religion and then got lost in the abbyss into the interconnecting information almost like a endless net of bubbles within bubbles with in bubbles, if this makes sence to anyone.
neapals 6 months ago