what i love about the internet and youtube is that the atheist videos have more likes than dislikes and the religious videos have more dislikes than likes/or no likes at all cuz they disable them.....win for us.
@redbulborb I've actually had the dipleasure of talking to mr. Adams personally. He's one of the most backwards thinking twats I've ever come across & in my humble oppinion is as dangerous to rationality as even the most hardened creationist. However, I think your comment was in reference to the one just below you who qoted "Douglas Adams". Douglas Adams is a comical geniius & should never be confused with the mind numbing prick that is "Neal", the former.
@MrLittletomdj I actually don't remember if that was a mistake reference or coincidence. But yeah, Douglas Adams by far beats the pseudo scientist that is Neal.
Norway is secular, but following the recent religious fucktard running wild klilling people, it just goes to show how far the poison spreads even in countries which do not embrace particular ideologies
I wish they'd just keep it to themselves. Like farts.
@PirateOfTheInternet Or maybe you don't get how much better the rest of the world is, nor how bad it gets here. There are 30 million starving children in America. This is an argument I hear from conservatives all the time, but it's an argument from ignorance and privilege. If you saw how bad it gets, like the families living in tent cities living off a couple of bucks a day, you'd change your tone. I guarantee it.
Are you talking about the same europe that is currently collapsing under all their debt for all the "free" stuff? Health care is a privillage and not a right. To Hell with those who cannot stand on their own. I would love to live in a more Darwinian society. I am so sick of coddling people and holding their hands to make them feel better. THIS THE HERD. Id be happy with about 7 billion humans wiped off the planet. Make room and let another species evolve and dominate.
@WingZero75 "Are you talking about the same europe that is currently collapsing under all their debt for all the "free" stuff". This coming from the country that has just risen their debt ceiling to $14 TRILLION?
Let me list the European Countries that all have better credit ratings than you:
Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
Americans are either Very very dumb or very very smart. We don't have too many people in the middle. Example of smart people in America: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Dumb: Ray Comfort.
@MacHead31 Ray Comfort is from New Zealand. The kiwi's can claim that dim ray of sunshine. Although if you're looking for an example of a born and bred dumb American... Rick Perry comes to mind.
But often there is still preventive custody. Or they get more than 15 years. It´s not like these countries have murderers, rapists etc. running free everywhere. I would guess Norway is a much safer country than the USA, is it not?
As far as Norway goes I can not say that a life sentence of 15 years is good. Is that what she was saying or did I hear it wrong. If that's what a life sentence is in Norway then I think that's horrible.
@HoLOLcaust that's not true. There was a study done of national IQ averages, and the USA was at about 100. That would mean we're about average. South Korea had the highest average IQ, but it was only a few points higher than this. 103 I think.
Ok, im from Norway and this got way out of hand. We arent that good at "saving the planet". In fact, last year one of our cities, Bergen, people were asked to just use to car every second day. People objected like there was no tommorow, LOL.
@gulbirk In my country even asking would be out of the question, hell even thinking it. I believe --norway and its neighbours are much more civilized and advanced than southern europe and the US
@lili9000c Well this is how I see it. If you cant do it, its no reason to ask for it. They didnt manage to pull it of her in norway, and they never will as long as people act like they do today.
I hate calls like this, and I find it almost impossible to jump on the "Yurop is better lolz" bandwagon, and this is coming from a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and activist for Obama.
I wonder what this caller thinks of the economic meltdown that Ireland is currently going through right now? Oh right, as long as she gets her free shit everything is just peach. That kind of lolling, complacent selfishness should stay in Europe.
I'd take America, even if its flawed, rather than think like that.
@F33bs please spell it: europe, you look like a dumbass writing like that. Second Id like to say that you say europe as if it was one country, no it is not, we have so many different mentalities in so little space here like nowhere else
I love my country. I am a patriot. I want my country to go back to its roots. Not Palin roots, real roots. Not slavery. That is evil. But go back to its secular roots.
I'm from Canada and I can tell you everyone here views Americans like borderline-psychotic religious zealots with the education level of a fourth-grader who don't understand why nobody on this planets likes them anymore...
@Unicron4ever Well that is an over-generalization of a large, diverse, population that shows ignorance can exist in any society. This "looking down" upon Americans based on stereotypes is no more fair than an American assuming all Canadians like hockey and are passive politically and physically. Granted there are idiots in my nation just as there are in every nation, but until you know everyone personally in a nation it is wrong to judge a nation's people.
@ajax515 ... But... Don't Americans DO think Canadians are hockey-nuts, moose-eating political doormats?
It's important how the general population perceives the people of another nation or culture. It's that perception that will determine how they will be willing to act towards this nation. If you tell a starving, hard-working people that their neighbors are lazy, fat, egocentric idiots, that will determine how they will act towards them. Add that God hates them and voilà, suicide-bombers.
@Unicron4ever Um, no. Not in all seriousness. Maybe as a joke. The perception is shaped by international media and other false sources that skew reality. I'm not saying that there aren't certain Americans who fit the stereotype, but they aren't even in the majority. If you base your perceptions of a nation of over 300 million people on that then with all due respect it is you who is being ignorant.
What a country really is matters little to people outside that country. All they have to work with is the image that is presented to them. Canada, per example, used to be seen as peace-makers and international mediators. That image changed over the last 15 years, when the government started aligning their politics on American politics.
@Unicron4ever Honestly, I'm not going to lie about who I am abroad or home. If people in other countries want to blame me for what some asshole politicians do they can kiss my ass. EU politics is just as corrupt and just as involved in all the bullshit that goes on in this world. The assholes that control America control all of our continent, Europe, Africa,and Asia. They also control the religions on this planet.
@ajax515 They don't want to "blame you", they just work with what information they have. People point at America because it's the #1 Power on the planet. Americans should start worrying about the image they project.
Between spoiled wh*res like Paris Hilton & Britney Spears, heartless corporations, corrupted businessmen, war-mongering politicians and religious zealots... We're getting a bit far from the Defenders of Democracy of the Land of Freedom, don't you think?
@Unicron4ever Why should it be my countries responsibility to help yours. I'm all down for helping someone else that is American. But I am not ashamed of saying I don't have a problem not helping other countries. Honestly you don't know very much about us. We should be the defenders of this Republic and this land which is free. If we acted like Switzerland. Getting into no one's business we be better off that way too. I'd rather have a spoon full of rice going to an American kid.
You're not getting what I'm saying. Americans walk all over the globe, either making people suffer or projecting the image that they make others suffer... And, just like you, most Americans don't seem to care. If you are all about defending your own borders and your personal interests, then there is no significant difference between you and, let's say, South Korea.
You have people starting to believe that it would be a good thing if China became #1
@Unicron4ever I don't care if China becomes number one in the World. America for me is still going to be for me number 1. An yeah I don't care up to the point that American life's are lost. A man who wont read has no advantage over one that can't. China can have the luxury of being number 1. An America can sit back and relax. Doesn't sound so bad to me. It about time Superman takes off his boots. Better American education. Better American jobs with more of them. Let the world have a lesson.
I care if my country's army goes to another country and starts killing people. I care if corporations of my country open factories somewhere else and hires children and poisons their environment. I care if my politicians go out there and promote their personal agendas.
You don't?
Matt is right: there's something really wrong with you, people.
@Unicron4ever I'm a strange person. Is that the best you've got. I think you are strange and everyone else is strange that holds America accountable for everything. Ah own up Asia, Europe, South America and a Country to the North. You government and the countries in these regions made deals with America. We didn't force anything down any ones throats. They ate it smiled and asked for more sir. So don't just blame my country everyone that trades with us. Hold the equal responsibility.
@Unicron4ever So you can say there is something wrong with America fine. No skin off my hide. Any name in the book I don't care. Stick and stones break my bones, but names with never hurt me. Besides it just shows how childish one is. America stops giving 25 billion per year. Close its doors and stop everything we do that involves 199 other countries. An at the same time kick the United Nations out of New York city. 308 million people we can survive on our own. Later strange dude.
@Unicron4ever Actually I do. I want my government to send troops to combat religious fundamentalism and defend the rights of self-government and freedom of speech across the world. You don't? Seems to me that you are the strange one, refusing to make the sacrifices for poor people in other countries that your ancestors unflinchingly made for you.
@F33bs TIP: To prevent religious fundamentalism, avoid sending in soldiers to kill the populace, so that the survivors view you as an enemy and the terrorists as their only hope of fighting you (also avoid funding extremist groups so that they turn on you at some point, but that's another matter).
Thinking that the soldiers are there to promote democracy and freedom is willful ignorance at this point. Those boys are dying so you can feel better about yourself. Shame on you.
@Unicron4ever The propaganda is strong within this one. Canada doesn't put much stock by way of education these days, does it?
I suppose leaving a region to the hands of a dictator that your country installed would be a more preferable, agreeable outcome? Anything to preserve and conserve money for our "domestic agendas." Such implicitly racist sentiments seem to get broad consensus from white "liberals" these days. I wonder why.
@Unicron4ever They work on stereotypes and high level politics. Did they vote on Iraq in a general election? No, because we have just as little to do with it as people in other countries. Paris Hilton has nothing to do with any of this. Whores like her are the image the elite project, elitists from all over the world do. Blaming the people of America for that is horseshit.
I travel from time to time and I can tell you it's important to identify yourself as Canadian, not American. It's unbelievable the difference of treatment you'll get. I traveled to Europe, Mexico and Dominican Republic and people aren't happy to see Americans there.
Not all Americans are fat, lazy and arrogant, far from it, but it's what the general public outside the country gets as their image... The same way Muslims, in the vast majority, couldn't care less about blowing stuff up.
@Unicron4ever I'd really love to know why Canada and European countries think of America as a nation of just white culture, when America is a mish-mash of different ethnicities. I think it's a byproduct of Old World racism that still pools around the upper crusts of Euro-elitism, and drips down to poor, working stiffs like you who try to latch on to it to gain some kind of cultural identity for yourself. Jealousy, in other words.
Must suck to be that vacuous. Oh well, at least I'm American.
@F33bs ... Excuse me, I only cross-read this. Too busy google-ing the latest news, you know, about the devastation of Australia and impending civil war that's doomed to happen in the next few days in Libya...
All I've read were a few insult words and defensive comments, so I didn't really pay attention...
I was born in San Francisco and have been an american my whole life, I have barely even left the country but I do not at all think I live in the greatest country it SUCKS and other countries are way better but I am stuck here.
Well she seemed like a very nice person. And having been to Europe on several occasions, yeah they do kinda look down on America. We have gone horribly wrong in the last 20 or so years, I think it all started when we started rolling back new deal era reforms.
Meh, good point...it's a bit like seeing an old sportmen lose it while he gets beaten more and more by the youth, you feel sorry for him because he tries damn hard but is just no match for them anymore...
My point was mainly that you can't compare for example somebody from Spain with somebody from Sweden. Except for the different language every country has such a different attitude and culture. Hell even somebody from Barcelona who's a Catalan can't be compared to somebody from Madrid.
Though I agree you can divide the US in the bible belt states and the others. Point taken there. But still, people in the US still watch the same media making them have a lot more in common.
@Londron It's better than hate and I pity us too! I hope some country comes in to save us when our Government starts random killings on the public at large. Oh, wait a minute, they're already doing that.
AMERICA TURNED IT'S BACK TO GOD JUST AS YOU HAVE! IF YOU TURN YOUR BACK TO GOD HE WILL TURN HIS BACK TO YOU!!!!!! THIS IS CALLED THE WRATH OF GOD!!!!!
@billkropp If everyone in America became a proponent of your particular flavor of religion, then everything will be perfect? And you no doubt believe in the 1st amendment, freedom of Religion, as long as it’s YOUR religion. God made me an atheist, how dare you question his wisdom!
So America hadn't turned it's back to God when it was enslaving Africans. It's back was not turned to God when the Native Americans were being killed and their land stolen. America didn't turn its back on God when a black man could be lynched in full view of the public for looking at a white woman. So, what has America done to turn it's back on God that could possibly be worse than those things?
I think I'll go for: "Invading quite a few countries that were never any threat to America, setting up a 'terrorist attack' that killed 3000 of their own citizens. And some other things..."
I'm a Christian, and personally, I respect you guys ("the atheist experience") quite a bit. You're all very kind people and you don't just blow off religious people and rub your ideals in their faces, even when they do it to you. You guys actually attempt to have an intellectual conversation with your callers.
So, props, and even though you probably don't care, i'll pray for your well-being.
I just wanted to say, that this is the first time I've heard a theist tell an atheist that they would pray for them without it sounding like code for f-you. Thank you.
Martin Wagner (the 'other' guy who is sitting beside Matt Dillahunty) likes to listen to himself talk and he typically doesn't know when to shut his trap. Several of the other co-hosts suffer from a smilar affliction and if I had my druthers I would prefer that Matt Dillahunty was the only host.
She talks too kindly about us Norwegians. I agree that we do a lot of things right, but we still have a state church, we are one of the most consuming countries in the world per person, we are very selfish when it comes to sharing our riches etc.
@Jostedalsosten Who says you have to share your riches? Where did this altruistic image of human nature come from? What does one nation owe to any other nation?
@captwasabi By your logic every nation should keep to themselves, which would mean that no one outside the US would get to drink Coke, no one outside Britain would be able to read the Harry Potter books and so on. Or more importantly, food and stuff like that. You can't deny the fact that in the modern society we depend on other people, on other nations. Helping those who have less than us ultimately helps the human race, which is the biological goal of everything (cont.)
@captwasabi (cont.) All this without even mentioning moral and ethics. It is morally correct to help other people, and when there is no law that say we must, there are several norms that say we should.
@Jostedalsosten Your entire argument is based on emotional standing, not fact. Come back when you have some facts to share. I fail to see how my helping Mexico helps me. I fail to see how my helping an African nation helps me. What helps me is keeping more of our food and more of our money and more of our jobs within our borders such that my country men have food and have jobs and it is THAT which makes my life better. Not helping some other country but helping my country men.
@captwasabi (cont.) I realize that it seams incredibly unlikely that any major disaster will happen in the neer future, but in the big picture great disasters happen all the time.
@Jostedalsosten Yes and the US is often one of the first nations on scene but let's take BP for example. It was the self-reliant nations who were able and willing to send help despite the billions of dollars we have sent to Africa for huamitarian aid. Your claim that we benefit from the sharing of resources is completely wrong.
@captwasabi Because you are looking at it in a scale of a few years to a few decades. How many times do I have to say this: The human RACE, not you as an individual, profits from cooperation. Try to look beond your little sphere, it's not about you, it's about us. There is a reason why we stick together in communities. We need other people to survive. You can't argue that we'd be bether off alone, because many have tried that and they didn't really get much out of it.
@Jostedalsosten Where do you get this bullshit from? Rome prosered because it conquored. As did Spain, England, China, The Germanics. Even the vikings. What fucking bullshit are you talking about? Name one culture that prospered because it worked with other people. you're fucking delusional.
@captwasabi The U.S.? Where would the U.S. be today without international trade? No where, that's where. The Roman empire collapsed because it became too big to hold with military power alone. England did the same thing, as with all the colonial powers. No millitary regime has lasted, while those who traded and were peaceful and helpful have. Sweden hasn't been involved in a war since 1905, and we're talking of a war so small that about a hundered people died. Sweden is now one of the (cont.)
@Jostedalsosten You have managed to completley shift your argument from one where people do not share enough when you said that your country is "very selfish when it comes to sharing our riches" to one where mutual cooperation best serves humanity. Nice try but it's not going to work. There is no moral requirement that one group helps another. If the act of helping provides some sort of positive to the assiting party then great.
@captwasabi I agree that there is no moral requirement - moral is created by the society to make it easier to live alongside eachother, thus moral is relative. My argument was always, and I was clear about this, divided into two tings: The relative morals and the objective strugle for survival. I never mixed those two together.
@Jostedalsosten Let me put this in other words. The majority are better served when the minority, or the individual, does the heavy lifting. As proof, I offer unto you penicilin, pace makers, cellular phones, the internet, the internal combustion engine, vulcanized rubber and a billion other inventions that you could not possibly recreate on your own and yet your life is better for them. And why is that? Because people like Volta, Edison and the Wrights did not work for the betterment of society
@captwasabi (cont.) the technology we have today. The human race is a social race. We depend on cooperation for survival. In the long run we benefit from sharing the riches.
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Imagine this scenario. The western world ignores the suffering people in the world. Most of them die. Then some disaster happens in the norhtern hemisphare; new ice age, meteor, whatever... Who shal we turn to then? If everyone on earth lives about equally we will have someone to turn to in times of need (cont.)
@Jostedalsosten Bullshit! American was the first on scene when the tsumani hit. You think anyone from that region is going to come to our resuce should we need it? America pumps billions of dollars into Africa. You think the next time an American city is leveled by an earthquake that Zaire will be sending assistance? Pull your head out of your ass child. There is no equality in the real world.
@Jostedalsosten They worked for themselves. To see if it could be done. To make money. Every major socialist country has either failed utterly or is kept together by an oppressive leading party, which again often happens to be a minority. The largest explosions in life quality improving innovation has been under less regulatory governments that encouraged the individual to succeed over the majority.
@captwasabi I said it helps humanity as a race, not you as an idividual. Besides, many socialist countries are succesful: Norway and the rest of Scandinavia, for instnace, are considered the best countries in the world to live in, and they are very socialistic. As for your proof, where would the internet be if no one had invented electricity first? Or computers? The truth is that the scientific community is very cooperative and if everyone cared only for themselves we would never have (cont.)
I am from Norway. And i think americans problems in most cases is that they belive that there's eather capitalism or there's comunism, and there is no inbetween.
My political wievs would be considered somewhere in the middle on the norwegian political scale. But if i were to move to the US (still with the same political wievs) my political wievs would be considered so far to the left of theire scale that most people there would actualy belive me to be a comunist.
@anonymepelle That largely depends on the region in which you found yourself on these shores.Coastal U.S.---with few exceptions from N.Carolina on the E.Coast---espouses more Leftist-Progressive views population-wise.Ideologically,you'd be viewed as a Socialist,which would be most anathemic only among core Conservatives and are definitively pro-Patriotist.
Love that caller, grew up in the UK so I understand what she's talking about. However I have to attack the one point, and this is a main reason I decided to be an american especially an atheist american, is the idea she briefly mentions about being entitled to the same things as people who work harder than you. I feel that the only ideas that back that belief are rooted in jewdaochristian (sorry, late cant be bothered to figure out how to spell that) beliefs and are inherently irrational.
@Risingtide2 Some things you should be entitled to regardless of the size of your income though. Medical care being one such thing.
I agree at some level that the size of your income should be affected by the aspects of how much you work and what kind of work you do, but basic rights should be a separate issue from income.
some people are just born rational and logical thinkers. When I was a child I found it really hard to believe the bible too, It just reminded me too much of a fairy tale. I wasn't really forced into the religion thing either.
@lastmondaypast1 My brother was telling me how when he heard the story of the flood when he was 6, he just thought it was a story. He told me it just sounded like a bunch of bullshit lol
I have thought about this before; that I may be very liberal in the US, but in other countries my beliefs would be considered moderate or even conservative. I certainly do not believe that someone who commits pre-meditated murder (or worse) deserves to ever get out of prison (I'm not going to say what I think should happen to child rapists). At the same time, I think all drug use should be legalized, and the fact that you can do 15 years for killing someone in a car ACCIDENT is ridiculous.
@Celephaith, 15 years for an accident?? Yes, that is insane.
Liberal seems to be a dirty word in the U.S. while I see it as an ideal; a balance of freedom and compassionate caring. Having lived in Amsterdam for many years, I agree with you on drugs. Their tolerance of marihuana means users know who they get it from, but hard drugs no; disastrous.
You'd think the powers that be would have learned from Prohibition, how that created a massively powerful crime network
I am so pleased to hear rational people stating that blind patriotism is NOT a good thing.
You can only be proud of your own efforts and achievements - not someone else's, and not of the history where (as they said here) you happened to have been born
I like Norway but it does disturb me when I read about a vicious murderer over there only getting 15 years in prison then freed. Some people need to be locked up for life.
If you mean Mullah Krekar then you should know; most norwegians wanna see'em rip his head off and throw it in the river too, for ONCE, I'd hav'to say UNFORTUNEATELY death sentence isn't procedure in Norway.
Patriotism is for morons. The fact that humans in their human arrogance and idiocy divided the planet into little chunks with different societies doesn't change the fact that it's still one planet.
I mostly agree with you. I agree that people who are "blindly patriotic," advocating that America is the best because America is the best etc are morons, much like Matt said in the video. I also think we should think we are citizens of the planet, like you said.
However, having been abroad and studied in depth about other countries and cultures, I can say that America isn't so bad off, and I'm proud to be an American.
Loud obnoxious patriotism is for morons, but there's nothing wrong with finding solidarity with the culture of your country and those who helped shape it.
@HiveDes Well, there can be something wrong with that. It's what makes ghettos when immigrants to any country hold on vehemently to the culture of their motherland, when they do it to the exclusion of their adopted country.
And rallying around the flag is only useful if you, as a leader, want to feed your sheep propaganda to get them behind a war you're declaring, or something
@Shavarnarak I think divided societies are still needed though. Every region of the world has different cultures and mindsets for a reason; it's because of seasonal differences, resource differences, etc, so it would be really difficult to get everyone under one government or mindset.
@Shavarnarak Thats a slap to everyone that has died in order to put you in the position your in. But that is showing your human arrogance and idiocy. The world wouldn't be how it is right now with out patriotism. I'm saying all the way back until time was time. You may say these great things but thats not living in a realistic world. Why would any one really share with you if you have nothing that benefits them? How do you assume people get a job. Or how Americans stick with their own.
However, in the case of dominant personality, a case could also be made that some societies dominant personality traits are ingrained in what is non-formally taught in culture. Such as here in the U.S. - with the alpha male typed gender role being widely shown in culture as good or ideal.
The study that I heard of is very recent. Thus, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to use a documentary made before, to refute later experiments.
As I said before, it would be difficult to make a genetic case for bad behavior. Bad behavior is a known function of countless social forces. Thus, even if such genes were hypothetically present, this does not guarantee that a person is inherently more badly behaved.
Norway? Good choice. Scandinavia is the most non religious place on earth.
Kaaxe 2 months ago
* quoted & genius.
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
what i love about the internet and youtube is that the atheist videos have more likes than dislikes and the religious videos have more dislikes than likes/or no likes at all cuz they disable them.....win for us.
420simpson 3 months ago 2
@420simpson Internet is a place where religion goes to die. :)
dummychaos 3 months ago
Neal Adams is delusional
redbulborb 3 months ago
@redbulborb I've actually had the dipleasure of talking to mr. Adams personally. He's one of the most backwards thinking twats I've ever come across & in my humble oppinion is as dangerous to rationality as even the most hardened creationist. However, I think your comment was in reference to the one just below you who qoted "Douglas Adams". Douglas Adams is a comical geniius & should never be confused with the mind numbing prick that is "Neal", the former.
MrLittletomdj 2 months ago
@MrLittletomdj I actually don't remember if that was a mistake reference or coincidence. But yeah, Douglas Adams by far beats the pseudo scientist that is Neal.
redbulborb 2 months ago
"slarty bartfast". . . ., i miss douglas adams.
1empathy 4 months ago
Norway is secular, but following the recent religious fucktard running wild klilling people, it just goes to show how far the poison spreads even in countries which do not embrace particular ideologies
I wish they'd just keep it to themselves. Like farts.
Lawlessuk 5 months ago
I'm ashamed to be an American sometimes...
Zentz29 5 months ago 2
This woman: "Boo hoo! My American friends have it sooo hard!"
Obviously she has no clue what entitlements Americans actually get.
PirateOfTheInternet 5 months ago
@PirateOfTheInternet Or maybe you don't get how much better the rest of the world is, nor how bad it gets here. There are 30 million starving children in America. This is an argument I hear from conservatives all the time, but it's an argument from ignorance and privilege. If you saw how bad it gets, like the families living in tent cities living off a couple of bucks a day, you'd change your tone. I guarantee it.
xJoeEDangerouslyx 5 months ago 2
THIN THE HERD.
Sorry about the typo. I have an HP and when I hit shift-ctrl it messes up the keyboard. I thought I corrected all my mistakes.
WingZero75 6 months ago
Are you talking about the same europe that is currently collapsing under all their debt for all the "free" stuff? Health care is a privillage and not a right. To Hell with those who cannot stand on their own. I would love to live in a more Darwinian society. I am so sick of coddling people and holding their hands to make them feel better. THIS THE HERD. Id be happy with about 7 billion humans wiped off the planet. Make room and let another species evolve and dominate.
WingZero75 6 months ago
@WingZero75 "Are you talking about the same europe that is currently collapsing under all their debt for all the "free" stuff". This coming from the country that has just risen their debt ceiling to $14 TRILLION?
Let me list the European Countries that all have better credit ratings than you:
Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
66tom99 6 months ago
@WingZero75
You go first.
ClumsyRoot 6 months ago
@WingZero75
Euh...I'm only a European but didn't Obama recently had issues because of the huge debts of the US?
I catched things here like "the US is going bankrupt".
Londron 6 months ago
@Londron We're not bankrupt... yet. If Obama keeps spending absurd amounts of money that doesn't belong to him, we will be soon.
JadedRockStar84 6 months ago
@Londron Caught, dude. It's caught. Not catched.
rudygetsplenty 5 months ago
in a way matt is saying he is for a one world government -
crownvvc4 7 months ago
You Mean 'Belfast, NORTHERN Ireland'.
nordhorny 7 months ago
Really looks like he has athiest on his T-shirt, took me about 4 mins to realise it was on the screen.
Hamesjayward 7 months ago
@hempartist420 They could also have a true rehabilitation system in their prisons that make a 15 year life sentence more than sufficient.
MegaVolcano 8 months ago
Everyone realizes americans are stupid spoiled pigs. When we lose our power grid, we will become animals. See where god is then.
Revolution2pointO 8 months ago
Americans are either Very very dumb or very very smart. We don't have too many people in the middle. Example of smart people in America: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Dumb: Ray Comfort.
MacHead31 8 months ago
@MacHead31 Ray Comfort is from New Zealand. The kiwi's can claim that dim ray of sunshine. Although if you're looking for an example of a born and bred dumb American... Rick Perry comes to mind.
razredge07 7 months ago
@razredge07 AH CRAP! You're right! Sonova....
AidestheKiwi 6 months ago
Most Americans like there news mashed and spoon-fed.
~an American
mAjOrPaYnE67 9 months ago
@hempartist420
But often there is still preventive custody. Or they get more than 15 years. It´s not like these countries have murderers, rapists etc. running free everywhere. I would guess Norway is a much safer country than the USA, is it not?
lanzelotz26 10 months ago
As far as Norway goes I can not say that a life sentence of 15 years is good. Is that what she was saying or did I hear it wrong. If that's what a life sentence is in Norway then I think that's horrible.
lhurien 10 months ago
Why do the most secular and intelligent countries have to be so bloody cold??
skywize 10 months ago
Americans arent that bad. i play weekly poker with a dude from LA here in sydney australia, and hes perfectly normal
sammygee17 11 months ago
@sammygee17 The majority of Americans are braindead, about 15% of them are of or above average intelligence.
HoLOLcaust 9 months ago
@HoLOLcaust that's not true. There was a study done of national IQ averages, and the USA was at about 100. That would mean we're about average. South Korea had the highest average IQ, but it was only a few points higher than this. 103 I think.
tron81 9 months ago
@tron81 You're saying that the average intelligence of the average American is, well, average?
I bet it took a real rocket scientist to work that one out :)
bizarreabomination 8 months ago
@bizarreabomination well the average intelligence of many African countries is actually below the world average of 100.
tron81 8 months ago
Ok, im from Norway and this got way out of hand. We arent that good at "saving the planet". In fact, last year one of our cities, Bergen, people were asked to just use to car every second day. People objected like there was no tommorow, LOL.
gulbirk 11 months ago
@gulbirk Good point. People are still selfish jerks, whether they live in Norway or somewhere else,
Sabohaque 11 months ago
@gulbirk In my country even asking would be out of the question, hell even thinking it. I believe --norway and its neighbours are much more civilized and advanced than southern europe and the US
lili9000c 11 months ago
@lili9000c Well this is how I see it. If you cant do it, its no reason to ask for it. They didnt manage to pull it of her in norway, and they never will as long as people act like they do today.
gulbirk 11 months ago
I hate calls like this, and I find it almost impossible to jump on the "Yurop is better lolz" bandwagon, and this is coming from a dyed-in-the-wool liberal and activist for Obama.
I wonder what this caller thinks of the economic meltdown that Ireland is currently going through right now? Oh right, as long as she gets her free shit everything is just peach. That kind of lolling, complacent selfishness should stay in Europe.
I'd take America, even if its flawed, rather than think like that.
F33bs 1 year ago
@F33bs please spell it: europe, you look like a dumbass writing like that. Second Id like to say that you say europe as if it was one country, no it is not, we have so many different mentalities in so little space here like nowhere else
BlackMetalWorld 1 year ago
and to bad the earth was not only made by Slartibartfast i would like a world made with 100s of fjords where ever you are
bjam89 1 year ago
NORWAY RUIES ...yay...and that is how far i will go with Patriotism
bjam89 1 year ago
I love my country. I am a patriot. I want my country to go back to its roots. Not Palin roots, real roots. Not slavery. That is evil. But go back to its secular roots.
PatrioticEagle50 1 year ago
I'm from Canada and I can tell you everyone here views Americans like borderline-psychotic religious zealots with the education level of a fourth-grader who don't understand why nobody on this planets likes them anymore...
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever Well that is an over-generalization of a large, diverse, population that shows ignorance can exist in any society. This "looking down" upon Americans based on stereotypes is no more fair than an American assuming all Canadians like hockey and are passive politically and physically. Granted there are idiots in my nation just as there are in every nation, but until you know everyone personally in a nation it is wrong to judge a nation's people.
ajax515 1 year ago
@ajax515 ... But... Don't Americans DO think Canadians are hockey-nuts, moose-eating political doormats?
It's important how the general population perceives the people of another nation or culture. It's that perception that will determine how they will be willing to act towards this nation. If you tell a starving, hard-working people that their neighbors are lazy, fat, egocentric idiots, that will determine how they will act towards them. Add that God hates them and voilà, suicide-bombers.
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever Um, no. Not in all seriousness. Maybe as a joke. The perception is shaped by international media and other false sources that skew reality. I'm not saying that there aren't certain Americans who fit the stereotype, but they aren't even in the majority. If you base your perceptions of a nation of over 300 million people on that then with all due respect it is you who is being ignorant.
ajax515 1 year ago
@ajax515 That's not the point.
What a country really is matters little to people outside that country. All they have to work with is the image that is presented to them. Canada, per example, used to be seen as peace-makers and international mediators. That image changed over the last 15 years, when the government started aligning their politics on American politics.
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever Honestly, I'm not going to lie about who I am abroad or home. If people in other countries want to blame me for what some asshole politicians do they can kiss my ass. EU politics is just as corrupt and just as involved in all the bullshit that goes on in this world. The assholes that control America control all of our continent, Europe, Africa,and Asia. They also control the religions on this planet.
ajax515 1 year ago
@ajax515 They don't want to "blame you", they just work with what information they have. People point at America because it's the #1 Power on the planet. Americans should start worrying about the image they project.
Between spoiled wh*res like Paris Hilton & Britney Spears, heartless corporations, corrupted businessmen, war-mongering politicians and religious zealots... We're getting a bit far from the Defenders of Democracy of the Land of Freedom, don't you think?
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever Why should it be my countries responsibility to help yours. I'm all down for helping someone else that is American. But I am not ashamed of saying I don't have a problem not helping other countries. Honestly you don't know very much about us. We should be the defenders of this Republic and this land which is free. If we acted like Switzerland. Getting into no one's business we be better off that way too. I'd rather have a spoon full of rice going to an American kid.
BaldEagle841 1 year ago
@BaldEagle841 No one is asking for your help
You're not getting what I'm saying. Americans walk all over the globe, either making people suffer or projecting the image that they make others suffer... And, just like you, most Americans don't seem to care. If you are all about defending your own borders and your personal interests, then there is no significant difference between you and, let's say, South Korea.
You have people starting to believe that it would be a good thing if China became #1
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever I don't care if China becomes number one in the World. America for me is still going to be for me number 1. An yeah I don't care up to the point that American life's are lost. A man who wont read has no advantage over one that can't. China can have the luxury of being number 1. An America can sit back and relax. Doesn't sound so bad to me. It about time Superman takes off his boots. Better American education. Better American jobs with more of them. Let the world have a lesson.
BaldEagle841 1 year ago
@BaldEagle841 ... You're a really strange person.
I care if my country's army goes to another country and starts killing people. I care if corporations of my country open factories somewhere else and hires children and poisons their environment. I care if my politicians go out there and promote their personal agendas.
You don't?
Matt is right: there's something really wrong with you, people.
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever I'm a strange person. Is that the best you've got. I think you are strange and everyone else is strange that holds America accountable for everything. Ah own up Asia, Europe, South America and a Country to the North. You government and the countries in these regions made deals with America. We didn't force anything down any ones throats. They ate it smiled and asked for more sir. So don't just blame my country everyone that trades with us. Hold the equal responsibility.
BaldEagle841 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever So you can say there is something wrong with America fine. No skin off my hide. Any name in the book I don't care. Stick and stones break my bones, but names with never hurt me. Besides it just shows how childish one is. America stops giving 25 billion per year. Close its doors and stop everything we do that involves 199 other countries. An at the same time kick the United Nations out of New York city. 308 million people we can survive on our own. Later strange dude.
BaldEagle841 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever Actually I do. I want my government to send troops to combat religious fundamentalism and defend the rights of self-government and freedom of speech across the world. You don't? Seems to me that you are the strange one, refusing to make the sacrifices for poor people in other countries that your ancestors unflinchingly made for you.
F33bs 1 year ago
@F33bs TIP: To prevent religious fundamentalism, avoid sending in soldiers to kill the populace, so that the survivors view you as an enemy and the terrorists as their only hope of fighting you (also avoid funding extremist groups so that they turn on you at some point, but that's another matter).
Thinking that the soldiers are there to promote democracy and freedom is willful ignorance at this point. Those boys are dying so you can feel better about yourself. Shame on you.
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever The propaganda is strong within this one. Canada doesn't put much stock by way of education these days, does it?
I suppose leaving a region to the hands of a dictator that your country installed would be a more preferable, agreeable outcome? Anything to preserve and conserve money for our "domestic agendas." Such implicitly racist sentiments seem to get broad consensus from white "liberals" these days. I wonder why.
F33bs 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever They work on stereotypes and high level politics. Did they vote on Iraq in a general election? No, because we have just as little to do with it as people in other countries. Paris Hilton has nothing to do with any of this. Whores like her are the image the elite project, elitists from all over the world do. Blaming the people of America for that is horseshit.
ajax515 1 year ago
@ajax515
I travel from time to time and I can tell you it's important to identify yourself as Canadian, not American. It's unbelievable the difference of treatment you'll get. I traveled to Europe, Mexico and Dominican Republic and people aren't happy to see Americans there.
Not all Americans are fat, lazy and arrogant, far from it, but it's what the general public outside the country gets as their image... The same way Muslims, in the vast majority, couldn't care less about blowing stuff up.
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever I'd really love to know why Canada and European countries think of America as a nation of just white culture, when America is a mish-mash of different ethnicities. I think it's a byproduct of Old World racism that still pools around the upper crusts of Euro-elitism, and drips down to poor, working stiffs like you who try to latch on to it to gain some kind of cultural identity for yourself. Jealousy, in other words.
Must suck to be that vacuous. Oh well, at least I'm American.
F33bs 1 year ago
@F33bs ... Excuse me, I only cross-read this. Too busy google-ing the latest news, you know, about the devastation of Australia and impending civil war that's doomed to happen in the next few days in Libya...
All I've read were a few insult words and defensive comments, so I didn't really pay attention...
Unicron4ever 1 year ago
@Unicron4ever Ha! You lost the high-ground long ago, bud. Good luck with the Googling.
F33bs 1 year ago
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@Unicron4ever Ha! You lost the high-ground long ago, bud. Good luck with the Google-ing.
F33bs 1 year ago
I was born in San Francisco and have been an american my whole life, I have barely even left the country but I do not at all think I live in the greatest country it SUCKS and other countries are way better but I am stuck here.
Zurround100 1 year ago
“Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.”
- Samuel Johnson
Thunderwing88 1 year ago
Well she seemed like a very nice person. And having been to Europe on several occasions, yeah they do kinda look down on America. We have gone horribly wrong in the last 20 or so years, I think it all started when we started rolling back new deal era reforms.
s5b678 1 year ago
Agree with anything said here.
Most of Europeans look at America with pity.
Londron 1 year ago 36
@Londron trust me Not just Europe the whole continent of america as well ( other than USA ) and the whole asia
keldius 1 year ago
@keldius
Meh, good point...it's a bit like seeing an old sportmen lose it while he gets beaten more and more by the youth, you feel sorry for him because he tries damn hard but is just no match for them anymore...
Londron 1 year ago
@Londron hey we pity you Europeans too. ;)
tron81 9 months ago
@tron81
I won't get into how retarded it is to use the word "Europeans" as if they're one country...
Londron 9 months ago
@Londron well you have the European Union, right? ;)
tron81 9 months ago
@tron81
My point was mainly that you can't compare for example somebody from Spain with somebody from Sweden. Except for the different language every country has such a different attitude and culture. Hell even somebody from Barcelona who's a Catalan can't be compared to somebody from Madrid.
Though I agree you can divide the US in the bible belt states and the others. Point taken there. But still, people in the US still watch the same media making them have a lot more in common.
Londron 9 months ago
@Londron I'm from germany and I approve that. not only with pity but with laughter, too!
Crosell 8 months ago
@Londron Yes indeed. Lots of pity over here!
-Sweden
nibel13 6 months ago
@Londron It's better than hate and I pity us too! I hope some country comes in to save us when our Government starts random killings on the public at large. Oh, wait a minute, they're already doing that.
raceystacey32566 4 months ago
@Londron
Here, in France, there are so many baby eaters who fornicate so much. In fact, we fornicate while we eat a juicy baby.
maotzetof 4 months ago
Love the reference to Slartibartfast's fjords :)
ltflermy 1 year ago
I stand by the old adage that I love my country, I just hate the people running it.
GermanChocolateCake 1 year ago
@GermanChocolateCake forcing people being a Patriot is a Bad thing
But being patriot in itself is Not a abd thing me too I love My country but sometimes I hate it for his bad decision and so On
keldius 1 year ago
AMERICA TURNED IT'S BACK TO GOD JUST AS YOU HAVE! IF YOU TURN YOUR BACK TO GOD HE WILL TURN HIS BACK TO YOU!!!!!! THIS IS CALLED THE WRATH OF GOD!!!!!
billkropp 1 year ago
@billkropp All caps because it's TRUE! Damn...I just broke my sarcasm button.
GermanChocolateCake 1 year ago
@billkropp If everyone in America became a proponent of your particular flavor of religion, then everything will be perfect? And you no doubt believe in the 1st amendment, freedom of Religion, as long as it’s YOUR religion. God made me an atheist, how dare you question his wisdom!
Talamasca124 1 year ago
@billkropp How did you escape your padded cell?
ltflermy 1 year ago
@billkropp
So America hadn't turned it's back to God when it was enslaving Africans. It's back was not turned to God when the Native Americans were being killed and their land stolen. America didn't turn its back on God when a black man could be lynched in full view of the public for looking at a white woman. So, what has America done to turn it's back on God that could possibly be worse than those things?
VigilanteNighthawk 1 year ago 28
@VigilanteNighthawk Not Killing enough of Foreigner Outside their own country after all USA is God chosen people no ?
keldius 1 year ago
@VigilanteNighthawk
I think I'll go for: "Invading quite a few countries that were never any threat to America, setting up a 'terrorist attack' that killed 3000 of their own citizens. And some other things..."
netoupload 7 months ago
@VigilanteNighthawk Incredibly well said man.
AgowTisro 6 months ago
@billkropp
bad things happen to you don't they?
LuminousTruth 1 year ago
@billkropp i dunno if ur trollin or being funny.
BLUEC0RE 1 year ago
@billkropp wrath is a sin jealousy is a sin greediness is a sin so your god is a sinner
keldius 1 year ago
:30 martins in love
drinkmoresoda 1 year ago
I'm a Christian, and personally, I respect you guys ("the atheist experience") quite a bit. You're all very kind people and you don't just blow off religious people and rub your ideals in their faces, even when they do it to you. You guys actually attempt to have an intellectual conversation with your callers.
So, props, and even though you probably don't care, i'll pray for your well-being.
EuphoriaMusicSession 1 year ago 4
@EuphoriaMusicSession
I just wanted to say, that this is the first time I've heard a theist tell an atheist that they would pray for them without it sounding like code for f-you. Thank you.
VigilanteNighthawk 1 year ago
Why am I not surprised that a girl from Belfast would be opposed to Bush's liberating IRaq from Saddam?
captwasabi 1 year ago
Martin Wagner (the 'other' guy who is sitting beside Matt Dillahunty) likes to listen to himself talk and he typically doesn't know when to shut his trap. Several of the other co-hosts suffer from a smilar affliction and if I had my druthers I would prefer that Matt Dillahunty was the only host.
comingatchu 1 year ago
What is the begging song called? So bad ass!
CheeseBread67 1 year ago
I didn't know that Matt served in the military. Interesting.
freethinker923 1 year ago
She talks too kindly about us Norwegians. I agree that we do a lot of things right, but we still have a state church, we are one of the most consuming countries in the world per person, we are very selfish when it comes to sharing our riches etc.
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten Who says you have to share your riches? Where did this altruistic image of human nature come from? What does one nation owe to any other nation?
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi By your logic every nation should keep to themselves, which would mean that no one outside the US would get to drink Coke, no one outside Britain would be able to read the Harry Potter books and so on. Or more importantly, food and stuff like that. You can't deny the fact that in the modern society we depend on other people, on other nations. Helping those who have less than us ultimately helps the human race, which is the biological goal of everything (cont.)
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@captwasabi (cont.) All this without even mentioning moral and ethics. It is morally correct to help other people, and when there is no law that say we must, there are several norms that say we should.
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten Your entire argument is based on emotional standing, not fact. Come back when you have some facts to share. I fail to see how my helping Mexico helps me. I fail to see how my helping an African nation helps me. What helps me is keeping more of our food and more of our money and more of our jobs within our borders such that my country men have food and have jobs and it is THAT which makes my life better. Not helping some other country but helping my country men.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi (cont.) I realize that it seams incredibly unlikely that any major disaster will happen in the neer future, but in the big picture great disasters happen all the time.
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten Yes and the US is often one of the first nations on scene but let's take BP for example. It was the self-reliant nations who were able and willing to send help despite the billions of dollars we have sent to Africa for huamitarian aid. Your claim that we benefit from the sharing of resources is completely wrong.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi Because you are looking at it in a scale of a few years to a few decades. How many times do I have to say this: The human RACE, not you as an individual, profits from cooperation. Try to look beond your little sphere, it's not about you, it's about us. There is a reason why we stick together in communities. We need other people to survive. You can't argue that we'd be bether off alone, because many have tried that and they didn't really get much out of it.
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten Where do you get this bullshit from? Rome prosered because it conquored. As did Spain, England, China, The Germanics. Even the vikings. What fucking bullshit are you talking about? Name one culture that prospered because it worked with other people. you're fucking delusional.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi The U.S.? Where would the U.S. be today without international trade? No where, that's where. The Roman empire collapsed because it became too big to hold with military power alone. England did the same thing, as with all the colonial powers. No millitary regime has lasted, while those who traded and were peaceful and helpful have. Sweden hasn't been involved in a war since 1905, and we're talking of a war so small that about a hundered people died. Sweden is now one of the (cont.)
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten You have managed to completley shift your argument from one where people do not share enough when you said that your country is "very selfish when it comes to sharing our riches" to one where mutual cooperation best serves humanity. Nice try but it's not going to work. There is no moral requirement that one group helps another. If the act of helping provides some sort of positive to the assiting party then great.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi I agree that there is no moral requirement - moral is created by the society to make it easier to live alongside eachother, thus moral is relative. My argument was always, and I was clear about this, divided into two tings: The relative morals and the objective strugle for survival. I never mixed those two together.
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@captwasabi (cont.) richest countries in the world. Cooperation is beneficial in the long run, standing by yourself isn't.
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten Let me put this in other words. The majority are better served when the minority, or the individual, does the heavy lifting. As proof, I offer unto you penicilin, pace makers, cellular phones, the internet, the internal combustion engine, vulcanized rubber and a billion other inventions that you could not possibly recreate on your own and yet your life is better for them. And why is that? Because people like Volta, Edison and the Wrights did not work for the betterment of society
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi (cont.) the technology we have today. The human race is a social race. We depend on cooperation for survival. In the long run we benefit from sharing the riches.
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Imagine this scenario. The western world ignores the suffering people in the world. Most of them die. Then some disaster happens in the norhtern hemisphare; new ice age, meteor, whatever... Who shal we turn to then? If everyone on earth lives about equally we will have someone to turn to in times of need (cont.)
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten Bullshit! American was the first on scene when the tsumani hit. You think anyone from that region is going to come to our resuce should we need it? America pumps billions of dollars into Africa. You think the next time an American city is leveled by an earthquake that Zaire will be sending assistance? Pull your head out of your ass child. There is no equality in the real world.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@Jostedalsosten They worked for themselves. To see if it could be done. To make money. Every major socialist country has either failed utterly or is kept together by an oppressive leading party, which again often happens to be a minority. The largest explosions in life quality improving innovation has been under less regulatory governments that encouraged the individual to succeed over the majority.
captwasabi 1 year ago
@captwasabi I said it helps humanity as a race, not you as an idividual. Besides, many socialist countries are succesful: Norway and the rest of Scandinavia, for instnace, are considered the best countries in the world to live in, and they are very socialistic. As for your proof, where would the internet be if no one had invented electricity first? Or computers? The truth is that the scientific community is very cooperative and if everyone cared only for themselves we would never have (cont.)
Jostedalsosten 1 year ago
funny cuz matt and the rest of the show are great people. mostly very fun loving.
TrueAgnosticMetal 1 year ago
I am from Norway. And i think americans problems in most cases is that they belive that there's eather capitalism or there's comunism, and there is no inbetween.
My political wievs would be considered somewhere in the middle on the norwegian political scale. But if i were to move to the US (still with the same political wievs) my political wievs would be considered so far to the left of theire scale that most people there would actualy belive me to be a comunist.
anonymepelle 1 year ago 8
@anonymepelle That largely depends on the region in which you found yourself on these shores.Coastal U.S.---with few exceptions from N.Carolina on the E.Coast---espouses more Leftist-Progressive views population-wise.Ideologically,you'd be viewed as a Socialist,which would be most anathemic only among core Conservatives and are definitively pro-Patriotist.
djnross 1 year ago
@anonymepelle That's very true ... I would second that ... and religion is out of control.
paperfreeck 9 months ago
I am an American living in Australia, and I completely sympathize and agree with this caller. America is not as great as most Americans believe.
jymbo1969 1 year ago 4
ANOTHER video that references "Why you don't die when the Sun goes down"...
Wow, that video must be iconic...
1RadicalOne 1 year ago
Love that caller, grew up in the UK so I understand what she's talking about. However I have to attack the one point, and this is a main reason I decided to be an american especially an atheist american, is the idea she briefly mentions about being entitled to the same things as people who work harder than you. I feel that the only ideas that back that belief are rooted in jewdaochristian (sorry, late cant be bothered to figure out how to spell that) beliefs and are inherently irrational.
Risingtide2 1 year ago
@Risingtide2 Some things you should be entitled to regardless of the size of your income though. Medical care being one such thing.
I agree at some level that the size of your income should be affected by the aspects of how much you work and what kind of work you do, but basic rights should be a separate issue from income.
Nails077 1 year ago
there should be a religion called jenovah's witness where we worship our messiah sephiroth and cloud is the equivalent of the devil.
this is not to be taken seriously of course
t3rr411 1 year ago
fjords designed by Slartibartfast!!! Yes, I love Matt - Hitchhikers is the best :)
Zyauna 1 year ago
if anyone can give me the link with the calller who asks about not getting electricuted in the shower plz!
hamaszg 2 years ago
@hamaszg
right here:
watch?v=AcOgTVwjzkc&feature=related
bryguy95 2 years ago
I don't see any reason to take pride on your birth of place. If people on your country do good things, you should be proud of THEM, not the country.
shideshide 2 years ago 27
@shideshide Exactly!!
FM897 1 year ago
Oscar Wilde said "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious".
i pretty much agree.
Zentz29 2 years ago 5
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Joseph Stalin, Short hair: 20 million plus dead
Mao-Tse-Tung, Short hair: 40 million plus dead
Adolf Hitler, Short hair: 10 million plus dead
Pol Pot, Short hair: 2 million dead
Kim-Il-Sung, Short hair: 5 million dead
Fidel Castro, Short hair: 1 million dead
Maximilien Robespierre, father of secular France, Slightly longer hair: 40,000 dead
DuTriDu 2 years ago 2
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Joseph Stalin, Atheist: 20 million plus dead
Mao-Tse-Tung, Atheist: 40 million plus dead
Adolf Hitler, Atheist: 10 million plus dead
Pol Pot, Atheist: 2 million dead
Kim-Il-Sung, Atheist: 5 million dead
Fidel Castro, Atheist: 1 million dead
Maximilien Robespierre, father of secular France, Atheist: 40,000 dead
antideception 2 years ago
I don't think it should be a proud thing to serve in the military.
EclecticSceptic 2 years ago
Yeah I don't see why people think that the land that they just so happened to be born on says something about themself
(woohoo 10,000 view!:D)
BeatNick13 2 years ago 3
some people are just born rational and logical thinkers. When I was a child I found it really hard to believe the bible too, It just reminded me too much of a fairy tale. I wasn't really forced into the religion thing either.
lastmondaypast1 2 years ago 75
@lastmondaypast1 My brother was telling me how when he heard the story of the flood when he was 6, he just thought it was a story. He told me it just sounded like a bunch of bullshit lol
sk8tafrnk 1 year ago
I have thought about this before; that I may be very liberal in the US, but in other countries my beliefs would be considered moderate or even conservative. I certainly do not believe that someone who commits pre-meditated murder (or worse) deserves to ever get out of prison (I'm not going to say what I think should happen to child rapists). At the same time, I think all drug use should be legalized, and the fact that you can do 15 years for killing someone in a car ACCIDENT is ridiculous.
Celephaith 2 years ago 3
@Celephaith, 15 years for an accident?? Yes, that is insane.
Liberal seems to be a dirty word in the U.S. while I see it as an ideal; a balance of freedom and compassionate caring. Having lived in Amsterdam for many years, I agree with you on drugs. Their tolerance of marihuana means users know who they get it from, but hard drugs no; disastrous.
You'd think the powers that be would have learned from Prohibition, how that created a massively powerful crime network
queenastilon 2 years ago
I am so pleased to hear rational people stating that blind patriotism is NOT a good thing.
You can only be proud of your own efforts and achievements - not someone else's, and not of the history where (as they said here) you happened to have been born
queenastilon 2 years ago 5
I like Norway but it does disturb me when I read about a vicious murderer over there only getting 15 years in prison then freed. Some people need to be locked up for life.
DavidLouisRozycki 2 years ago 3
If you mean Mullah Krekar then you should know; most norwegians wanna see'em rip his head off and throw it in the river too, for ONCE, I'd hav'to say UNFORTUNEATELY death sentence isn't procedure in Norway.
I like Norway too,so glad I live here =)
David1531992 2 years ago
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ctvwr 2 years ago
8:58 Right... was suspicious dont you think?
alexander33345 2 years ago
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Deadleader555 2 years ago
Universal healthcare is very important. The sign of a just and strong society!
wespozo 2 years ago 5
damn she sounds sexy
illyas1 2 years ago
Patriotism is for morons. The fact that humans in their human arrogance and idiocy divided the planet into little chunks with different societies doesn't change the fact that it's still one planet.
The entire planet is my home.
Shavarnarak 2 years ago 117
I mostly agree with you. I agree that people who are "blindly patriotic," advocating that America is the best because America is the best etc are morons, much like Matt said in the video. I also think we should think we are citizens of the planet, like you said.
However, having been abroad and studied in depth about other countries and cultures, I can say that America isn't so bad off, and I'm proud to be an American.
bonanzaguy04 2 years ago
Loud obnoxious patriotism is for morons, but there's nothing wrong with finding solidarity with the culture of your country and those who helped shape it.
HiveDes 2 years ago 2
@HiveDes Well, there can be something wrong with that. It's what makes ghettos when immigrants to any country hold on vehemently to the culture of their motherland, when they do it to the exclusion of their adopted country.
And rallying around the flag is only useful if you, as a leader, want to feed your sheep propaganda to get them behind a war you're declaring, or something
queenastilon 2 years ago 3
And the universe my garden... ^^
Acrimonator 2 years ago
@Shavarnarak I think divided societies are still needed though. Every region of the world has different cultures and mindsets for a reason; it's because of seasonal differences, resource differences, etc, so it would be really difficult to get everyone under one government or mindset.
RockBanned 1 year ago
@Shavarnarak omg i love you. finally someone else that share my thoughts on this subject! :>
Uberboy07 1 year ago
@Shavarnarak Yeah, that would be nice.. What if all the Muslims thought about that?
Patriotism can be good, if it isn't blind and faith like, without knowing and studying what your country does and has done.
If a state or country does good, creates a peaceful and rational society its people should be proud.
Martial024 1 year ago
@Shavarnarak And I am in agreement with that statement. It is just disgusting!
Shawn21769 1 year ago
@Shavarnarak That's my home too!
nowrryz 1 year ago
@Shavarnarak Thats a slap to everyone that has died in order to put you in the position your in. But that is showing your human arrogance and idiocy. The world wouldn't be how it is right now with out patriotism. I'm saying all the way back until time was time. You may say these great things but thats not living in a realistic world. Why would any one really share with you if you have nothing that benefits them? How do you assume people get a job. Or how Americans stick with their own.
BaldEagle841 1 year ago
Another excellent call. The more I see of this show the more I appreciate it.
trifelgeputinage 2 years ago
Mortison99799 -
However, in the case of dominant personality, a case could also be made that some societies dominant personality traits are ingrained in what is non-formally taught in culture. Such as here in the U.S. - with the alpha male typed gender role being widely shown in culture as good or ideal.
jared10ant 2 years ago
The study that I heard of is very recent. Thus, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to use a documentary made before, to refute later experiments.
As I said before, it would be difficult to make a genetic case for bad behavior. Bad behavior is a known function of countless social forces. Thus, even if such genes were hypothetically present, this does not guarantee that a person is inherently more badly behaved.
jared10ant 2 years ago