well isnt it just a little weird that the only time the chalk didnt hit the ground, is when the first person in years stood up for his faith in jesus?? obviously the proffesor left the room for some reason, he was amazed, if it isnt truly that amazing like u said then why would he have left in amazement huh? answer me that? i love you lord
U guys dont understand the point of the bible, it was created to teach morals and to show people the way to live with responsibility instead of doing watever the fuck u want and feeling nothing after it
That's why we have government, some mystical man in the sky doesn't give us morals, no religion gives us morals. We know whats right from wrong, not from a 'God', but as part of survival. Humans, like any animal, do what we have to, to survive. Don't be a fool, throw 5 people on a deserted island, with enough food for only 1 to survive, and try tell me what happens. It's all part of survival, no magic man in the sky gives me morals.
I choose option 3: Laugh uncontrollably at your total idiocy. Go to bed with my atheism stronger than ever. Get up in the morning feeling great because I know there are bigger dipshits out there who believe a zombie jew is the son of god and worship a 2,000 year old book that sounds like a Mad Libs filled out by retarded monkeys on LSD
It sounds like another good email chain letter.....i liked the story but the ending is pure chance,dont really prove nothing about god,people are good at telling stories.
@spedracer93 (cont) In addition, there are similarities between the "chalk story" and a story titled "70 Years of Miracles" by Richard Harvey. In this story, there was no philosophy teacher but a chemistry teacher, and instead of a piece of chalk, there was a flask. Your thoughts?
@spedracer93 According to TruthOrFiction, and other groups who investigate internet roumers, they have never found any evidence that an incident of this nature has taken place. USC has officially denied that this ever happened. Besides verbal denouncement of the e-mail, there are facts that prove that the e-mail couldn't be true. The only philosophy classes that have 300 students or have been around for 20 years do not discuss God's existence.
right then he doesnt exist if they are wrong he does remember idk if this scripture exists sorry but im too lazy to go through the bible and check but you guys can
K guys well i see theres a handful of atheists and christians here but let me assure you im neither i am agnostic though i have some ammount of christian knowledge so im sure all of you have heard about the world ending though this could be theoretical trash lets say it does end no immediately maybe the earth falling apart or something beyond my immagination but i heard (dont know keep that in mind) that theres a part in the bible tnat god only knows the when its time if the scientists are...
So a freshman prayed to an invisible man for courage. Fuck sake, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD. PEOPLE NEED TO GET THERE COURAGE FROM THEMSEVLES. PRAYING TO GET COURAGE IS STUPID.
It's a nice story, although it's credibility is very questionable. I'm very sure people watch this video to disprove it. Well, from the three pages I saw it was ridiculed a lot. Once world class atheists sincerely look into Christianity, they convert. Quite a few world class atheists already have. Please keep an open heart, and an open mind.
Jesus Christ is real. He will give everyone a new mind and new ways. He can change anyone and forgive everyone. If most of the world walked in the ways of Christ by trusting in Christ then the world would be a better place. It would almost be a place of bliss. Choose today, do you want righteousness thru Christ, or do you want to go your own way and sin. Today is the day
I believe this acount. through my life i have seen many things that only God has done in my life. For I am a follower of Jesus Christ and Saved by the blood alone. For that is the only thing that I have too plee before the throne of God. Other wise we would not be fit to go to Heaven. The blood is the only way.
@rodyman11 Seriously? It's a piece of chalk? Granted the professor in this story (if it's real) was a big douche about it, that's not how you go about demonstrating the existence of something supernatural. So the chalk was saved once out of a hundred? That's not divine intervention, that's chance. Eventually, something different will happen, this is dictated by statistics and probability of large objects and even in quantum mechanics. What have you seen? God himself? Angels? Anything?
If that story is true, all it proved is that statistcs works and anomalities happen. I don't quite believe that the professor didn't take into account the possibility that the piece of chalk would get "lucky" one day. A real, scientificly-thinking professor would choose an experiment with the chalk just falling on the ground, not breaking. I think it's one of the "My uncle didn't believe in god and died in an accident" stories. Emotional, touching, yet utterly stupid and untrue.
Oh for fucks sake, this old nugget of stupidity doing the rounds again?
I just wonder if anyone truly is stupid enough to fall for it? If so then good... You are clearly too stupid to be a normal person and oyu obviously need to have an insivible friend.
1. If no one had stood up in twenty years, how did they know what he would say if they did? 2. A piece of chalk dropped onto tile will break into no more than two pieces...don't exaggerate 3. If his goal was to disprove the existence of God, why did he ask if anyone still believed in Jesus? These are related, but distinct. 4. If you want people to believe in God, it ill behooves you to encourage thinking. 5. This story is a huge load of horsecrap. How dare you isult my intelligence?
I'll take option # 3 . call it a coinsidence that the chalk behaved that way and write it up to a phisical phenomenon called gravity and motion and keep on thinking that is super unlikeley for any god to exist .The man dropped the chalk at the wrong point in time , that's all , it slipped out of his hand . What the fuck does that proof.....NOTHING !
Now, faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see 2 this is what the ancients were commanded for 3 by faith we understand that the earth was formed at Gods command so that was is seen was not made out of what was visible-- Hebrews 11:1-3
whenever im feeling doubtful i remember this verse, we shouldnt have to have proof, the bible says that those who have not seen but believe are blessed, Faith is the only thing we have to go on, the bible-shield God- defender
This proves nothing. It slipped, if he wanted to be sure, he wouldve picked it back up and dropped it again. If it slipped again, maybe then I'd be convinced.
@DakarraD well isnt it just a little weird that the only time the chalk didnt hit the ground, is when the first person in years stood up for his faith in jesus?? obviously the proffesor left the room for some reason, he was amazed, if it isnt truly that amazing like u said then why would he have left in amazement huh? answer me that? i love you lord
JESUS CHRIST, HIS CATHOLIC-UNIVERSAL-APOSTOLIC CHURCH, SACRAMENTS, THE BIBLE, MIRACLES, HEALINGS, ST. MARY APPARITIONS, MESSAGES FROM HEAVEN, SIGNS IN 2011 ARE NOT A MYTHOLOGY BUT THE REALITY !!!
@SoLetThisGunBindUs Well apparently he seemed to have a pretty good grip on the chalk for a number of years. So maybe just maybe it was God's work. Just because you believe in God does not make you a troll or stupid. God is real, some do not see his work because they believe they know all. However, that is a false wisdom. The only true wisdom is through God.
All of this at first blush seems plausible till you you factor in chaos theory and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which allows for such a random occurrence to happen which give no validity to the premise either way. I've dropped a glass on a hard concrete floor and it did not break, should I thus conclude god interfered or that is was a random occurance?
@BelievingInTheTruth most of history has proof...buildings, independent accounts of past events, bones found at the sites of ancient battles, etc. Find me one proof of this Yeshua guy you're so hot on.
@sparklekim101 so give up on all the fruits of science, then, since science directly contradicts your holly bibble. Man, I wanna see how solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short your life is...calling Leviathan!
@sparklekim101 yep, that's exactly what we're saying...you seem to have a problem with demanding proof. By the way, you must give me all your money, because I say so...what?!? You're indignant, you want proof! You heathen piece of crap!
@sparklekim101 bulls**t...if you had, and you have even average intelligence, you'd HAVE to notice the contradictions in it. If you want a list of contradictions, look at the website Skeptics Annotated Bible dot com...and read down the topics in the right column....then come back and tell me if your mind is changed, or petrified.
@shadapple if you examined asteroids and comets, you'd find the ingredients of humanity, too....they're all, except for hydrogen and helium, forged in the hearts of stars...so who cares if they're in clay, too...the trace amounts are so insignificant as to be useless.
@shadapple I do see people opening churches and following Scientology...and that's a far more recent belief. Harry Potter was written as fiction, and has a devoted fan base even if nobody opens churches to him, and Scientology is a mind fuck just as bad as any other religion, and worse than most. Your point?
@shadapple yeah, Chris Hitchens, for one, proved you wrong...atheist to his dying day, and a fighter against religion the entire time, even while in pain from esophageal cancer.
@shadapple The epic of Gilgamesh came before the Bible, speaking of *his* deities, like Asherah and Enki...so by your logic, your holly bibble has to prove it's correct, rather than Gilgamesh...I'm waitin'
@shadapple really, how many xtians have been killed by atheists in the first world in the past, say, 500 years or so? Compared to the Crusades and the Inquisition, not to mention lynching of Christian Blacks in the American SouthEast for demanding civil rights and flouting the holly bibbles permission for slavery....oh, yeah, atheists are FAR worse than xtians (rolls eyes)
@shadapple so you're going to give up all creature comforts, including the Internet? I kinda doubt it....all of that science that gave you those creature comforts is the same method that produced the theory of evolution, basing it on repeated observations across multiple fields of science. So give up the creature comforts, or be a hypocrite for using the fruits of science while being a denier.
@shadapple did they do the same for the Lord of the Rings or any other epic, like say that of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, the Song of Roland, or maybe even Harry Potter? When you're writing fiction, you can throw in all sorts of improbably things, and probably will, because they make the story interesting.
@shadapple e.coli isn't all harmful, some of it is useful gut bacteria...try again on that one. And your hypnotizing comment means that people are being hypnotized by what's logical, provable, repeatable, and has predictive value? I dunno if that's hypnotism or a survival trait.
@shadapple nonsense. If you were looking for truth, you would see it. You're seeking comfort, so that's what you're getting....trying to convince others and failing is just part of the pain of your delusion.
@shadapple you idiot, people have been saying exactly what you're saying since Pliny the Elder, 2000 odd years ago....and you know what? They've ALWAYS been wrong...just like your holly bibble.
@shadapple Oh, don't get me started! Check out the Skeptic's Annotated Bible, and work your way down the topics in the right column...then come on back.
@shadapple yeah, bullshit...when atheism is given such a bad reputation that most people trust atheists less than rapists, when prayers are forced in school and the military, where people don't have a choice to tell the pray-er to go fuck off....Noooooo, that's not *enforcing* the rules of your nasty book of fairy tales on us....WTF do you use for thinking, anyway?
@shadapple nope, we spend our lives fighting *people* who demand the right to tell us to live our lives by their book of vicious fairy tales that isn't even internally consistent. We want to live our lives according to logic and reason, and you want to be allowed to persecute us because we disagree with you....ain't that worth fighting against?
@444614 Peppered Moths in London. Those whose attributes are best suited to conditions are more likely to survive and reproduce. Random mutations (those that aren't immediately lethal...not all mutations are immediately lethal) provide for the variation in attributes that will be controlled by selection by environmental factors.
@444614 yep, with one difference. Evolutionary theory has explanatory and predictive power....religion can't predict things even AFTER they happen (like a celibate priesthood will attract pedophiles & the churchcult will have to cover up or lose its moral authority)
@ashnaytay really? how often does it reply in some fashion that can't be explained away by random chance, another person being kind, or your own internal strength? And I'm horrible and rude because I want to live a life of logic and reason? By your standards, you shouldn't use any of the fruits of science because they aren't in your bible, and that includes the 'Net and even a typing keyboard.
@rena785 it's a one-way relationship, and any strength you derive from it comes from inside yourself, and our belief is just you giving yourself permission to exercise it.
@swissshawn so you pass on harmful, possibly false information?!? You malicious gossip, you! And remind me not to let you anywhere near children...you'd let them play with knives.
@shadapple Yep, because there's no such thing...when you're dead, the only immortality is in the minds of those you've touched, whether in person or by leaving some recording profound enough it endures. Your fairy tale of pie in the sky when you die by and by is just that, a fairy tale, and is enforced by a fear of an equally nonexistent Hell to keep the rubes like you in line.
@shadapple again, so this bible is correct because this bible *says* it's correct. By that standard, I can tell you you should give me all your worldly wealth and become my slave *because* I say so.
I kind of doubt you'd accept the second proposition...so why accept the first? Pascal's Wager, or some such? That's just hedging, not true belief.
@sleepingbeauty711 I'll bet you $100 that, if you were afraid for your grade, you'd chicken out...you xtians only take 'chances' that are sure things, then complain about being persecuted when you're denied the right to persecute others.
@shadapple so if we're created in your god's image, and we have free will and the ability to rebel, so does your god....hence it's not perfect. Also, if it's perfect, how did it create a group of beings with the express duty to glorify the creator, to have 1/3 (your fraction) rebel? Sounds like a lousy craftsbeing, either through incompetence or callous disregard.
@shadapple nope, NOT historically or archeologically proven...every time the theists come up with something, it's disproven. And the Romans, who were in charge and were MANIC historians, had nothing to say that matches your bible story. Also, since "proof denies faith", you're committing a heretical act by trying to use logic and not just convince us to believe blindly as you do.
@shadapple this god thing you're talking about is a myth with absolutely NO proof for it....so why exactly should *we* live our lives according to this twisted, horribly misogynistic and chauvanistic tome?
@shadapple so your god created all beings and left in mistakes and traces that would lead humanity, using logic, our strongest tool, to find NO PROOF of a deity. Does this make your god lazy, twisted, not omnipotent, or all of the above?
@shadapple really, then why are the fossils laid down in strata that DIRECTLY CONTRADICT the flood fairy tale (that had been used before by other primitive civilizations disconnected from your people of the holly bibble)? Why does your god hate humanity so much that it lets evidence directly contradicting its word exist in a fashion that evidence-based reasoning is a benefit to humanity?
@shadapple yes, and the dog is doing it in an inappropriate circumstance....but it's done because it feels good, and that's the result of evolutionary processes.
@shadapple uh, it was explained that it fits *very* neatly into evolutionary theory...celibacy is not hereditary, so those who don't experience pleasure are less likely to do it, so eventually most everyone is offspring of organisms that do enjoy sex. That's evolution, you know.
@shadapple really? I wonder what Gregor Mendel would have to say to that? He's the father of modern biology, in case you didn't know. Read up....I'll wait.
@shadapple look at definition b., if you please....'sex' involves the union of male & female germ cells...that's what pollination is....your point, again?
@shadapple trees DO have sex...ever heard of pollination? Single-celled organisms don't NEED to have sex, they can split and form a clone of themselves, and do, when the conditions support it. What's your point?
@shadapple probably because those for whom it wasn't pleasurable didn't....celibacy is hereditary....if your parents didn't have sex, you're likely not to because you don't *exist*. That's evolution, you know.
@shadapple So you're going to give up on all the fruits of the electronics revolution, including the Internet? All of it is based on mathematics and physics that go STRAIGHT against your so-called 'common sense. As for evolution, if you look at the numbers and presumed conditions, it's statistically *likely* that something developed & perished many times, and we're the descendants of what survived. Take a stats course and run the numbers, then tell me how that compares to your common sense.
@shadapple 'Theory' in science has a specific meaning, and that is, "An explanation of observed phenomena THAT HAS TESTABLE PREDICTIVE POWER". As in, it can be falsified if the data don't support it. The customary use of 'theory' in popular speech as, "any idea I pulled out of my a** that I like and want to believe" is, in science, either an idea or a proposition, NOT a theory. With that on the table, care to reformulate?
@shadapple Uh, you're claiming your bible says so...and how do you know? *Because* the bible-book tells you so. That's called circular logic, and is no proof. Meanwhile, go off and read the whole thing, cover to cover, a few times, and note the internal contradictions, and then come back and we'll have a rational discussion about it.
@shadapple Really, and have you ever eaten shellfish? Or worn a mixed fabric? Or cut your beard? Or spoken to a menstruating woman? Read the damn bible-book, and then come back and tell me you obey ALL the rules in it, even the contradictory ones....and then I'll call you a damned liar, as I believe you are now.
@shadapple sure, by living as a craven coward all your days. quoting Shakespeare (who left proof behind that *someone* existed who wrote that which carries his name): "Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once."
@shadapple Uh, how do you *blaspheme* something that DOESN'T EXIST?!? If you're right, one day we'll all face your deity. The balance of probability is that either your god doesn't exist or doesn't give a damn about anything happening in the real world enough to be provably different from random chance. Hence, it doesn't exist, so don't tell me and others who value reason and evidence we must run our lives by your bad book of fables.
@hamoan66boi so why does anybody ever get hurt, anywhere? Why doesn't your god save mice from hawks, prevent disasters, and provide for the poor? I say your god is a lazy-ass slacker, assuming it exists.
@throwawaypersona Maybe we have to prove ourselves. Maybe something is happening in the strange, unknown universe. Personally, I am very curious as to knowing if God exists or not. I was young when I first learned about God and now that I'm 16, I am very curious as to what the universe is hiding. But believing in God for me gives me confidence and this feeling of conviction. I'm like you, I have questions to God's existence. But believing gives a boost of the said above. Whats wrong with that?
@mimiluvsjesus glad you love Jesus....is he good at trimming around the hedges?....Ohhhhhh, you meant the zombie carpenter rabbi.....first, best scholarship has the name used at the time as Yeshua or Joshua, and second, why is there no mention of him that matches the bible-book in the Roman histories of the time? The Romans were practically OCD about accurately recording history and occurrences.
@hamoan66boi Hey idiot, did you *read* the story? All the prof claimed was that a deity could stop the chalk from *falling*, not from any consequences thereof. The chalk fell.
And your point was, again, exactly? Yeah, about what I thought.
@TheElmo1122 and how do you know? Because you've been told your bible tells you so...therefore the bible is correct because the bible says it's correct. Circular logic, and not a proof...I'm assuming it makes you happy, though
@TheElmo1122 Elmo, you nutjob, I've read your bible, cover to cover, repeatedly, and I'd bet you $100 right here and now you haven't, and have no intention of doing so. *MY* belief is that you just want to believe what your thought leaders tell you, and don't put any thought into it. If you'd read the entire xtian bible, and still held the beliefs you profess here, I'd have to wonder about whether it reflects badly on either your sanity or your intellect.
@NoraScout94 When people's beliefs are unfounded in reason, & they claim the right to control *other* people's behavior and opportunities in the name of that mistaken belief, it IS important to oppose them in the name of what is right and good.
@Kasey11293 First, PLEASE STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS! On the Internet, that's referred to as shouting. Second, please learn to avoid run-on sentences. Third, it ISN'T something to joke about when credulous fools believe this & want to run other people's lives based on a fairy tale, and a poorly-written one at that. I *did* go to church, listen to the preacher and read the bible, that's why I'm an atheist. Go read the entire bible, come back, and tell me you feel the same, I dare you.
@smurfsn1p3r4eva Okay, lets say you're holy-book-thumping in your place of worship, and make a rhetorical request/statement that you've made repeatedly over the years. Somebody has the nerve to get up & challenge you in your place of 'power'. Do you mean to tell me that you wouldn't be nonplussed and it wouldn't affect your behavior? Maybe cause you a little discomfort and awkwardness? I don't believe THAT, either.
@smurfsn1p3r4eva ok, let's start slow: THIS IS NOT PROOF. The professor's claim was that a deity could prevent the chalk from *falling*, not from any *consequence* of falling. The chalk fell. So, 2 choices: no god wanted to stop the chalk, or there is no god to stop the chalk, in which case the result would be the same. Occam's Razor says not to complicate explanations unnecessarily...which of the 2 explanations is simpler? Not more *appealing*, just simpler. Hence, I don't believe.
@Premadona2020 You're welcome (though foolish) to believe that, as long as you allow those of us who DON'T believe it to live our lives unmolested by your fantasy.
@7TJB7 So? Show me a true occurrence (with citation) where your deity actually *does* something that can't be explained away by statistics or the benign hand of another person, and maybe you'll have something to crow about. Until then, you're living in a fantasy world, and all I ask is that you leave people who believe as I do (in the rational and provable) *alone*.
As has been mentioned, a competent *philosophy* professor would know, from long years of training, that it's IMPOSSIBLE to prove a negative (the *non*existence of something). It IS possible to conclude that the existence of something is statistically so unlikely as to be impossible.(Like god/s). The chalk fell *and* reached the ground. It wasn't required that the chalk break, so the professor wouldn't have been dumbfounded. This is an appeal to ignorance & emotion, and is useless as a proof.
The author of this video @01:33 assumes only Christians had "slipped through"... What about Jews and Muslims who, 'god forbid' had maybe been granted the brains to have attended college?
Such racist, ignorant, assumption would not even have crossed the mind of a non-theist!
The sooner belief in horoscopes, ghosts, psychics and other 'spiritual ignorance is flushed down the toilet to where it belongs, then all the better for peace, morality and Humanity!
Which god are you referring to? Zeus (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)? or Shiva (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)? or Amun (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)? or Guru Nanak Dev Ji (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)?
Please, please, say WHO?
We are all Atheists... It's just that some of us go one god further!! ;P
damn it I'm sick and tired of irrelevant stories that can be broken down midway through, the chalk did not break because it's fall was broken by rolling down his clothes and off his shoe. If it fell down straight to the ground it would be smashed because of the direct force of the hit.
A. A professor at what many would consider a "liberal" university.
B. Never another religion that's discussed.
C. These events NEVER make the newspaper or evening news although they are supposedly supernatural or radical in occurrence.
D. An attack on a logical or well-reasoned person, as if in order to be religious or believe, one must be illogical, irrational, or otherwise incompetent. You insult yourself.
This was sadly pathetic and based on lies. An old cynical atheist would not have his conviction completely shattered by what was, more than likely, a coincidence. Nor would said cynic run away like a 5-year-old who saw the boogeyman.
Umm... a professor shouting, "You fool!" at his students??? I'm going to have to call BS on this one.
Also, even if I grant this entire silly story, you are saying that, in order to impress everyone, God made the professor a little butter-fingered that day? Why not turn the chalk into a bird that flies away or just make it float in mid-air? Is that so much to ask from a god that parted an entire sea for his followers.
i used to believe in "god" and i used to pray every night and every morning. untill he abandonned me and let me slip into depression at only 12 years old. and its not like i was unfaithful, or that i needed to learn a lesson of some sort. "god" doesnt exist. its a feeble illusion of support.
guys, I'm a Christian, and I thought this video was lame. But, if you want to know if God is real, ask Him. He does answer. How He showed me His reality was meant only for me....my experience w God was never meant to prove Himself to you. Your experience w Him, is meant for you only. Just have the nerve to ask.....don't ask me, or anyone else. Ask Him. If you're serious about your search, He does answer. LOVE YA!!!
@mainecoonmom amen! BRO God had revealed Himself to me in a way only meant for me but it's sad to see so many ppl living their lives as if He doesn't exist
re: starvation in 3rd world countries (how bout right here in the good ol' USA), diseases, etc....
'man' shakes his fist at God and screams "If you exist, why aren't you doing something?!!!! God looks down on man and says, "Why aren't YOU doing something......?"
@mainecoonmom That's similar to a kid asking his mother, "Why haven't you cook any food?" and the parent responding "Why haven't YOU!?" If we are his children, why does he neglect us so?
ridiculous, im sure some people would have stood up, and not only that, the teacher would so be in trouble for puttin people on the spot like that. I had an atheist philosophy teacher but he didnt ridicule us if we believed in God. Not all atheists are jerks. Some are quite nice just to show how reasoning they are. the other ones are just angry at God for whatever reason
Listen youtuber, you have the right to believe in god, but, you can as long as you keep it for yourself. Maybe someone out there has a reason to be an atheist or whatever he is, so please, if you really want to make the difference, don't tell me stories like this , because who da hell knows if it 's real, who? If i don't believe it isn't because it's cool or something, and it's none of your business
Aww, look. There's a MUCH simpler way to prove to us that god exists.
1) go to your local hospital and locate a child dying of a terminal disease
2) go home, kneel down, put your hands together and ask your wondrous, loving god to heal the child. He claims he's all powerful, promises to grant any prayer (if the request is a good thing), and says he can't lie -- so the outcome is CERTAIN!
3) get back to us with the verifiable proof.
How easy is that? And you'll instantly become world famous.
that was stupid and boring eeesh... if there was a god, why would he allow a busload of christians to die in a bus wreck? I believe in the science myself... at least that is proven
I can't think of an Atheist stupid enough to use the chalk breaking analogy. What this video does is show that Christians can't make good videos - or good arguments.
A ridiculous made-up story that's been around for decades. Search snopes.com for "chalk" and you'll find the write-up on this one, which a talentless hack has apparently cut up into paragraphs and turned into a video. Yawn.
"Isn't it funny" that a poorly-written screed complaining about how it won't be forwarded to enough people has been passed back and forth via email (and now Facebook and Youtube) for 15 years? Can't we just let this stupid story die?
all of these explanations are completely stewpid.. just take what you got from the video and stop acting like haters all he/she tried to do was get u encouraged..he/she clearly said throughout the vid that its UR choice.. be blessed
No matter how true or false this story is, a few things are certain. The Day of Judgement , Heaven /Hell, Victorious Saints saved by the Blood of Jesus, the condemned Unsaved( for rejecting God's salvation all their lives) including phony Christians, and of course the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with God the Father and The Holy Spirit.
@SongsCheerMeUp If I believe, whole-heartedly, that I should kill you and your loved-ones if you don't believe in the same sky-man that I do, would you say I have a right to continue believing that?
What if I believe that in order to be loyal to my sky-man, I must carry out my murderous plan? Do I still have that right?
How about we read the real story on Snopes. It tells a different story about the origins. Go ahead, look it up.
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well isnt it just a little weird that the only time the chalk didnt hit the ground, is when the first person in years stood up for his faith in jesus?? obviously the proffesor left the room for some reason, he was amazed, if it isnt truly that amazing like u said then why would he have left in amazement huh? answer me that? i love you lord
HectoriousMajor 1 week ago
tl:dr
Fombolo 1 week ago
U guys dont understand the point of the bible, it was created to teach morals and to show people the way to live with responsibility instead of doing watever the fuck u want and feeling nothing after it
hotpocketz97 2 weeks ago
@hotpocketz97
That's why we have government, some mystical man in the sky doesn't give us morals, no religion gives us morals. We know whats right from wrong, not from a 'God', but as part of survival. Humans, like any animal, do what we have to, to survive. Don't be a fool, throw 5 people on a deserted island, with enough food for only 1 to survive, and try tell me what happens. It's all part of survival, no magic man in the sky gives me morals.
SoLetThisGunBindUs 1 week ago
what a load of shit
johnny2086 2 weeks ago
Cool
kidrayfilms 2 weeks ago
I choose option 3: Laugh uncontrollably at your total idiocy. Go to bed with my atheism stronger than ever. Get up in the morning feeling great because I know there are bigger dipshits out there who believe a zombie jew is the son of god and worship a 2,000 year old book that sounds like a Mad Libs filled out by retarded monkeys on LSD
barassmonkey117 2 weeks ago
It sounds like another good email chain letter.....i liked the story but the ending is pure chance,dont really prove nothing about god,people are good at telling stories.
VoiceInBlackness 2 weeks ago
Atheists, you always try to find a explanation for gods doings...
shadowthewolf2303703 2 weeks ago
Entertaining delusional christian fairy tales aka bullshit.
LushWisdum 2 weeks ago
@spedracer93 *I forgot to mention that this story originated in an e-mail
MrRationalThought 2 weeks ago
@spedracer93 (cont) In addition, there are similarities between the "chalk story" and a story titled "70 Years of Miracles" by Richard Harvey. In this story, there was no philosophy teacher but a chemistry teacher, and instead of a piece of chalk, there was a flask. Your thoughts?
MrRationalThought 2 weeks ago
@spedracer93 According to TruthOrFiction, and other groups who investigate internet roumers, they have never found any evidence that an incident of this nature has taken place. USC has officially denied that this ever happened. Besides verbal denouncement of the e-mail, there are facts that prove that the e-mail couldn't be true. The only philosophy classes that have 300 students or have been around for 20 years do not discuss God's existence.
MrRationalThought 2 weeks ago
k it does exist sorry about the triple post but they are mathews 24:36 and Mark 13:32
TheUnhelpfulK 2 weeks ago
right then he doesnt exist if they are wrong he does remember idk if this scripture exists sorry but im too lazy to go through the bible and check but you guys can
TheUnhelpfulK 2 weeks ago
K guys well i see theres a handful of atheists and christians here but let me assure you im neither i am agnostic though i have some ammount of christian knowledge so im sure all of you have heard about the world ending though this could be theoretical trash lets say it does end no immediately maybe the earth falling apart or something beyond my immagination but i heard (dont know keep that in mind) that theres a part in the bible tnat god only knows the when its time if the scientists are...
TheUnhelpfulK 2 weeks ago
God isn't real. And this proves nothing. Get over it.
Gmpeirce 2 weeks ago
pinche illogical dumbass
jj5995 3 weeks ago
@boywhoy88 You know that jesus was middle eastern right? Just seeing if you know
comikid23 3 weeks ago
So a freshman prayed to an invisible man for courage. Fuck sake, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD. PEOPLE NEED TO GET THERE COURAGE FROM THEMSEVLES. PRAYING TO GET COURAGE IS STUPID.
comikid23 3 weeks ago
I don't understand these comments = /
It's a nice story, although it's credibility is very questionable. I'm very sure people watch this video to disprove it. Well, from the three pages I saw it was ridiculed a lot. Once world class atheists sincerely look into Christianity, they convert. Quite a few world class atheists already have. Please keep an open heart, and an open mind.
Jesusfreak043 3 weeks ago
Still an atheist...
TheResidentSkeptic 3 weeks ago
@TheResidentSkeptic And so what?? who cares!!
Stanic32 3 weeks ago
2,361 people are still atheists...
TheResidentSkeptic 3 weeks ago
Jesus Christ is real. He will give everyone a new mind and new ways. He can change anyone and forgive everyone. If most of the world walked in the ways of Christ by trusting in Christ then the world would be a better place. It would almost be a place of bliss. Choose today, do you want righteousness thru Christ, or do you want to go your own way and sin. Today is the day
boywhoy88 3 weeks ago
1OOO/1OO!! lol I love stories about the lord I dnt care what people think :) hope u do more!
LatinaSoldada98 3 weeks ago
So I dropped my phone, and it didn't break. Now God stopped the break?
I must be God, because I bought a good case for my phone. This BS proves nothing but dumb luck.
GuitarsRockForever 3 weeks ago
this is not true...its an urban legend..so sorry.
preparadox 3 weeks ago
I believe this acount. through my life i have seen many things that only God has done in my life. For I am a follower of Jesus Christ and Saved by the blood alone. For that is the only thing that I have too plee before the throne of God. Other wise we would not be fit to go to Heaven. The blood is the only way.
rodyman11 3 weeks ago
@rodyman11 Seriously? It's a piece of chalk? Granted the professor in this story (if it's real) was a big douche about it, that's not how you go about demonstrating the existence of something supernatural. So the chalk was saved once out of a hundred? That's not divine intervention, that's chance. Eventually, something different will happen, this is dictated by statistics and probability of large objects and even in quantum mechanics. What have you seen? God himself? Angels? Anything?
DamienZshadow 3 weeks ago
If that story is true, all it proved is that statistcs works and anomalities happen. I don't quite believe that the professor didn't take into account the possibility that the piece of chalk would get "lucky" one day. A real, scientificly-thinking professor would choose an experiment with the chalk just falling on the ground, not breaking. I think it's one of the "My uncle didn't believe in god and died in an accident" stories. Emotional, touching, yet utterly stupid and untrue.
melychor 3 weeks ago
praise our lord and savour, white christian male jsus christ
TheBloodyScotsman 3 weeks ago
Oh for fucks sake, this old nugget of stupidity doing the rounds again?
I just wonder if anyone truly is stupid enough to fall for it? If so then good... You are clearly too stupid to be a normal person and oyu obviously need to have an insivible friend.
Prick!
FatRakoon 3 weeks ago 2
Stop waisting yours and other tubers time with ridiculous fairy tales and DO SOMETHING about your reading speed...
greenstring1 3 weeks ago
1. If no one had stood up in twenty years, how did they know what he would say if they did? 2. A piece of chalk dropped onto tile will break into no more than two pieces...don't exaggerate 3. If his goal was to disprove the existence of God, why did he ask if anyone still believed in Jesus? These are related, but distinct. 4. If you want people to believe in God, it ill behooves you to encourage thinking. 5. This story is a huge load of horsecrap. How dare you isult my intelligence?
Snakepliskinist 3 weeks ago
I'll take option # 3 . call it a coinsidence that the chalk behaved that way and write it up to a phisical phenomenon called gravity and motion and keep on thinking that is super unlikeley for any god to exist .The man dropped the chalk at the wrong point in time , that's all , it slipped out of his hand . What the fuck does that proof.....NOTHING !
marcuskarl73 3 weeks ago
What a joke!!! The person who posted this video needs to get slapped back into reality!
xAROURABORIALISx 3 weeks ago
Now, faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see 2 this is what the ancients were commanded for 3 by faith we understand that the earth was formed at Gods command so that was is seen was not made out of what was visible-- Hebrews 11:1-3
whenever im feeling doubtful i remember this verse, we shouldnt have to have proof, the bible says that those who have not seen but believe are blessed, Faith is the only thing we have to go on, the bible-shield God- defender
MsMallory23 3 weeks ago
This proves nothing. It slipped, if he wanted to be sure, he wouldve picked it back up and dropped it again. If it slipped again, maybe then I'd be convinced.
DakarraD 4 weeks ago 4
@DakarraD well isnt it just a little weird that the only time the chalk didnt hit the ground, is when the first person in years stood up for his faith in jesus?? obviously the proffesor left the room for some reason, he was amazed, if it isnt truly that amazing like u said then why would he have left in amazement huh? answer me that? i love you lord
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JezusSlave 4 weeks ago
Cool story bro
8dots 4 weeks ago
Didn't happen.
EdDueim 1 month ago 2
HAHAHAHAHHA so you're going to try and tell me.. that because an old bastard of a man had butterfingers, that god is real?
Not sure if troll or just very stupid.
SoLetThisGunBindUs 1 month ago 12
@SoLetThisGunBindUs Well apparently he seemed to have a pretty good grip on the chalk for a number of years. So maybe just maybe it was God's work. Just because you believe in God does not make you a troll or stupid. God is real, some do not see his work because they believe they know all. However, that is a false wisdom. The only true wisdom is through God.
currahee54 1 week ago
@currahee54
pics or it didnt happen.
SoLetThisGunBindUs 1 week ago
All of this at first blush seems plausible till you you factor in chaos theory and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which allows for such a random occurrence to happen which give no validity to the premise either way. I've dropped a glass on a hard concrete floor and it did not break, should I thus conclude god interfered or that is was a random occurance?
TheDano1947 1 month ago
@Jhoods2800 but we're polite and only attack beliefs, not people...hint, hint...
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@BelievingInTheTruth Yep, but Yeshua ain't one.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@BelievingInTheTruth most of history has proof...buildings, independent accounts of past events, bones found at the sites of ancient battles, etc. Find me one proof of this Yeshua guy you're so hot on.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@BelievingInTheTruth even a broken clock is right twice a day...your point?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@sparklekim101 so give up on all the fruits of science, then, since science directly contradicts your holly bibble. Man, I wanna see how solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short your life is...calling Leviathan!
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@sparklekim101 yep, that's exactly what we're saying...you seem to have a problem with demanding proof. By the way, you must give me all your money, because I say so...what?!? You're indignant, you want proof! You heathen piece of crap!
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@sparklekim101 bulls**t...if you had, and you have even average intelligence, you'd HAVE to notice the contradictions in it. If you want a list of contradictions, look at the website Skeptics Annotated Bible dot com...and read down the topics in the right column....then come back and tell me if your mind is changed, or petrified.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@sparklekim101 uh, the prof's challenge didn't include breaking the chalk, just not having it fall. LOGIC FAIL.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple if you examined asteroids and comets, you'd find the ingredients of humanity, too....they're all, except for hydrogen and helium, forged in the hearts of stars...so who cares if they're in clay, too...the trace amounts are so insignificant as to be useless.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple yeah, so is reflexology and homeopathy, neither of which is true, provable, or more than placebo....so?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple NOT proven archaeologically and historically to the standards demanded by those disciplines for other topics. Mostly apologetic CRAP.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple I do see people opening churches and following Scientology...and that's a far more recent belief. Harry Potter was written as fiction, and has a devoted fan base even if nobody opens churches to him, and Scientology is a mind fuck just as bad as any other religion, and worse than most. Your point?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple yeah, Chris Hitchens, for one, proved you wrong...atheist to his dying day, and a fighter against religion the entire time, even while in pain from esophageal cancer.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple The epic of Gilgamesh came before the Bible, speaking of *his* deities, like Asherah and Enki...so by your logic, your holly bibble has to prove it's correct, rather than Gilgamesh...I'm waitin'
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple really, how many xtians have been killed by atheists in the first world in the past, say, 500 years or so? Compared to the Crusades and the Inquisition, not to mention lynching of Christian Blacks in the American SouthEast for demanding civil rights and flouting the holly bibbles permission for slavery....oh, yeah, atheists are FAR worse than xtians (rolls eyes)
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple so you're going to give up all creature comforts, including the Internet? I kinda doubt it....all of that science that gave you those creature comforts is the same method that produced the theory of evolution, basing it on repeated observations across multiple fields of science. So give up the creature comforts, or be a hypocrite for using the fruits of science while being a denier.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple did they do the same for the Lord of the Rings or any other epic, like say that of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, the Song of Roland, or maybe even Harry Potter? When you're writing fiction, you can throw in all sorts of improbably things, and probably will, because they make the story interesting.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple e.coli isn't all harmful, some of it is useful gut bacteria...try again on that one. And your hypnotizing comment means that people are being hypnotized by what's logical, provable, repeatable, and has predictive value? I dunno if that's hypnotism or a survival trait.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple nonsense. If you were looking for truth, you would see it. You're seeking comfort, so that's what you're getting....trying to convince others and failing is just part of the pain of your delusion.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple you idiot, people have been saying exactly what you're saying since Pliny the Elder, 2000 odd years ago....and you know what? They've ALWAYS been wrong...just like your holly bibble.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple Oh, don't get me started! Check out the Skeptic's Annotated Bible, and work your way down the topics in the right column...then come on back.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple yeah, bullshit...when atheism is given such a bad reputation that most people trust atheists less than rapists, when prayers are forced in school and the military, where people don't have a choice to tell the pray-er to go fuck off....Noooooo, that's not *enforcing* the rules of your nasty book of fairy tales on us....WTF do you use for thinking, anyway?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple nope, we spend our lives fighting *people* who demand the right to tell us to live our lives by their book of vicious fairy tales that isn't even internally consistent. We want to live our lives according to logic and reason, and you want to be allowed to persecute us because we disagree with you....ain't that worth fighting against?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@InTheWorldNotFromIt If he 'revealed' himself to me, I'd call a cop and have him arrested for indecent exposure.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@444614 Peppered Moths in London. Those whose attributes are best suited to conditions are more likely to survive and reproduce. Random mutations (those that aren't immediately lethal...not all mutations are immediately lethal) provide for the variation in attributes that will be controlled by selection by environmental factors.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@444614 Nope, *you* accepted that you needed to change. A godbelief is just a way to give yourself permission to change.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@ziggy6464 so you're taking the "proof denies faith" tack? Then how is your god different from random chance?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@444614 yep, with one difference. Evolutionary theory has explanatory and predictive power....religion can't predict things even AFTER they happen (like a celibate priesthood will attract pedophiles & the churchcult will have to cover up or lose its moral authority)
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@ashnaytay really? how often does it reply in some fashion that can't be explained away by random chance, another person being kind, or your own internal strength? And I'm horrible and rude because I want to live a life of logic and reason? By your standards, you shouldn't use any of the fruits of science because they aren't in your bible, and that includes the 'Net and even a typing keyboard.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@throwawaypersona dude, I dont even remember commenting on this so can you like i dont know tell me what i said? O_O
ashnaytay 3 weeks ago
@rena785 it's a one-way relationship, and any strength you derive from it comes from inside yourself, and our belief is just you giving yourself permission to exercise it.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@swissshawn so you pass on harmful, possibly false information?!? You malicious gossip, you! And remind me not to let you anywhere near children...you'd let them play with knives.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@fracturedfist LOLZ!
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple Yep, because there's no such thing...when you're dead, the only immortality is in the minds of those you've touched, whether in person or by leaving some recording profound enough it endures. Your fairy tale of pie in the sky when you die by and by is just that, a fairy tale, and is enforced by a fear of an equally nonexistent Hell to keep the rubes like you in line.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple again, so this bible is correct because this bible *says* it's correct. By that standard, I can tell you you should give me all your worldly wealth and become my slave *because* I say so.
I kind of doubt you'd accept the second proposition...so why accept the first? Pascal's Wager, or some such? That's just hedging, not true belief.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@sleepingbeauty711 I'll bet you $100 that, if you were afraid for your grade, you'd chicken out...you xtians only take 'chances' that are sure things, then complain about being persecuted when you're denied the right to persecute others.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple so if we're created in your god's image, and we have free will and the ability to rebel, so does your god....hence it's not perfect. Also, if it's perfect, how did it create a group of beings with the express duty to glorify the creator, to have 1/3 (your fraction) rebel? Sounds like a lousy craftsbeing, either through incompetence or callous disregard.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple nope, NOT historically or archeologically proven...every time the theists come up with something, it's disproven. And the Romans, who were in charge and were MANIC historians, had nothing to say that matches your bible story. Also, since "proof denies faith", you're committing a heretical act by trying to use logic and not just convince us to believe blindly as you do.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple this god thing you're talking about is a myth with absolutely NO proof for it....so why exactly should *we* live our lives according to this twisted, horribly misogynistic and chauvanistic tome?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple project much?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple evolution IS *adaptation*
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple so your god created all beings and left in mistakes and traces that would lead humanity, using logic, our strongest tool, to find NO PROOF of a deity. Does this make your god lazy, twisted, not omnipotent, or all of the above?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple who's going to replace the Dodo? Or the passenger pigeon? Why does your god allow humanity to destroy its creation?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple really, then why are the fossils laid down in strata that DIRECTLY CONTRADICT the flood fairy tale (that had been used before by other primitive civilizations disconnected from your people of the holly bibble)? Why does your god hate humanity so much that it lets evidence directly contradicting its word exist in a fashion that evidence-based reasoning is a benefit to humanity?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple yes, and the dog is doing it in an inappropriate circumstance....but it's done because it feels good, and that's the result of evolutionary processes.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple uh, it was explained that it fits *very* neatly into evolutionary theory...celibacy is not hereditary, so those who don't experience pleasure are less likely to do it, so eventually most everyone is offspring of organisms that do enjoy sex. That's evolution, you know.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple so why do female animals undergo a menstrual cycle? Like primates, for example? How did they sin, please?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple really? I wonder what Gregor Mendel would have to say to that? He's the father of modern biology, in case you didn't know. Read up....I'll wait.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple look at definition b., if you please....'sex' involves the union of male & female germ cells...that's what pollination is....your point, again?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple trees DO have sex...ever heard of pollination? Single-celled organisms don't NEED to have sex, they can split and form a clone of themselves, and do, when the conditions support it. What's your point?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple probably because those for whom it wasn't pleasurable didn't....celibacy is hereditary....if your parents didn't have sex, you're likely not to because you don't *exist*. That's evolution, you know.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple ....it's a BOOK OF FAIRY TALES, dammitsomuch! Do you still believe in the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the Tooth Fairy, too?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple So you're going to give up on all the fruits of the electronics revolution, including the Internet? All of it is based on mathematics and physics that go STRAIGHT against your so-called 'common sense. As for evolution, if you look at the numbers and presumed conditions, it's statistically *likely* that something developed & perished many times, and we're the descendants of what survived. Take a stats course and run the numbers, then tell me how that compares to your common sense.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple 'Theory' in science has a specific meaning, and that is, "An explanation of observed phenomena THAT HAS TESTABLE PREDICTIVE POWER". As in, it can be falsified if the data don't support it. The customary use of 'theory' in popular speech as, "any idea I pulled out of my a** that I like and want to believe" is, in science, either an idea or a proposition, NOT a theory. With that on the table, care to reformulate?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple Which so-called scientists and mathematicians? I'll bet their logic is just as circular, convoluted, and useless as yours.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple Uh, you're claiming your bible says so...and how do you know? *Because* the bible-book tells you so. That's called circular logic, and is no proof. Meanwhile, go off and read the whole thing, cover to cover, a few times, and note the internal contradictions, and then come back and we'll have a rational discussion about it.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple Really, and have you ever eaten shellfish? Or worn a mixed fabric? Or cut your beard? Or spoken to a menstruating woman? Read the damn bible-book, and then come back and tell me you obey ALL the rules in it, even the contradictory ones....and then I'll call you a damned liar, as I believe you are now.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple sure, by living as a craven coward all your days. quoting Shakespeare (who left proof behind that *someone* existed who wrote that which carries his name): "Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once."
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@shadapple Uh, how do you *blaspheme* something that DOESN'T EXIST?!? If you're right, one day we'll all face your deity. The balance of probability is that either your god doesn't exist or doesn't give a damn about anything happening in the real world enough to be provably different from random chance. Hence, it doesn't exist, so don't tell me and others who value reason and evidence we must run our lives by your bad book of fables.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@dave19941000 ephemeral phantasms don't post to the 'Net.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@comedynetwrk Poe/sarcasm, or OMG?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@hamoan66boi so why does anybody ever get hurt, anywhere? Why doesn't your god save mice from hawks, prevent disasters, and provide for the poor? I say your god is a lazy-ass slacker, assuming it exists.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@throwawaypersona Maybe we have to prove ourselves. Maybe something is happening in the strange, unknown universe. Personally, I am very curious as to knowing if God exists or not. I was young when I first learned about God and now that I'm 16, I am very curious as to what the universe is hiding. But believing in God for me gives me confidence and this feeling of conviction. I'm like you, I have questions to God's existence. But believing gives a boost of the said above. Whats wrong with that?
hamoan66boi 1 month ago
@mimiluvsjesus glad you love Jesus....is he good at trimming around the hedges?....Ohhhhhh, you meant the zombie carpenter rabbi.....first, best scholarship has the name used at the time as Yeshua or Joshua, and second, why is there no mention of him that matches the bible-book in the Roman histories of the time? The Romans were practically OCD about accurately recording history and occurrences.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@cutipiez412 shall we call the WAAAHHHHHhhmmmbulance for you?
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@hamoan66boi Hey idiot, did you *read* the story? All the prof claimed was that a deity could stop the chalk from *falling*, not from any consequences thereof. The chalk fell.
And your point was, again, exactly? Yeah, about what I thought.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@TheElmo1122 and how do you know? Because you've been told your bible tells you so...therefore the bible is correct because the bible says it's correct. Circular logic, and not a proof...I'm assuming it makes you happy, though
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@TheElmo1122 Elmo, you nutjob, I've read your bible, cover to cover, repeatedly, and I'd bet you $100 right here and now you haven't, and have no intention of doing so. *MY* belief is that you just want to believe what your thought leaders tell you, and don't put any thought into it. If you'd read the entire xtian bible, and still held the beliefs you profess here, I'd have to wonder about whether it reflects badly on either your sanity or your intellect.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@NoraScout94 When people's beliefs are unfounded in reason, & they claim the right to control *other* people's behavior and opportunities in the name of that mistaken belief, it IS important to oppose them in the name of what is right and good.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@AnarchalPatriarch Snerk! Love it!
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@Kasey11293 First, PLEASE STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS! On the Internet, that's referred to as shouting. Second, please learn to avoid run-on sentences. Third, it ISN'T something to joke about when credulous fools believe this & want to run other people's lives based on a fairy tale, and a poorly-written one at that. I *did* go to church, listen to the preacher and read the bible, that's why I'm an atheist. Go read the entire bible, come back, and tell me you feel the same, I dare you.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@sluttyfrogmagician I'll agree if you change it to *some* Xtians...but there are dumb or credulous people of all stripes.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@smurfsn1p3r4eva Okay, lets say you're holy-book-thumping in your place of worship, and make a rhetorical request/statement that you've made repeatedly over the years. Somebody has the nerve to get up & challenge you in your place of 'power'. Do you mean to tell me that you wouldn't be nonplussed and it wouldn't affect your behavior? Maybe cause you a little discomfort and awkwardness? I don't believe THAT, either.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@smurfsn1p3r4eva ok, let's start slow: THIS IS NOT PROOF. The professor's claim was that a deity could prevent the chalk from *falling*, not from any *consequence* of falling. The chalk fell. So, 2 choices: no god wanted to stop the chalk, or there is no god to stop the chalk, in which case the result would be the same. Occam's Razor says not to complicate explanations unnecessarily...which of the 2 explanations is simpler? Not more *appealing*, just simpler. Hence, I don't believe.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@WikiSonic I loves me some sarcasm ;-)
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@Premadona2020 You're welcome (though foolish) to believe that, as long as you allow those of us who DON'T believe it to live our lives unmolested by your fantasy.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
@7TJB7 So? Show me a true occurrence (with citation) where your deity actually *does* something that can't be explained away by statistics or the benign hand of another person, and maybe you'll have something to crow about. Until then, you're living in a fantasy world, and all I ask is that you leave people who believe as I do (in the rational and provable) *alone*.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
As has been mentioned, a competent *philosophy* professor would know, from long years of training, that it's IMPOSSIBLE to prove a negative (the *non*existence of something). It IS possible to conclude that the existence of something is statistically so unlikely as to be impossible.(Like god/s). The chalk fell *and* reached the ground. It wasn't required that the chalk break, so the professor wouldn't have been dumbfounded. This is an appeal to ignorance & emotion, and is useless as a proof.
throwawaypersona 1 month ago
I don't think their isn't a God but HE/SHE/IT/? probably has nothing to do with the Christian faith
ZenPhilosopher123 1 month ago
This is why religion is BAD!
The author of this video @01:33 assumes only Christians had "slipped through"... What about Jews and Muslims who, 'god forbid' had maybe been granted the brains to have attended college?
Such racist, ignorant, assumption would not even have crossed the mind of a non-theist!
The sooner belief in horoscopes, ghosts, psychics and other 'spiritual ignorance is flushed down the toilet to where it belongs, then all the better for peace, morality and Humanity!
RohypGnosis 1 month ago
Which god are you referring to? Zeus (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)? or Shiva (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)? or Amun (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)? or Guru Nanak Dev Ji (who people the same as you table thumped for, and stated they were right for)?
Please, please, say WHO?
We are all Atheists... It's just that some of us go one god further!! ;P
RohypGnosis 1 month ago
damn it I'm sick and tired of irrelevant stories that can be broken down midway through, the chalk did not break because it's fall was broken by rolling down his clothes and off his shoe. If it fell down straight to the ground it would be smashed because of the direct force of the hit.
NielsHammersMusic 1 month ago
dang i raped the Mute button sry guys ...
65465468 1 month ago
chalk slipped, therefor God exists.Try to collect funds to build your Holy Chalk Church
punkakistos13gr 1 month ago
This doesn't prove anything. It's just a story about chalk, and a boring one at that.
GlitchTea 1 month ago
conundrum - If there was no debate about does or doesn't he exists all you people would have nothing to argue about - Now wouldn't that be dull !!!!!
I mean I believe in God but that was before I took an arrow to the knee
And I would like to thank the one and only God of Gods dude of dudes and main sponsor to Holy Spirit for giving me a sense of humour
Goody goody yum yum!!!!!!
Good night and may your God go with you!
Silly Sods
waraloga7x 1 month ago
These stories are all the same. It's always:
A. A professor at what many would consider a "liberal" university.
B. Never another religion that's discussed.
C. These events NEVER make the newspaper or evening news although they are supposedly supernatural or radical in occurrence.
D. An attack on a logical or well-reasoned person, as if in order to be religious or believe, one must be illogical, irrational, or otherwise incompetent. You insult yourself.
FtheIneffable 1 month ago
Adults with imaginary friends are embarrassing...
Rajurepa 1 month ago 2
First, this story was probably bullshit in the first place, it seems so unlikely.
Second, if it rolled off his shoe than that's not really an incredible height is it?
ZukutoBTD 1 month ago
god is not real and if you believe your fucked up big time
princessbeffy1 1 month ago
This was sadly pathetic and based on lies. An old cynical atheist would not have his conviction completely shattered by what was, more than likely, a coincidence. Nor would said cynic run away like a 5-year-old who saw the boogeyman.
However, it was pretty good copypasta.
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ThePero20111 1 month ago
Apparently they've never heard of a coincidence?
Kailstar2point0 1 month ago
nice music
danybilhas 1 month ago
Umm... a professor shouting, "You fool!" at his students??? I'm going to have to call BS on this one.
Also, even if I grant this entire silly story, you are saying that, in order to impress everyone, God made the professor a little butter-fingered that day? Why not turn the chalk into a bird that flies away or just make it float in mid-air? Is that so much to ask from a god that parted an entire sea for his followers.
BrooklynRagtag 1 month ago
BULL SHIT!!!
irkibby 1 month ago
I used to believe in god but then i took an arrow in the knee...
RokuNoRaiden 1 month ago
i used to believe in "god" and i used to pray every night and every morning. untill he abandonned me and let me slip into depression at only 12 years old. and its not like i was unfaithful, or that i needed to learn a lesson of some sort. "god" doesnt exist. its a feeble illusion of support.
kingbolbo1 1 month ago
guys, I'm a Christian, and I thought this video was lame. But, if you want to know if God is real, ask Him. He does answer. How He showed me His reality was meant only for me....my experience w God was never meant to prove Himself to you. Your experience w Him, is meant for you only. Just have the nerve to ask.....don't ask me, or anyone else. Ask Him. If you're serious about your search, He does answer. LOVE YA!!!
mainecoonmom 1 month ago
@mainecoonmom amen! BRO God had revealed Himself to me in a way only meant for me but it's sad to see so many ppl living their lives as if He doesn't exist
OVAdames 1 month ago
re: starvation in 3rd world countries (how bout right here in the good ol' USA), diseases, etc....
'man' shakes his fist at God and screams "If you exist, why aren't you doing something?!!!! God looks down on man and says, "Why aren't YOU doing something......?"
mainecoonmom 1 month ago
@mainecoonmom That's similar to a kid asking his mother, "Why haven't you cook any food?" and the parent responding "Why haven't YOU!?" If we are his children, why does he neglect us so?
marche88 1 month ago
Still don't believe :)
EVILgrampa666 2 months ago
ridiculous, im sure some people would have stood up, and not only that, the teacher would so be in trouble for puttin people on the spot like that. I had an atheist philosophy teacher but he didnt ridicule us if we believed in God. Not all atheists are jerks. Some are quite nice just to show how reasoning they are. the other ones are just angry at God for whatever reason
asianhomebucket 2 months ago
"All of his students stopped and stared"
How did the blind students react?
; )
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ThePero20111 2 months ago
This sucked. Try again.
ImFlareonBitch 2 months ago
Listen youtuber, you have the right to believe in god, but, you can as long as you keep it for yourself. Maybe someone out there has a reason to be an atheist or whatever he is, so please, if you really want to make the difference, don't tell me stories like this , because who da hell knows if it 's real, who? If i don't believe it isn't because it's cool or something, and it's none of your business
fred7v 2 months ago
I WAS IN CLASS MY TEACHER DROPPED THE CHALK , BENT OVER TO PICK IT UP AND I SAW HIS ARSEHOLE LIGHT..... FUCK JESUS
MrRONPITTS 2 months ago
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Aww, look. There's a MUCH simpler way to prove to us that god exists.
1) go to your local hospital and locate a child dying of a terminal disease
2) go home, kneel down, put your hands together and ask your wondrous, loving god to heal the child. He claims he's all powerful, promises to grant any prayer (if the request is a good thing), and says he can't lie -- so the outcome is CERTAIN!
3) get back to us with the verifiable proof.
How easy is that? And you'll instantly become world famous.
GodsTalkingSnake 2 months ago
that was stupid and boring eeesh... if there was a god, why would he allow a busload of christians to die in a bus wreck? I believe in the science myself... at least that is proven
SuperTokeJones 2 months ago
I can't think of an Atheist stupid enough to use the chalk breaking analogy. What this video does is show that Christians can't make good videos - or good arguments.
rcguy69 2 months ago
"Spending a semester prooving that God isn´t real"...Me *Stands up,leave the fucking class*...Start studying for priest...
Heitor619 2 months ago
Oh man, what a load a bullshit
Direnaar 2 months ago
omg i've seen the light, save me jeebus
GOD2sodomyME 2 months ago
A ridiculous made-up story that's been around for decades. Search snopes.com for "chalk" and you'll find the write-up on this one, which a talentless hack has apparently cut up into paragraphs and turned into a video. Yawn.
"Isn't it funny" that a poorly-written screed complaining about how it won't be forwarded to enough people has been passed back and forth via email (and now Facebook and Youtube) for 15 years? Can't we just let this stupid story die?
trippedbreaker 2 months ago
Silly Silly Child
ZeusMythyx 2 months ago
This has got be one of the worst "proofs" for god I have ever seen. And the mostly blatantly false anecdote for that matter. Simply horrible.
MrEmilbundgaard 2 months ago
im thinking about how you intend to prove this has happen....
TrolololGundam 2 months ago
all of these explanations are completely stewpid.. just take what you got from the video and stop acting like haters all he/she tried to do was get u encouraged..he/she clearly said throughout the vid that its UR choice.. be blessed
kayjayjesusgurl78901 2 months ago
No matter how true or false this story is, a few things are certain. The Day of Judgement , Heaven /Hell, Victorious Saints saved by the Blood of Jesus, the condemned Unsaved( for rejecting God's salvation all their lives) including phony Christians, and of course the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with God the Father and The Holy Spirit.
MrRainnes 2 months ago
Everyone has a right to believe what they want to believe.
Whether they think God is real,
Or fake.
You can't force your beliefs on others.
Plus,
Jesus was Jewish.
SongsCheerMeUp 2 months ago
@SongsCheerMeUp If I believe, whole-heartedly, that I should kill you and your loved-ones if you don't believe in the same sky-man that I do, would you say I have a right to continue believing that?
What if I believe that in order to be loyal to my sky-man, I must carry out my murderous plan? Do I still have that right?
Don't be fucking stupid. If you can help it.
SeedsOfHatred 2 months ago
that lecturer was a fool
what he should have said
''if god exists then he can end starving in the third world
he could cure childhood diseases and deformations
he could re-grow amputated limbs
or he can stop this piece of chalk breaking''
then if the chalk doesn't break he could rip into the god botherer for worshipping a deity whos priorities are a bit skewed
al3699 2 months ago