Richard Dawkins Lecture - Virus Of The Mind

[Justagirlwithasmile]

Creationists are not critical thinkers for if they were they would not be creationists. Those with mind viruses are unabled to be reasoned with and so you wont destroy religion over youtube, sadly.

[Lone432345]

Religion is idea. If ideas are "viruses". Then you have to apply it to more then just religion. So if i come with a great story idea for Back to the Future 4. Its not me. Its a virus? Virus of the mind. = Anti-Theist intolerant Pseudoscience Bullshit. Im not religious. Im Agnostic. But i dont like ASSHOLES. Which most of you seem to be.

[ZuluFightrunner]

@Lone432345 Boo fucking hoo.

[TheTrohl]

I could listen to this man for hours.

[youthank8]

like if you listen to richard dawkins lectures while working from home!

[1973Razorback]

@Cptreese1 How do you reach the conclusion 'without God you have no basis whatsoever to define evil.'? I know good from bad, I need no imaginary friend or book written by different people about some carpenter magician to tell the difference. Saying without God no one can measure right and wrong is the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard.

[seriesoverben]

Love these videos, in part to glean knowledge from people far more intelligent than I am. But mostly to read comments of people who for what ever reason think they are more intelligent than these doctors, researchers, scientists, and professors who spend their entire lives studying and investigating these claims while youtube creationsists babble about how "fukn retarded these guys r".

[svdlmf]

@Cptreese1 American Christians have killed one million people in the past DECADE alone. I'm talking about the Iraq invasion. Bush is a Christian, american soldiers are Christians. If we take all the war crimes commited by these retarded christian americans in the last CENTURY, we can see that there is in fact very little difference between atheist dictators and theist presidents. And to this date the only man who used the A-bomb on CIVILLIANS was a Christian. But he's a war hero, LOL.

[svdlmf]

@Cptreese1 And for your information, I know many christians who were/are communists and had Lenin on their walls and are against Capitalism so stop being an idiot. Even priests were communists during the regime ! Which is no wonder since Jesus himself was a commie:

All that believed were together, and had all things in common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

(Acts 2:44-45)

[svdlmf]

@Cptreese1 YES, JESUS WAS A FUCKING COMMIE !

"Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. 24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matthew 10)

[svdlmf]

@Cptreese1 Name ONE people kiled BECAUSE of Naturalism or Atheism. Or by Atheism you mean COMMUNISM ? Well, that's not the same fucking thing, is it ? Atheism doesn't have ANYTHING to do with communism, communism is a Political Ideology ASSOCIATED with Atheism indeed but communists don't necessarily have to be ATHEISTS. Just like Nazis don't have to be christians, even though most of them, including Hitler, were.

[lezvarthok]

That mothallegory to useful behaviour going wrong, I makes me think of all the crime and I wonder how much we could lift the steam in the heads by not buring the forces but by developing a culture which actually meets our desires. Yes , I think even the will for destruction and sexual agression could be transformed, actually I think very much men already work very hard just to get women or to be in a position where they can be sure of pleasure. What makes us so afraid of the bonobo solution ?

[tarun1982]

I totally love this man :) .. He is so calm and so methodical in the way he answers questions, presents his arguments ...

Love you Richard

[suvarenee]

I'm glad I stumbled upon this video. EXCELLENT listening material here. Haven't been this engaged in a while...Love the moth part.

[tarun1982]

@suvarenee Hi there, Renee. I'm from India :) Yea isn't he an amazing guy?.. Seen a few of your videos too and they are good. They are just too short though and .. lack that intensity that some other atheists show.. I still respect the way you express your thought and opinion... maybe you dont like being rude or hurtful

[suvarenee]

@tarun1982

Thank you. :) and thanks for watching. Yeah, Richard Dawkins is amazing. Maybe I'll get more intense with time. However, I probably won't change much. It's pretty hard to change innate patterns of thought, behavior and expression.

[eatingtacos000]

good vid. thanks

[Tuber77]

Theres no such thing as a virus of the mind. Dawkins is peddling pseudoscience. Dawkins is biologist. Not a psychologist. This meme is nothing more then his lame attempt to find reason to show that religious is some kind of diseases to justify his intolerance and hatred. Its like scientology belief that there no need for psychiatric drugs. Of course Dawkins yuppies will eat it up. If you really want the make the world a better place. Start with stop being such douchebags. Im agnostic.

[ZuluFightrunner]

@Tuber77 Good for you.

[sephizinho]

@Tuber77 To me you are the douche, douche.

[funknotik]

@Tuber77 Cool story bro.

[svdlmf]

@Tuber77 I think it's a metaphor. I don't think he actually believes that religion is a biological virus. It's an analogy with a computer virus. The brain is a computer. Religion is a virus. Which, like any virus, fucks up the computer. And which, like any virus, likes to travel from one computer to another. Especially from parent computers to child computers. Why ? Because child computers are the most vulnerable. They don't have any anti-virus protection what so ever !

[1973Razorback]

@svdlmf I don't think you could have broken that down to a simpler analogy for the dumb people who seem to populate Youtube. But I am willing to bet a years salary that most of the idiots you'll have to deal with, still won't understand what you or Prof Dawkins are saying. The problem is the average I.Q. is around 100, which is unbelievably thick. I've know a few people with average I.Q.s and wonder how they remember to breath let alone do day to day tasks. Good luck with the fight.

[svdlmf]

@Tuber77 That's why christians are retarded and can't understand simple arguments, because they have a brain virus which completely fucks up their minds. And that's because their virused parents installed this bad sofware on them without scanning it for viruses first. The fact is, the most usual way of spreading the religion virus is by infecting little kids who obviously don't have anti-virus programs installed. That's how their parents got it, that's how their grandparents got it, and so on.

[chainedtotheworld]

It sounds like all the little pauses between sentences have been removed, so he just keeps talking non-stop

[ZuluFightrunner]

@chainedtotheworld Yes it does.

[dicemanstyle]

@IAmHotize Typical Idiot.

[FrankSpijker]

@IAmHotize You should hide yourself under a rock your whole life so no one will be disturbed by your bullshit.

[ZuluFightrunner]

@lightandbeautiful No. Please fuck off.

[johhnycarlos]

LOL. Voltaire said it best, "The atheists are for the most part impudent and misguided scholars who reason badly, and who not being able to understand the creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis of the eternity of things and of inevitability."

Atheism is like the cry baby in gym, who when first hit with a dodgeball of life, hates the gym teacher and the kid with the best arm.

[ZuluFightrunner]

@johhnycarlos No.

[johhnycarlos]

@ZuluFightrunner Maybe...

[ZuluFightrunner]

@johhnycarlos No. Top Tip : Ask your opponents position instead of asserting it for them.

[johhnycarlos]

@ZuluFightrunner What is your position?

[eg0u3057]

@johhnycarlos There really isn't much to "understand" about "creation". It's a bronze-age attempt at a fantastical (and comfortable) explanation. I've got no idead why your gym analogy has any relevance to theism/atheism at all. If you want to see bad reasoning, check out Kent Hovind et al. Master of BS.

[johhnycarlos]

@eg0u3057 What is comfortable about its explanation? The creation narrative in Genesis is understood to not be a literal step by step process. If I may ask, why is there something instead of nothing?

[svdlmf]

@johhnycarlos "If I may ask, why is there something instead of nothing?"

Does that "something" include god ? Why is there a god instead of no god ? Whatever answer you give I can apply to the universe.

[svdlmf]

@johhnycarlos Voltaire also said: "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." and "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool". and "All good Christians glory in the folly of the Cross. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."

He was not an atheist (he was a deist), but he has DEEPLY anti-religious. Christians who quote Voltaire are RETARDED. Just like christians who quote Einstein are RETARDED.

[svdlmf]

@johhnycarlos Yeah, Voltaire said it best: "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." and "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool". and "All good Christians glory in the folly of the Cross. Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense." And many more.

Even if he was not an atheist (he was a deist), he has DEEPLY anti-christian. So christians who quote Voltaire are RETARDED. Are you a christian ?

[insanecaine]

@johhnycarlos huh?

[loveandlove231]

when will atheist and thiest stop arguing

[svdlmf]

@loveandlove231 when theist start reasoning

[drnovikov]

@Cptreese1 bottom line: Hitler was a catholic, the prevailing majority of germans was catholic -- so why keep telling us fairy tales about "bad atheists"? By the way, when did the catholic church finally quit blaming jews for Christ's death? 1965?

[drnovikov]

There's more people in US' jails today than there were in "horrible Stalin's" jails. So please don't tell me sbout "tens of millions", I don't buy that BS.

[drnovikov]

@Cptreese1 I don't have to google that propaganda. Dude, i'm Russian and I live in Russia. There were no "tens of million killed by Stalin". By the way, I'm not a stalinist. I just don't trust your propaganda.

[svdlmf]

@drnovikov Actually he said Soviet Russia, Nazism, and The People's Republic of China have killed tens of millions of people combined. Not just Stalin. But Hitler actually believed in God and so did most of the christian NAZIS. In fact Hitler BANNED ATHEIST organisations and had public speeches in which he declared his outmost sympathy for Christianity. The fact is he could not have gained power without the support of the Christian Churches and the German Christian populace (who hated jews).

[svdlmf]

@drnovikov And even if he wasn't a christian, the fact is he could not have gained power without the support of the Christian Churches and the German Christian populace (who hated jews). 

[1973Razorback]

@drnovikov I love it when this happens. You really pissed on his fire. LMAO

[freiheitsalv]

:haha: loved it :nyan:

[drnovikov]

@Cptreese1

Could you, please, tell us about "10s of millions of people killed in Soviet Russia"?

By the way, Hitler was a roman catholic, and his troopers marched under the slogan "God with us".

[rorshak73]

@drnovikov Sorry to interrupt, but I'm an atheist, a Russian speaker and a keen historian, and I wasn't aware there was any dispute about the scale of the victims of Soviet tyranny. Whether or not a theocratic Soviet Communist government would have killed more or fewer people is not the point. Religious murders are murders because of religion. Non-religious murders are NOT murders because of atheism. Was @Cptreese1 rehashing the old saw about atheists being bigger butchers than fanatics? :-(

[drnovikov]

@rorshak73 Yes, he was. Old good "but the atheists have killed more" story.

[Lone432345]

@rorshak73 Oh the same bullshit argument. No they did do it for there Atheism. They did it because they were Anti-Theist. Which most so call Youtube atheist are. so They hide behind the word Atheist. A real Atheist dosnt give a rats ass what people believe. The name of atheism is a bullshit argument. The idea that you have to pronounce what you are going to do or it dosnt count is stupid. Do you think when a guy who killed a runaway slave. Is going to say. This is in the name of Slavery.

[aamir546]

I love Richard dowkins and his philosophy

[svdlmf]

@aamir546 then you should better learn to spell his name :>

[kurkomoreno]

@IAmHotize redneck¡¡

[ZuluFightrunner]

@IAmHotize Richard Dawkins isn't Jewish.

[tarun1982]

@ZuluFightrunner Does that matter?... I wish he was Jewish..

[ArryonBas]

In reality, Atheism is a redundant term. If someone asked a person without a job what they did for a living, they wouldn't say non-stockbroker or non-bicycle repairman, they would say they have no job. 

[paercebal]

@ArryonBas : Good try, but no, it's more like : "They would not say they are non-schizophrenic, or non-manic, or non-suicidal, or non-retarded, they would say they have no mental disease nor deffect". In other words, it's called "sane". you know, sane like "I feel no need to believe in an invisible, omnipotent, omniscient creature which loves me so much it will torture me for all eternity if I don't obey its retarded commands."

[svdlmf]

@paercebal People who believe in a magic omnipotent being who watches over them, listens to their prayers, and influences their lifes by changing the laws of the cosmos according to their wishes are called theists. People who don't are called normal.

[svdlmf]

@ArryonBas I think the word "atheism" is actually a misleading term. Because it somehow creates the impression that theism is "normal", and atheism is "anormal". When in fact it's the other way around: atheism is the normality, while theism is pure insanity ! So the question of whether someone is a theist or an atheist is basically a question of one being normal or insane at the membrane, i.e. deluded, retarded, brainwashed, and so on.

[NIETZSCHEAN14]

@IAmHotize. Jesus WAS a Jew! Read your bible and you will learn this.

[svdlmf]

@NIETZSCHEAN14 We all know that Jewsus was a Jew. And that he was betrayed by Jewdas. But he was ressurected by Jewhovah. The result: Jewdeo-Christianity !

Why are non-jewish people believing this Jewdeo-Crapianity ? Because it's so fucking Jewcy.

[TugNThaPecker]

I have been watching countless videos on youtube in regard to the purely educational aspect this very brilliant biologist has contributed to the advancement of science & it pains me to see nearly all the comments I read involve such hostile conversation. Is not true brilliance of this man's work, encouraging humans to prove before blind faith in attempt to solve these conundrums, being sadly misunderstood as a threat? The point is to stop violence by cognitive dissonance with fact not opinion

[stevehayes13]

Religion is not universal. The Piraha do not have a religion.

[christianfinkjensen]

@IAmHotize And, typical of a racist with a biased hand, in opposition against the new world order, always trying to lead us away from our lord and savior, Science.

[onetocome]

Hmmm, so religion is a virus invented by the genius of evolution. And atheism is another virus invented by the genius of evo. why would evo invent something that has no use for it's survival. Why didn't evo got rid of this virus.

[IAmHotize]

@onetocome hmm, that must mean that all science can be dismissed as nonsense and the tribal God of bronze-aged Palestine who's a caucasian human male of planet earth created the entire universe in the time it takes the earth to spin on its axis 6 times, 6,000 years ago and if you don't worship him every 7th time the earth spins on its axis HE wants you stoned to death.

[henryporter101]

Another extraordinary lecture by one of the greatest teachers the world has seen.He's remedied a lot of the damage done by religious instructors.

[1028Dawn]

Richard says religion is a psychological parasite. People who spread it are diseased. Then we should treat it as though it were like schizophrenia. You cant argue with a schizophrenic about whether or not they hear voices. They need therapy.

[zencat999]

so what he is saying is that religion is a psychological parasite that exists only for itself and to the detriment of the host.

hmmmmmmmmm

sounds a lot like CANCER!!

religion is the cancer of the MIND!

SCIENCE is the cure.

[happysplodie]

Iron Maiden - Wicker man?! Baddazz

[mboundtogether]

another trot around the bases