Footprints in the Sand (A Variation)

[Strictlypointless]

Absolutely brilliant.

[unkledanbot]

and I noticed only one set of footprints. Huge ones.

Bigfoot prints in the sand.

[YahwehNoweh]

Brilliant

[Rationalific]

Nice little video.

(By the way, I was sure that in the comments section, I was gonna see "I was gonna walk with you, until I took an arrow to the knee." but I didn't find it...at least on this page.)

[paulalex19]

@Rationalific I used to have two sets of footprints... but then I took an arrow to the knee. (Geddit? He's hopping? Skyrim? Arrows? Pain?)

[Rationalific]

@paulalex19 There ya go.

[MrLowercaseA]

I like: "Why only one set of footprints during the hardest times of my life?"

God replied: "My child, it was then that your incessant whining got so bad that I had to take a trip down to the pub to escape it."

[Lifeiscurious]

Brilliant!

[TheHogTieChamp]

"... only one set of footprints in the sand.

And I asked the Lord, why, when I needed you the most, you have not been there for me.

The Lord replied, 'Omnipotent beings move in single file to hide their numbers...' "

[ObakeOnna]

That ending really packs a punch! I swear my heart skipped a beat. Very effective use of image and sound (or lack thereof, actually) to strengthen the message.

[Zentella6]

Waking up is good

[Campineiroamericano]

Awsome take on this so popular poem. Positivated

[skeprod224]

David Cross tell the FITS story with this ending...Then the lord said, Because I have 6 billion other people to look after ya selfish prick!

[DanielSchaffiro]

Brilliant!

[Lynchpinn101]

beautiful :)

[DoctorMeh]

Oh shi---!

[calmreason]

A very nice piece of work.

[richardmoz]

great just great, thanks again.

[NonProphetess]

Very good video. I knew what was coming...sorta...and I was liking it before you got there.

[dingodavid]

If the footprints go around in circles, then you're probably following yourself.

[Mee551able]

What ever happend to them Cavemen?

[Mglosk]

Because when you were feeling your worse I was sitting on your shoulders laughing.

[DaithiDublin]

I've always imagined Jesus as the one being carried. When times are good an imaginary friend is no burden at all. It's only when the hard times come and the endless devotion seems fruitless that the religious have to carry the weight of their fantasies. The footprints don't get any deeper, though...

[rrward]

Niiice!

[MarkLucasTube]

That was truly brilliant.

[Chickenviewer]

You can spend hours and hours tearing apart videos one after another, but this video says so much more in such a short two minutes. This was great.

[MacNutz2]

absolutely brilliant

[FHomeBrew]

Omg Godwins law in action lol. Still nice job :-)

[rickuj]

Give WLC an STD like HIV and His ASS will Run to a PHD. Everyone's got an asshole,but when it becomes the dominant feature of your personality it's time to make some changes.Mr. Palmer,I hope your health is good.(I seen WLC in a comment and he just makes me go off-him sog and vfx).

How to shut WLC down,tell him you can't use the natural world(our home,the Universe) to prove the supernatural.

[Greathiway]

Jesus love us, thats why he carries us to hell.

[mccabe1958]

very good

[juggaloryan3]

Wow! Now this is hard hitting!

[bb1televator]

God: [trollface] My will be done... [/trollface]

Now we know the face of God is that of a silly grinning lunatic.

[anubis2814]

Why was there only one set of footprints? and he replied "Sand people walk in single file to hide their numbers."

[brettppalmer]

@anubis2814 Ha ha ha! I'm off to play SWTOR right now!

[RealityFoundNet]

@brettppalmer Thumbs up for the awesome video and SWTOR!

[dingodavid]

@anubis2814

True. They're Sand People alright...

I can see the Banthas from here...

[NonProphetess]

@anubis2814 You are funny. Nice one!

[Mee551able]

OPEN YOUR EYES GOD ISNT REAL.

[Killedkennyagain]

@Mee551able True, but the Invisible Pink Unicorn is! ALL HAIL HER INVISIBLE PINKNESS.

[Kamidake83]

Part of me wants to share this on Facebook, just a little worried about the responses it will get

[Killedkennyagain]

@Kamidake83 I'll do it, if you do it.

[pchtermino1]

@Kamidake83 You will be attacked by christians. They are not a very forgiving group.

[kelliko70]

This poem is so profound, on so many levels. I passed it by earlier and I am so glad I came back to it. May I feature it on my channel?

[genobahamut1337]

@kelliko70 This is a poem? I'm not really that good with poems, so I'm having trouble understanding how this is a poem.

[MrStillmans]

@genobahamut1337 Poems do not all rhyme. This is a very famous poem by an unknown author. It reads pretty much exactly as in this video, ending with the "I carried you." line.

[genobahamut1337]

@MrStillmans I see... Well, I know they don't all rhyme, but I'm confused about what makes this a poem. Could you inform me on what criteria it's meeting?

[MrStillmans]

@genobahamut1337 In its written form, the sentences are broken into in shorter lines forming a column like appearance. Poems have a speaker and a listener. In this case, the speaker is the writer and the listener is God. It has some build up, metaphor use, and wit, which are striven for by poets. It doesn't take much to qualify as a poem, though. I just listed a few prominent things about this one that help it be as successful as it is.

[genobahamut1337]

@MrStillmans Alright, thanks a bunch.

[CntrBrdr]

I was shocked at the end of the video, like wow! what a finish

[HappyAtheist76]

Wow... Great and powerful spin on that poem. When you put it like that it really puts it in perspective.

[AuntieDiluvian]

Superb

[Eriance]

Short, but clear and powerful. :D

[Requiemxtoxinnocence]

If you were a god in a place of infinite bliss I don't think you'd have much of an obligation to help out anyone. If god exists I wouldn't doubt that he's the greatest hedonistic being imaginable.

[Puchicas9]

Devastating!

[dingodavid]

When I looked down and saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I realised my new meds were finally working.

[Gemeni3insane]

Way am I in pain.

God: Because I said so...

[jodo40]

Brett, fantastic!

[Rushlimpballs]

Genius! Fucking Genius! I was not expecting that! "Into the box car you go!"

[themsfightinwoids]

This speaks to another great flaw in the mind of thse who believe in a "just" god: millions of indisputably innocent toddlers starve to death every year, usually after horrific suffering, while an omnipotent heavenly "father" stands by and does NOTHING even though it would be effortless for him to stop it. The lame excuse posed by apologists: because we need suffering in order to decide whether to serve god. Why can't god just appear and say "follow me" as the test?

There is no sensible retort.

[Dikotomii]

Job's book is the default answer from the skyfairy lovers for evil and pain and suffering.

The skyfairy said to Job "What MotherF---r! You want some of this sh!!t? I will beat your stinkin' a-- for even asking me a question!

The End.

That explains why the skyfairy allows evil and suffering in the world.

I feel so warm and fuzzy knowing the answer now.

[FactsBeforeFaith]

I agree with the the video. Reality itself contradicts the whole Biblical concept that God will not allow us to experience more than we can bear. If it were true, the holocaust wouldn't have happened. We would never hear news stories of innocent girls being held in the basements of sick men and raped for years.

There is NO cap, no upper bounds, on the amount of evil that some invisible man allows to happen to us. Reality isn't based on warm fuzzy wishes, like those found in the original poem.

[Dikotomii]

Job's book



[Jaybird196]

@Dikotomii Oddly enough, perhaps, that is my favorite book of the bible. I sometimes wonder if there isn't some more esoteric meaning to it, in some of the wording. Off the top of my head I cannot remember, but isn't that the same book that God brags about creating good AND evil?

[rkyeun]

"Why, when I needed you most, you have not been there for me?"

And the Lord replied, "Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—...

[Jonstern1983]

@rkyeun Book of douschy god makes a bet right?

[rkyeun]

@Jonstern1983

You got it. :)

[thedutchman01]

@rkyeun

Wtf are you talking about?

[rkyeun]

@thedutchman01

That would be the book of Job, where Job cries out to God to explain the lowest points of suffering in his life. And God's response is to scream nonsense rabidly for three chapters.

[thedutchman01]

@rkyeun

Ah. Yes... That wonderfull book about how loving their god is and where he makes a bet with the devil, where the devil gets to torture the poor man for no reason but to quench gods first for recognition.

Still amazed how those idiots see that as a story about god's love.

Thanks for the clarification though :)

[tacojohn9]

That was brilliant!

[Dwicker64]

I would just as soon have his footprints next to mine, instead of carrying me into a concentration camp. I used to say people where ignorant, now it is plain "STUPID"

[mistertakeda]

I like this conception of God. No sugar coated white man stuff. Demands a kind of Stoicism.

[a300pilotster]

And onto the slave ship.....

[brettppalmer]

@a300pilotster Oooo....that's another good angle!

[HealingBlight]

@brettppalmer And much more goodwin proof.

[kelliko70]

@brettppalmer and into smallpox ridden blankets, The Trail of Tears

[kelliko70]

@kelliko70 I am referencing what Christians did to Native Americans when they got here.

[itsasin1969]

added to my favorite list. 

[FishHeadSalad]

To me...as soon as I looked into the sand and saw that there was only one set of foot prints...that would have been the moment that I realized that the whole time, I had an imaginary friend. And those foot prints where just mine...without him.

[McPrfctday]

Pure Guinness.

[FishHeadSalad]

Brett...perfect!...just perfect! Nothing like "god's plan"!

[joestfrancois]

I got a little choked up.

[xXAnthony619Xx]

Great video!!!! Thanks!!!

[Yahweigh]

DEEP.

[connerjd]

When I was a christian, the footprints in the sand thing was an encouragement. However, I didn't look at it from every angle.

[wounduppenguin]

That was great! favourited :)

[GargamelGold]

@brettppalmer I've never even heard any variant of this poem before. How does the original go?

[Jaybird196]

@GargamelGold I realize this wasn't directed at me, so I hope you'll forgive my butting in, but the original goes much the same way except no questioning of God's will after the " I carried you" bit.

ZJemptv has a variant that's pretty nice too, if you're interested :) .

[Quintinohthree]

@Jaybird196

watch?v=3D4JQKVNWdo

Loved it as much as I expected.

[Jaybird196]

@Quintinohthree That's great to hear that you enjoyed Zinnia's version as well :) . I find Zinnia's way more uplifting than the original as it returns dignity to person(s) who suffered and made it through a crappy situation.

Brett's is cool too. The dreamer realizes that having a dream so much as a nightmare, but he escapes ( y'know, if I'm understanding him properly) :) .

[Quintinohthree]

@Jaybird196

Both are different expressions of the same overal view. The fact that they take on the original from completely different angles only shows how bad it is.

[Jaybird196]

@Quintinohthree Ahh, thanks . Yes, I suppose it does seem to indicate that.

[Avicaris]

@GargamelGold The original is the same up until the dreamer asks about the boxcar, concentration camp, and gas chamber. It pretty much just ends there instead.

[GargamelGold]

@Avicaris That makes sense. I was just curious.

[Jaybird196]

This bothered me because I noticed one of the sets of footprints had webbed toes... ;)

[dewinthemorning]

When god commands something, it's ok to do it, even if it's a sin without god's command. God commanded Abraham to kill Isaak, and it wouldn't have been murder for Abraham to kill Isaak because god commanded it." William Lane Craig

[brettppalmer]

@dewinthemorning Yep...so there goes the idea that "good" is absolute. It's relative. It's whatever God decides it is.

[dewinthemorning]

@brettppalmer Craig has theological weaponry to come out of that hole (what you say). - "God allows suffering to happen so that to bring people FREELY to choose god." Yes, you read it good, when people are in great suffering (concentration camp is an example), then they FREELY choose to believe in god!

[AntiCitizenX]

@dewinthemorning

That still does not explain smallpox or cancer.

[dewinthemorning]

@AntiCitizenX You are right. Read my reply to brettppalmer what Craig will answer to you as well. He is well-armed with theolothical weaponry...

[HealingBlight]

@AntiCitizenX Imagine little microbes walking along along the urinary tract with a little microbe Jesus, on their way to be prosperous and multiply,

[ratholin]

@HealingBlight I think Moses would be more apt. Jesus gathered others to him. More like a cancer infiltrating other cells. hehe sermon on the lump :D

[Maxdwolf]

@AntiCitizenX I haven't seen the response you're replying to, but I've still got a good idea of the apologist claim. There is nothing new under the sun. :)

[Dissapointment4]

@dewinthemorning This is a joke right? The holocaust pretty much killed the practice of Judaism for about twenty years.

[dewinthemorning]

@Dissapointment4 I am just quoting William Lane Craig. I just made a video about his 'moral argument' and I have sent it as a response video to this video.

[brettppalmer]

@dewinthemorning Tebow seems to be doing quite well and he freely chose God. Seems you don't need suffering to choose God. WLC is the ultimate moron.

[dewinthemorning]

@brettppalmer "WLC is the ultimate moron." I concur.

[Sines314]

@brettppalmer I suspect WLC isn't a moron. I propose a trilemma! He's either a liar, knowing full well that what he says is bullshit, a lunatic, incapable of understanding reality outside the confines of scripture, or Lucifer, actively seeking to do evil.

And he can't be a liar or a lunatic because... uh...

Therefore he must be Lucifer.

[grant50]

@brettppalmer What? Not good enough for you? Picky, picky, picky! You'd probably complain if you were gassed with a new can of ZyklonB.

[TheTomtuffy]

@dewinthemorning Jails and asylums are full of people who heard voices telling them to kill someone.

[GenericGenerator]

Was this before or after the ten commandments? I mean REALLY, how's a man to know it's bad to murder your own son unless you have the timeless and unparallelled ten commandments on which to base your life's whole moral code:)?

[Samura1gamer]

@dewinthemorning i dropped in the conversation just to note that william lane craig has the LAMEST arguments ever. the only way he gets away with it is because the majority of the audience is dumber than him and that his opponent in debates just hasn't got the time to go one by one all the fallacies he makes.I've seen a debate where he won it with extreme ease (in the minds of the audience) just by repeating again and again "YOU DIDNT GIVE ME EVIDENCE THAT ATHEISM IS TRUE"

[pchtermino1]

@Samura1gamer It's a non question. Do you believe a cow jumped over the moon. Probably not. Do you have evidence to support this?

[Sines314]

@Samura1gamer Someday, I'd like to see someone agree to debate WLC and just refuse to play his game.

"My opening and closing argument is..." proceed to quote WLC defending genocidal attrocities as the fault of the victims, "I cede the rest of my time to my opponent, as I'm certain you don't need me to help you figure out the depravity of this man, and I have better things to do. Good evening to you all." And then walk out.

I'd pay to see that in gold, frankiscense, AND mhyrr.

[0gods]

@brettppalmer

As an atheist I have received that quaint story on all manner of items from bookmarks to those cheesy white plastic wall plaques sold in Christian stores. I wished I had had your interpretation to give the givers. Well done. Peace.

[tostrong4you]

Wow, good shiznit

[kirafan68]

I´ve thought similar thoughts when I heard that story.