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So The Cleveland Board of Tourism was not happy with the first video that I turned in. In fact, they said that upon viewing it, three of the board...
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So The Cleveland Board of Tourism was not happy with the first video that I turned in. In fact, they said that upon viewing it, three of the board members moved away.
They insisted that I turn in a proper Cleveland tourism video, otherwise they will pursue litigation.
So I was really planning on buckling down and giving it my all this time, but there was a "Rock of Love" marathon on VH1 last night that I didn't want to miss, so I cranked this video out in even less time than the first one. Roughly 35 minutes total.
Despite this, I'm rather pleased with how it turned out, and I think they will be too.
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(HD) Transcript: " The word hell has had a checkered career in the history of the church. And it wasnt hugely important in the early days. It ...
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(HD) Transcript: " The word hell has had a checkered career in the history of the church. And it wasnt hugely important in the early days. It was important, but not nearly as important as it became in the middle ages. And the in the middle ages, you get this polarization of heaven over here and hell over there, and you have to go to one place or the other eventually. So you have the Sistine Chapel, with that great thing behind the altar. This enormous great judgment seat, with the souls going off into these different directions. Very interestingly, I was sitting in the Sistine chapel just a few weeks ago. I was sitting for a service, and I was sitting next to a Greek Orthodox...who said to me, looking at the pictures of Jesus on one wall. He said, these I can understand. The pictures of Moses on the other wall, he said, those I can understand. Then he pointed at the end wall of judgment, and said, that I cannot understand. Thats how you in the west have talked about judgment and heaven and hell. He said, we have never done it that way before, because the bible doesnt do it that way. I thought, whoops. I think hes right actually. And whether youre Catholic or Protestant, that scenario which is etched into the consciousness of Western Christianity really has to be shaken about a bit. Because if heaven and earth are to join together. Its not a matter of leaving earth and going to heaven. Its heaven and earth joined together. And hell is what happens when human beings say, the God in whose image they were made, we dont want to worship you. We dont want our human life to be shaped by you. We dont want, who we are as humans to be transformed by the love of Jesus dying and rising for us. We dont want any of that. We want to stay as we are and do our own thing. And if you do that, what youre saying is, you want to stop being image bearing human being within this good world that God has made. And you are colluding with your own progressive dehumanization. And that is such a shocking and horrible thing, that its not surprising that the biblical writers and others have used very vivid and terrifying language about it. But, people have picked that up and said, this is a literal description of reality. Somewhere down there, there is a lake of fire, and its got worms in it and its got serpents and demons and there coming to get you. But I think actually, the reality is more sober and sad than that, which is this progressive shrinking of human life. And that happens during this life, but it seems to be that if someone resolutely says to God, Im not going to worship you...its not just Ill not come to church. Its a matter of deep down somewhere, there is a rejection of the good creator God, then that it the choice humans make. In other words, I think the human choices in this life really matter. Were not just playing a game of chess, where tomorrow morning God will put the pieces back on the board and say, Ok that was just a game. Now were doing something different. The choices we make here really do matter. Theres part of me that would love to be a universalist, and say, itll be alright. Everyone will get there in the end. I actually...the choices you make in the present are more important than that."
More videos can be found at 100huntley.com and more of his thoughts can be found in his book "Surprised by Hope".
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ILU... even though you're... like.. 2.5 times my age.
This is the same guy who repeated every cliche I satirized in my evolution video, and he was dead serious. When I called him out on it, in several comments he said he got his evolution knowledge from a REAL scientist - "Kent Miller". Completely ignorant of the fact that it's KEN Miller he was talking about. Not only that, he didn't know who Stephen Jay Gould was before Googling him. And when I mentioned Richard Lewontin, verzen had this to say:
"By using Lewontin in your arguments, chances are you have misquoted some of his work."
verzen has no idea whether or not I even quoted Lewontin, but he's sure I misquoted him because, well, I'm not a Darwinian (all praise Darwin peace be upon him). It's at this point I blocked the guy, because if he can't refute anything he'll just make shit up and refute that instead.
Yeah, TheDarkKnight987, I don't know what the hell I was thinking. Silly me, thinking that somebody like Darwin knew anything about evolution. Thanks for admitting Chuck was full of shit, TDK!
The video makes fun of the people who I've seen argue for evolution on the Internet, not necessarily the theory itself. They are usually young people fresh out of school who only know what their teachers and professors have been feeding them. I've been there and done that myself.
After I got older and started thinking for myself a little bit, I started to ask questions and I was told I was stupid for asking them. That wasn't how science was supposed to be, according to what I had been taught. I noticed some scientists and doctors who asked certain questions (not just on evolution) were told they were stupid and they should go along with conventional wisdom. I didn't like that at all.
Finally I read Darwin's two main works. His "Descent of Man" shocked me a great deal, especially since I had never been taught what it actually said. In the same way some people stop believing in God after reading the Bible, I stopped believing in evolution after reading that book.
I'm an atheist myself so obviously I don't support creationism but I won't hate anyone who does support creationism, I just find them very stupid and ignorant, that's all. ;)
My guess is home schooling."
Wrong, of course. That's the default status for imbeciles.
It was called "cave schooling" back in my day anyway. In public (tribe) school we learned the finer points of mastadon hunting and sabre-toothed tiger safety.