George4943's channel

I plan to be there, but I'm nobody.

He thinks he has had a personal revelation! I've had a revelation, too. It's just for grins and giggles. This guy makes me giggle. That's a comfort I suppose.

@smaakjeks Exactly. Dogmatic "anything." Another example: belief in AGW and, equally, disbelief in AGW. Let the evidence decide the most probable reason for the observed Global Warming. Is it part of a natural cycle (which would mean what we are doing makes no sense)? If manmade we are doing the ...

@chessslut "What you DECIDE to do when bored depends on past experiences." You shot yourself in the foot. Either I was COMPELLED or I myself DECIDED.

I have a choice. That choice is mine. It is an exercise of limited will.

If I startle at a crash in the house, that I am compelled to do. It is a...

The libertarian "believes in" social mobility. No the libertarian does not believe that "we want everyone rich." Libertarians believe that "We want everyone to have the equal opportunity to be as rich as their personal effort allows." Equal opportunity -- you against that? You get to keep what y...

@doombybbr I plead poetic license

Oh, and as far as the new YT format goes... They seem to have no intent of making it as usable as it was before the latest "improvement."

I find myself going channel by channel to that which I have subscribed rather than their default of "all channels."

@DarkMatter2525 Creationism is a "theory" in the sense of a number of sophomores sitting in a bar saying "I've got a theory." As you say, an hypothesis or conjecture.

Too bad the scientific theory is, um, a different thing altogether. A conjecture supported by repeatable evidence from experiment...

@AllRightRotten The motto of the girls of Norfolk High:

We're the girls from Norfolk. We don't drink nor smoke. Norfolk! Norfolk!

@28:00 I was reminded of a Ramachandran (available on YouTube) in which he had a subject who had a series of epileptic fits thought he had met with God.

This might be called a "Road to Damascus" experience.

@iam1inamil Get enough people to fear their savings will become nothing.

Those without assets don't care at all.

Debtors profit from inflation.

I just bought property. I am now a debtor. I'll pay in dollars. Inflated dollars over time. And under 4% 30-year fixed rate.

The biggest debtor a...

@EmmittBrownBTTF1 I did not get the Baha'i advert. I got one tailored to my profile. It knows, it knows!

I hope those of us who live in the US are welcome, too!

@2:00 The universe is not fine tuned for life. @2:40 Yep, we are the lottery winners.

The odds that WildwoodClaire1 would look as she does before she was born were stupendously against. And yet here she is.

Perhaps, given the size of the universe we can observe (we can't observe the super-natur...

@miljkovicm When I adopt a Thiest stance for Believers:

My goddess is Mother Nature. She is perfectly fair and treats everyone the same. She knows no good nor evil, merely balance and imbalance.

She is the Oracle of Truth and as all Oracles are known to do always gives true but sometimes mislea...

@JamesMorlan Your statement raises the question: Whence this Eternity?

Oh, it just is. No explanation at all for the Origin of Everything Real Including gods, goddesses, a supernatural (whether eternal or no).

@marjorkid I hope you're right.

Ideally, Science has no agenda. No "I'd rather have this be reality." Instead there is a neutral stance. Whatever is palpably and testably real, and everyone is invited to repeat the experiment and try to prove me right or wrong, is welcomed! The unknown becomes a puzzle to be solved. And the cu...