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I am a rational, freethinking, agnostic atheist. This does not make me an evil person...
I do not as yet make my own vids, so you will only find a selection of my favourites here and the odd mirror.
I believe in free speech, however, your right to free speech is outweighed by my right to not listen to you (i.e. block you) if I so choose.
I do not as yet make my own vids, so you will only find a selection of my favourites here and the odd mirror.
I believe in free speech, however, your right to free speech is outweighed by my right to not listen to you (i.e. block you) if I so choose.
About Me:
The following are a select few of my favourite quotes:
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones." - Marcus Aurelius
"Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams
"Why should I fear death? If I am; death is not. If death is; I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?" - Epicurus
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
"I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." - Robert Green Ingersoll
"The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it." - Terry Pratchett
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein
"I would never die for my beliefs, because I might be wrong." - Bertrand Russell
"I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism." - Isaac Asimov
"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave." - William Drummond
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward." - Leonardo Da Vinci
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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A word of warning to those posting comments here, I will not be removing any comments, because it says far more about you than it does about me.
RULES (will be used with discretion and may result in blocking):
(1) Argumentum ad hominem - Argument against the man
(2) Argumentum ad populum - Appeal to the people
(3) Argumentum ad baculum - Argument to the cudgel
(4) Argumentum ad verecundiam - Argument to respect
(5) Argumentum ad ignorantiam - Appeal to ignorance
(6) Reductio ad absurdum - Reduction to the absurd
(7) Non Sequitur - It does not follow
(8) The use of straw men - e.g. claiming that evolution and abiogenesis are the same
(9) Preaching at me (Snake-Oil salespeople be warned, I am not interested in what you are selling).
(10) Making any false comment whose veracity can be easily checked.
(11) The use of Pascal's wager
(12) The use of the "no true Scotsman" fallacy
(13) Claiming that "atheism (or evolution) requires faith" or "atheism (or evolution) is a religion"
The use of "Comments Pending Approval" on your channel and censoring my responses is incredibly weak.
Hate speech of any kind will result in instant blocking.
On another note, If you absolutely must use sock puppets, please use them intelligently. If you cannot manage this, you will be blocked.
Peace.
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No worries. I also try and keep my channel a no-troll zone, although I am not as quick to block as I once was.
However as an unbeliever, you are most welcome to go there anyway. It's really a channel for atheists to congregate which is troll-free and not too formal. I mostly comment on other people's channels, or on video threads, but you can see a few people go there nonetheless.
Sorry, was cooking and eating dinner!
Yeah, I have come across some rather nasty people in my time commenting here. I have collected my fair share of death threats as well.
Yeah I deal with the crazies but some really vicious, nasty ones. The nastiest I can remember on YT were a group of Orthodox Jews who I came across last July, which is soon after I started commenting about religion. They were happy to hand out death threats without a care.
And right back at ya!
And a g'day mate to you too.