WiseMonkey #3: atheism

WiseMonkey ventures into Atheistland to see what wisdom he can glean from its inhabitants ....
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MANY thanks to the wonderful YouTubers who made this project such fun to do:

LibertyIsNotGiven
http://www.youtube.com/user/LibertyIsNotGiven

AtheistBlindChick
http://www.youtube.com/user/AtheistBlindChick

QualiaSoup
http://www.youtube.com/user/QualiaSoup

Snowfeet
http://www.youtube.com/user/Snowfeet
—
Carl Sagan's 'The Dragon in my Garage'
http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Dragon.htm

Category:

Education

Tags:

• LibertyIsNotGiven
• AtheistBlindChick
• QualiaSoup
• Snowfeet
• evidence
• Russell's
• teapot
• fairies
• dragons
• hope
• objective
• moral
• code
• Carl
• Sagan

[goofinaround123]

Why can't I find WiseMonkey 1?

[TheraminTrees]

@goofinaround123 Hey Tommy. I took it down. Two of the characters were affectionately based on a married couple I used to know. A couple of years ago they revealed themselves to be two of the sickest, most vile individuals I've ever met — people were shocked by their extreme misanthropy. The video had to go — off YouTube and off my hard drive — along with every other reminder. And the real laugh? Last thing I heard, they'd joined a group praying for Richard Dawkins to 'see the light'.

[DoctorNociceptor]

@TheraminTrees OMG!!! (OMNG?) What was the subject of the first video, anyway?

[TheraminTrees]

@DoctorNociceptor It was on sexuality.

[DoctorNociceptor]

@TheraminTrees Interestingggg... I can understand how that could screw with your head. Well, you could make a different video to replace it. Or just one on a different subject. Like... I don't know. Can't think of anything, actually. Is that why you stopped making them?

[TheraminTrees]

@DoctorNociceptor 'Is that why you stopped making them?'

—Nope — just took down the one with them in it. Didn't care to see their faces. But they haven't poisoned the WiseMonkey well — I've just been doing other things.

[TheraminTrees]

@erikmartin2 It's a red herring to say that extraordinary is subjective. The point being made is about proportionality. Claims of magnitude A require evidence of magnitude A — ie when we're talking about a paradigm-shifting concept, that requires appropriate, proportionate weight of evidence to back it up.

[TheraminTrees]

@TexFight 'I think it's pretty funny when your whole argument ....'

—And that's the point in the sentence where the fallacy creeps in. This video isn't 'the whole argument' — it just answers a handful of things some people say. And because those people are coming from the religions you mentioned, they're answered in that context. Great that that moves you to laughter.

[TheHeidelbergKid]

@TheraminTrees I know it's too late now, but couldn't you just remove the parts with them and keep the rest?

[JakobiaP]

I'm fachinated, in responce to the citizen/patriot quote, that people in the US says that it's bad when countries secularizes, when the US was build on a basis of freedom of religion and most of the founding fathers was atheists

[CryoKatana97]

the thing that made me laugh was the "Some people say...."

[FrankSlade1983]

What a nice monkey - i subscribed ;)

[Aphotic0221]

@TheraminTrees Why not address what had occurred instead?

[iAMtekey]

Thank you WiseMonkey.