A Fascinating Video about the current ATHEIST MOVEMENT

[blue_cristal]

  YT2095 said:

coz I didn`t Provide one in the 1`st place perhaps?

 

YT2095, are you sure that you did not drink something today ?

 

My comment about the link was an answer to swansont’s post, NOT to you.

 

My comment to you was just a criticism on your Einstein’s quote ( signature ).

[YT2095]

  blue_cristal said:

My comment about the link was an answer to swansont’s post, NOT to you.

 

then why Mention me here:

  blue_cristal said:

Why didn’t you provide the link straight from YT ?

 

 

when I Clearly NOWHERE provided a link for Swansont to "provide straight from".

[doG]

  blue_cristal said:

Yep, Pat’s videos are my preferred ones in the YouTube.

 

He usually makes good points with an articulate and crystalline clarity.

 

Why didn’t you provide the link straight from YT ?

 

Here it is:

 

 

 

In the context of your post it looks to me like you imply that YT posted this link somewhere. It doesn't look like a comment about YT's sig at all....

[YT2095]

Much better worded, Thnx doG

[blue_cristal]

  doG said:

In the context of your post it looks to me like you imply that YT posted this link somewhere. It doesn't look like a comment about YT's sig at all....

 

 

How that can be if I am even quoting swansont in my reply ( post #44 )?

 

Is there some epidemy of visual blindness in here ?

[YT2095]

no, just a lack of Prudence when using someone elses name in a thread where they had not participated!

 

Do try to word things a little more carefully, there`s a good girl

[doG]

  blue_cristal said:

How that can be if I am even quoting swansont in my reply ( post #44 )?

 

Is there some epidemy of visual blindness in here ?

 

And whom is the "YT" you refer to in that post?

[insane_alien]

especially since YT hadn't posted till after you said that.

[doG]

  insane_alien said:

especially since YT hadn't posted till after you said that.

 

Ahh, YT must be a reference to YouTube....

[YT2095]

In which case I would like to reiterate the point made in post #56.

 

Do try to be a more careful and a little less lazy

[Phi for All]

What a Fascinating thread about a Fascinating Video about the current ATHEIST MOVEMENT!

[YT2095]

yes, it almost got Interesting for a while

[blue_cristal]

  YT2095 said:

yes, it almost got Interesting for a while

 

…until some people started losing track on what and who they should reply to and delaying a lot to find out that "YT" means YouTube.

 

But I concede, "YT" could also being interpreted as YT2095.

 

By the way, YT2095, you did not reply to my criticism to your signature ( the Einstein's quote ).

 

Why ?

[YT2095]

I don`t answer unsolicited Exams, and it wasn`t exactly presented as a question either (rather a statement) so why should I?

 

for your edification:

  blue_cristal said:

"Science without religion is lame.” Einstein.

 

Science do fine without religion. Actually, religion was (and still is ) an obstacle to science most of the time.

 

You see, intelligent people also can say incredible bullshit.

 

Our brain has a lot of specialized and compartmentalized neural circuitries. We can be a genius in a mental faculty and an idiot in another one.

 

 

“Religion without science is blind." Einstein.

 

Religion is based on blind faith ( dogma ) therefore it is blind WITH or WITHOUT science.

 

In the past, the church supported science for while because they thought that science could prove the existence of god ( hahaha...)

 

Instead, scientific findings started demolishing religious dogmas. Then the Church immediately started persecuted scientists and undermine science.

 

So, as you can see, this is yet another Einstein’s bullshit.

 

can YOU see a question mark in there?

[Severian]

  Mr Skeptic said:

People who suspend rational thought are dangerous, (almost completely) regardless of what they believe.

 

So what are you advocating? Concentration camps perhaps? Or maybe just 're-education centres'?

[blue_cristal]

  YT2095 said:

I don`t answer unsolicited Exams, and it wasn`t exactly presented as a question either (rather a statement) so why should I?

 

for your edification:

 

 

can YOU see a question mark in there?

 

LOL....

 

Since when criticism is a question ( sometimes, it can contain some challenging questions but this is not its main attribute )?

 

Criticism is just an rational objection or rational judgemental analysis of a set of ideas.

[Mr Skeptic]

  Quote

  Mr Skeptic said:

People who suspend rational thought are dangerous, (almost completely) regardless of what they believe.

So what are you advocating? Concentration camps perhaps? Or maybe just 're-education centres'?

 

Well with the attention spans nowadays, it may be a good idea to teach techniques to increase one's concentration. They are mostly just taught to people with ADD, but an increased ability to concentrate would be useful to a lot of people.

 

As for re-education centers, I don't see how they would be at all useful; after all if someone is already educated, there wouldn't be any need to educate them again. I suppose it could increase the rate of acceptance of new ideas (as compared to the old fashioned way of "Old ideas don't die but the people who believe them do").

I hope that was as random and amusing to you as your reply was to me...

[Phi for All]

  blue_cristal said:

Criticism is just an rational objection or rational judgemental analysis of a set of ideas.

Ah, but criticism is much more palatable when it's not shouted at us in dark blue bold! Thank you, blue_cristal! Thank you, thank you!

[Mag]

  ghstofmaxwll said:

Keep in mind that this backs up many psychologists conclusions that religion is in-built in the human brain!

 

I disagree 100%.

I dont think Religion is "built in" - however, I do think that it is inevitable at the early stages of evolution because humans cannot comprehend everything, and thus supernatural powers/beings and magic comes into play.

 

For example, if lightning strikes someone, people way back when werent going to say "well this is just a natrual phenomenon and he was unlucky to get hit"

no, they would say "he was a bad person and deserved it" or "God (or other being) was angry with him"

 

by no means is religion "built in" to the human brain. Its a learned phenomenon.