From Dangerous Minds:

This [clip, called "one minute and 23 seconds of some kind of weird bliss"] makes me ecstatic - the music, the sword moves and all the odd little details within the frame. I love the old lady sitting placidly like a Buddha, the plump little dog who couldn’t care less, the giant boom box, the way the boy casually hands off his beer to Buddha granny and gracefully slips into the girl’s vortex immediately getting into the groove, the thrift store art hanging on the door, the mop, bucket etc. It’s extraordinarily ordinary like some kind of super-realist painting set in motion. I don’t know, it’s just fucking inspired.The Tao flows through suburbia on Jian swords of bliss. Who are these people and how do I become one with them? I did not want this to end.

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lol...I like how he's sitting in the corner of the couch like a fat, wide eyed, confused Buddha.

I actually took Religion in High School. It was an interesting class to say the least, but didn't sway my opinions on anything religion wise.

In fact, it was one of my reasons for becoming an Atheist. It's where I found out that Jesus wasn't the first "Miraculous" birth, in fact, Zoroaster and Buddha were also born in the exact same fashion.

My favourite part of the class, however, was the field trip. We went to three places, a Hindu temple, a Mosque, and a Buddhist temple.

Hindu temple and Mosque were interesting, but nothing special. The Buddhist temple though was nifty, I walked into the main hall and there were 3 giant golden Buddha statues there, with thousands of candles lit around the room. I was amazed by this, and eager to learn about it expecting our tour guide to be a monk of sorts.

Turns out he was a little middle-aged white guy, who turned out to be a dick. When asked "Why did you become a Buddhist?" we all expected some result that included soul searching, or because of it's outlook on everything. The exact answer we got was "Well, my friends were something different, so I decided to be different, too."

Needless to say, by the end of our tour, none of us were too impressed with this guy. Chinese new years was coming up so they showed us the basement that was being decorated in silks and lanterns, and looked pretty cool. The guide asked us "So, any of you know how to say 'Happy new year' in Chinese?" with a slight smirk on his face.

I looked him square in the eye and said "Happy new year in Chinese."

That's when we got kicked out of the temple.

Worth it.

>> ^shinyblurry:

Perhaps some people use religion as a means of control, but that isn't the goal or interest of christians. It is merely to preach the good news of Jesus Christ our Lord. I can't save anyone, that is Gods work. I would call your anger here misplaced and quite irrational. You seem to have extremely strong opinions on Christianity which are not very well researched. Have you ever actually read the bible? If not, how can you hate something you know nothing about?
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” - Buddha
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
>> ^rougy:
God, I hate the Bible. It has to be one of the most evil books ever written. I don't have one in my home, and every time I stay in a motel I'm tempted to toss the one that the Jesus freaks always pack in the nightstand.
The only thing worse than the Bible are the Bible beaters, because 90% of them don't want to help you, they just want to control you; they just want to make you feel bad about being a human being who isn't under their control
God knows how many people's lives were ruined by the Bible beaters foisting their ugly, depraved, mean-spirited and ultimately shallow beliefs on folks who were doing just fine until they came along.
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” - Buddha



You don't know about God any better than anybody else. It's your hubris that annoys me. You do much more harm than good. It is your heart that is deceitful, and desperately wicked. You should reconsider laying your hangups and shortcomings on other people.

Why did Dawkin's cross the street?

Because God said he couldn't.

*****

“Where ones treasure is, there also is his heart.” - Jesus Christ

Perhaps some people use religion as a means of control, but that isn't the goal or interest of christians. It is merely to preach the good news of Jesus Christ our Lord. I can't save anyone, that is Gods work. I would call your anger here misplaced and quite irrational. You seem to have extremely strong opinions on Christianity which are not very well researched. Have you ever actually read the bible? If not, how can you hate something you know nothing about?

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” - Buddha

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

>> ^rougy:
God, I hate the Bible. It has to be one of the most evil books ever written. I don't have one in my home, and every time I stay in a motel I'm tempted to toss the one that the Jesus freaks always pack in the nightstand.
The only thing worse than the Bible are the Bible beaters, because 90% of them don't want to help you, they just want to control you; they just want to make you feel bad about being a human being who isn't under their control
God knows how many people's lives were ruined by the Bible beaters foisting their ugly, depraved, mean-spirited and ultimately shallow beliefs on folks who were doing just fine until they came along.
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” - Buddha

God, I hate the Bible. It has to be one of the most evil books ever written. I don't have one in my home, and every time I stay in a motel I'm tempted to toss the one that the Jesus freaks always pack in the nightstand.

The only thing worse than the Bible are the Bible beaters, because 90% of them don't want to help you, they just want to control you; they just want to make you feel bad about being a human being who isn't under their control

God knows how many people's lives were ruined by the Bible beaters foisting their ugly, depraved, mean-spirited and ultimately shallow beliefs on folks who were doing just fine until they came along.

“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.” - Buddha

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

Umm, if he really was an Athiest, what was he doing praying in the first place?
And further, how did he even know who to pray to? What if it was Buddha that answered his prayers?

She has boobs. Boobs are awesome. Boob winning.>> ^Ursapolar:

The sad realization for those who've only seen a few videos of hers...like me is that her intellectual attractiveness is diminished by noticing her physical attractiveness (of approaching the model-esque figure and wearing the stripped "armings"). Hell, I would be happy to be in the "this adds to what she already has" camp but it's not right for me. Now I am thinking that she looks like a geek-CHICey attractive girl with a beautiful mind, rather than a pure intellectual buddha-like personality. It especially scares me when I want to think of my ideal self speaking out towards the equality among sexes and commending her work without discrimination, but ending up saying the same shit like those I loath based on sexual viability. So to all those on VideoSift, why do you lead me to doubt myself?

The sad realization *for those who've only seen a few videos of hers...like me* is that her intellectual attractiveness is diminished by noticing her physical attractiveness (of approaching the model-esque figure and wearing the stripped "armings"). Hell, I would be happy to be in the "this adds to what she already has" camp but it's not right for me. Now I am thinking that she looks like a geek-CHICey attractive girl with a beautiful mind, rather than a pure intellectual buddha-like personality. It especially scares me when I want to think of my ideal self speaking out towards the equality among sexes and commending her work without discrimination, but ending up saying the same shit like those I loath based on sexual viability. So to all those on VideoSift, why do you lead me to doubt myself?

Fox news is lucky to have such a knowledgeable individual. Never has there been such a paragon of critical thinking, we are all but pinheads to this great intellect. It is obvious that God has blessed this man with the wisdom of Buddha and Einstein's intelligence. It's much more likely he is a popular television personality for these reasons than the dumb luck that comes with being a selected as a shill for baseless conservative propaganda.

>> ^spaceman:

Why I don't care:
1) You once believed in a god.
2) You are a guy.


@spaceman | The reason why the rest of us watch and listen to "just some guy; who believed in God":

The only reason you can type your sentence is from/due-to "other" men. Religion in all forms is from "other" men (unless you claim to hear voices or a physical divinity; but, please, not as an affront to you, make sure you're not psychotic or schizophrenic before telling us your interesting story as that is the case almost always; same with drug use; same with some other illnesses: narcolepsy, sleep walking, night terrors/sleep paralysis, and many other sleep related issues and all nervous system illnesses). Only a few things below talk more about what you said.
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A little more to add to the conversation. Hopefully, this gets it all out as it will be fairly long, but the video is hard to reply to in a short manner. I hope this covers a large extent of what I wish to say about this very well done video witness/testimony.


One set of values you can research and witness to it's validity on your own, as he has done. Science also allows for this methodology, using the well known precept of "The Scientific Method".

A quick example is that many people of faith, even Evid3nc3, talks of feeling "x" with their "hearts" and knowing "x" with their "soul". In science there is nothing more than a simple, yet complicated, physical processes. It's all a creation and manifestation in your brain; if you think you "feel" something with your heart you're causing minor self-hysteria to the extent of creating a minor hallucination.

The "soul" is called the(primarily in psychology, neuroscience, and neurology; there are many other terms that try to mean "you"; typically, in grossly inaccurate ways, such as: ghosts, "psychic" remote viewing, many religions use of the magical-energy-divine soul, etc...) psyche which is typically (starting from the outer-functions and moving into core-functions) sensory systems, language center, feelings, memory, and then the key-piece the neo-cortex. So it must be understood that your brain does a lot of things still baffling (mostly the mechanics or mechanisms of function and chemistry), but the overall picture is fairly clear.

But, the brain is not a floating energy source, nor is it an absolute definition at any given point or time. Depending on how and where you look at the brain the very concept of you is different. It more akin to superposition of an electron or a kaleidoscope; the definition of you is not concrete until measured and even then you are already not what was measured.

Even from what little we do know, belief plays a central role in how our neo-cortex makes decisions and operates (even with memory and other functions, which is why we do make many mistakes as it's due to how our brain physically commits to anything it must or will do; it's perhaps the single best reason to show why, "To err is human; to forgive, divine."; you don't understand the human condition if you cannot forgive...). Could this translate into a bigger picture; our connected neurons telling us to accept faith and belief, sometimes, because that is what it does at the small scale?

*Offtopic Look up articles, books, and videos (look at TED for Marvin Minsky, Jeff Hawkins, Craig Venter, Jonathan Haidt and others --some of which are here on the sift-- related topics on there like the Mind, AI, facial-pattern-contextual-semantics-divergent-cat vs. dog software based Recognition, and then other media pertaining to 'Artificial Intelligence') or if you want to know strictly about how the brain works and makes it's decisions, look for a type of setup called a "hierarchical structure"; also known as a pyramid or pyramid scheme. One cell makes a decision based off of the accumulations of "guesses" the other millions of cells connected to it made; these cells are fundamentally the foundation for that setup, but the neurons are more flexible than that as each can be a parent and also part of the "foundation" structure, making the brain a fantastic structure. With time this becomes accurate (this occurs in less than a few milliseconds), although our vision, for an example, is horrifically distorted and wrong, if you could look at one "frame" based on a few cells. Only a small fraction of the frame would be correct; literally it would be as though your senses got one pixel correct in a 1080p image. Yet, repeat this millions of times with different data sets each round (and this is done as said above, fast) you get an accurate picture; or at the least 20/20-to about one-arc minute (the resolution for the human eye, on average).

One set you can't test, we call that belief or faith. "What is the reasoning for taking the leap of faith?", this is what you have to defend at this point. If faith is your only defense, I will (like many others will) assume you haven't looked into your own faith enough yet or you even refuse to look out of fear of being wrong. If you do not understand the topic you must be willing to ask for help as he did or you'll be a slave to your willful decision of ignorance, to the extent that you feel compelled to defend them, but you never convince anyone except yourself--and for yourself it is only because of the rote-righteous indignation.

If it's true it should withstand all scrutiny. Unless truth isn't your ultimate goal. Then, for us and many others there is no reason to follow your faith. Usually, this type of merit and defense are directly related to age due to learning this all when you're a child and devoid of an intense ability to decipher, attribute values, connect, and draw in a belief (if with some facts and proof you could call it a hypothesis).

It's all from men... I'm wagering you're dismissing this flippantly due to religion; if not what exactly is your point, as I truly would like to know why and where this claim of non-relativistic knowledge comes from, without a woman or man?

Also, if it has to do with his belief in being mistaken for believing in God that's a moot point as we have all erred in life. I know of no person that has reliably been able to "claim divinity", other than Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, etc... But, we also know now that mental illness and other factors can account for any manic or psychotic leanings. We also know magicians (or magister, proper) have been around A LONG TIME.

Plus, as Arthur C. Clarke put it, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.". Which then one must ask another question, "Can divinity itself ever be established as being magic only?". This is then rounded up by a statement from Larry Niven (sometimes called Niven's Law(s)), "Any sufficiently rigorously defined magic is indistinguishable from technology.". These collide and distinctly form a conclusion about divinity and any of it's powers (descriptive magic or divinity and it's "how to use it" manual are indefensibly getting closer in each step to being more akin to physics; plus the Christian God hates magic, which begs the question, "Why do you need a God, if we can exact the same effects?"):

Divinity can only hope to use advanced knowledge and technology in a collusion to bring about one standpoint alone: "divinity" if described by God in any kind of ruleset (some of it is in the bible, already) stands on a rigorously tested and time shown: shaky ground.

Men would be gods whether God existed or not.

(P.S.: only the beginning and some bits here and there are for you, @spaceman. The rest is for our vestibule.)

Again I must add that this is a great find @dystopianfuturetoday.
You're doing yourself a great disservice not watching it (or all of it as the case may be).

It looks to me like the kid didn't fit in and was looking for a place he could. The men showed him that he wasn't messed up enough to fit in with their group.

The lady was compassionate enough to go ahead and help the kid fit in. Despite fitting in his life is still hard with one concession, he can take comfort from the lady.

If you are mildly messed up is it better to be an outcast to all groups or is it better to be messed up more so you can fit in with one group?

I don't think Buddha would agree with the premise of this film.

It's not an American Constitution. It's the United States Constitution. Documents like all things require the opinion of the reader. Everyone has one and they're almost invariably different from the other.

The Constitution was written by politicians united in revolution I get the feeling that they didn't really give two shits about who was what party.

Secular country? Hardly.

Sophomoric jokes about Alexander Hamilton's descent from a mountain, two tablets in tow, and the comparison of seeking constitutionality to rubbing Buddha's belly are generally a turn off to this mainstream media outlet. Then again that's all we ever see coming from Washington so why should the media be any different.

>> ^raverman:

So... the benefit is either self derived - placebo effect. Or delivered by god.
Hypothesis: If delivered by god, then, praying to an imaginary friend is 'silly'.
If you're going to use research to back up your religion. Lets test it further.
Four groups with an illness receive no treatment aside from ardent daily prayer.
- one group prays to God
- one group prays to Buddha (to prove if it's any god or just your god)
- one group prays to Chuck Norris (to prove if it's placebo or God)
- one group does not pray at all.
If all four groups are the same then the research is bull shit.
If there is no significant deviation between the 3 groups praying, then you can run tell that!
Is there really no one willing to fund a post graduate student to do a study to put this shit to bed once and for all?
Research Limitation: up front you agree not to say "God is Mysterious" if you don't like the results.


Unfortunately, one of these studies will not occur in the modern world. You see, us scientists(read: doctors) have these rules called "ethics" which do not allow us to withhold an effective treatment in the name of a research study.