>> ^bareboards2:

Your profile page is the black hole of Calcutta! It's like SOPA protest day in there!
Thanks for the promote. Don't usually do the thanks on the vid itself... But. The Blackness. Mein Gott!

>> ^alien_concept:
Hah! promote



It's fine from this end. However just now for about 10 minutes I wasn't able to get into the sift, so maybe it was that

Your profile page is the black hole of Calcutta! It's like SOPA protest day in there!

Thanks for the promote. Don't usually do the thanks on the vid itself... But. The Blackness. Mein Gott!



>> ^alien_concept:

Hah! promote

I used to work with literally the stupidest human being on planet earth, and he used to read all of david icke's books. He would then talk at length to me about them, explaining that he had a lot of very interesting things to say.

He was a bit like karl pilkington, only much more aggressive in his views. He'd regularly tell me about the latest book he'd read such as people who survive without eating. I'd say well that's not possible - i accept there's 0.00001% chance of me being wrong, but the odds are in my favour and i have leeway to say "that's impossible".

He'd say "HAHAHAHA see man you're so ignorant. You read books about physics and you believe all of that but there's no proof, it could all just be made up. You learn physics but how do you know any of it is true?"

I explained to him a) i can perform experiments and then calculations based on experiments to prove things, then further calculations, and so on. Eventually i'd need special equipment to observe the proof, and i trust that these highly qualified experts (hundreds of thousands of them) are not all in a joint conspiracy to lie to me about physics.

And he, of course, says "But this guy who can survive without food using only the sun as energy, he's a professor!" - when i looked him up, he had gotten dodgy qualifications from some unofficial 'university' (you know, called something like the calcutta university of life and chi). But i didn't know that at the time so i said, ok, but it's hardly verified by a massive collection of people is it? To which he'd reply "Oh so if enough people believe it then it's true is it?"

Literally every single factual and sensible thing i said, he'd have the world's stupidest counter-argument which ALMOST made sense every single time.

God damn he was annoying to work with.

Why would it be in Calcutta?

I'll bet it's in the U.S. - somewhere near a college campus, and this was shot right after a concert or St. Patty's day.

Christ... where the hell is this? Calcutta?

Also, you misspelled filthiest in the title.

>>AnimalsfromCrackers wrote:
Never mind all the ad hoc bullshit, ritual prostration/dehumanizing displays of self-hate before a grumpily bipolar deity, and clearly man-made, self-defeating fatalism that comes with specific religions like Islam or Christianity.

I'm sorry, I think you're confusing Christianity with the nihilism that comes from being a materialistic atheist.

This video didn't seem like a refutation to me.

The video is just trying to be clever by implying that people would still be missionaries to Africa even if they weren't Christian (appealing to the idea that people are inherently good or evil and religion doesn't change it - which is trivially false, BTW). The problem with this claim is that it is precisely the people who are devout believers in Christianity that find the ability to go live in the slums of Calcutta for their entire life, helping others. Not atheists. In general, Christians are much, much, much more likely to serve as a missionary or charitable equivalent than an atheist, and also give much more strongly out of their time and money to charities.

Stossel is a tool.

This is so shallow, biased, and one-sided it makes me want to puke.

When we can thump our chests and say we're better than Mexico, Haiti, or Calcutta, we're really not saying a lot.

I'll take France any day.

wankers all.....(including most on this thread, bereft of the means to discuss meaning as it relates to the subject of religion, Scientology, fertilizer best suited for Calcutta, etc.)

I love some Hitchens. He is the best pundit alive if only because he may either be inebriated and unkempt or take a poke at the host.

I love his writing on Orwell too. And I am a fan of anyone surly enough to write that Mother Teresa was the "Ghoul of Calcutta."

I can take or leave Sullivan.