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>> ^FishBulb:

I'm not saying these "owners" don't exist, but how come they just let him call them out on it? Are they not powerful enough? If someone "wakes up" and becomes famous enough, like Carlin, is that a rare enough event that they let you get away with it? If you were in their situation would you make that wager?


Cause we still have freedom in this country, they're not as strong as we think, but they're strong enough to be able to control enough to do what they want.

I love this speech of his because it basically sums up what Americans are most frustrated about on both sides of the aisle. Sure sometimes we can get distracted by things, but ultimately this is what most people feel and can see, they're working harder and getting left further behind.

>> ^brycewi19:

I think I saw her crack a smile when he said donkey-punch.


From now on, portrait photographers everywhere will replace "say cheese" with "say donkey punch", how can you not smile when saying donkey punch, unless maybe, you're a member of PETA.
George Carlin once made a case for the idea that just about anything can be joked about, even rape, he then presented us with the image of Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd, and I totally lost it.

He never repeats his material after he does a special. He credits George Carlin for inspiring him to trash his material and start anew after every bit is perfected. Unlike comedians like Jerry Seinfeld that just tell the same jokes with the precision of a "technician". That would get old to me.>> ^Aniatario:

>> ^rottenseed:
Louis strikes me as the type of guy that will leave the business before others think he's ready. I think that once he's out of shit to say or he's not having fun anymore he'll disappear (or shift his efforts)>> ^Yogi:
Don't worry Louis you were right and it's all downhill from here.


I dunno if he's going to run out of ideas any time soon, he's just that good. That, and the fact that he takes a tremendous amount of inspiration from George Carlin. I remember reading his response to his recent success surrounding his "Live at the Beacon" performance. Much like Carlin, he approaches every performance as though it were his "annual crop." Reaping the fruits of his labour and then moving on to work on a brand new routine.

He actually took the time to address a few questions on reddit recently and I remember him saying that he has no plans of performing any of the jokes he prepared for his "Live at the Beacon" performance. The fact that he continues to pump out new and hilarious material as opposed to riding out a gravy train is pretty phenomenal.

>> ^rottenseed:

Louis strikes me as the type of guy that will leave the business before others think he's ready. I think that once he's out of shit to say or he's not having fun anymore he'll disappear (or shift his efforts)>> ^Yogi:
Don't worry Louis you were right and it's all downhill from here.


I dunno if he's going to run out of ideas any time soon, he's just that good. That, and the fact that he takes a tremendous amount of inspiration from George Carlin. I remember reading his response to his recent success surrounding his "Live at the Beacon" performance. Much like Carlin, he approaches every performance as though it were his "annual crop." Reaping the fruits of his labour and then moving on to work on a brand new routine.


He actually took the time to address a few questions on reddit recently and I remember him saying that he has no plans of performing any of the jokes he prepared for his "Live at the Beacon" performance. The fact that he continues to pump out new and hilarious material as opposed to riding out a gravy train is pretty phenomenal.

>> ^Lawdeedaw:

>> ^VoodooV:
Ditto. Agnostic is the only sane choice. Fuck Atheists who want to put agnostics under their "umbrella"

Sigh... I won't put you under the atheist umbrella but to put it that I am not making a sane choice is rather petty.
But since we are being petty, here is a my argument. He (Neil) says he is a scientist but isn't going to make a claim either way. Okay, so he doesn't know if God exists and won't deny (take a stand) about something if it hasn't been unproven (So un-scientist-like; no leap of faith here...)
In other words he doesn't even know if science works at all. After all, God could snap his fingers and science could be turned on its head and cease to function. Neil is saying this is 100% possible that science is fucking useless and God is all important. He is also saying that this scenario may not be the case...
How scientific of him to take this position. Now you might argue my point is more hyperbole or illogical but really it isn't. It is just that the "safe" route is ridiculed for a reason... George Carlin I miss your jokes old man


We're talking about who or what created life, the universe, and everything. So yeah, I don't think I'm going out on a limb much when I say, "I don't know." However, asserting that you do know what did, or didn't does seem to be quite insane. Someday maybe we will know, but that day isn't today.

If you want to think that's petty, fine, but you seem to be projecting, IMO. Same with your "insights" into NDT's thought process. You seem to be putting a lot of words and thoughts into NDT's head that he didn't make...or assert to. These assertions that NDT and agnostics are cowardly is insulting and unfounded and again, if I dare say so, seem to be projecting your own insecurities onto NDT. And again, you're conflating the idea of god with religion. Atheists continue to make this flawed claim that if god does somehow exists, that obviously the theists are correct on religion and that god is this petty douchebag that likes to play with peoples lives and do shit like changing the laws of science for shits and grins. If god does exist, I'm going to go out on a limb and assert that god is nothing like Q from Star Trek.

I think it's quite the opposite of being cowardly and "not taking a stand" when one comes out publicly "takes a stand" to correct atheists that he is not an atheist. Obviously, if agnostics are the cowards you claim them to be, NDT wouldn't be coming out on this issue. Talk about being petty. Again, you doth protest too much. Atheists like to throw accusations of cowardice a lot for some reason....I'm sure that would be an interesting psychological study.

"It is just that the "safe" route is ridiculed for a reason..." I don't understand why you feel the need to ridicule it in the first place. You can't really cry foul about being petty when you make a statement like this. Again...no better than theists in this regard, you're one and the same. And really, if agnostic is subject to ridicule. Is it really the safe route? I'm sorry you feel you have to crush those who blaspheme against YOUR religion.

@Boise_Lib is quite right on this. Atheists really need to take a chill pill. The defensiveness, and quite frankly anger, when it comes to the atheist reaction to agnostics only serve to illustrate that you're no better than theists. Atheism always seemed to be more about getting revenge on theists instead of being logical and rational.

Try loving instead of hating, you'll live longer.

>> ^VoodooV:

Ditto. Agnostic is the only sane choice. Fuck Atheists who want to put agnostics under their "umbrella"


Sigh... I won't put you under the atheist umbrella but to put it that I am not making a sane choice is rather petty.

But since we are being petty, here is a my argument. He (Neil) says he is a scientist but isn't going to make a claim either way. Okay, so he doesn't know if God exists and won't deny (take a stand) about something if it hasn't been unproven (So un-scientist-like; no leap of faith here...)

In other words he doesn't even know if science works at all. After all, God could snap his fingers and science could be turned on its head and cease to function. Neil is saying this is 100% possible that science is fucking useless and God is all important. He is also saying that this scenario may not be the case...

How scientific of him to take this position. Now you might argue my point is more hyperbole or illogical but really it isn't. It is just that the "safe" route is ridiculed for a reason... George Carlin I miss your jokes old man

George Carlin made a similar point by boiling the 10 commands down to one: "Be Cool."

Ah yes, it is here already of course: http://videosift.com/video/George-Carlin-Ten-Commandments

>> ^Yogi:

I don't think Jon even has to try anymore. Just look to Fox he filled two segment by making them look like utter shit.
I think we should separate this country up into the people that watch Fox, I'm sure they'd love their own place to live and be awful. And the people that watch the Daily Show that make fun of the idiots at Fox. This whole America thing was great, then people went insane so lets just make our own country and they can fuck off.


See: http://videosift.com/video/George-Carlin-on-State-Prison-Farms

>> ^Lawdeedaw:

Sense I am pimping, any misspellings?
http://videosift.com/video/George-Carlin-on-Child-Worship


This might be the greatest comment ever. A plea for a spell check with a spelling error in it.

You win the internet.

EDIT: I'm old fashioned... I think names should mean something or come from somewhere or at least NOT be picked from a top ten list of baby names.

George Carlin stopped being funny 10 yrs before he died. I don't laugh I just get annoyed at the cranky old bastard taking his logic too far. I'm not just following a generational pattern. Jayden, Cayden, Brayden... these are genuinely dumb names and you're a goofy trend follower if you name your kid this way (including any time past 2004, when it was already old).

EDIT #2: Literally MORE THAN HALF of my friends' male kids born in the past ten years have names like this. I'm so fucking sick of it.

>> ^Trancecoach:

I think you've got a point.>> ^budzos:
What is with this name Jayden? Why is every second male being on the planet now named Jayden, Cayden, or Brayden? When did the world become so fucking stupid!?

You mean how kids have weaker immune systems because parents are over-sanitizing everything?


>> ^kymbos:

I'm yet to see any evidence that telling kids they're special has any measurable negative impacts. I can accept it's bullshit, but I think the suggestion that it's harmful is precisely just as much bullshit. If someone can point to any evidence beyond the rantings of cranky old men, I'd love to see it.