Comfort Eagle, jigga. A classic Cake album...

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
if im not mistaken that's a cake song but I'm not sure off of which album
can someone help me out?
msg me

>> ^marinara:
how is the man who wrote this an atheist? I mean Franklin.


Franklin wasn't an atheist. He was a deist. And the original Youtube author points that out in the comments of the video...

"*The first slide is a misnomer. There people on it were not all atheists per se. They were, however, religious skeptics and disavowed at least the personal God of the Bible. Thus, I felt okay including the slide in the video."

Once when I was in Uni I came up with a plan to save money for a party by eating probably ~70g pasta, and a 1 cup of porridge a day for about 4 days.

By the 4th day I was just lying on my bed starving and exhausted - and utterly demotivated. I had about $2 in change handy, and decided I wanted to walk to the shops to buy something - but I couldnt be stuffed because I felt so ratshit.

Going a week without food would be ROUGH. You'd feel shakey whenever you would stand, let along walking somewhere.

Your video, The Best Atheist Demotivational Posters, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Dishes. Do them.

Upvote for demotivator thumb.

good eye
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http://www.videosift.com/video/Despair-Inc-Training-Video-The-Art-of-Demotivation

same?

>> ^Fjnbk:
I love the Demotivators in general. Check them out at despair.com, they'll make you laugh for a long time.




Except inside. Inside you will be crying

I love the Demotivators in general. Check them out at despair.com, they'll make you laugh for a long time.

Reminds me of the Demotivators®
Cool, now we can make our own!

"I think you still have to be a fairly intelligent person, because your brain cannot work if it doesn't have any understanding of the simple stuff in life."

Intelligence is in part a biological condition, some people are able to learn faster, and understand complex ideas others can't grasp, while others struggle with material most people understand. That seems like a factor that could limit a person's success to me, its not something they can appreciably change. So how does that fit in with being able to do anything you put your mind to? Are they just as guaranteed to succeed as someone who is smarter? If there goal is to be smarter how much smarter can they be? Sounds like a situational factor to me, one that might limit chances for success.


"Also people who believe in theirselves, who are strongly rooted in their own reality can that way better affect other people around them."

I'd label this one 'under what costs'. I'd say George Bush is strongly rooted in his own reality, he's had a lot of success, he's rich, charismatic (in the way a macaque is charismatic)well connected, and president of one of the largest countries on the planet. You could argue he got there because he's rooted in his own reality, I'd also argue his strong roots in his own reality has caused some very big problems for vast amounts of people. Osama Bin Laden is strongly rooted in his own reality, and by some measure successful (he certainly seems to think he is), but to a lot of people he's a cancer that's killing society. I'd like to think ethics still has a place when achieving your goals.

I suppose I'm playing devil's advocate because I really do believe a person's ability to motivate themselves and be persistent can have a great effect on the direction in their life, and their progress towards their goals. But at the same time I don't think there are any guarantees, hell the only guarantee you'll ever get is that at some point you're going to die. There are things you can control in life and things you can't, sometimes things just don't work out (sometimes they work out great). I suppose the smart thing is to set goals that are within your limits, or the ability to recognize what is likely possible. The problem I frequently see (and probably amongst the self-help goers in the video) is that they set limits that are well below their actual ability, so the problem becomes not that they lack the ability to do something, but the belief that they can.


On a side note my book Ten Simple Steps to Demotivation isn't exactly flying off the bookshelves.

We used to have a lot of demotivator posters hanging throughout our office. Then we were bought out by a larger company, and they made us take them down.

Irony.

it's not a democracy. it's run by a small group of people who we can't change by voting them out of office (not that i would want to).

they set rules, design systems and carry out marketing that leads to a certain kind of thing ending up on videosift (no snuff, no porn, no spam, high percentage of interesting and amazing stuff)

it's very successful already, i am just asking about taking it further, because the reason for the sift's existence is finding stuff we couldn't find just by googling "simpsons".

also, the community incentive is the rankings system, and if people are getting high rankings by posting simpsons clips, then other people (me) are just demotivated and you lose my nonsimpsons input.

don't get me wrong, i like the simpsons, and i don't mind disagreeing with the top 15, it's fun to disagree sometimes. i wouldn't have to moan about it if i could just filter out 80% of it with a -simpsons option. but that wouldn't solve the rank whore thing

edit for eden: yes i am just having a moan really. thing is, my best "democratic" response would be to go and find some "classic" simpsons clips, post 10 of them, and watch my rankings soar, get my star so i can downvote and be happy.... rather than risking 1 hour finding a really good musician that nobody upvotes because it wasn't funny.