Had a similar thing in the UK called "happy slapping". Originally you'd just slap a random stranger while somebody else filmed the reaction on their phone. Ofc, slaps turned into punches and kicks. Relatively harmless teenage delinquency turned into savage lynchings, and sometimes rape. A number of people died or were left with life changing injuries.

I wish I could say I was sorry he got shot. What exactly was the lesson he learned here? That some people have guns? What a waste of oxygen.

May we suggest the most glaring (common sense with a view trumping the most gracious of mortality odds) 'security flaw' inherent in ANY similar device (including off-brand/hype models) with functionality requiring two thumbs, a pair of eyes, and a challenge to their users of navigating the useless shit whilst performing mundane tasks such as saaay, crossing a street, waiting in line for groceries, operating a motor vehicle much less, operating your legs while not looking at the GROUND? Who needs any of this engineered obsolescence garbage anyway?...The cunts who want you under their thumbs, that's who and if they are LUCKY(all indications point to this a inevitable)-you or someone you just texted die crossing a street using some ineffectual device, car wreck while the manufacturer staffs lobbyists while crunching quarterly loss numbers.

Incorporating distraction into large populations who can afford these ancillary toys is KEY to these cunts who compete to make available these consumer grey-matter-killers and it has been the goal of providing you with the convenience of your own self-importance and slow death from the OUTSET.

Use less of the shit (civil and economic disobedience), stop fawning-over it and selling it without compensation to your friends (because after all, you have nothing else to communicate about of substance or meaning since yer skills have fallen-off a bit after the in-crowd hi-jack feeds on trashing or band-wagoning the latest devices every week..(gotta have one gotgaotta have the best)) HINT: THEY ALL HOBBLE YOUR MIND, THEY ALL SUCK-

EVERYONE do the experiment collectively (don't use their services for a month and threaten to drop service altogether) and YO, maybe develop some lasting relationships along the way....remember "eye contact!?"

Watch how miraculously interesting, stress-free and simply satisfying your unnecessarily complicated, dull-fucking life changes overnight and adds 10 more quality years to it when you numb or otherwise mitigate your use of this and all tech connected by satellite or cable. Ssuddenly, the emperor has no billy-club, a birthday suit, and the obvious becomes clear:..He's a FUCK THAT CONTROLS YOU WHO SHOULD BE ON AN INTERNATIONAL SEX-OFFENDERS DATABASE.

Yeah, I've heard this analogy about how we might be insignificant compared to god/aliens/whatever, and it is complete and utter crap.

A piece of clay cannot reason. It has no concept of self, it has not figured out even the most basic mathematical or physical principles, and we have no way of communicating with it.

Humans have achieved all those things. As Eddie Izzard said "When you [Americans] landed on the moon, that was the point when God should have come up and said hello. Because if you invent some creatures and you put them on the blue one and they make it to the grey one, then you fucking turn up and say, ‘Well done.’ It’s just a polite thing to do."

I'm willing to admit that there's a possibility we are just infants in our understanding of the universe. In fact, I hope that is the case, although I fear we've actually covered a lot of the basics and there may not be anything truly life-changing left to discover (i.e. it's almost certain we will never find a "warp drive").

Either way, a superior being should be able to communicate with us in a meaningful manner. Even if it is like talking to a particularly stupid child for them, *we* still manage it. We communicate with beings of lesser intelligence all the time (small children, animals, republicans).

If we are so far below god that it is unable to make us understand him, then that's his failing, not ours.

Thank you Sylvester_Ink - That's a potentially life changing piece of advice!

It is a shame that people refuse to believe there is a next level to what a person can experience. I am intrigued by mundane reality as well as scientific exploration, innovation and theory. But, it is not nearly as fascinating compared to the reality a person can experience for real, inside of their own heads.

I would say that my imagination is fairly basic yet what my friends and I have beholden is absolutely inhuman and incomprehensible; uplifting, life changing.

Here here!

Cheers to you, dag. And many thanks for concocting this crazy idea and turning it into a life-changing experience for me (literally). My professional career has gone up a path that would never have existed without VideoSift.

I'll be here cheering on all the new veterans we'll have at our decade anniversary with much fervor.

Hugs all around.

>> ^enoch:

it takes courage to share such an intimate and intense experience knowing that many will ridicule something that was so life-changing.
good for him.


Yes, and he is doing it for Jesus. It's an amazing testimony and it's also neat because it contains an element of prophecy. The Lord showed him two distinct parts of his life before any of it happened, and only God knows the future.

So what says enoch? You ever have any experiences like this?

it takes courage to share such an intimate and intense experience knowing that many will ridicule something that was so life-changing.
good for him.

OK, to be the advocate for sexism or whatever here (please forgive me)

As long as men continue to like sexy girls, or sexy things or girls or get turned on in the smallest way by girls and especially when they are sexy...

And as long as there are girls out there who want to be noticed, or get some attention, or feel admiration, or feel wanted, or seek the approval of others for one reason or another....

There will always be a market that uses and exploits that piece of human biological urgings to make money and sell stuff.

And in turn, as long as it continues to sell and make money, they will not only continue to do it, but increase it's existence in the market to the point where they influence society or they cause violent backlash. The fact is as long as there is the urge to seek out sexy/attractive women in hopes of finding a suitable mate, men will not be part of the backlash unless society shames all men for being who they biologically are.

The harm comes when men cease to look past the costuming and fail to see the real human being and emotions behind the facade. Any man who has been in a long-time relationship can identify with this. It's all fun and games until time passes and life gets serious, kids are made (and loved) and your relationship evolves past the "only for sex" attraction. Some women will continue to dress for or tease their man, but most get tired of the charade because they want to bee seen for something other than their body (which has gone through many life-changes and may no longer reflect who they are or want to be). Men in turn, have a hard time dealing with this because although they love full on, their hormones continue to rage, even after women mature and want something deeper - emotionally.

Although me do mature emotionally as well, our hormones still dictate to us. So my point is, like it or not, men are attracted to females, and if the females make themselves look more attractive, then our response doubles. Even if we don't act upon it, the biological attraction still exists.

...And there will almost always be someone there to exploit that.

"Amish Man Rides in a Car, Changes His Life"...
"Amish Man Drinks Latte, Life Forever Altered"...
"Amish Man Shaves Beard, Life Changed Again"...
"Amish Man Masturbates, Life Definitely Changed"...

if you really want to change your life, stop believing in an idiotic, self-serving book of tall tales and mythology.

Being a skeptic I'm kinda feeling like this is a little fake, although I totally see the validity in the design: young Amish man on rumspringa jumps out of a plane, life changed. In other words, if it's a fake, it's a very safe fake.

I've made the Kids mistake myself. What I'd like to see is better/longer tool-tip channel descriptions for the check boxes on the submit form. That would place the information right where and when we need it to act (see "kairos").
>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^Hybrid:
I admit, after all this time, I never knew that! >> ^seltar:
The kids channel also needs a better way to make sure people are posting a video FOR kids, not OF kids.


Not REALLY sifters' fault. The operator(s) of the channel could take a couple minutes and actually make a difference with that couple minutes by jotting down a respectable description.
Lord tunderin' jesus I've suggested this life changing move a couple times. TO A COUPLE PEOPLE.

>> ^Hybrid:

I admit, after all this time, I never knew that! >> ^seltar:
The kids channel also needs a better way to make sure people are posting a video FOR kids, not OF kids.



Not REALLY sifters' fault. The operator(s) of the channel could take a couple minutes and actually make a difference with that couple minutes by jotting down a respectable description.

Lord tunderin' jesus I've suggested this life changing move a couple times. TO A COUPLE PEOPLE.

Dude looks like he's 1/2 my age, could be my son, I'll call him "Kid".
That doesn't take anything away from the commitment, life changing experience he's going through and PTSD he'll be taking back with him.
Still think he's funny and could get himself a show.
>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^toferyu:
Kid should have his own show !

ya don't go calling someone who enlisted in an armed force a fucking kid.