Your power is still out after all this time?? Forget what I said yesterday about it being fun...finding your way around by candlelight would get really annoying after a couple of hours.

My pleasure!! I thought it would speak to your inner attention whore. It is nice to be able to personalize your profile and stand out a bit. Haha, yeah, I can relate to the "invalid" color selections, and did you notice that they look a lot different when choosing them than how they display on your profile? It takes a bit to get the colors just right. Most of all though, I was hoping it would entice you to post more videos, and now that I have your oath, you can't back down. By the way, did you know that you can currently post 6 videos at a time? You can rule the sift with all those slots.

You didn't post that Aubrey Plaza one!!! What were you thinking?? If in doubt, post it. That's my motto. You can always *kill or *discard it later if it doesn't seem popular or if you change your mind about it.

Flying Spaghetti Monster! Ha! I was leaning towards that one. I was almost even thinking about betting those 2 shillings you gave me on that guess, but in case I was wrong, I didn't want to part with them. But do I really want to be touched by his noodly appendages? Hmmm...

Awwwwwww mannnnnnn, this video is blocked in Canada too!! This is one of the most awesome songs of all time though and I even have this one already so all I need to do is *add to playlist*. Queen is one of my all-time favorite bands and Bohemian Rhapsody is my favorite of their songs. I also really like "We Will Rock You", "Under Pressure" and "Somebody to Love". I'm on youtube now listening to all 4 of those Queen songs.

Seeing as I'm listening to them...I might as well attach them and spam your pretty profile page.

Wow, it feels different around here. Yes, I got you the charter membership so you could pretty the place up and you succeeded in doing so!!!! It looks awesome...I really love the colors you chose...AND I'm so glad you finally have an avatar picture...it was time to stop procrastinating and post one already. It suits you.

Glad your headache is gone. I only get them when I spend long periods of time staring at a computer screen or when I'm dehydrated. It wouldn't surprise me if staring at a computer screen is what gave you that headache since it seemed like you were on here all day.

I don't mind so much when the power goes out (as long as it doesn't last too long)...it's fun to have to use candles and find something to do that doesn't require electricity for a change. At least you have an iphone and a connection to the internet. You're not totally cut off!

Ok, I have to ask....I'm assuming FSM is internet slang for something, but I have no idea what...and I even googled it to try to figure it out....I got "flying spaghetti monster", "female seeking male", among other things. What does it mean?

It's a tentacle of a Mac'n'Cheese flying spaghetti monster!

>> ^luxury_pie:

>> ^Unsung_Hero:
This isn't so much as a trick but more of a question as to why a certain feature goes away.
If you're a member and are logged in you can "Search" for videos but if you're not logged in the search box in the top right corner disappears. This is frustrating because sometimes I want to show people a cool video on VS but don't really want to log in due to various reasons (such as but not limited to: Not wanting an entire auditorium to know my VS name, time constants, on a public computer where I don't want to type my passwords, my name is so awesome people's heads might explode). Being able to search without logging in would be fantastic. Unfortunately, I stopped coming to VS to show people videos because of this and end up just searching Youtube. This of course limits the amount of exposure this site gets. Every now and then I show a video to more than a hundred people. That's a lot of potential future members which can lead to a better community, more exposure through word of mouth and internet talk, and even donations.
If this has been asked before and answered, I apologize and may the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on my soul.
Oh and...
Yay! I popped my SiftTalk posting cherry

This is probably blocked in order to prevent attacks on the site via bots.
If you want to search a video on videosift, use google and type in:
site:videosift.com tricks of the sift
which will lead you to this page.
(<-- thanks bert)

Yeah, I know. It's just much easier to not have to back out of the page and go to Google with every new search.
Thanks for a response

>> ^Unsung_Hero:

This isn't so much as a trick but more of a question as to why a certain feature goes away.
If you're a member and are logged in you can "Search" for videos but if you're not logged in the search box in the top right corner disappears. This is frustrating because sometimes I want to show people a cool video on VS but don't really want to log in due to various reasons (such as but not limited to: Not wanting an entire auditorium to know my VS name, time constants, on a public computer where I don't want to type my passwords, my name is so awesome people's heads might explode). Being able to search without logging in would be fantastic. Unfortunately, I stopped coming to VS to show people videos because of this and end up just searching Youtube. This of course limits the amount of exposure this site gets. Every now and then I show a video to more than a hundred people. That's a lot of potential future members which can lead to a better community, more exposure through word of mouth and internet talk, and even donations.
If this has been asked before and answered, I apologize and may the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on my soul.

Oh and...
Yay! I popped my SiftTalk posting cherry


This is probably blocked in order to prevent attacks on the site via bots.

If you want to search a video on videosift, use google and type in:
site:videosift.com tricks of the sift

which will lead you to this page.

(<-- thanks bert)

This isn't so much as a trick but more of a question as to why a certain feature goes away.

If you're a member and are logged in you can "Search" for videos but if you're not logged in the search box in the top right corner disappears. This is frustrating because sometimes I want to show people a cool video on VS but don't really want to log in due to various reasons (such as but not limited to: Not wanting an entire auditorium to know my VS name, time constants, on a public computer where I don't want to type my passwords, my name is so awesome people's heads might explode). Being able to search without logging in would be fantastic. Unfortunately, I stopped coming to VS to show people videos because of this and end up just searching Youtube. This of course limits the amount of exposure this site gets. Every now and then I show a video to more than a hundred people. That's a lot of potential future members which can lead to a better community, more exposure through word of mouth and internet talk, and even donations.

If this has been asked before and answered, I apologize and may the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on my soul.


Oh and...

Yay! I popped my SiftTalk posting cherry

He says everyone prays... I wish he'd unpack what he means by that because, at some level, I can understand that everyone "places faith" in something (be it God, Religion, Science, Reason, Logic, Intuition, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, etc.), but is that the same thing is prayer?

And is it "praying" if it's unconscious or out of one's conscious awareness?

>> ^Asmo:
I don't need an argument to disprove god because no one has ever come up with a rigorous argument and evidence to prove he exists in the first place...

It's not that you don't need one, it's that there aren't any. There are plenty of logical arguments for the existence of God, and evidence that He created the Universe. If you're like every other atheist, you will dismiss them all out of hand and demand a video tape.

In the end, no one can prove Gods existence to you. The truth is, only God can reveal Himself to you. He told us how to find Him, but you have to want to find Him. If you actually wanted to know the truth, you would find Him. He is knocking on your door, the question is whether you will you let Him in.

>> ^Asmo:
For instance, if I claimed the flying spaghetti monster was the ultimate deity in the universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster), you would feel absolutely no need to seriously debate the point because, to you, it would be sheer nonsense. The same if I claimed the force existed, or worshipped ancient Norse or Greek gods. You would dismiss it out of hand because you believe something to the exclusion of everything else.

I would certainly claim that pulling a deity out of your hat is nonsense. I didn't pull Jesus Christ out of a hat; He is a real person, who claimed He is Gods only Son, which God proved by raising Him from the dead.

>> ^Asmo:
Similarly, an ancient book and a crowd of gullible people willing to believe it aren't enough evidence to get me to bother to waste my time disproving it.

Have you ever read the bible?

>> ^Asmo:
As for the rambling diatribe after where you climb up on your cross and proclaim your humbleness for everyone to see, you have more in common with the pharisees than you may wish to admit. They also proclaimed loudly and proudly about all their good works no? Jesus didn't have much kind to say about those hypocrites, I doubt he'd feel any better (if he exists) about your intolerant proselytising...


I was simply responding to fletch, who was questioning my motives, and I gave an honest answer. It wasn't an effort to earn some kind of personal acclaim, as if any would be given. All I expected from it was personal attacks. As far as preaching the word goes, that is what He commanded me to do. Neither did Jesus pull any punches as to what the truth is, and He specifically warned us not to do that. When you compromise truth, it is no longer truth.

I don't need an argument to disprove god because no one has ever come up with a rigorous argument and evidence to prove he exists in the first place...

For instance, if I claimed the flying spaghetti monster was the ultimate deity in the universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster), you would feel absolutely no need to seriously debate the point because, to you, it would be sheer nonsense. The same if I claimed the force existed, or worshipped ancient Norse or Greek gods. You would dismiss it out of hand because you believe something to the exclusion of everything else.

Similarly, an ancient book and a crowd of gullible people willing to believe it aren't enough evidence to get me to bother to waste my time disproving it.

As for the rambling diatribe after where you climb up on your cross and proclaim your humbleness for everyone to see, you have more in common with the pharisees than you may wish to admit. They also proclaimed loudly and proudly about all their good works no? Jesus didn't have much kind to say about those hypocrites, I doubt he'd feel any better (if he exists) about your intolerant proselytising...


>> ^shinyblurry:
You could disprove the idea of God if it were logically inconsistant. I challenge you to come up with an argument.
You think I am here for me, but I am not. I am here because of Jesus, and because of you. I care about you enough to take all of your insults and condescension so I can have a chance to tell you how much God loves you. My only motive here, and in everything else in my life, is to serve the will of God. I haven't always done that, but in any case, it's not about me; my life is not my own; it belongs to Him.

LOL! Thanks I never saw that one before!

In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
This one reminded me of you. Not sure why
http://videosift.com/video/Flying-Spaghetti-Monster-Invades-Missouri
-State

This one reminded me of you. Not sure why
http://videosift.com/video/Flying-Spaghetti-Monster-Invades-Missouri-State

Give me evidence that Aliens don't live on the moon.
Give me evidence that The Flying Spaghetti Monster isn't real.
Give me evidence that the Greek Gods don't exist
Give me evidence that Cthulhu doesn't exist
Give me evidence that aliens don't exist
Give me evidence that ghosts don't exist
Give me evidence that vampires don't exist
Give me evidence that werewolves don't exist
Give me evidence that entire civilizations of dwarves don't live deep in the earth hidden from mankind
Give me evidence that dragons don't exist
Give me evidence that all other deities don't exist

Wow, if you can't disprove them all, they must all be real. Earth is starting to look very complicated.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster demands blood from the YouTubes as Vengeance for it's insolence!!!

EDIT: I mean Meat Sauce!

The hovering invisible anus of punishment should be part of the flying spaghetti monster mythos.

What you're doing is showing your faithiesm

of all choices, atheism requires the greatest faith, as it demands that ones limited store of human knowledge is sufficient to exclude the possibility of God.

francis collins human genome project

The difference between everything you mentioned and God as a concept is that the idea of God has explanatory power. The question of whether the Universe had intelligent causation is a valid question, and from what we know (that space time energy and matter had a finite beginning), the cause of the Universe would be immaterial, spaceless, timeless and transcendent. These perfectly describe attributes of an all powerful God. We also have evidence of design in the Universe and the fine tuning of physical laws. So, to rule God out as an explanation is simply ignorant. Between evolution and special creation, you have virtually exausted the possibilities of how life came to exist.



>> ^Drachen_Jager:
>> ^Morganth:
No, this just illustrates that you do not understand. If there is a god who created the universe, why then would he have to be wholly provable from inside of it? You're actually having to make a number of assumptions about the nature of god to make your claim.
If there is a creator god, we would not relate to him in the way that Hamlet relates to a character in another act of the play, but rather in the way that Hamlet relates to Shakespeare. He could not find him in the highest tower or prove that Shakespeare exists in the lab. Really, the only way Hamlet could ever know that Shakespeare exists is if Shakespeare writes something about himself into the play.
Seriously dude? Hamlet? That's not a person. He's a character in a play, your analogy is utterly useless other than to confuse the gullible.
I make no assumptions about the nature of God, you are the one who makes assumptions about the nature of God. You HAVE to make assumptions about the nature of God to make your argument work. I'm saying there is no God, so there are no necessary assumptions about his nature, since he doesn't HAVE a nature.
There is an infinitum of proposals you cannot prove to be true or false. Unicorns, wizards and dragons ruled the earth 2000 years ago. The Flying Spaghetti Monster created God. All the matching pairs of socks that go missing are stolen by sock-goblins. The proposal that God exists is, therefore only one in an infinity of unprovable junk. Unless you are prepared to believe that UFOs abduct people and mutilate cows and every other stupid theory people throw out there, you have no reason to believe the Universe was created by some kind of sentient being. One is just as likely as the other. If we believed in unprovable junk we'd never get anything done, the scientists would all be bogged down in nonsense and we wouldn't have iPods and personal computers. We'd still be banging rocks together.