*sticky

This still has not been fixed. I think it would look bad to a casual visitor to Videosift if they found so many tiny videos. These aren't just isolated incidents either:

http://videosift.com/video/Living-With-Louis-Theroux-summary-of-7-When-Louis-Met-docs
http://videosift.com/video/The-Illusion-Of-Reality
http://videosift.com/video/Google-Documentary
http://videosift.com/video/How-does-a-Browser-see-the-Internet
http://videosift.com/video/Krispy-Kreme-So-good-youll-suck-dck
http://videosift.com/video/Copyright-regime-vs-civil-liberties-1
http://videosift.com/video/Murray-Gell-Mann-On-Getting-Creative-Ideas
http://videosift.com/video/Behind-the-Big-News
http://videosift.com/video/The-Birth-of-Israel-BBC-documentary
http://videosift.com/video/The-Daily-Show-Interview-with-author-of-Misquoting-Jesus
http://videosift.com/video/Iron-Maiden-Run-To-The-Hills
http://videosift.com/video/Mario-Lanza-Ave-Maria
http://videosift.com/video/Winger-Seventeen
http://videosift.com/video/Jim-Norton-Porn-Safety-and-Shaved-Pussy
http://videosift.com/video/Total-Hip-Replacement-Surgery-Highlights-317
http://videosift.com/video/Gershwins-Rhapsody-In-Blue-Leonard-Bernstein-conducting
http://videosift.com/video/Tour-of-Ancient-Islamic-Architecture

Though this problem doesn't affect all Google embeds, there are hundreds more that have been affected. *Quality catch by Stingray.

>> ^Skeeve:
My bad, I should have looked at the original better before I posted - I just remembered watching this whole thing on VS before.


It would be a dupe if the other one inked to the whole talk, which I'm sure it probably originally did. Maybe we should *discuss it.

>> ^jimnms:
>> ^Skeeve:
This same lecture is already posted as a playlist instead of a single video. Dupe?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dr-Bart-Ehrman-Histor
ically-accurate-criticism-of-the-Bible

The playlist seems to be broken on the other one, all I get is one 10 minute segment.


My bad, I should have looked at the original better before I posted - I just remembered watching this whole thing on VS before.

>> ^Skeeve:
This same lecture is already posted as a playlist instead of a single video. Dupe?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dr-Bart-Ehrman-Histor
ically-accurate-criticism-of-the-Bible


The playlist seems to be broken on the other one, all I get is one 10 minute segment.

Makes me think of http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Daily-Show-Interview-with-author-of-Misquoting-Jesus

Every written word in human history is a giant Wikipedia.

In reply to this comment by HollywoodBob:
>> ^jiyanibi:
So, the bible is filled with fabrications created by whoever happened to be writing it at the time? Sounds like the bible is one big Wikipedia entry.


Basically, but as far as I know genocide hasn't been committed in the name of Wikipedia.

The only difference being [citation needed] after every verse.

>> ^jiyanibi:
So, the bible is filled with fabrications created by whoever happened to be writing it at the time? Sounds like the bible is one big Wikipedia entry.

>> ^jiyanibi:
Basically, but as far as I know genocide hasn't been committed in the name of Wikipedia.



Yet. Give it 1000 years. One group will go to war against the other.

Books will be dust and all human knowledge will be merged into the one digital source and linked digitally to our minds for convenience. Once something is not just 'a site' but knowledge linked into your mind - everyone's knowledge will be the same knowledge. it seem as the ultimate truth...

Any debate about it being incorrect will be saying what 99.99% of people know is wrong.

It will be Heresy!!!

>> ^jiyanibi:
So, the bible is filled with fabrications created by whoever happened to be writing it at the time? Sounds like the bible is one big Wikipedia entry.


Basically, but as far as I know genocide hasn't been committed in the name of Wikipedia.

That's ridiculous! Only I am God!

>> ^dag:
^ My wife would take that a step farther and say that we are all God. ;-)

Ehrman is an amazing scholar and I would seriously recommend reading Misquoting Jesus as well as any of his other books. He is also a great counterbalance to Christopher Hitchens - he was himself a born-again Christian and doesn't go out of his way to make theists feel stupid; he just presents the facts and lets the reader decide what to do with them.

>> ^swampgirl:
I'm currently reading "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman. These apologists should talk w/ this guy.

The most respected of them already has!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Did-Jesus-Resurrection-Occur-Craig-vs-Ehrman-debate

I'm currently reading "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman. These apologists should talk w/ this guy.



Personally for me, it started with the bible itself. Once you realize that Bible is a human book and not inspired divinely from God then the fabric of the religion begins to unravel. With these apologists, start w/ the "infallible" scriptures.

If a Christian is intellectually honest he will, after further study as Ehrman did, relent to agnosticism. If not then you are basing your entire life on fantasy, myth and your feelings.

what a great question for Sift Talk. It's been interesting seeing such a diverse collection for users. A few brought memories while many sound interesting. Thanks for the quality question Rougy.

currently I'm re-reading

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart Erhman

From Booklist
The popular perception of the Bible as a divinely perfect book receives scant support from Ehrman, who sees in Holy Writ ample evidence of human fallibility and ecclesiastical politics. Though himself schooled in evangelical literalism, Ehrman has come to regard his earlier faith in the inerrant inspiration of the Bible as misguided, given that the original texts have disappeared and that the extant texts available do not agree with one another. Most of the textual discrepancies, Ehrman acknowledges, matter little, but some do profoundly affect religious doctrine. To assess how ignorant or theologically manipulative scribes may have changed the biblical text, modern scholars have developed procedures for comparing diverging texts. And in language accessible to nonspecialists, Ehrman explains these procedures and their results. He further explains why textual criticism has frequently sparked intense controversy, especially among scripture-alone Protestants. In discounting not only the authenticity of existing manuscripts but also the inspiration of the original writers, Ehrman will deeply divide his readers. Although he addresses a popular audience, he undercuts the very religious attitudes that have made the Bible a popular book. Still, this is a useful overview for biblical history collections.

and I just finished, THE FLUORIDE DECPTION, by Christopher Bryson

From Publishers Weekly
Concerns over fluoridated drinking water have long been derided as the obsession of McCarthyite cranks. But this muckraking j’accuse asserts that fluoride is indeed a dire threat to public health, one foisted upon the nation by a vast conspiracy—not of Communist agents, but of our very own military-industrial complex. Investigative reporter Bryson revisits the decades-long controversy, drawing on mountains of scientific studies, some unearthed from secret archives of government and corporate laboratories, to question the effects of fluoride and the motives of its leading advocates. The efficacy of fluoridated drinking water in preventing tooth decay, he contends, is dubious. Fluoride in its many forms may be one of the most toxic of industrial pollutants, and Bryson cites scientific analyses linking fluoridated drinking water to bone deformities, hyperactivity and a host of other complaints. The post-war campaign to fluoridate drinking water, he claims, was less a public health innovation than a public relations ploy sponsored by industrial users of fluoride—including the government’s nuclear weapons program. Legendary spin doctors like Edward Bernays exploited the tenuous link between dental hygiene and fluoridation to create markets to stimulate fluoride production and to prove the innocuousness of fluoride compounds, thereby heading off lawsuits by factory workers and others poisoned by industrial fluoride pollution. Bryson marshals an impressive amount of research to demonstrate fluoride’s harmfulness, the ties between leading fluoride researchers and the corporations who funded and benefited from their research, and what he says is the duplicity with which fluoridation was sold to the people. The result is a compelling challenge to the reigning dental orthodoxy, which should provoke renewed scientific scrutiny and public debate.