>> ^jmzero:

Holy wow. I mean, I think it's clear that child psychiatric drugs are overprescribed (largely because parents press for "something", I think)... but this video is painfully embarrassing.
I kept looking for some hint that it was tongue-in-cheek or something, but I don't think it is. I think this guy thinks a rap, and a comically bad video is the best way to reach people with his message.
It'd be hilarious if it turned out Scientology was behind this (it seems about their level of video production, social awareness, and about the right level of anti-psychiatry hysteria).


Actually, you're not too far off the mark.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/NaturalNews

Hai, I r Gabe Mewell.

>> ^shinyblurry:

Logic tells us that from nothing, nothing comes. You cannot get something from nothing. Therefore, the ultimate first cause of the Universe must be eternal. If it is eternal, why is it unlikely to be God?


This assumes that there ever was or is such a thing as "absolute nothingness".

>> ^shinyblurry:

>> ^eric3579:

Blah, blah, blah... start watching at 11:30.
>> ^Deano:
I was wondering when you'd show up.
As for something from nothing look up quantum electrodynamics.
You obviously haven't watched this splendid video or have even a basic grasp of physics.
I covered these in my response to Gallowflak.

Y'know, your concept of absolute nothingness doesn't actually exist, insofar as we can show it to exist, right? I mean, how would we? Material existence is what there is.


Yours is an abstraction, a theological/philosophical concept of the human mind, a thought experiment, in no way amenable to actual experiment or observation.

I also don't see how positing a complex being as the cause of a supposedly simple beginning simplifies matters. At fucking all. You're simply slyly inserting god just beyond reach of humanity's current epistemological horizon. This begs the question, well, where did your god come from? It's a superfluous and unnecessary (not to mention completely evidenced) addition to the regress and reeks of special pleading/wishful thinking. It's crass and obvious and, quite frankly, fucking stupid.

I won't even address the arguments from DNA and fine-tuning, as the mental gymnastics required to leap even to the most generic of gods from either just blows my mind.

Poor gibbons (apes not monkeys!). They get no respect, I tell ya!

Wow, he's literally staring daggers. I never made that connection as a kid.

I need to re-watch this film.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Mommy always said there were no monsters, no real ones, but there are.


They mewstly come out at night...mewstly.

Kouch Atlis, owner a notorious inter-species brothel on the luxury planet of Zeltros (sat here for a bit but I couldn't think of a punny name for it).

Tolkien hated allegory.

Edit: Err, I should say he had an emphatic dislike for it, as far as his own writing was concerned.

>> ^longde:

Read the book Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea to see how these bastards fubar'd their country.
I think the dynasty just ended. The son has nowhere near the devotion his father garnered.


Well, technically Kim-il Sung's preserved corpse was still the President, right? Now that Kim Jong-il is dead, does he now succeed him in that post?

Kim Jong-un could possibly keep the charade going as long as he claims a direct line of communication to the spirit of his father/grand-pappy, no? Jong-il wasn't nearly as popular as his father when he died either (though probably much more so than Jong-un at the time of his father's death, as he was publicly groomed for future leadership for, what, 15 years prior?).

I'll check for that book next time I'm at the library. It's a shame Hitchens had to go right before this arshole, I would've loved to hear his opinion on this entire situation. Prolific as he was, it's likely there are some articles/videos out there concerning Jong-un's suitability/future as heir presumptive.

I developed a somatoform disorder from merely watching this. Thanks Internet!

I think they should have kept the setting more contemporary.

The whole "cultural mainstays of yesteryear in modern fish out of water situations" is a comedic dead-horse to me. I mean, Snooky, reeeally? Fer fucks sake, Hollywood.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

@lucky760! @AnimalsForCrackers broke the Sift!


Wasn't me.

(srsly though, what'd I do??)

As far as I've read, the only things we know are the size of the planet and the distance from its star. We have no idea of the exact mass (other than that it's relatively low, which is a good thing), composition, atmosphere, or actual habitability of the planet, just that it's located in the "habitable zone". That is all!

So, no, we have no clue if there's water and since temperature is subject to other factors (the one's which we have no information on yet) besides solely the distance from its star, we can't really say it's life-sustaining either.