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>> ^ObsidianStorm:
I suppose you have to add, to be a christian, not only do you believe the schtick, but you also want to follow it's teachings...


Maybe if people could agree on what Christ's teachings actually are. Even looking at the same text people get wildly different ideas from it.

And if maybe we could agree on what the text actually says. There are thousands of different copies of the Bible with different text since it was copied by scribes for so long. Many of the differences are significant.

And maybe if the only knowledge we have of Jesus Christ wasn't just stories written down several decades after his death by people who he had never met.

And that's all assuming that being a Christian is something to be desired. The amount of evidence we have on Jesus Christ is so small that there exists a chance that he never actually existed.

Agreed.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Death-You-re-Racist

hey... i watched some of your videos and i thought... you might want to see this: *

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pfft.. not nearly as much as you love pitbulls

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You love cats!

I'll ask Lucky about it. I suspect there is a way to fix the avatar mix up if you want to use crocoduck (hilarious, btw). It's fine with me either way. Thanks for the heads up.

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I finally uploaded an avatar to my profile. I uploaded a picture of a crocoduck, like the one here:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9030/crocaduck1ce.jpg

And to my surprise, my avatar was not the crocoduck that I uploaded, but was a picture of a brain! A picture of a brain that I had never seen before!

So, on a hunch, I went to brain.videosift.com, and I saw a picture of my crocoduck on brain.videosift.com!!! WHOOPS! Somehow the two pictures are getting crossed and backwards.

The URL's are very similar:
My avatar URL: http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/b/brain.jpg?1227638582
brian.videosift.com picture: http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/b/brain.jpg

So I saved the picture of the brain I saw, and uploaded that as my avatar. So now we're both set to pictures of brains. I think the brain is pretty damn cool. I'm fine with keeping that as my avatar forever. I don't even care if it changes to different pictures of brains if the channel gets updated. So this isn't even technically a problem.

I just wanted to let you know since you're the channel owner. Maybe you can report it to whoever cares.

BTW, hopefully the picture I re-uploaded is the same size and quality as the original. It appears to be as far as I can tell.

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Hi - just wanted to personally thank you for relinquishing the 'brain' subdomain. Got anything you'd like promoted?

good job.

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LLAAAAAME. They should had John McCain daydreaming being in a Sarah Palin sandwich.

excellent use/timing of anthropic principle

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>> ^MINK:
I love (hate) how he skips over the whole "abiogenesis" thing, then explains about some lightning but doesn't say where the lightning comes from, etc. etc...


Do you want some more abiogenesis talk? One point that I would have brought up is how unlikely it seems that the first self-replicating life would just fall into place one day. If you get a bunch of chemicals together, it probably won't create life. But if you get an entire planet with chemical oceans for over a billion years, then it starts to get more likely that life would happen.

But then you have to remember the anthropic principle! We're going to find ourselves on whatever planet that life happens to occur on. We guess that there are about 10^20 planets in our universe, and the universe is about 13.7 billion years old. So even if life falling into place at any time on a whole planet has a probability of 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000, we can expect it to happen at least once. And here we are.

When I take that into account, life seems pretty probable to me. You could make up a god to explain it, but I don't see the need.

Do you mean god=reality or do you mean that one can't percieve reality unless one atleast cares enough to look for reality?

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If he doesn't care if god exists, I guess he doesn't care about being correct or living in reality.

Its from Burning Man. Check out these pics

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11785864@N02/sets/72157601959272455/

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What is that a picture of?