The Big Picture: Nerd Gods
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Please, do not riddle MovieBob with language minutia. The native-english speaking community is so phonetically impared they can be excused. Take it from a japanese language student with 3 years behind of serious study.Captain Pooptits said:
Which was in turn based around Saint Nicholas of Bari, a turkish saint based in Italy who gave good children presents and bad children rocks and brooms.Premonition said:
I'd side with the Atomsk-ism side of the spectrum and up my N.O. to steal Anne Hathaway and make her mine (Look for FLCL if you have no idea what I'm talking about)kael013 said:
As for religion, I go to a catholic high school and it's teachings actually let me see just how "catholic" people really are in the first place and just how much catholics ignore about their own religion. And it also fundaments my agnosticism because I don't believe in what they tell me to believe nor subject myself to any kind of bogus dogma.
Watching this, I was almost yawning. This is going nowhere. Blah blah blah. Poop. Yawnity.
BUT THE PAYOFF WAS FUCKING WORTH IT.
4 minutes of slight theological discussion and it's punctuated by possibly the best anti-Scientology jab I have seen ever. Well done MovieBob, indeed you are all about the "big picture," not only as topics but overall - your videos are self-contained narrative brilliance that work as a whole and only as a whole, as apposed to rapid fire joke-after-punchline like we're used to from, say, Zero Punctuation, or even your own At the Movies. It's been a while since I've seen videos so finely crafted as to take the 5 minutes and say "this video will use these 5 minutes to take us somewhere".
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BUT THE PAYOFF WAS FUCKING WORTH IT.
4 minutes of slight theological discussion and it's punctuated by possibly the best anti-Scientology jab I have seen ever. Well done MovieBob, indeed you are all about the "big picture," not only as topics but overall - your videos are self-contained narrative brilliance that work as a whole and only as a whole, as apposed to rapid fire joke-after-punchline like we're used to from, say, Zero Punctuation, or even your own At the Movies. It's been a while since I've seen videos so finely crafted as to take the 5 minutes and say "this video will use these 5 minutes to take us somewhere".
tl;dr a winrar iz u
What, no mention of Discordianism?
HAIL HAIL HAIL HAIL HAIL ERIS ERIS ERIS ERIS ERIS ALL HAIL DISCORDIA
HAIL HAIL HAIL HAIL HAIL ERIS ERIS ERIS ERIS ERIS ALL HAIL DISCORDIA
IDK, maybe I've just been a magnet for obnoxious people with strong religious views. I don't mind discussing it, but every time I have the religious people just end up getting pissed when I refuse to take the bible as a source (self-validating and all that) and tell me I'm going to hell, and the Atheists generally end up quoting (often misquoting at that) Darwin or degrading the bible even after I agree with them on that point. They don't like my stance that you cannot (at least not yet) disprove the existence of God, so actively disbelieving it requires just as much faith as believing in it.mysterioso2006 said:
Generally my stance is "That's your opinion, good for you." I just don't like when people spout their opinions on the matter as fact. Most recent example: I was playing cards with a bunch of guys when someone (jokingly) said "go to hell" and the atheist at the table jumps in and says (not jokingly) "there is no Hell." An Awkward silence later, we just pretended he didn't say anything.
Pretty solid. I'm pretty much with him, though I probably lean a bit more atheist. I don't begrudge anybody their beliefs, just as long as they don't try to shove it down my throat. Hey, one story is as good as the next. Whatever keeps somebody from going out and being a complete jackass, have at it.
I thought about Jedi at one point, but never got the serenity thing. I used to tell people I was a Haruhist just because there had to be some tennant approving the molestation of big breased moe girls, but got too many concerned looks. I need something new. Hmmmm... I know, that VG cats cartoon:
I am now a Jenova's witness. Care to talk about the lifestream?
In all seriousness, I'm a similar agnostic: beleif in god, can't quite get how anyone can think they "know" the answers. Not beleive. Know. That and even among religious people it can be somewhat flighty. My mom says she's religious but hasn't been to church in 20 years. My cousin just converted to catholicism not due to some deep spiritual decision, but because her husband made her. It just makes things hard to take seriously.
I think religion develops over time, though religous ideals can permiate just about anything. PC vs Mac debates, or PS3 vs Xbox 360. Republicans are now holding Ronald Reagan to a level of a religious figure. Free market ecconomists hold of Ayn Rand's fictional books not as a theoretical argument against socialism, but a s a doctrined certainty about what would happen in a socialist world (like Ayn looked into an alternate universe.) Religion always seems to be about cornoring the market on truth, even to the point of ignoring other views, opinions or condricictary evidence. We almost need a strong moral geek icon to worship at thip point, and I would also hold up Spider-Man. The central tenant he lives by is that harmful acts due to indiference can come back to have bad consequences. Something we could use today in the "me first" culture we're in.
I am now a Jenova's witness. Care to talk about the lifestream?
In all seriousness, I'm a similar agnostic: beleif in god, can't quite get how anyone can think they "know" the answers. Not beleive. Know. That and even among religious people it can be somewhat flighty. My mom says she's religious but hasn't been to church in 20 years. My cousin just converted to catholicism not due to some deep spiritual decision, but because her husband made her. It just makes things hard to take seriously.
I think religion develops over time, though religous ideals can permiate just about anything. PC vs Mac debates, or PS3 vs Xbox 360. Republicans are now holding Ronald Reagan to a level of a religious figure. Free market ecconomists hold of Ayn Rand's fictional books not as a theoretical argument against socialism, but a s a doctrined certainty about what would happen in a socialist world (like Ayn looked into an alternate universe.) Religion always seems to be about cornoring the market on truth, even to the point of ignoring other views, opinions or condricictary evidence. We almost need a strong moral geek icon to worship at thip point, and I would also hold up Spider-Man. The central tenant he lives by is that harmful acts due to indiference can come back to have bad consequences. Something we could use today in the "me first" culture we're in.
I'm not going to a skiiing resort, I'm gonna survive in the frozen wasteland for a week (I'll be fine, I brought extra socks.)and I say BAH to your power converters and I raise you one arm of General Grevious! Someone had to loot his corpse while the Troopers were going crazy under order 66.Quaxar said:
Xmas is not a "secularified" version of Christmas. It is just shorthand for Christmas. X essentially means Christ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
I also do not understand why you called atheists boring. You kinda just said that without anything to support it. If it was a joke, it was a bad one. If it was a real point, it was a bad one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmas
I also do not understand why you called atheists boring. You kinda just said that without anything to support it. If it was a joke, it was a bad one. If it was a real point, it was a bad one.
Kinda funny to see not many theists in this topic (though his last reviews about religion took quite heated debates). Maybe many theists in the forum have given up on contributing to this topic or got disgusted by those without religion coming out and share their logical viewpoints.
About nerd-gods, I think not many people would recognize them as actual Gods, because people know that they are completely fictional (or at least, in this universe) and follow their basic guidelines or moral views, NOT actually believe nerd-gods are whatever they claim or do not claim to be. If there were fanatics geared toward such practice (because they actually BELIEVE the existence of nerd-gods, regardless of their reasoning as to why), then it will take more than many hundreds of years or even millennia before that could happen. Until then, it will remain as a cult or collective intellectual society that discusses and practices of.. whatever their nerd-gods stand for. I admit that most religions started with the latter way, but it seems that, one way or another, once the religion took the roots of humanity, it cannot be removed that easily.
To those who are non-militant atheists, do you have Doctor's point of view when it comes to existence of God? (as expressed in episode "Satan's Pit") Because, it looked like you (plural) were to me.
About nerd-gods, I think not many people would recognize them as actual Gods, because people know that they are completely fictional (or at least, in this universe) and follow their basic guidelines or moral views, NOT actually believe nerd-gods are whatever they claim or do not claim to be. If there were fanatics geared toward such practice (because they actually BELIEVE the existence of nerd-gods, regardless of their reasoning as to why), then it will take more than many hundreds of years or even millennia before that could happen. Until then, it will remain as a cult or collective intellectual society that discusses and practices of.. whatever their nerd-gods stand for. I admit that most religions started with the latter way, but it seems that, one way or another, once the religion took the roots of humanity, it cannot be removed that easily.
To those who are non-militant atheists, do you have Doctor's point of view when it comes to existence of God? (as expressed in episode "Satan's Pit") Because, it looked like you (plural) were to me.
Hmm, I might be tempted to worship one of those "nerd gods"
Hell Commander Shepard took a huge dive into Jesus Allegory territory... wait a second, HOLY CRAP I KNOW HOW MASS EFFECT 3 WILL END!
Hide the eggs!!!
Hell Commander Shepard took a huge dive into Jesus Allegory territory... wait a second, HOLY CRAP I KNOW HOW MASS EFFECT 3 WILL END!
Hide the eggs!!!