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Most people will look at communal animals, and their need to be in group...
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Most people will look at communal animals, and their need to be in groups will be outstandingly obvious. However people are that taken up by the first person perspective of life, that they don't immediately recognize their own biological need to be in groups. Its not just a preference, its biologically hardwired into your brain. Being with friends is good, and being with powerful friends is even better. It is therefore unsurprising that if you are going to fantasise about a friendship, that as the rewards are better for having a powerful invisible friend, than a weak one, that most people end up having a 'relationships' with an ultrapowerful god.
It is hard to contest that there are real emotional rewards yielded from such fantasies, and I have no problem with that. However when these fantasies have destructive effects on the society around those who hold them it becomes an issue. Indeed the extent to which such fantasies can pervert and corrupt a member of society are aptly summed up in William Lane Craig. Arguably the strongest interpersonal behavior is that of protecting infants. William Lane Craigs religion perverts his behavior to such an extent that he will happily justify putting a sword through a babies skull with a smile on his face and a tune in his heart knowing that, according to his fantasy, that the infant received an infinite good as a consequence of him killing it.
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Most people will look at communal animals, and their need to be in group...
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Most people will look at communal animals, and their need to be in groups will be outstandingly obvious. However people are that taken up by the first person perspective of life, that they don't immediately recognize their own biological need to be in groups. Its not just a preference, its biologically hardwired into your brain. Being with friends is good, and being with powerful friends is even better. It is therefore unsurprising that if you are going to fantasise about a friendship, that as the rewards are better for having a powerful invisible friend, than a weak one, that most people end up having a 'relationships' with an ultrapowerful god.
It is hard to contest that there are real emotional rewards yielded from such fantasies, and I have no problem with that. However when these fantasies have destructive effects on the society around those who hold them it becomes an issue. Indeed the extent to which such fantasies can pervert and corrupt a member of society are aptly summed up in William Lane Craig. Arguably the strongest interpersonal behavior is that of protecting infants. William Lane Craigs religion perverts his behavior to such an extent that he will happily justify putting a sword through a babies skull with a smile on his face and a tune in his heart knowing that, according to his fantasy, that the infant received an infinite good as a consequence of him killing it.
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I'm stunned that Youtube judged this video as "inappropriate."
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I'm stunned that Youtube judged this video as "inappropriate." I think 'tube just doesn't want to be bothered with free speech content anymore. I expect it won't be long before anyone with an opinion on any "controversial" topic will be shown the door.
For more info see: http://youtu.be/H...
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The videos: The BEST emotional PORN http://www.mediaf...
Draw Mohammad Day ...
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The videos: The BEST emotional PORN http://www.mediaf...
Draw Mohammad Day 2... NEEDS YOU! http://www.mediaf...
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I just can't believe youtube's really changing its policy this badly. Sure the terms of service have long essentially defined everything as hate speech while encouraging people to voice controversial opinions (yes very mixed messages!). In practice this means the policy is defined by how its enforced. Up till recently I thought youtube did an excellent job of allowing vibrant discussion of controversial topics:- a mature and responsible policy that would make anyone who espoused the virtues of the Enlightenment happy!
Then I got four videos taken down in half an hour, and a 'privacy notifications' against a further two. Believe it or not, the privacy notifications were against videos where I documented a muslim guy hunting for and dropping my docs. WTF, seriously W-T-F. He drops my docs, YT scarcely bats an eyelid, now he says the video calling him on it is violating his privacy?
The following videos were taken down, according to YT after review by their dedicated members who determined these videos violated terms of use. This can only make sense if its 'Youtube-Malaysia: Theocratic Chapter'. Malaysia is the place that recently sent a guy back to Saudi where he may face death for merely making three vanilla tweets about Islam. For me it doesnt seem impossible that there is an element of disconnect between what 'Youtube Malaysia' and the rest of the world regard as religiously offensive.
I can only hope that it really is this simple, that it's just an error by an overzealous censor. If its a change in policy, its an ill wind that doesn't blow anyone any good.
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The videos: The BEST emotional PORN http://www.mediaf...
Draw Mohammad Day ...
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The videos: The BEST emotional PORN http://www.mediaf...
Draw Mohammad Day 2... NEEDS YOU! http://www.mediaf...
Amenakin, Censorin' For Islam http://www.mediaf...
Osama bin Laden- Shot in Head! http://www.mediaf...
This video: http://www.mediaf...
I just can't believe youtube's really changing its policy this badly. Sure the terms of service have long essentially defined everything as hate speech while encouraging people to voice controversial opinions (yes very mixed messages!). In practice this means the policy is defined by how its enforced. Up till recently I thought youtube did an excellent job of allowing vibrant discussion of controversial topics:- a mature and responsible policy that would make anyone who espoused the virtues of the Enlightenment happy!
Then I got four videos taken down in half an hour, and a 'privacy notifications' against a further two. Believe it or not, the privacy notifications were against videos where I documented a muslim guy hunting for and dropping my docs. WTF, seriously W-T-F. He drops my docs, YT scarcely bats an eyelid, now he says the video calling him on it is violating his privacy?
The following videos were taken down, according to YT after review by their dedicated members who determined these videos violated terms of use. This can only make sense if its 'Youtube-Malaysia: Theocratic Chapter'. Malaysia is the place that recently sent a guy back to Saudi where he may face death for merely making three vanilla tweets about Islam. For me it doesnt seem impossible that there is an element of disconnect between what 'Youtube Malaysia' and the rest of the world regard as religiously offensive.
I can only hope that it really is this simple, that it's just an error by an overzealous censor. If its a change in policy, its an ill wind that doesn't blow anyone any good.
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You're right about Shiz and others like him, but then again, we all tend to borrow a lot from one another in our own personal search for truth and enlightenment. The pieces that we find that fit, we keep; the ones that don't, we discard or lay aside.
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Demonstrates yet again that most Creationist arguments are simply a regurgitation of what other Creationists tell them. Very few of them think for themselves.
2) Nothing says the universe, coming from something, implies that the something is intelligent, a "god", or whatever you want to call it.
3) You don't have any evidence that other universes don't exist. In fact, several cosmological theories specify that other universes most likely *DO* exist, before, after, and at the same time as our own.
4) My worth here or in reality is irrelevant to the points I make. I don't have to be anybody "worth" anything to posit truth and isolate error. The message >>> the messenger.
5) I don't "hate". I abhor. Learn the difference.
6) Lastly, just as a reminder, I AM NOT AN ATHEIST.
Last chance. Be brief, be bright, or be gone.