Prometheus Unchained
Prometheus Unchained
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Christopher Hitchens on Human fear of Death and Egotism
Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Still less can they hope to tell us the "meaning" of later discoveries and developments which were, when they began, either obstructed by their religion or denounced by them. And yet - the believers still claim to know! Not just to know, but to know everything. Not just to know that god exists, and that he created and supervised the whole enterprise, but also to know what "he" demands of us - from our diet to our observances to our sexual morality. In other words, in a va...
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Christopher Hitchens - Omar Khayyam
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And do you think that unto such as you, A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew, God gave the Secret, and denied it me?- Well, well, what matters it! believe that too. Omar Khayyam
Christopher Hitchens on Knowledge, Courage, and Solidarity
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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others." - Samuel Johnson “[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let al...
Christopher Hitchens on Malcolm X
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"You may be shocked by these words coming from me,But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. ... Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never...
The Epic Stars - They must burn out at length like used candles
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"we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers" and "We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That ...
Death, thou shalt die
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. Thou art s...
The Emperor Julian and the last stand of the old gods
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Author Lars Brownworth on Julian: larsbrownworth.com/ (born ad 331/332, Constantinople-died June 26/27, 363, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia), Roman emperor from ad 361 to 363, nephew of Constantine the Great, and noted scholar and military leader who was proclaimed emperor by his troops. ulian’s freedom as a student had a powerful influence on him and ensured that for the first time in a century the fu...
Nature’s Beauty and Cruelty in the Artwork of Lauren and Caitlin
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www.caitlinhackett.com/ laurenmarx.com/ I hope to remind those who view my artwork that we too are animals, embedded in this fragile world even as we poison it. My work alludes to the boundaries that separate humans from animals both physically and metaphysically, and the way in which these boundaries are warped by science, mythology, and religion alike. Like the gods of so many myths Humanity ...
The Universe - Dare to Know
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The Comic Perspective - Martin Rees, Christopher Hitchens, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman,Alex Filippenko,Neil degrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking
The Pantheon - Ancient Roman Temple
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The Roman Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome. As the brick stamps on the side of the building reveal it was built and dedicated between A.D 118 and 125. The emperor Hadrian (A.D 117-138) built the Pantheon to replace Augustus’ friend and Commander Marcus Agrippa’s Pantheon of 27 B.C. which burnt t...
The Goddess in History
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goddess ancient religion antiquity women divine power fertility fortune
Rome and Jerusalem at War - The destruction of the Jewish Temple
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Source: www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/jerusalemthebiography.aspx First Jewish Revolt, (ad 66-70), Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in Judaea. The First Jewish Revolt was the result of a long series of clashes in which small groups of Jews offered sporadic resistance to the Romans, who in turn responded with severe countermeasures. In the fall of ad 66 the Jews combined in revolt, expelled the...
Less Than Human - Dehumanization and Genocide
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Less Than Human - Dehumanization and Genocide
Christopher Hitchens - Inside Iran
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Christopher Hitchens - Inside Iran
The Renaissance - The coals from Antiquity helped light the Modern flame
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The Renaissance - The coals from Antiquity helped light the Modern flame
American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
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American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
New technology called Neurobridge
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New technology called Neurobridge
The Undesigned Universe - Peter Ward
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The Undesigned Universe - Peter Ward
Peter Ward - Astrobiology
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Peter Ward - Astrobiology
The Problem of God - Philosopher Peter Singer
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The Problem of God - Philosopher Peter Singer
Christopher Hitchens - The Indifference of Heaven
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Christopher Hitchens - The Indifference of Heaven
Facing Death - Watts, Solomon, Nietzsche, Hitchens
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Facing Death - Watts, Solomon, Nietzsche, Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens - Reasonable Doubt
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Christopher Hitchens - Reasonable Doubt
Hypatia of Alexandria
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Hypatia of Alexandria
Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You (Interview with Dan Riskin)
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Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You (Interview with Dan Riskin)
Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain (Patricia Churchland)
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Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain (Patricia Churchland)
Pyrrho and Ancient Skepticism
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Pyrrho and Ancient Skepticism
Are Human Beings Determined? Philosophers and Neuroscientists on Free Will and Determinism
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Are Human Beings Determined? Philosophers and Neuroscientists on Free Will and Determinism

Комментарии

  • @ClarissaSigrid-u9f
    @ClarissaSigrid-u9f 5 дней назад

    Clark Susan Rodriguez Steven Hall Mary

  • @SherwoodBurke-g9s
    @SherwoodBurke-g9s 12 дней назад

    Hall Margaret Thompson William Jones Margaret

  • @serialsleuth2178
    @serialsleuth2178 13 дней назад

    I can't help but admire Dawkins patience to answer the same questions over and over again, it must be exhausting to be as famous an atheist as he is and be asked "what do you believe if you don't believe in god?" At least once after every (unrelated) lecture.

  • @JesusGarcia-bu7tf
    @JesusGarcia-bu7tf 21 день назад

    I like how Dawkins emphasizes that his book is written for children while dressing an audience of adults. My take is that the adults are too far gone so there is still hope for humanity if you reach them early enough.

  • @marcdewey1242
    @marcdewey1242 21 день назад

    If Richard and the rest of these people want to believe thier ancestors swung in trees, thats thier choice,but ill just stay with creation,praise God!

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 8 дней назад

      intelligent people don't believe it, we find the evidence sound. you need to believe in an afterlife because you can't face reality

    • @donaldwhittaker7987
      @donaldwhittaker7987 7 дней назад

      It is good to have evidence for a belief or an opinion. It is also good to know the difference between a word and an object. Not all words have a corresponding object. The only reliable knowledge we have comes from math and from our 5 senses. Everything else is unknown and for now best left that way. Does this seem reasonable to you?

    • @GayorgVonTrapp
      @GayorgVonTrapp 3 дня назад

      You don’t know what evolution means do you. Come on. Be honest. You haven’t got a clue.

  • @NilsExp
    @NilsExp 26 дней назад

    Starts 11:00

  • @군주-b9v
    @군주-b9v 28 дней назад

    Anderson Eric Robinson George Perez Scott

  • @ArslanOtcular
    @ArslanOtcular Месяц назад

    Johnson Susan Hernandez Carol Jones Eric

  • @virtualbeing5195
    @virtualbeing5195 Месяц назад

    Morals are man made opinions of what's good or bad for survival. There is no natural justice. No one and nothing cares for anything except what's good for them.

  • @tsasesepong
    @tsasesepong Месяц назад

    24:13 dawkins talking about dhoni what in the multiverse is going on

  • @skiphoffenflaven8004
    @skiphoffenflaven8004 Месяц назад

    We are input-output entities and all a religion is is an “agreed upon” way of dealing with inputs and/or outputs that each individual dislikes. When enough of these individuals begin “sharing” with others these inputs/outputs, they then find some commonality among those inputs/outputs, as in “Yeah, I get angry and red when I hear or think about homosexuality” that they then rely upon to dictate how they will respond. That is all there is to a religion.

  • @JimWilliams-s8z
    @JimWilliams-s8z Месяц назад

    The. Current model on evolution of a cell is akin to a Neanderthal witnessing a bic lighters flame and deducing it flopped into functionality by a random lightning strike to mud filled ditch

  • @Titus-as-the-Roman
    @Titus-as-the-Roman 2 месяца назад

    If I'm created by a Supreme Sentient, He/She/It surely was seriously Drunk That Day

  • @judithbreastsler
    @judithbreastsler 2 месяца назад

    The eternal conundrum of Palestine. A land torn asunder by the conflicting claims of two peoples, each with a legitimate historical and emotional stake in the territory. And yet, as I sit here, pen in hand, I am compelled to express my utter dismay at the current state of affairs. The Israeli occupation, now in its fifth decade, has become a moral and political affront to the very concept of human dignity. The Palestinians, forced to live in a state of perpetual subjugation, their daily lives dictated by the whims of their Israeli overlords, are treated as little more than subjects in a colonial enterprise. And let us not mince words, my friends. This is not a conflict between two equal parties. This is a case of a powerful, nuclear-armed state, backed to the hilt by the world's sole superpower, exerting its dominance over a stateless, occupied people. The apologists for Israel's brutal policies will, no doubt, reach for the familiar tropes: the security concerns, the threat of terrorism, the need for self-defense. But I say, what of the Palestinians' right to self-defense? What of their need for security, for freedom from the constant harassment, humiliation, and violence that comes with living under occupation? And then, of course, there is the settlements issue. These illegal, fortified enclaves, sprung up like mushrooms on occupied land, are a stark reminder of Israel's long-term strategy: to annex, to colonize, and to dispossess. The very notion that these settlements can be considered "negotiable" is a farce. They are an affront to international law, a thumbing of the nose at the very concept of sovereignty. But, I ask you, dear reader, what of the so-called "international community"? Where is the outrage, the condemnation, the collective action to put an end to this egregious injustice? The silence, I fear, is deafening. The United States, that bastion of freedom and democracy, is too busy pandering to the Israeli lobby to take a principled stand. The European Union, that vaunted defender of human rights, is too mired in its own bureaucratic inertia to take meaningful action. And so, the status quo persists. The occupation grinds on, grinding down the very souls of the Palestinian people. The settlements expand, a cancerous growth on the body politic of the region. And the world looks on, aghast, but ultimately impotent. But I say, no more. It is time for the world to take a stand. It is time for us to recognize the fundamental humanity of the Palestinian people, to acknowledge their rights, their dignity, and their freedom. It is time for us to demand an end to the occupation, an end to the settlements, and an end to the impunity that has allowed this situation to fester for so long. The Palestinians are not alone. They have the right to self-determination, to statehood, and to the very same rights and freedoms that we in the West take for granted. And it is our moral duty, as citizens of the world, to stand with them, to stand against oppression, and to stand for justice. Anything less would be a dereliction of our duty as human beings.

  • @adsffdaaf4170
    @adsffdaaf4170 2 месяца назад

    Good stuff in here, but Pinker's error is his belief that the mind is the brain.

  • @ottobihrer732
    @ottobihrer732 2 месяца назад

    We are herd animals, we want to belong to a herd and the leader is suppose to think for us. Religions - Cults - The Herd - We belong, follow and stop thinking.

  • @eniggma9353
    @eniggma9353 2 месяца назад

    Elon's musk fans are a kind of a religion. I like his toys. But his cult is a bit much.

  • @nestor.valentino
    @nestor.valentino 2 месяца назад

    Brilliant orator this man was

  • @ashdjones
    @ashdjones 3 месяца назад

    If you released this one scene, building, dawkins, as a standalone FPS for Dreamcast 2 they wouldn't stop playing till xmas 2025 and spend £300, Bz crack knuckles.

    • @ashdjones
      @ashdjones 3 месяца назад

      Release it on Xbox 2001 dvd imo. Just a black / grey disc with Dawkins Lecture as title, and the old xbox hl2 menu.

  • @RobertaSirgutz
    @RobertaSirgutz 3 месяца назад

    14 years on, and the villification and paranoia regarding the aims of Iran are at fever pitch. Their army and actual capability for domination and destruction are very overestimated. Nuclear capability just levels the playing field and is useful as deterrence, like America, Russia and Israel have. Israel is not a democracy, in the true sense. No constitution, weak judiciary. It's a theocratic, settler Colonial State. The two State solution was never palatable to Israelis, even moderate secular Jews, and has been scuttled at every turn. Iraq pissed the West off because Hussein wanted to control his own resources.

  • @sudhirpatel7620
    @sudhirpatel7620 3 месяца назад

    Nature goes on forever for everyone and everything to return as everyone and everything an infinite number of times through evolutionary processes. 🌌

  • @gooddaysahead1
    @gooddaysahead1 3 месяца назад

    With brains that remember and obsess over mistakes, and worry far into the future, what message would be the most comforting? Love? No. "Absolute certainty," is the message. The problem with this message is that "absolute certainty" doesn't exist and it is always the message espoused by the most diabolical and authoritarian leaders in the world.

  • @biffedya
    @biffedya 3 месяца назад

    it's not scientific at all it is indoctrination the fear of death and ignorance ...religion is simply the cancer of mankind

  • @dreddredd7137
    @dreddredd7137 4 месяца назад

    Impacter Extinctions like with te dinosauriërs 66 million years ago is caused ( in my opinion ) because the impact blew a lot of lighter warm oxygen in to space and the heavier CO2 sink mostly to the surface where the survived MegaFauna is casping for oxygen that is not there .

  • @FaultLines-nd2nc
    @FaultLines-nd2nc 4 месяца назад

    "Random chance" - the basis of Darwinism - only works for super small numbers like dice games ruclips.net/video/MU6b9VM9j3Q/видео.html

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 4 месяца назад

      keep spamming it till you believe your religious superstitions

    • @FaultLines-nd2nc
      @FaultLines-nd2nc 4 месяца назад

      @@AMC2283 So you have no answer to the video, but no no honesty to admit it

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 4 месяца назад

      @@FaultLines-nd2nc first of all, you have zero cause to criticize someone for not clicking on some link and you know you don’t. Second, there’s really no need anyway. You can’t talk mathematics to just conclude that your god did it. But feel free to write the equation in the comments.

    • @FaultLines-nd2nc
      @FaultLines-nd2nc 4 месяца назад

      @@AMC2283 We all know you've watched the video, have no answer to it and are not honest enough to admit it

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 4 месяца назад

      @@FaultLines-nd2nc my answer to your pathetic video is let’s see the math equation that proves your god did it.

  • @Sitting8ull
    @Sitting8ull 4 месяца назад

    Bonobos are said to engage in sexual relations for non-reproductive purposes.

  • @thomasmurphy9429
    @thomasmurphy9429 4 месяца назад

    Interviewer is a dumbass

  • @AlcibiadesMD
    @AlcibiadesMD 4 месяца назад

    I know I am not going to live forever and neither are you, but until my furlough here on earth is revoked, I shall elbow aside the established pieties and raise my tumbler of Johnnie Walker Black 🥃 (with 2 Oz of Perrier) to a courageous most exalted thought provoking thinker, his legacy ensures his immortality, thank you Christopher! 💐

  • @tehspamgozehere
    @tehspamgozehere 4 месяца назад

    Thankyou for sharing this.

  • @MattSingh1
    @MattSingh1 5 месяцев назад

    *The two consecutive short men questioners are utter obnoxious pricks.*

  • @maryharpley294
    @maryharpley294 5 месяцев назад

    What year was this???

  • @claudiaschneider5744
    @claudiaschneider5744 5 месяцев назад

    Religion is a hoax. Simple as that.

  • @Communist-Doge
    @Communist-Doge 6 месяцев назад

    What translation is he referring to?

    • @fre2725
      @fre2725 5 месяцев назад

      He misspeaks in the clip; this is the Richard le Gallienne version, which is a paraphrase of other more literal translations.

    • @Communist-Doge
      @Communist-Doge 5 месяцев назад

      @@fre2725 Thank you!

  • @Leggiebeans
    @Leggiebeans 6 месяцев назад

    This is a breath of fresh air. Just yesterday a hard core Christian tried threatening me by saying demons were real and the devil was going to get me. I’m an atheist , and this video really helps to counteract the total nonsense I had to listen to yesterday.

    • @prometheusunchained4236
      @prometheusunchained4236 6 месяцев назад

      only insecure men threaten. God has no such insecurity. Check the video "The Ghosts of Evolution - The Terrors of Natural History" the fear of demons and ghosts is evolutionary baggage from primates under threat from snakes, large cats and other predators in the night. Superstition takes advantage of this human evolutionary baggage.

    • @Leggiebeans
      @Leggiebeans 6 месяцев назад

      @@prometheusunchained4236 thank you so much for the suggestion- I’ll definitely check it out! It makes sense from an evolutionary point of view that a fear of predators in the dark helped our ancestors survive.

    • @davidevans3227
      @davidevans3227 23 дня назад

      i thought this was about evolution? is he still moaning about god?

    • @davidevans3227
      @davidevans3227 23 дня назад

      ​@@prometheusunchained4236 really

  • @PeterShaw-ne1yq
    @PeterShaw-ne1yq 6 месяцев назад

    When I sleep at night, the possibility is there of never waking, that does not frighten me 🤔

  • @ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96
    @ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96 6 месяцев назад

    Hey look if Mr Garrison's boyfriend from South Park LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 in all seriousness though this guy sounds like Professor Xavier all this talk about mutation and evolution

  • @krisbest6405
    @krisbest6405 6 месяцев назад

    I would prefer NO RELIGIONS EN MASSE, just well educated sense of the world and your humanity. Soultrap is an interesting concept.

  • @yourhealinghome8812
    @yourhealinghome8812 6 месяцев назад

    Are these Levite scientists, at Tel Aviv University?

  • @SleepyPenguin-8og
    @SleepyPenguin-8og 7 месяцев назад

    Lol fuck u too ;-) there is no god. We all know it.

  • @JJ-fr2ki
    @JJ-fr2ki 7 месяцев назад

    love youtube

  • @JJ-fr2ki
    @JJ-fr2ki 7 месяцев назад

    gem. and good use of Atran.

  • @fat_bastard215
    @fat_bastard215 7 месяцев назад

    I love his mind-expanding lecture on the immune system. It might be in the top three greatest evolutionary developments, number one being the human brain. What do you think the third one would be? Maybe we could consider AI in that same group. It's just so fascinating how evolution is working just as many miracles on a microscopic level.

  • @johnrumpf6014
    @johnrumpf6014 8 месяцев назад

    I think it should be fine to slap someone that adds um every 3rd or fourth word. Slap them every 3rd or 4th word. I hope um everyone has um a nice um day.

  • @crbe2159
    @crbe2159 8 месяцев назад

    Christianity destroyed my family and childhood.

  • @kelvingenechater6004
    @kelvingenechater6004 8 месяцев назад

    What if this one says eyes does not exist because one is blind... Main time there is billion of evidence that people have eyes

  • @kelvingenechater6004
    @kelvingenechater6004 8 месяцев назад

    Evolution is not a believe

  • @abhiseksarkar3566
    @abhiseksarkar3566 8 месяцев назад

    Didn't know he said that he wrote for posterity. Really thankful that he did, got to know him after his death and oh boy, did he resonated. I wish he was here today as a strong voice against the neo-religious revivalism we see everywhere.

  • @no-oneman.4140
    @no-oneman.4140 9 месяцев назад

    15th December 2011 - the day the world became a much dumber place. Sorely missed.

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 9 месяцев назад

    How much would Hitchens be bothered by djt?

    • @elvisleeboy
      @elvisleeboy 8 месяцев назад

      One thing we do know, is that his view would not be informed by hysterical irrationality. He would have something far more intelligent and thoughtful to say than the usual ad hominem based anti-Trump rhetoric who are unable to get past their idiotic hatred of him.

    • @MattSingh1
      @MattSingh1 5 месяцев назад

      @@elvisleeboy *The Trump movement is comically-absurd to begin with, comprised of either fools or extreme fanatics. Nice attempt at water-carrying for this crackpot though.*

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 9 месяцев назад

    Oliphant produced a cartoon with a man saluting Khameinie with a drink saying, “to Khameinie who has saved us from the brutal repression of the Shah” to which the holy man replied, “Drinking in public my son?” and then saying to one of his henchmen, “chop off his hand and sew his lips together-it is written.” The people of Iran had no idea what they had caused!