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

  • @KritiKalsKeptiK
    @KritiKalsKeptiK 7 дней назад

    6:10 to skip the brain-dead blathering kid. 9:22 to skip the 2nd pillock.

  • @badashphilosophy9533
    @badashphilosophy9533 8 дней назад

    it akes sense that there are derees of certainty and these people never o full throttle. as u 3entioned the prole3 is not that 6elief is inadequate its that it 9oes to far. living without 6elief then is simply never 9oin to far in your level of certainty about something. then all these arguments against it sound like straw3en 3ade 6y people who have no idea what their opponent is even sayin

  • @mikeycurtin5017
    @mikeycurtin5017 16 дней назад

    The introduction felt like it was an hour long. Perhaps someone who is a little more excited about the subject next time?

  • @Bjay723
    @Bjay723 26 дней назад

    the ending which he says "well well what matters it believe that too" made me laugh

  • @BojanglesBonanno55
    @BojanglesBonanno55 Месяц назад

    GeTting ignored from prince.

  • @castropianoforte
    @castropianoforte Месяц назад

    Evolution is a failed theory.

  • @DavidAdarmases12
    @DavidAdarmases12 Месяц назад

    I still can't believe a man as bright as Hitchens was a supporter of George Bush, and was sickeningly obsequious to Tony Blair. Bush and Blair are evil.

  • @culturehorse
    @culturehorse Месяц назад

    I like the prescience of CHs impromptu enconmium of X. However, unfettered 'Internationalism' is and has been revealing itself as a veiled proceneum of elitist banking 'shareholder' autocracy and political neofascism.. you'll own nothing and be happy. Unforeseen and unforeseeable by academe in 1992.

  • @jameswatt4114
    @jameswatt4114 Месяц назад

    he was a black supremacist

  • @stannisteeth9719
    @stannisteeth9719 2 месяца назад

    “Science has its own magic, the magic of reality” love that quote

  • @PietStassenAdamastor
    @PietStassenAdamastor 2 месяца назад

    💥THE DAWKINS DELUSION. If Dawkins really were so repulsed by "religion', then why has Dawkins chosen the most repulsive of religious models for explaining the origins of life? The Darwinists' (and Dawkins') invoking of the idea of a unicellular organism, having emerged and originated from some primordial soup of complex chemicals billions of years ago, was not invented by brilliant scientists; it was invented by primitive, pagan societies e.g., reportedly the Babylonians. Question: How did Dawkins 'evolve' from a rational, hardcore empiricist of a modern scientist to the snake oil salesman of a pseudo-scientist peddling primitive (unfalsifiable) pagan theories of human origins like the first living organism having emerged from a pool of slime like Hollywood's monster from the Blue Lagoon?

  • @PB1997.
    @PB1997. 2 месяца назад

    if human and god ever meet in person both will shout "my creator"

  • @Wayy2saucy
    @Wayy2saucy 3 месяца назад

    33:33

  • @donaldwhittaker7987
    @donaldwhittaker7987 3 месяца назад

    Metaphysics is bunk. The only valid propositions are mathematical statements and propositions based on experience. I have followed Pinker for about 10 years and it is a pleasure to be acquainted with his work. He, Dawkins, Dennett, and the rest of the Brights are a welcome antidote to much intellectual rubbish that prevails. If we make the mistake of conferring religion upon our AI robots they will become as insipid as our modern day woo woo artists. (All we need is a pack of AI Jerry Falwells.) Rather a pack of AI Richard Feynmans any day.

  • @nicolemccall4568
    @nicolemccall4568 3 месяца назад

    It would all also be explained by the thought that he doesnt believe any of the pain or disturbances exist or that he himself exists in the first place lol

  • @SherwoodBurke-g9s
    @SherwoodBurke-g9s 4 месяца назад

    Hall Margaret Thompson William Jones Margaret

  • @serialsleuth2178
    @serialsleuth2178 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 3 месяца 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 3 месяца 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 месяца назад

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

  • @NilsExp
    @NilsExp 4 месяца назад

    Starts 11:00

  • @군주-b9v
    @군주-b9v 4 месяца назад

    Anderson Eric Robinson George Perez Scott

  • @ArslanOtcular
    @ArslanOtcular 4 месяца назад

    Johnson Susan Hernandez Carol Jones Eric

  • @ethancole5195
    @ethancole5195 4 месяца 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.

  • @renebaeee
    @renebaeee 4 месяца назад

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

  • @skiphoffenflaven8004
    @skiphoffenflaven8004 5 месяцев 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 5 месяцев 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 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @matureyoungman
    @matureyoungman 5 месяцев 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 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @ottobihrer732
    @ottobihrer732 6 месяцев 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 6 месяцев 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 6 месяцев назад

    Brilliant orator this man was

  • @ashdjones
    @ashdjones 6 месяцев 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 6 месяцев 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 6 месяцев 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 7 месяцев 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 7 месяцев 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 7 месяцев 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 7 месяцев 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 7 месяцев назад

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

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 7 месяцев назад

      keep spamming it till you believe your religious superstitions

    • @FaultLines-nd2nc
      @FaultLines-nd2nc 7 месяцев назад

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

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 7 месяцев 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 7 месяцев 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 7 месяцев назад

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

  • @Sitting8ull
    @Sitting8ull 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @thomasmurphy9429
    @thomasmurphy9429 8 месяцев назад

    Interviewer is a dumbass

  • @MarjorainMD
    @MarjorainMD 8 месяцев 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 8 месяцев назад

    Thankyou for sharing this.

  • @MattSingh1
    @MattSingh1 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @maryharpley294
    @maryharpley294 9 месяцев назад

    What year was this???

  • @claudiaschneider5744
    @claudiaschneider5744 9 месяцев назад

    Religion is a hoax. Simple as that.

  • @Communist-Doge
    @Communist-Doge 9 месяцев назад

    What translation is he referring to?

    • @fre2725
      @fre2725 8 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 8 месяцев назад

      @@fre2725 Thank you!

  • @Leggiebeans
    @Leggiebeans 9 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 9 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 9 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 4 месяца назад

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

    • @davidevans3227
      @davidevans3227 4 месяца назад

      ​@@prometheusunchained4236 really

  • @PeterShaw-ne1yq
    @PeterShaw-ne1yq 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96
    @ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96 10 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