Beliefs, the Bible, & Brain Freeze: with Matt Dillahunty (and Kat)

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  • Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
  • Activist Matt Dillahunty joins us to talk about everything from Alex Jones to the Red Letter Bible to Transhumanism.
    Atheist Debates: / @sansdeity
    Matt's Patreon: / atheistdebates

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  • @waynedexter
    @waynedexter 18 дней назад +54

    “…When you really think about it death is not a good thing. Death is the loss of everything…”
    Death is also the loss of consciousness/brain activity, which in turn makes the loss of everything else irrelevant. You won’t be able to experience loss once you’re dead

    • @wolves201
      @wolves201 18 дней назад +5

      But you don’t know that for certain.

    • @TheUnpoliticalParty
      @TheUnpoliticalParty 18 дней назад +8

      100% my thoughts too. Something that has helped me with the concept was another perspective on our experience. What were you thinking and feeling back in 1776 while the Declaration of Independence was signed (or any other event in the distant past)? Where were you? For me: It's just blank. I remember nothing from when I was 2 or 3 even. Those times are similarly blank. I don't remember thinking, feeling, doing anything, but other people remember me from when I was that young. And I wasn't and am not particularly bothered by my lack of awareness and memory at that time.

    • @reefhog
      @reefhog 18 дней назад +14

      @@wolves201A rational person does know that. There is no consciousness separate from the brain. Simply wanting to believe you somehow continue living after death, doesn’t make it true.

    • @Matthew-zn3zm
      @Matthew-zn3zm 18 дней назад +9

      ​@@wolves201we know enough about how brain damage works to know you can easily have death of "self" without death of the body... So where does the after life fit?

    • @Malt454
      @Malt454 18 дней назад +7

      @@Matthew-zn3zm - Between "Once upon a time" and "a happily ever after".

  • @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety
    @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 18 дней назад +93

    I've been an atheist for a long time & my sister is a christian. She was telling me about a retired minister & I was feeling snarky & said something like" Did he retire because he learned critical thought?" That started an argument & I said I felt that all religions are dangerous. Not all christians are bad, I told my sister she is very good & I'm grateful for her as she has always supported me.
    She's still mad at me, I'm sure she'll forgive me & we'll be close again(I hope). I regret being snarky. At the same time, it kinda felt good to speak my mind.

    • @baseupp12
      @baseupp12 18 дней назад

      Its your right to be snarky if you want, but I gotta admit it was a shotty thing to do especially since your sister was not trying to start an argument on whether religion is true. You crapped on someone's viewpoint when all they were doing is having a casual conversation with you. I hate chritians and other thiests that do this and this also extends to fellow athiests as well.

    • @danielbond9755
      @danielbond9755 18 дней назад +23

      Sometimes you need to tell crazy people that their magical world isn’t real.

    • @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety
      @DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 18 дней назад +14

      @@danielbond9755 She's not crazy, just indoctrinated.

    • @littlebitofhope1489
      @littlebitofhope1489 18 дней назад

      @@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety I don't think all religions are dangerous. I know of a few Non Theistic Religions that do really good work for the common good. The Satanic Temple is one. Non Theist Quakers is another. Of course people are people, and you will always find the individual dangerous person everywhere.

    • @qwadratix
      @qwadratix 18 дней назад +8

      @@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety Same thing. Doesn't mean it's incurable either way.

  • @elizabethmcintyre3680
    @elizabethmcintyre3680 18 дней назад +18

    One of the best science fiction writers was Stanislaw Lem. One of his short stories involved a man who preserved his wife’s consciousness in a kind of crystal, so she could essentially live forever. The protagonist asked the man, “what will your wife experience? What will she see?” The end of our solar system, the emptiness of space, billions of years of absolutely nothing, perhaps eventually the death of the universe…it was made worse, of course, by the fact that she would be alone. The short-term answer would be different if many people became immortal, but the end would be the same. Lem sums it up perfectly by saying, “People don’t want to live forever. They just don’t want to die.”
    Oh, and Butker’s speech was at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS (north of Kansas City). Not Texas.

    • @johns1625
      @johns1625 12 дней назад

      Hard to imagine an existence worse than that

    • @the-outsider8458
      @the-outsider8458 9 дней назад

      Sounds like he got the nail on the head for many people. I get the not wanting to die part, but I don't understand how so many people, (I believe I've heard it from both Matt and Jimmy) so quickly, say with such conviction that they definitely don't want to live forever. What is so bad in their life that they would scoff at the chance to prolong it as long as possible?

    • @DaiaHoshino
      @DaiaHoshino 8 дней назад

      @@the-outsider8458 Nothing needs to be bad with your life, some people just seem to think that they would eventually get bored or tired of living, even if their lives were good.
      I would think that there is probably so much to do in this world, so many places, that anyone could live for thousands of years and still keep discovering new things. You could spend a lifetime in one country and then move to another, essencially have multiple "lives", with different place, people and experiences in each of them.
      Forever is a long time though, and eventually the planet, sun and even the whole universe is going to end, or change in a way that "living" as we know it now, would not be possible. If you were truly immortal, and just kept existing in a scorched universe with nothing in it, that wouldn't be really fun. And even before that, after hundreds of thousands of years of living, having experienced everything, things might start to feel a bit dull.

  • @MetallicAAlabamA
    @MetallicAAlabamA 18 дней назад +24

    Seeing Matt's new tattoo, then the shirt from Seth. This is one of the coolest, most random type of thing to see on a Tuesday morning. That's awesome!

    • @brucebaker810
      @brucebaker810 18 дней назад +2

      Keith & the Girl podcast. Around since Podcasting, Day 5. I was at a meet up in Toronto. Staying in a dorm, summer hostel.
      Fans getting KATG tats was a thing. Tat artist was there.
      Guy not in our group walks by, wants to promote his rap to these strangers.
      He ends up getting a KATG logo tattoo. Art similar to Kat. Just... cuz. (If we paid the tat fee)

  • @alexistoran2181
    @alexistoran2181 18 дней назад +22

    What I found most interesting about the Butker speech was the staggering hypocrisy of admonishing people to "stay in their lanes" while giving political advice as a footballer (not to mention while also supporting the party of not-so-small government)

  • @Mitlipse7
    @Mitlipse7 18 дней назад +26

    Please tell me you are making kat shirts for us! That is the only merch I’ve ever truly wanted from anyone 😄

  • @setboy1
    @setboy1 18 дней назад +37

    Holy crap. I’d pay so much money to see Forrest on Rogans show lol

    • @conneryshand.
      @conneryshand. 14 дней назад

      No chance. Unless Joe wants to do some charity work.
      Forrest and Matt have talked way too much false shite, for Joe to care.

    • @TrishRyan-ey8go
      @TrishRyan-ey8go 13 дней назад +5

      Me too omgosh that would be the BEST!! Only thing better is Matt and Forrest Both together!!!!

    • @TreeHairedGingerAle
      @TreeHairedGingerAle 13 дней назад +2

      Forrest would absolutely be the best thing to happen to that show. I still don't even know if I'd want that to happen to the poor guy tho, talk about slumming it (intellectually😭)!

    • @TrishRyan-ey8go
      @TrishRyan-ey8go 13 дней назад

      @@TreeHairedGingerAle he can handle it!

  • @LogicAndReason2025
    @LogicAndReason2025 13 дней назад +8

    Rogan knows enough to know he is promoting a lot of fake stuff, but he is getting so rich doing it, he is too greedy to stop. This is why lying is so prevalent. It is much too profitable.

  • @NicholasWilliams-uk9xu
    @NicholasWilliams-uk9xu 18 дней назад +22

    Matt is sharp minded, he is super honest, I like that in a person.

    • @bellywood7688
      @bellywood7688 17 дней назад +1

      He's more patient than people think as well

    • @NicholasWilliams-uk9xu
      @NicholasWilliams-uk9xu 17 дней назад +1

      @@bellywood7688 This is the only problem. I'm not interested in back and forth tribal politics. It destroys fun, I just want to play and hear about cool video games without social media influencers trying to instill conflict into everything. It cycles wars and problems.

    • @bellywood7688
      @bellywood7688 17 дней назад +1

      @@NicholasWilliams-uk9xu I've just had a siesta and I'm a little dazed. Perhaps its because I haven't listened to the stream yet but I can't put your comment into context 🙃

    • @NicholasWilliams-uk9xu
      @NicholasWilliams-uk9xu 17 дней назад

      @@bellywood7688 Past context, cause effect analysis (it polarizes people). It's a outrage community focused on bashing religion, it doesn't bring any value to my life (I don't care about petty arguments).

    • @bellywood7688
      @bellywood7688 17 дней назад +1

      @@NicholasWilliams-uk9xu yeah thats fair enough 👍 I definitely can't handle hours and hours of it

  • @thrumbo1603
    @thrumbo1603 17 дней назад +12

    When people are asked “is the economy good?” They’re probably thinking about things that affect them individually, like cost of living, wages, the CPI, rent, and interest rates.
    They’re probably not thinking about the unemployment rate or the S&P 500.

    • @TheFuzzician
      @TheFuzzician 13 дней назад +2

      This is one of those questions that needs to be better specified. "Better Economy" could mean different things, as you mentioned.

    • @TreeHairedGingerAle
      @TreeHairedGingerAle 13 дней назад

      You said this way better than I could with paragraphs. Which is to say: yes, EXACTLY! 👏🏾✨

    • @markderamo9229
      @markderamo9229 13 дней назад

      Correct, and all those important things that people care about have been in the tank since sleepy joe has been in office. People care about having enough money to afford their rent and put food on the table and keep America safe and strong. Millions of people can be “employed”, but what’s the use if most of the population still can’t pay their basic essentials? Nobody cares about unemployment rate as a flat statistic or the S&P 500.

    • @randibgood
      @randibgood 12 дней назад

      But the SAME METRICS are used to determine the health and strength of the current economy that have been used for DECADES. The reason so many people baa-lieve 🐑 the economy is bad, is because that is what their preferred angertainment channel and the reich-wingnuts in the government, along with the ex LIAR-IN-CHIEF, have INDOCTRINATED them to baa-lieve 🐑.

    • @Tittlemouse69
      @Tittlemouse69 10 дней назад

      Yes, and unfortunately the general understanding of economics is lacking and the excessive blame or credit for whoever happens to be president is absurd. The amount of power people believe a president has is astounding.

  • @alkharam9832
    @alkharam9832 17 дней назад +5

    You guys are doing a great job. I was born an atheist, so I was never a believer. I was born and raised in an atheist family, and even as a child I was convinced that believers were only old and poorly educated people. Oh, how wrong I was. Now I see that most people are believers - we atheists are the minority. I am aware of how harmful religion is and how badly it affects society. Fortunately, there are people like you who promote science and reason, are critical of religion and expose its harmful effects, and who work wholeheartedly to promote secularism. I think it is an extremely important job in this time where intolerance, conflict and ignorance prevail.

  • @jrojala
    @jrojala 18 дней назад +13

    “How many snakes can I bring?” is an excellent answer to “wanna come see my bunker?”

  • @antinatalope
    @antinatalope 18 дней назад +11

    I love that drawing! It's awesomely hilarious! 😂

  • @TrishRyan-ey8go
    @TrishRyan-ey8go 13 дней назад +3

    I Absolutely 💯 love Seth Matt Aron and Forrest! I went to 16 years of Catholic school then wanted to learn the Bible went to Baptist church for 10 years! 😢now I’m 💯 with you guys!!!! Will be in recovery ❤️‍🩹 til the end of time😊

  • @NN-wc7dl
    @NN-wc7dl 18 дней назад +19

    Matt looking more and more ancient Greek nowadays. I like it.

    • @brucebaker810
      @brucebaker810 18 дней назад +2

      Classic Greek names for Matt...?
      Era...tosser...Thanos?
      Wordplay is fun. But I've got nothin.

    • @bellywood7688
      @bellywood7688 17 дней назад +1

      ​@@brucebaker810apparently the ancient meaning of matt is "gift of god"

  • @Bob-of-Zoid
    @Bob-of-Zoid 18 дней назад +7

    This was excellent, thanks Seth!!🥳 Say high to your critters for me!🥰

  • @MarcusPainter3
    @MarcusPainter3 18 дней назад +11

    Best quote of the show "people think in bumper stickers"

    • @lilmissnoname7782
      @lilmissnoname7782 17 дней назад +1

      I agree. But it was “people think in bumper stickers “. 😊

    • @MarcusPainter3
      @MarcusPainter3 17 дней назад +4

      @@lilmissnoname7782 yes you’re correct. I must’ve missed typed it.

  • @CraigHorton-io8et
    @CraigHorton-io8et 18 дней назад +13

    It is a fact that innocent people have been convicted and put to death. They all seem to come from the same socioeconomic class.

    • @randibgood
      @randibgood 12 дней назад

      Because the witnesses (probably) think they "all look alike". 🙄
      Just a thought.

  • @malifex9922
    @malifex9922 18 дней назад +14

    One small blessing is that, according to Clearsky, Jordan Peterson is the most blocked account on Bluesky.

  • @russellmillar7132
    @russellmillar7132 17 дней назад +15

    Seth, the correct phase (in Spanish) is: "mano a mano" (hand to hand) You're saying "mano y mano" (hand and hand). Just thought you'd want to use the expression correctly. Great discussion

    • @Robin3615
      @Robin3615 12 дней назад +1

      I swear he kept saying “jota” 😂

    • @russellmillar7132
      @russellmillar7132 12 дней назад

      @@Robin3615 No intiendo ni jota!

    • @mind-of-neo
      @mind-of-neo 7 дней назад

      I thought i was crazy because people always refer to this phrase as if it means man to man and i knew that was innacurate lol

  • @temmaxtemma9570
    @temmaxtemma9570 18 дней назад +9

    This is wonderful!

  • @arielle2745
    @arielle2745 18 дней назад +6

    “Fabulous conversation! 💖💗💓

  • @kjones9744
    @kjones9744 18 дней назад +11

    I want a Kat T-Shirt!

  • @Belginator
    @Belginator 18 дней назад +9

    Love your youtube Seth

  • @user-yn5sk5ru5g
    @user-yn5sk5ru5g 18 дней назад +9

    The tattoo is 🔥

  • @Rod-cb3vd
    @Rod-cb3vd 18 дней назад +9

    Hey Seth, where can I see that old video you made comparing science and religion?
    B.T.W. you guys are awesome.

  • @3dge--runner
    @3dge--runner 18 дней назад +5

    This was awesome, thanks

  • @MarekMoowi
    @MarekMoowi 17 дней назад +2

    Matt should go on Rogan show, simply to talk to him about skepticism and debunking misinformation. The same as Michael Shermere did, a couple of years back.

  • @shodan6401
    @shodan6401 16 дней назад +2

    GREAT fkg charity work, gentlemen. Absolutely astounding.
    We have all (hopefully) learned the necessity of well-practiced skeptical thinking. We all owe a debt of gratitude. Thank you.

  • @misslayer3340
    @misslayer3340 18 дней назад +6

    I'm a neuroscience student and if anyone is interested in learning more about biological determinism, the neuroscience of human volition (AKA "free will") see Patrick Haggard's work. Sapolsky is great, but he's far from being the only one who studies this. In fact there's many studies by multiple researchers(see Benjamin Libet) There's a good reason why most neuroscientists are determinists...evidence.

    • @riseofdarkleela
      @riseofdarkleela 17 дней назад +1

      Thanks for the recommendation! I’m a huge fan of this discussion.

    • @christopherhamilton3621
      @christopherhamilton3621 14 дней назад

      Evidence of what exactly? We have nowhere near the amount of evidence or resolution of neural phenomena that is assumed. Just to be cautious…

  • @nessaarandur7740
    @nessaarandur7740 14 дней назад +3

    OMG "THE LEGACY OF KAT". This is amazing.

  • @tonymiller3788
    @tonymiller3788 18 дней назад +6

    Carman! When I woke up this morning and drove to work I never would have guessed I'd be thinking about going to a Carman concert in my youth.

    • @BIayne
      @BIayne 18 дней назад

      Carman lmfao

  • @kingvicious8332
    @kingvicious8332 9 дней назад

    I love this chill format

  • @ajeveryday1980
    @ajeveryday1980 17 дней назад +3

    Joe Rogan is the new "coast to coast am". But more dangerous.

  • @bobbart4198
    @bobbart4198 17 дней назад +3

    ... I've drawn an image of Donald Trump on every sheet of a role of toilet paper ... can't wait to get the trots ! ...

  • @ginagamba
    @ginagamba 18 дней назад +2

    Yo! Love the Kat pic you drew, that was too funny!
    Seth: "I had Imposter Syndrome talking to Sapolsky."
    Now you know how I felt a couple years ago talking to First Coast Freethought Society about Street Epistemology. They have guests like you and Mandisa Thomas! I was a relative beginner compared to Anthony or Reid. I only got through it with the help of my friends and mentor, but still, Seth Andrews with years of public speaking vs. me. I wasn't uite as much of a beginner when I finished. Just sayin'.
    OMG I remember Carman and "Witch's Invitation!"
    I always enjoy watching you and Matt Dillahunty talking. Thanks for sharing this!

  • @davidblackburn3396
    @davidblackburn3396 18 дней назад +10

    Rick Wilson on Steve Bannon: He's cancer with legs. That's Alex Jones to a T.

  • @kjones9744
    @kjones9744 18 дней назад +3

    A hard question was asked in this video when they were talking about the death penalty, “you wouldn’t put Hitler in front of a firing squad?” and as much as I would say he would have deserved it I don’t think I could, because Hitler himself in a way did that and I can’t stomach the idea of agreeing with him.

    • @roberth721
      @roberth721 17 дней назад +1

      "Say what you want about Hitler, but he did kill Hitler." - Jimmy Carr.

  • @JRyder24
    @JRyder24 18 дней назад +5

    where can we get the shirts!!??

  • @vmrs70cr
    @vmrs70cr 10 дней назад

    Hi Matt, hi Seth, you guys rock! Cheers from Costa Rica!! The whole world is literally watching you!!! 👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾

  • @Seeker64
    @Seeker64 13 дней назад +1

    Ripping a telephone book in half was a trick my dad showed me, he used to use to impress as a sales gimick when he would be buying and selling machinery.

  • @dmccoyny
    @dmccoyny 18 дней назад +15

    Man, this discussion is what I think about almost daily. That everything we do is the result of many factors that are out of our control. From upbringing, to brain chemistry, outside influences (people around us, organizations, religions), etc. There is causation behind every terrible thing done by someone. There is no "evil" in the world. That is a manmade concept. And realizing that completely changes how you see the world. Jeffery Dahmer wasn't "evil." He was severely mentally ill. Adam Lanza wasn't "evil." He was mentally ill and had access to firearms. Cause and effect.

    • @mikesolarz1561
      @mikesolarz1561 18 дней назад +2

      Exactly. Check out what Dr Robert Sapolsky has to say about how little free will we actually have.

    • @---Dana----
      @---Dana---- 18 дней назад

      We are very flawed biological machines. No free will.

    • @littlebitofhope1489
      @littlebitofhope1489 18 дней назад +3

      @@mikesolarz1561 What I love about Sapolsky is that he is honest about how hard that concept is to conceptualize for people, because we "feel" like we have free will. He even discusses his struggles with it. It actually make it easier to understand when he shows that.

    • @ginafrancis4950
      @ginafrancis4950 17 дней назад +2

      Same!
      I don’t do social media and I don’t watch commercials. But is that because I’m “choosing”not to participate in social media or “choosing” not to watch commercials or am I just wired to be adverse to it? I am fascinated by this idea of no free will. I’m an Ex Mormon. In Mormonism I was taught god gave us free agency/will so we can choose to do all the right things to live back in his presence. Of course the choices are all bound by eternal consequences. And if god is all knowing then god already knows our choices before we do so why put people thru all the nonsense to begin with? Religions are whacky and Mormonism is one of the whackiest!

  • @lockstar169
    @lockstar169 17 дней назад +2

    In some ways I think Matt answered his own question in regards to the validity of Christianity turning him into an Atheist.
    He acknowledges that he began in earnest to become "the best Christian he could be".
    I find it strange that people think Atheists have NO humility, when often, it's exactly the opposite. Doing it with integrity and honesty can't possibly include religion.

  • @donovan665
    @donovan665 18 дней назад +2

    Nobody knew about god before humans existed, and humans were around over 200,000 years before we mentioned him, this god is a human creation made in Our own image based on a failed storm/war god. God has always been a banner for whose dad has the biggest gun.

  • @fancywire7606
    @fancywire7606 18 дней назад +2

    My opinion on punishment and justice in a world absent of free will is that it is part of the preventative mechanism that enforces societal norms. Every outside stimulus can have an effect on our behavior and can affect our adherence to behavioral standards. Ultimately though, the best approach should be to provide rehabilitation for those that do harm and protection from those who cannot be rehabilitated.

  • @JamesRichardWiley
    @JamesRichardWiley 18 дней назад +3

    The only reason I am an atheist is because I compared direct experience with Bible stories. My brain was unable to cope with the cognitive dissonance.

    • @BIayne
      @BIayne 18 дней назад +1

      Good for you.
      A lot of people see that cognitive dissonance as a threat to their faith and they tell themselves to push through it and believe anyway.

    • @randibgood
      @randibgood 12 дней назад +1

      The overwhelming contradictions and fantastical stories mostly did it for me. The complete lack of evidence was the cherry on top.

  • @malkneil
    @malkneil 18 дней назад +4

    Regarding our penal system, it seems we still haven't decided if it's for retribution or recovery. We sort of pretend it's both. I always argue that if a criminal is eventually going to be let out, don't you want their experience in prison be one of rehabilitation as opposed to anguish/torture?

  • @Crod3711
    @Crod3711 17 дней назад +4

    So cool for Matt to recommend Forrest being on Rogan. He’s right too. He would crush it.

  • @Flamingpins
    @Flamingpins 18 дней назад +2

    New sub! ❤

  • @halwakka504
    @halwakka504 18 дней назад +5

    So where's the store where I can buy a kat t-shirt?

  • @simonkoster
    @simonkoster 18 дней назад +20

    On the last caller: if you're currently willing to pay good money to have your head preserved, your head may not be the part worth preserving.

    • @ziploc2000
      @ziploc2000 18 дней назад +3

      I think he's overlooked a lot of issues - even if it could 100% be done right now, should it?
      Do we want the likes of Trump and Musk around forever as cyborgs? If everyone alive today could be preserved as a cyborg, what about future generations? Do we stop having babies, or do we continue to overpopulate the world?

    • @cnault3244
      @cnault3244 18 дней назад

      If it's their money they are paying, why would you care how they spend it?

    • @Earthling247
      @Earthling247 18 дней назад

      @@ziploc2000only the wealthy will be able to do it, and once a cyborg would no longer be making kids

    • @ihatespam2
      @ihatespam2 18 дней назад

      @@cnault3244where did he say he cares? And if you assume he cares, the question is why do you care so much that you would assume a comment and the comment on that assumption.

    • @BlueOceanBelow
      @BlueOceanBelow 18 дней назад +4

      I wonder how well he thinks he'll be prepared for the job market in 100-200 years. Congratulations, you're awake! Now get a job! Good luck!

  • @mjkluck
    @mjkluck 18 дней назад +2

    Good stuff.

  • @LogicAndReason2025
    @LogicAndReason2025 13 дней назад +2

    The problem with trying to have a conversation with most Right wing and/or religious apologists, is that they are usually not able to converse honestly. Something in their subconscious causes them to go 3D (Divert, Distort and Dissemble) because it knows their arguments are flawed. They "can't handle the truth."
    I would like to see a show where the hosts just allow short questions, and then hang up to answer. Too many callers just play fallacy whack-a-mole. Sometimes funny, always annoying.

  • @scribbler60
    @scribbler60 18 дней назад +10

    I haven’t yet seen the entire episode, but I'm wondering if Seth and Matt take into account the "hungry judge effect", where repeated studies have shown, conclusively, that getting or not getting bail is directly correlated with how long it has been since the judge ate.

    • @kayanneyoung9788
      @kayanneyoung9788 18 дней назад +5

      A late friend of mine was an attorney, and he had a case in which the judge showed up in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts, explaining that he was leaving for vacation as soon as the trial was over. My friend was incensed; I don't recall what he said exactly, but he did get the case continued. Super unprofessional of the judge.

  • @CristiWilson-py9iv
    @CristiWilson-py9iv 18 дней назад +2

    I saw carmen when i was a good little Christian. I had Lazarus and isnt it amazing on cassette replay. Very powerful for a young teen

  • @wright661
    @wright661 17 дней назад +1

    Thank you

  • @0The0Web0
    @0The0Web0 18 дней назад +2

    I'd definitely get one of those shirts too 😊

  • @oldbiker9739
    @oldbiker9739 16 дней назад +4

    I don't believe in the 66 books of man made imagination

  • @allenmarkham
    @allenmarkham 18 дней назад +2

    Why would a 'superintelligence' be interested in re-animating the brain of someone with a pre-superintelligent brain?

  • @lantao19
    @lantao19 18 дней назад +2

    Matt, I love you, man

  • @karlwhite2733
    @karlwhite2733 18 дней назад +3

    I've always been an atheist. I went to Catholic school from K-6th grade. When we started to learn the bible, I was thinking " this is silly".

    • @BigRalphSmith
      @BigRalphSmith 18 дней назад +2

      I can remember being in church at the age of 6 and looking around at the adults thinking "these people actually believe this stuff?"

  • @cormacmacguadhre5031
    @cormacmacguadhre5031 17 дней назад +1

    I guess I've had a critical mind for a long time. I was thinking about a few times in Junior high when my friends, who were involved in YFC (youth for Christ), tried to convince me to answer the "call" at a gathering. I always felt that I couldn't do that because it smacked to me of a cultish mind set. It was around that time that I stopped go to church (Presbyterian), my parents never pressured me. So I guess I was lucky. I have progressed thru Buddhism, and paganism, and seemed to arrive at the place where I have no proof that a supreme being exists. I really enjoy the shows, and find those who I've seen to be some of the most intelligent people I have ever heard.

  • @jonathanhenderson9422
    @jonathanhenderson9422 9 дней назад

    Oh, man, The Power Team! I remember my dad took me to see them as a kid. They even had a "soundtrack" full of Christian songs. I remember enjoying it at the time, but I was like 5-6. I definitely remember Carmen too. Probably had all his cassettes back in the day.

  • @SMey54
    @SMey54 18 дней назад +1

    I’m all for removing “sin” as a justification for reacting to anything. The word “sin” may not show up in our laws and statutes, but it remains the basis for the remedy.

  • @alanhilder1883
    @alanhilder1883 18 дней назад +2

    During the "Life of Brian is blasphemous" times, Not-the-nine-o'clock-news did a skit where they just turned it around. When the lord and savior J.C. is John Cleese you can get the picture.

    • @RidetheGeoffening
      @RidetheGeoffening 17 дней назад +1

      Great memories. Outstanding show. Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson , Griff Jones …….just an amazing period of pommy entertainment. Thanks for reviving the memory

  • @TheOJDrinker
    @TheOJDrinker 18 дней назад +11

    If someone asks about punishing people if they don't have free will, my response is: Just because we don't have FREE will, doesn't mean we don't have WILL. A person doesn't choose what their brain decides for them, but their brain still makes a decision... which has consequences. (A brain that decides to kill people, knowing it's bad and they'd be put in jail for it, is a brain that deserves to be put in jail.)

    • @wangsunfuh8889
      @wangsunfuh8889 17 дней назад

      Good and bad are irrelevant in such a premise.

    • @madra000
      @madra000 17 дней назад

      ​@@wangsunfuh8889 what? how is removing agency from not yourself not bad?

    • @wangsunfuh8889
      @wangsunfuh8889 17 дней назад

      @@madra000 There is no good or bad, just fizzy chemicals. Brain barf is not a source for knowledge or ethics.

    • @htpkey
      @htpkey 15 дней назад

      ​@@wangsunfuh8889 Ofcourse there is good and bad, it depends on your definition of morality. Morality can be based on wellbeing, so anything that harms people is bad.

    • @wangsunfuh8889
      @wangsunfuh8889 15 дней назад

      @@htpkey Definitions don't exist, just fuzzy brain chemicals.

  • @paco-8-8
    @paco-8-8 17 дней назад +1

    Did I miss that Matt and Arden got married? If so, congratulations and all the happiness in the world ☺️

  • @anniedeholl3558
    @anniedeholl3558 17 дней назад +1

    As a former programs supervisor in a prison I can tell you punishments don’t work. It’s all mostly mental health. Personality disorders and trauma

  • @johnbrophy6159
    @johnbrophy6159 18 дней назад +3

    I want me some Kat t-shirt! Is Seth planning to make it available?

  • @hanhan7395
    @hanhan7395 3 дня назад

    Love that you mentioned the power team. Maybe a little after their prime they came to my small town church in Texas when I was a teenager. Blast from the past lol.

  • @solomonverrico
    @solomonverrico 18 дней назад +2

    Hearing Jordan Peterson describe atheism as "an illegal chess move" and knowing what I know about him and his many MANY complexes, it strikes me that he thinks of it only as it relates to him. Like he believes people are only atheists specifically to argue about it.

  • @russbroda7207
    @russbroda7207 18 дней назад +1

    Yea Matt !

  • @i2aymond
    @i2aymond 17 дней назад +1

    Such deep rationality, so reason, wow.

  • @timharrison481
    @timharrison481 17 дней назад +1

    Is that Drawing/T shirt representative of the "Kat Kind"? Maybe Ken Hovind would like one.

  • @moknbyrd
    @moknbyrd 12 дней назад

    24:02 I am still ashamed that I was one of the Baptist Christians who signed the petition to keep The Last Temptation of Christ out of our theaters, in Birmingham, Alabama. I wasn't even old enough to understand things much less qualified to sign a petition.
    Then when I was older I sat down to watch it and didn't understand what the big deal was.
    The worst part was towards the end when Judas, with his obvious Northern accent, walked in and said, "Jesus! Whatta ya doing!?" I couldn't stop laughing.
    32:50 The reason Rogan does what he does, is the same reason Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, or any other "shock jock" does what they do. I can't remember if it was Glen or Rush but in an interview they said (paraphrased) "We are entertainers. We keep you pissed off, so you will stay tuned in, so you will buy Ben Gay, Stock Trade, Viagra or whatever we are selling." Whether they actually believe in what they say, I don't know.
    As for Tucker Carlson, I see him as a famous trust fund baby trying to live up to Daddy Carlson's MOUNTAIN of personal accomplishments.

  • @steveg1961
    @steveg1961 17 дней назад +1

    A long time ago, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote the novel "A World Out Of Time" that begins with the setup of a cryogenically frozen person (Jerome Corbell) "waking up" hundreds of years later. But there's one problem: It isn't actually him. Cryogenically frozen people are just dead, and will always be dead. He wasn't Jeremy Corbell at all. He was a man who had been condemned to "death" in the hundreds-of-years-later future who had had his mind "wiped" and the memories and personality of the cryogenically frozen Corbell from hundreds of years previously imposed on his brain. And now he was being trained to pilot a starship that would leave earth to travel around nearby regions of the galaxy to seed other planets with life (panspermia). And if, during training, he "failed the program," then he would simply be "mindwiped" again with someone else cryogenically frozen in the past, and the training would start again.
    That's just the setup for the story of the novel. Corbell - or, rather, the qua-Corbell, works hard to pass the training, is assigned an interstellar traveling ship, and begins his journey. The criminal who is no longer who he was.

  • @agiraffe3673
    @agiraffe3673 12 дней назад

    53:30 while my child was in middle school a bully called him gay, and my son just said, that isn’t an insult, it’s just someone’s sexuality. The bully had no comeback.

  • @thefisherking78
    @thefisherking78 18 дней назад

    Ahahahaha.. memories.
    I loved Petra, listened to Carman at least a little (but even as a believer, found him a bit too preachy) and once saw the Power Team in Austin TX 😅

  • @mawhel
    @mawhel 18 дней назад +1

    22:20 I own a red-lettered KJVer (Easy Reading) edition that actually has the Old Testament red-lettered also. Jesus in his alter-ego form said a lot more in the OT than the NT, and most of those OT words aren't nearly as edifying as the NT ones. Even though the JesusGod person said that the FatherGod person was "greater than me", apparently his words were not since most Bibles don't bother to red-letter the OT words of FatherGod. In fact, in the OT, it is often difficult to distinguish the direct words of FatherGod from those of the angels and prophets who quote him. I believe that might be why most Bibles don't color the words of FatherGod. There is a disclaimer in the preface of this Bible stating "since neither the OT Hebrew nor the NT Greek manuscripts use quotation marks, it is often difficult to determine whether God of Christ is speaking directly".

  • @geodad4782
    @geodad4782 18 дней назад +2

    I spent 20 years working IT. My job was literally trying to teach chimpanzees to use laptops.
    Sadly, they made way more money than I did.

    • @alanhilder1883
      @alanhilder1883 17 дней назад +2

      Don't be so insulting to the chimps, the ones you were trying to teach ( and failing ) were managers, by far a step "down".

  • @Lucifer_the_cat
    @Lucifer_the_cat 18 дней назад +5

    Love these two ❤️

    • @hifibrony
      @hifibrony 18 дней назад

      Seth and Matt are always a huge breath of fresh air.

  • @ALLrWorthy
    @ALLrWorthy 18 дней назад +2

    I MUST get a KAT shirt!!! 😻

  • @starkovichforster
    @starkovichforster 18 дней назад

    Power Team was 80s. I saw them in my hometown as a teen in around '86 or '87. They were on Christian television even before that.

  • @adalbertred
    @adalbertred 15 дней назад +2

    Joe Rogan is an average guy whose power leverage went over his intellect and knowledge.

  • @chrisharris1522
    @chrisharris1522 17 дней назад +3

    I comment to help the video, I don't care if anyone reads it

  • @Matthew-zn3zm
    @Matthew-zn3zm 18 дней назад +3

    Dillahunty stole James Randis beard

    • @brucebaker810
      @brucebaker810 18 дней назад +2

      Well, James wasn't using it much any more. So...

  • @JoelApplegate
    @JoelApplegate 14 дней назад +1

    Seth - the Kat t- shirt - yeah, I'd buy one.

  • @kristopherfisher2517
    @kristopherfisher2517 18 дней назад +1

    lol the ad

  • @jamiegallier2106
    @jamiegallier2106 18 дней назад +1

    Omfg that Kat shirt is everything! ❤

  • @duanejohnson9798
    @duanejohnson9798 18 дней назад +1

    Requiring the convicts to produce all their needs and wants with minimal help may help them understand cooperative living and appreciate life.

    • @roberth721
      @roberth721 17 дней назад

      That's how we got Australia.

  • @johnmcleod8961
    @johnmcleod8961 11 часов назад

    Matt and Seth's biggest appeal for me is that they simply use reason and rationality to make the case...problem is most people emotive their way through problems, which in itself is a problem.

  • @rachelceleste2111
    @rachelceleste2111 18 дней назад

    The documentary "thin blue line " makes you think about the death penalty. I saw it in college. Worth a look.

  • @simay4977
    @simay4977 18 дней назад +52

    I won't comment on the U.S. justice system, but imprisonment for punishment seems like a silly idea. I will absolutely advocate for imprisonment for the purposes of safety. I like to think many convicts are capable of full reform, but I'm an optimist. The death penalty is completely immoral.

    • @LukeSumIpsePatremTe
      @LukeSumIpsePatremTe 18 дней назад +13

      It should be called U.S. Revenge system. Punishment might be able to deter some, but learning the skills to control your impulses is better than punishing those who can't.

    • @richstwart2079
      @richstwart2079 18 дней назад

      Harsh punishment and sentencing is only for the poor and defenseless. The rich and powerful don’t get the same. It’s clear for everyone to see how this “Justice “ system works.

    • @nathanieljones8043
      @nathanieljones8043 18 дней назад +2

      Not just immoral costly and inaccurate. What happens when you get the wrong guy?

    • @cnault3244
      @cnault3244 18 дней назад +4

      "The death penalty is completely immoral."
      That's your opinion.

    • @cnault3244
      @cnault3244 18 дней назад +4

      @@LukeSumIpsePatremTe " learning the skills to control your impulses is better than punishing those who can't."
      In lieu of incarceration, would you take a violent offender into your home so you can teach them those skills?

  • @robertgray323
    @robertgray323 18 дней назад +2

    How to tell the world you're afraid of death without saying you're afraid of death. You go first Jordan.

    • @christopherhamilton3621
      @christopherhamilton3621 14 дней назад

      Oh, Mike told us exactly how terrified of death he is. Silly sausage…

  • @STALIN_B
    @STALIN_B 18 дней назад +1

    I love that beard Matt

  • @ShukakuTheCrazy1
    @ShukakuTheCrazy1 17 дней назад +1

    Ah, matt! Havent seen that face in forever. A pleasant suprise, indeed

  • @lal400
    @lal400 15 дней назад +1

    I would love a ‘Kat’ tank or T. I’ve never bought any merchandise from anyone. Maybe donate a few bucks to RFR from each shirt sold? Seth is fantastic.

  • @user-lk7wk3cd8e
    @user-lk7wk3cd8e 18 дней назад +1

    The Power Team appeared at the Southern Baptist church I attended. My grandson, 6 yo at the time, was saved at every show that week.

    • @katelynnehansen8115
      @katelynnehansen8115 18 дней назад +2

      My mom’s best friend was having her and her children’s life threatened by her abusive alcoholic husband, and when she went to the church for help, they told her it was a bad time because the Power Team was in town. Absolutely vile. I overheard my mom talking about it as a young girl, and it stuck with me forever.

    • @glassmonkeyface8609
      @glassmonkeyface8609 18 дней назад +2

      I knew when I was older and wiser that they were literally just body builders hocking religion, but to find out much of it was also parlor tricks??? I'm even more annoyed by them now lol.

    • @christopherhamilton3621
      @christopherhamilton3621 14 дней назад +1

      Shouldn’t that “saved” be in quotation marks? 😂

  • @manamaster6
    @manamaster6 8 дней назад

    24:40 In my generation, there were some Christians complaining about the game Mass Effect, calling it a "p**n simulator" and the console a "S*xbox" on Fox News, Geoff Keighley was invited to comment about the game and when he asked the very upset Christian lady if she had played the game, she said 'No'

  • @SnakeAndTurtleQigong
    @SnakeAndTurtleQigong 18 дней назад

    🙏