God Is I Am, and Other Pointless Word Games | The Atheist Experience: Throwback
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Gotta give Uber credit for the most perfect self delusional call ever!
Guy is an artist who found God in words and can't describe his belief to the hosts in words for over 21 minutes.
It's always the same when you converse with someone who believes in Frosty the Snowman. Quibble quibble, change the subject, say you believe in the supernatural but aren't sure about the earth being round. Explanation? SHROOMS. Beyond ridiculous.
Religion is based upon tribal instincts which are impervious to reason and logic.
And every person in the world has unique finger prints and DNA because we came from monkeys right?
@@user-ht5mt5id8z Yes, every person in the world has unique finger prints because we came from monkeys.
Because we are apes who descend from monkeys, we inherited the monkey trait of unique finger prints. No monkey has unique DNA, but neither does any human being. Most monkeys and human beings do have a unique combination of gene variants (alleles).
@@user-ht5mt5id8z We share half of our genes with plants. So what? DNA existed before monkeys did...
"I can like pour chemicals on myself and they'll react with my body."
And the Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to....
I forget the exact quote but from Cheech and Chong "I listened to Black Sabbath backwards when I was on acid and I saw God man".
Ahh used ta be an atheist….now I believe in magic. 🤣🤣🤦🏽
Me too, I didn't believe in god for a while. Now I can cast Level 8 fireball at my foes and preform dark and twisted incantations
Must've taken an arrow in the knee.
Imagine being a theist and being asked directly what convinced you that there is a God, and you answer that question with "well, you see, I'm an artist..."
People like Uber actually offend me with their wilfully idiotic frameworks. He's willing to wallow in an unfalsifiable fantasy and refuses to defend his inability to demonstrate why, whilst deliberately conflating his contrived ignorance of why he believes in God with not understanding or personally observing things that we know are objectively true - whilst _directly_ benefitting every single day of his life from the collective knowledge of things that are objectively correct! I've never seen a giraffe in real life before Uber, do I need to suspend my acceptance that giraffes exist until I personally bear witness to one?
Your analysis is spot on.
Unfortunately, those whose minds are completely set in concrete on the belief in a deity will not see these issues in an objective manner.
i got a guy at work like this, nice guy but can't distinguish reality from fiction, dose shrumes, has done LSD, doesn't think those things are harmful if you microdose, but is a walking example of the damage they do.
@@robgilmour3147You're making some absolutist claims that just aren't true. Microdosing shrooms isn't harmful.
@@Grimtheorist a quick google search says they are so...maybe not if just once or twice, but it builds up and can lead to neurosis
Exactly. These people who have absolute faith and belief in God but mistrust science, need to live by their words and stop being cowards.
If science is a lie and the Bible is the truth, stop using our technology you hypocrites. You don't need cel phones to communicate you have prayer. And you don't need technology anyways because you can't go against God's plan anyways so whatever he wants to have happen he will make happen.
Prove your faith theists. No more phones, laptops, airplanes, etc. You always say science is a lie, stand by your words you cowards.
12:46 Someone yelling "Do it!" when the caller talked about pouring chemicals on his body to prove the existence of chemicals made me smile! 😂
11:45 Taking it one step at a time away from self delusion.
The "oh hell, no" at 21:24 is what got me
The golden age of AxP.
I loved those 2 as a team. 💪
@@jerrods7223Same. Quite complimentary styles.
Before that trans nonsense divided them.
@@oggyoggy1299 Nothing divided them, people like you got bent out of shape having to acknowledge people as fellow human beings.
@@oggyoggy1299indeed no pronouns 😇😂
Caller: something convinced me!.. Mat: what?.. Caller: ah, uh. mh, eh.......................uh, ahhhhh, mmhhhhhh, ehhhh.....
😂😂😂
Ah, um, uh, ahhhh, my name is Uber, an artist from Florida on shrooms.
Never mind the shrooms, this guy is a total flake.
This is every conversation I have heard at music festivals and burner events. It’s a bunch of spiritual word salad to seem like the most spiritual being at the festival. Thank you for pointing out the bullshit.
Maybe you need to realign your chacras and better your aura
Y’all mothafuckas need crystals
Just smoke a bowl of Kundalini bro!
😂😂😂yup
"Spiritual" people are all playing the same game: "fake it 'til you make it" and none of them ever make it as far as I can tell.
So God is Popeye?
Just started the video, but I'm intrigued 😂😂
exactly
If that's true atheist humanist Rachel Levine must be Alice the goon.
"I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam-- I'm Popeye the sailor man"-- toot toot. I suspect that little trope was actually subconsciously borrowed from the Biblical statement.
@@donnievance1942 I don't remember too much about Popeye but did Alice the goon identify as zey
This brings to mind Harlan Ellison's story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" where the evil god-like computer is named AM.
That was a fabulous story.
Literally was gonna bring AM up.
@@pdoylemi Cyber dreams made a video game of this story in 1995. It is still available.
This illustrates an interesting point, in my opinion. People in our society are used to making grand and empty proclamations like “god is” or “god is energy” or “god is love” and getting no pushback despite those ideas being essentially vapid nonsense. But culturally we’re just expected to agree and when someone actually asks for the claimant to defend that position they seize up because it’s not based in anything demonstrable or tied to reality.
I am convinced that consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms fried whatever the caller had left in his brain with reasoning capabilities.
"I am what I am".....I thought Popeye said that.
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.. my favorite quote
@@wadeinn463 That was Wimpy, not Popeye.
POPEYE ACTUALLY SAID '' I YAM WHAT I YAM "
yam. yum
Don't tell Uber that if you spell God backwards it becomes d o g -- his head will explode.
"I yam what I yam, an' 'at's all what I yam!" Proof Popeye is god.
Several of us thought of the same Popeye quote.
Thank you, caller, and remember: wear pants when you go out.
"I am, said I". Neil Diamond sent me. We're Coming To America!!
Mushrooms basically pushed me the opposite way. I felt I knew all religion was false. When I realized how fragile I was and how briefly I would live, I shifted my life.
"Hi, my name is Uber, and like my fake name, let take you for a ride. To do that, let me tell you that I am deluded, but also why I think you should delude yourself as well. Please allow me to ramble on with kindred nonsense, pretending to ask questions to highlight my script. Just turn your head sideways and see whether you can see the same imaginary things and esoteric interpretations that amount to sheer nonsense. But please, no critical thinking or reasoning. Just go along with my wishful thinking."
Goodness, leave Uber alone. Many other callers to bs about. 🙄
Popeye the Sailor - "I am what I am, and that's all what I am!" Is Popeye god?
These people hurt my brain 🧠🤦
Moses should go see a doctor to get that burning bush thing checked out.
Sounds a lot like the plot of Ken Russell's 'Altered States'.
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna take a sentimental journey
To renew old memories
of when we were free from lettered tyranny
Thanks Uber.
Captured “forever” for everyone’s entertainment.
Most would be embarrassed but you seem to be happy to take one for the team.
Man I really just want to give this guy a coloring book for some reason.
If you believed in ANY Earth-made god so far, you got conned BIG TIME.
"I am what I am, and that's ALL that I Am" - Popeye The Sailorman.
I have taken psychedelics, it made me feel more appreciation for Marie, did give a sense of connection with the world, put me in awe of the universe, didn't lead me to any kind of mystical feelings, I imagine that to be because I want going in with any preconceptions of a deity to imprint upon my experiences.
Same. I've felt overwhelming emotional awe at the majesty of existence and even had what psychologists might call a religious experience, yet I remain a staunch skeptic of anything divine.
I'm just a happy, music-loving ape, gazing into its own navel.
It never ceases to amaze me the things that impress religious people. I am that I am. Oh well in that case I'm fucking convinced!! He said I am that I am there's no arguing with that he must be the Divine creator of all existence! I'm sure glad he said that because otherwise I might not have believed him. Like holy shit man. I guess I can understand how thousands of years ago people could be gullible enough to believe this shit because people in the past have believed in all kinds of supernatural shit that is wrong, but there's no excuse in modern times
What convinced you?
Me?
Yes, you.
Me personally?
Yes, you personally.
Me specifically?
popeye says i am what i am lol
Y'all might be interested in looking up the ancient Egyptian god Nuk Pu Nuk. It means "I Am Who I Am," or "I Am That, I Am."
Isis, ra, and el are all Egyptian dieties. I wonder where the ancient Hebrews got their ideas.
Nuk Pu Nuk? It sounds like something Curly Howard would say when he's amused.
Oh. So even that line was stolen from an older religion.
How do you guys keep a straight face?! I'd have been crying with laughter at the first mention of shrooms! 😂
I though faith was the dumbest reason to believe in some magic fairy but shrooms takes first place after this, just how dumb do you have to be to actually say that.
"I am what I am, and that's all that I am, I'm Popeye the sailor man!"
This guy sounds like Jamari or am I mishearing? When people are hesitant to give their "evidence", I wonder if they know how unconvincing it sounds when they say it out loud.
Uber the 'shroom groom needs an annulment post-haste.
I AM WHO AM!
Anyone who can read such an absurd thing and think, "Wow! Now that sounds like something a god would say and proves it!"
I is what I is and I am what I am, I'm Popeye the Sailor Man.
Shrooms may conjure up Uber's god but it's all in his head... which is IMHO where everyone's gods 'exist'.
There's a plausible hypothesis that Christianity started as a psychedelic cult.
He got asked a question that he'd never thought about before.
For someone named "Uber", they were "under" welming...
21:24 that "oh hell, no!" In the background 😆
Uber is only talking himself into his own confusion by lying to himself and everyone else.
Uber's trying to take us for a ride!
I did a lot more than "shrooms" years ago and I never met God. What a load... 🤣🍄
Uber sounds like how Jordan Peterson would probably sound if he wasn't as good at making word salad.
Every night when we sleep there are typically hours and hours of no awareness, no sense of time (mixed in with dreams).
Non-existence is like the lack of awareness during those dreamless states. It doesn't feel like anything.
How could it, absent eyes & ears to see & hear with, nor a functional brain or nervous system to have thoughts, feelings and dreams with?
Actually untrue. If we had hours of no awareness, alarm clocks wouldn’t work.
And like Uber, he too runs around all over the place with no destination/certainty.
When the regurgitation of word salad replaces actual thought. Uber disguises his vacuous gibberish with the self-imposed label of 'artist'.
So if i take mushrooms and see a tiny, flying purple elephant then it must be real.
16:16 I’m sure this dude is still on shrooms when he called in …..😂
The guy is actually much more thoughtful about his beliefs than most theists. Not saying that's hard.
God is Popeye, I yam that I yam.
Lol I never understood the sentence "I am that I am"
"I am what I am" refers to the idea that God is being itself. The way people used to think about god is that he is the most fundamental thing in existence. He precedes all other things in terms of time and reduction (everything can be reduced to him). In other words, everything points to him. So for him to be asked who he is, he cannot use another concept or word to answer because all words/concepts he could use are already dependent on him. So through this we learn he is fundamental, and that what is fundamental is being itself because "I am what I am" is another way of saying that "he is".
@@zak2659 Thanks for reading all that into a vapid, almost contentless, assertion. "...through this we learn that he is fundamental..." Um no, through this we learn nothing. It's just a bald-ass assertion with no clear meaning. Spinning woo-woo word salad doesn't alter that. You can't define $h!t into existence.
@@donnievance1942 Notice I didn't make the claim that any of this was true, I simply explained what the quote was supposed to represent in christian doctrine. No need to get so defensive. Its okay.
I've been trying to write a kids' song. It starts "I think therefore I am, I am." I think it should really piss some people off.🤣🤘😈
Iam sam. Sam I am.
@@arsgratia I tried that, but it was already taken by some egghead college boy.
14:37-14:38: the " laughter " says it all. lol😅
21:25 "oh hell no" got me good hahaha
This is the first time I believe the caller actually used to be an atheist. Just not a skeptic.
There are a lot of callers who claim they use to be an atheist to set up their argument . They believe it adds credibility to their story. It doesn't.
@@stevenread5473 Most times it undermines whatever credibility they might have, because their descriptions of their former atheism are identical to theists' straw manning of atheists.
@@noracola5285it's always such an obvious lie when they demonstrate that they have absolutely zero understanding of atheism, that they think quoting scripture at us is convincing. How many do we have to have John 3:16 quoted at us before BAM!.. we suddenly lose the ability to think straight and convert? 🤦
@@stevenread5473No..He’s an atheist. Stop being so paranoid 😭 like he clearly isn’t all pushy and weird about his belief.
That’s nice but I don’t believe anyone could go back to believing after an education!
Excellent.
Best we send Uber to go play with the wooden blocks in the corner.
“They’re wood. They’re wood. They’re better than bad, they’re good”.
Caller was something special 🤣
I think Uber was still on shrooms when he called.
Theist … instead of answering your question let me tell you my life story.
i thought that was from Popeye the Sailor.
12:52: " DO IT! " lol😅😅
Definitely doesn't sound as gross as God is he/him 😊
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Every former atheist's reasons for believing again always amount to the equivalent of a noncommittal grunt and a shrug.
This is good entertainment value. What convinced you that the Earth spins on its axis? I am not sure that the Earth does that. I can't prove it. Do you believe that the Earth is round? It seems more probable and likely that the Earth is round, but I cannot prove it.
Sometimes you have to let the experts make the decision for us. According to scientists, yes the Earth is round. And spins on its axis.
So im not going to fight that.
Science with VERIFIABLE data. That’s the difference.
These scientists can provide evidence for their years of education and all that it entails. They then can provide factual evidence for their conclusions through years of research and analysis.
They also are willing to update, improve and change certain findings, if new evidence is found.
You believe it is more probable the earth is round because math and science PROVE that probability.
Google is your friend. Type in "how to prove the earth is round" there are simple tests that you can use to demonstrate that the earth is round. And the earth has to spin, for there to be sunset and sunrise. As long as a sphere spins, it will always spin on its axis by definition. Again, google is your friend. Type in "how to prove the earth spins on its axis" there are simple tests to demonstrate that it does.
You can do experements to prove both of them in your garden shed.
It is impossible for everyone to be an expert at everything... the fact that YOU may not have personally conducted the experiments to obtain the evidence does not mean one has to dismiss the evidence... the fact that anyone CAN take the time to learn, research and independently verify the evidence (given enough time and resources) is what is important
Not Popeye.... surely Bluto....
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a Godburger today.
God is Popeye.
THATS HAARARRR-RIOUS!
13:31: the word " Shroooms " is a funny word to the audience,😅
6:12 "I was atheist for a while."
What does that mean?
I'd be so embarrassed if I was Uber. He's so devoid of logic, reasoning, skepticism...
Probably not as you wouldn't recognize your own fallacious reasoning as fallacious.
I wouldn’t. 🤷♂️ His belief is devoid of scientific reasoning and logic but its personal to him so he holds it close. Just let him be who he’d be. Much better than crazed and loud callers.
@@Steven_DunbarSLOk. How do you know what Sal would recognize as fallacious reasoning? Willing to bet you can’t actually read minds
@@dwightfitch3120 Read the original comment and then read what I said.
The Sun rising at one side of the sky and setting at the other side of the sky would be an indicator you could prove to yourself that the Earth spins 😉 similarly, the Moon exhibits the same sort of behaviour. You can also do a time lapse with your camera towards the North Star (Polaris) and actually capture the spin evidentially!
Since God is a metaphor for the mysteries beyond human understanding, of course we're presented with a "god" who says essentially "I"m not going to tell you who I am."
Don't you get it? Language exists. In it are nouns. the word god is a noun. Therefore god exists. Duh, obviously.
A Nameless God could mean ANY of the dozens of deities anywhere of that time.
Absolutely right
Darkseid from DC took that phrase and made it horrifying. Darkseid IS, everything that isn't Darkseid, isn't.
That's how I always took that phrase. "I am, You aren't" the Idea of God being so much more powerful that we don't matter.
But calling it as a phrase like "I am who I am" as an irrelevancy might make more sense for the time.
When the IRS asks me how much money I made can I say "I made what I made?"
In fact, religion is the only discipline that will accept a bizarre answer such as that.
Such big circles
Rarely have I felt the caller's embarrassment when they get called out, and my embarrassment on behalf of the caller when they get called out, coincide so perfectly. Shrooms? Sheesh. And then he was about to redefine god to bring it into existence.
I have a friend who thinks he is a profit and can heal people with sound. After an hour long conversation it finally comes out. He was “meditating” while doing shrooms. And came to the realization that he has multiple spirits inside of him. He’s off his rocker.
"I don't care if the Earth spins or not, it don't affect me", soooooo.... like...... day and night, right Uber? Those two things don't affect you
Titled - Enslaved In a Doomed-Universe
need an Uber Pet to call in
Hmm... Wonder wats in Ubers paint...😵💫
Why do people stop believing in Santa Claus and the tooth fiery , etc.
I need to call in to AXP. Been having these types of discussions with my brother, who for some reason, has become a theist in the last couple of years. Logical guy, just not when it comes to the Biblical God. I'd love to suggest AXP to him but I doubt it would change his mind.
I am who I am' . Isn't that the most reliable thing that any intelligent being can know of its existence?
I am what I am and that's all that I am, Popeye the sailor man is god.
Shrooms just might lead you to the truth. Farfetched when this episode was recorded but not now. Mushrooms are more helpful than we thought.
When you start going into grammar when asked why you believe in a god, you know you're pretty deep in stupid..
I am who am too.
Is is? Wait...ISIS? Oh no....
i am what i am
i'm not what i'm not
i'm never what i am with what i'm not
what am i?
.
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[wait for it ...]
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.
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i am the laws of logic!
I am I am too.