During my years as a psychotherapist I had several psychiatrists in my clinical practice. I can tell you based on my experience, not all psychiatrists are playing with a full deck. Not saying therefore I know all psychiatrists are nuts, but I know at least a few are. Love the show. My son turned me on to it. We are happy atheists who don't expect to live in eternity together. So we make the best of the times we have together.
Not just psychiatrists. There are all kinds of doctors who fall for medicine's version of the God of the Gaps fallacy by STILL, after all this long scandalous cruel history of people learning years later that for example what they have labelled as "hysterical paralysis" is the post-viral autoimmune brain lesion disease called Multiple Sclerosis in some cases and the post-viral and often life-threatening Guillan Barre autoimmune disease in other cases, that "hysterical blindness" is suddenly NEVER diagnosed anymore because EVERY single time they now find the real cause, and so many more cases of embarrassing "yeah we just pulled this concept of hysteria out of our arses rather than saying we didn't know, sorry it ruined your life to be labelled with the stigmatising bullshit label", some STILL fallaciously label things with the evidence-less, magical thinking, woo, quakery label of "psychosomatic" symptoms. Covid-19 gave me an intracellular, functional vitamin B12 deficiency that took 17 MONTHS to get diagnosed because they were doing the standard "total serum B12" test instead of the ones that specialists have said they should do instead for DECADES and been ignored cos cheap-arse insurance companies and government healthcare alike, don't give a shit that B12 deficiency takes on average YEARS of terrible suffering and debility to get diagnosed and that most get labelled with something bullshit for months years or decades before their eventual diagnosis. And then, "long covid" as a whole has also been found to not be anxiety as many have been told, but many different things, including post-viral myocarditis in 1 in 5 cases according to both controlled MRI studies and those particular consultants who are dilligent enough to do MRIs or echos on every long covid patient, it's consistently around 1 in 5 across age groups but disproportionately common in young people. Then also in every single long covid blood sample analysed by the Pretorius team in South Africa so far, it's also been found to involve a strange "new" (previously undescribed) blood clotting condition that needs a specific type of testing that people don't ordinarily get offered by their can't-be-bothered-to-read-anything-about-longcovid-research-doctors. See Resia Pretorius's already internationally famous work on this (but not yet famous enough, cos if it's not a vaccine side effect, the press doesn't give as much of a shit about reporting it; rare vaccine side effects are WAY more sexy to report about than the science of long covid and hugely under-scanned-for and so under-diagnosed myocarditis problem after the actual virus...). So many things that take on average MANY months years or decades of being labelled with things that there is no logical reason to attribute their symptoms (and even obvious objective clinical SIGNS) to, like "anxiety", "depression" or straight up "conversion disorder" which is the new way to say "hysteria" without reminding everyone of the long history of medical embarrassments every time another condition got proven to not be "the mind". It's another version of "God of the Gaps" because both assume it must be either a super powerful mind, or a human mind, somehow causing the world to exist in one case or someone's legs to hurt for years in the other case, with NO mechanistic explanation of HOW the hell the mind is going to cause someone's damned legs to hurt or cause them to be exhausted and riddled with aches and pains and tinnitus and heavy bruising and nerve pains as in "ME/CFS" which has long been suspected to be BOTH a post-viral blood clotting disorder, and an undiagnosed specific type of post-viral B12 deficiency, for a number of reasons, and now FINALLY after decades of research under-funding, their blood is going to be run through the same tests by the Pretorius team that the long covid blood has already gone through, in a new study they've just started.
Its almost as if every theist caller has never actually watched the show... and it is amazing how, without coordination, they almost always follow the same path from smug confidence and false praise, to the stammering and stuttering tap dance, to avoiding direct questions, and finally to either threats of eternal torment or complaining about "foul" language or being interrupted.
@@jakesmith5278 I love getting them pissed when it is in person by telling them how lame their god is by letting me call it a cowardly piece of shit and the only way I'd be affected is if one of its pretenders took it upon themselves to get its revenge... making it doubly more lame! 🤣
MD Aware get mad props for being willing to peer review Alex’s presented study. Thanks Mad Dawg Aware, appreciate the extra efforts. See you next Sunday! 🤘
I loved Abby from the U.K.! When he described his experience in America as 50% of us are religious, and the rest of us are "normal", I just had to laugh. His experience as a survivor of the Rwanda genocide touched me deeply. I followed that very closely in real time. I'm glad he's so determined to help Africans learn critical thinking skills, hopefully to prevent future atrocities.
Time for our weekly game of Theist Bingo, everyone. Get your cards ready. Remember that 'Look at the Trees' has been retired and inducted into our hall of fame. If you have a bingo card with 'Look at the Trees', please return it for a card that has 'It's Just Common Sense' instead.
"Look at the trees" , and a million more useless christian cliches parroted every minute of the day. "It's in the bible." is one I recommend for the top of this needing to retire list.
Alex's 'disproving evolution' argument is based on a 2014 paper published in the creationist rag, BIO-Complexity. This is one of the 'professional journals' established by creationists to provide a place where their research can get peer review. A quick search indicates that none of their peer-reviewed papers have made it into any mainstream journal. MD Aware was correct to suggest that their methodology was flawed in that they started with complex enzymes instead of more 'primitive' ancestors. Also, they base their conclusions on a limited two-phase study. Even more egregious: They do not suggest areas for further research, do not evaluate possible problems with their research modalities, and worst of all, they conclude that the ONLY alternate explanation to enzyme complexity is Intelligent Design.
I have a study written on the back of an old cereal box, where I tried to grow weasels in a bucket of peanut butter, it didn't happen, so evolution is totally false, it's common sense bro...
An “Intelligent Designer” they admittedly can demonstrate in any honest, practical, scientific, or academic field. Just an emotional entitlement to a religion that said a “god” created everything, and a need to have that entitlement validated at all times. That’s why those “articles” exist, admit as their mission statement it’s not scientific, and have people repeat it. They can’t demonstrate what this designer is, how it “designed” anything, why it designed things the way it did, who designed the designer and other basic questions. Then they have to demonstrate a “CREATOR” and how it “created”, and what it used to “create”, why it “created” things the way it did, and who the “creators creator” is.
Everything thats promoted by creationists especially the discovery institute can be blindly assumed to be nonsense. And when checked it turns out its not what creationists promoted. Its pretty much every time the same with them. Its like my local conspiracy theorist. Everything he says is always wrong so Im justified to dismiss everything he claims because he believes it to be true because fact checking him always shows he doesnt know what hes talking about.
Is that one of the creationist journals they created to get peer reviewed by other creationists, so they could claim it was peer reviewed. Because they can’t get taken seriously even by Christian mainstream scientists.
Daughter had open heart surgery a few times since she was three weeks old . She was born with congenital heart disease , I had people pray for her but it really fucked me off because my answer was IF GOD EXISTS WHY WOULD HE PUT HER THROUGH THIS SO I DON'T NEED PRAYERS FROM SOME GOD TO MAKE HER BETTER?
And if prayer were to work, imagine a baby in the next bed with the same condition. She has nobody to pray for her- would this all-loving, all-knowing being just let her die (and be sent only he knows where!) just because no-one asked for his help? Absolute BS, innit.
@@romnarz "we cannot begin to understand power of the almighty" Do you understand that this is a claim you could NEVER EVER verify? For example, if you claim that your god is eternal, yet you, yourself are NOT eternal, then you really can't verify the claim. Only religion has people giving up on reasoning so easily.
@@romnarz If god is beyond our belief, then there's nothing left but disbelief. The reason that we can't understand is because there's nothing to understand. If there is a god, it is playing games with Humanity and is not worthy of worship.
Michael: Gallager says demons don't like to be photographed. Well, shit, isn't that convenient?! Kind of sounds like the imaginary girlfriend syndrome. Yes, I have a girlfriend, but she goes to a different school and doesn't like to have her picture taken. But she's real. Trust me! Ha!
I find he warbles on too much. I found myself wondering if I was attending a lecture not a call I show. He needs to be more concise. They should be having conversations not blah blahing on
When I was a Christian, I was always a strange thinker relative to my friends, family, and church family. At times, the Christians I knew would look at another religion (like Mormonism) and wonder how anybody could believe those things. I would always counter with “look at what we believe. Look at the magical stories.” Yea, it wasn’t popular take. And that is the kind of thinking that probably has me where I am today. When I think I can no longer be surprised by beliefs, I watch AE, and I become more convinced there is nothing out there beyond belief.
@@elevown this is what has been so exciting to me as an atheist. When I was a Christian, I didn’t think about anything beyond this planet. We were created, and the earth and everything else was also created for us, but because you believe that, you also believe that you’re special and here on earth is the only place that has life so why even bother looking anywhere else? I feel like a 10 year old boy learning all this cool shit about space and other planets and galaxies and stuff. I’ve lost so much time learning but I’m thankful I became atheist when I did because me and my 10 year old son geek out about space and science stuff often and it’s really cool to do the learning right along with him ❤️
@@hollywashburn5125Hi, may I ask you a question, I'm just curious, when you were in Christianity did you believe in a Flat Earth, space was fake and that the Earth was only a few thousand years old etc, I'm just curious, no disrespect.
Matt totally bitchslapped John around. I'm an atheist and I know my life is limited. I love my family, I love sports, I love art. I love my friends. I love skiing, I love flying. I love golf. I love sex. I love learning. My question for John is, since he thinks his life is worthless because it might not go on forever. What if it doesn't? What did you miss out on?
I wanted to state I am the “friend” who Issa referred too on this show. Matt and MD? You absolutely summed up what I’ve been trying to tell Issa for WEEKS. Thank you. I’m donating to this show. Fantastic Fan!
@@greyeyed123 I’ve been racking my brain with Issa, but his special pleading just kept on and on. I love how Matt doesn’t take shit from callers. Awesome show.
@@greyeyed123 lol. Yeah. You’re a veteran atheist like me. I’ve always been atheist. I guess I pretended to believe long ago but finally said fuck that. SHOW ME EVIDENCE! lol
If I ever find myself to be a ghost some day, instead of slamming doors or knocking stuff off the table in some farm house in the middle of no where, scaring some old lady; I'm gonna right into the middle of town and let EVERYONE film as a materialize and be like, "I'm a REAL GHOST! There IS an after life"... I always wondered why ghosts, demons, etc.. have to be so secretive
Ha, yeah! If you’re gonna be a ghost, why not be like a Ghostbusters style of ghost and eat holes in the water pipes of a Catholic Church or something.
@@Ramen10420 That’s so much food for doubt that I’m full up on doubt now. The energy from a body as it dies, goes off as heat and the tissues putrefy, liquify and partly go off as gases.
The Biologic Institute has this in the "About" section of its website: "Scientists affiliated with Biologic Institute are working from the idea that life appears to have been designed because it really was designed." So it is not a real scientific institution. It starts with the "designed" bias and seeks to prove it, not do actual research. One of the people involved: "Douglas Axe is the director of Biologic Institute and author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed" What a complete sham it is. Please look at the website; it is a parody of real science.
LOL LOL Did you see the mission statement on the footnotes of the webpage. LOL LOL "The More We Learn About Life, The More Clearly It Reveals Design" LOL LOL
I haven't been to the channel in a while so I didn't know you were unwell. Sorry to hear that and I hope your recovery goes very well. Best wishes to you
Not sure if this happened to anyone else but while watching the live stream the video stopped and the page became private. All attempts to continue the video failed including trying to find it via RUclips search... until now.
That happened to me too. I wasn’t sure if it always does that and I just never notice. I usually watch the show after it’s over. I thought all I had to do was refresh. Like the show was live and then it was a RUclips video. That wasn’t the case though.
The chat window went away from me for a second, i thought it was my Internet connection, maybe not. The live show itself never interrupted for me. But straight after the live show, the vid was uploaded for 5mins, then it was removed. And about 2hrs later uploaded again.
I think the initial upload was probably taken down then reloaded due to the content of the episode. Especially with the warning at the very beginning of the episode.
This is usually the case if there’s a really offensive troll call that they don’t want to keep giving airtime to in future viewings, they’ll edit that call out for the permanent post. I’m not certain that’s the reason here, but probably
Yep, me too. Refresh didn't work, going back to my homepage didn't work. It finally came around. Seems we all should have experienced this if it was a tech issue on ACA.
Issa, that was just sad. You say you didn't understand the atheist position, then didn't listen to anything the atheists said. Not surprising that you're a theist, you're impossible to teach.
@@ookeekthelibrarian Yeah, I cherish those who have climbed out of that hell-hole and not jumped into another one. Its not an easy challenge. Especially when a person is coming out of the fundamentalists. Whether its islam christianity or hinduism, the fundamentalist sects are the most ignorant, superstitious, and fear inducing. I had a 10 yr stretch of southern Baptists that hit me deep from age 4-14. By then I had seen plenty of cracks in those fantastical beliefs. Still the irrational fears of hell and lurking demons took over 15 yrs to fully shake off.
Abby should be a permanent host on the show. Im not kidding. He has so much to bring to the cause, being a witness to atrocities in his country driving his mission combined with his intelligence, compassion and spirit is so valuable to this world. I wish him well and hope to see him and support him in the future.
Very enjoyable episode. I really appreciate how the different approaches that Matt and MD Aware take blend into a complementary presentation which covers a wider, richer array of thought. Cheers.
Somehow, many callers bring to mind this quote: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Issac Asimov. B. 1920 D. 1998. That’s right he said that about 25 years ago, 🤔
@1:04:30 5 states for the control of societies that shift being greatly dependent on the mind set of the society and people themselves: - Rule by Ethics/Morality (A Utopian society based around the the golden rule / do unto others etc.) - Rule by Law (community imposed consequence of actions) - Rule by Money (Corruption, collusion, nepotism, ) - Rule by Force (military / anarchy) - Rule by Religion (fundamentalism/supernatural)
34:52 "What happens if you have a kid and you just tdont take them to any church" - I can answer this one as being from UK we generally arent that religious anyway and as an atheist (and my father was too) I have never taken my kids to Church and whilst I explained that someople believe in Jesus etc I have never said to them its real or not they both just grew up not beleiving in it. Religion isnt something kids will just believe in without being taught.
2:00 scared me for a minute. Thought Matt was about to recount a transformative OBE lol You have no idea how much it comforts me to be able to listen to you Matt and hear a perspective like my own in this world of insanity.
John, John...There is reason to live even if You do not believe in afterlife. Since i am here, i could can spend my time moping about my futile existence, or spend it engaging myself in something that gives my structure-less existence some semblance of structure. I will still have a futile existence whether i am moping about it or not, but the way i experience it will be different.
It’s like going to a party and not enjoying. Because you know in a couple of hours it will be over. And claiming the only people that can enjoy the party. Are the people who believe after this party finishes, they get to go to a better party. For me I wouldn’t be as excited for this party if I’m waiting for the better party to start. A party we don’t even know if it exists.
@@JarlGrimmToys What i wrote in my OP may sound pessimistic or nihilistic even but i do not mean it to be that way. The life for me any way, is an arable land that i cultivate during my life time. I got my own row left to hoe You know, just another line in the field of time and when that harvester comes i`ll be sitting there peacefully and to give what i have sown.
And many of the theists that support the idea of it have the audacity to claim it's *atheists* that really worship themselves! I've never heard of a more self-centered concept than a person refusing to accept the fact that they aren't so special that the universe needs them to exist forever and ever.
I started listening to Matt and thought "Boy, Matt has really slowed down after the op!" Then realized that I normally listen at 1.25x and it was normal! (doh). Glad to see you back in the seat.
55:00 in case you couldn't hear over the hosts interrupting, the caller just suggested that we should have regulations to hold *people accountable when [their illegitimate products and services] do cause harm. He didn't say anything about punishing anyone's unjustified belief in it. And I think what he'd probably agree with is the proposal of requiring products and services to MEET THEIR BURDEN OF PROOF in order to advertise the efficacy of their marketing claims. If my business is selling electronic devices that are supposed to put out an invisible or sub-audible frequency to repel birds from crapping on your property.... Should I be responsible for having any justification that it does that? Or if a dissatisfied customer one day thinks to open it up and realizing it just stuffed with yarn and paperclips, should I be legally free to carry on convincing more buyers that it will repel their pests with undetectable frequencies? So should we need to PROVE beyond a doubt that Chakra energy fields are false and cannot be adjusted as effective treatment for all manor of physical and mental health conditions? Or should the burden of evidence be for the social media gurus and Yoga centers and "metaphysics" stores if they are SELLING this bullshit to innocent credulous consumers. Because I don't feel like it should count as a fair free choice if you are investing your time and money into using a product or service based on misinformation about it. Must be honestly informed to meaningfully consent, right? So if a Chiropractor tells me I need to come in for an "adjustment" that will fix my something or other... and after years of investing in their business I come to find out that concept was attributed to a ghost in a seance and not supported by science, disillusioned clients should be able to sue for being scammed. And the Chiropractor should have a chance in court to provide what evidence justified the health claims of their business. If they got nothing, they should be able to be held accountable for making their illegitimate business promises.
X @@לאידועלאידוע-ש1ז It’s not an Egyptian cross dingus. The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that was most commonly used in writing and in Egyptian art to represent the word for "life" and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. The ankh was one of the most common decorative motifs in ancient Egypt and was also used decoratively by neighbouring cultures. *Coptic Christians adapted it into the crux ansata, a shape with a circular rather than oval loop, and used it as a variant of the Christian cross.* The cross, the flood story, Adam and Eve…all came from older cultures. You Christians were never original.
My parents were atheists, I have been an Atheist all my life, and I never had to "go through" anything. I wasn't taught what to think, I was taught HOW to think.
MD AWARE is great. Matt...Glad that your heart surgery was obviously so successful! I have been through the same surgery & wish that the rest of me felt as good my heart. Did the surgeon notice if you we're missing one rib? 😂
I'm with you. I have concluded that Matt and Aron are similar in belief, but just dissimilar in what they are willing to say. Matt is very careful not to overstep where he is epistemologically justified. Aron doesn't give a shit, because he knows practically that we don't treat other things that way. If I ask you if you know where my dog is, I don't want you to worry about your answer being epistemology justified. If you have practical reason to be very confident of where my dog is, just tell me that you know where my dog is. I want you to be so confident that my dog is not on Mars, that you don't even waste time considering that. I also want you to know that my dog has not traveled half way around the world in 30 minutes. If you saw my dog run into the neighbor's yard 5 seconds ago, and you also know that yard has no other entrance/exit, I want you to know that my dog is in that yard.
The thing is, Aron Ra is more definite in his conclusion. He sees very little to no evidence and does a hard conclusion while Matt is more open to *any* sort of definitive evidence for any god (not just the christian one). Both are valid, tbh, because at the end of the day, it's up to a person how much time they want to give theists to prove the existence of their deity/deities.
Have to be careful because one of them clever theists will say now the burden of proof is on you! Yes it is silliness. I feel as confident in saying no gods exists as I do in saying the tooth fairy does not exist. But public policy is made based on these beliefs which is why we have to keep fighting the silliness.
@@Goettel I believe he's pleased that the surgery went as well as it did. I want him to put numerous good months of recovery between himself and the surgery date. Was glad to see the footage of him, next day, up and walking.
Great show as always. I’m glad to have you back Matt! I am so pleased that the Lords of Creation, Enki and his wife Ninhursaga watched over you, or maybe it was Osiris. I hope you are at 100% soon.
Matt is sharp as never before, congrats and welcome back! Sometimes we must be "hard" to people talking nonsense, otherwise they just don't get the point!
Yeah, I am a Hedonist. What's wrong with responsibly seeking pleasures in life. I went as far as I could in school just so I could afford to maximize my pleasure in life before I die.
@@paul715 You already demonstrated the poor quality of Texas education. You don't understand how probabilities work, and do not know what "probably" means.
I want to know how someone "knows" that a person is speaking a dead language when the language is dead. That means that no one actually knows it or what it would sound like. I can't believe that people fall for shit like that.
Well Latin is supposedly dead and yet sometimes people still use it in stories. Science definitely still uses it. Maybe watching the video would change my view of this comment, but this is what I thought before the video. People still know what it is/sounds like.
@@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr Italians speak "Vulgar Latin" meaning what the common folks talked in Roman times and that evolved to modern day Italian language. Then there`s a Classical Latin that was mainly used for writing and public speaking. Also Modern Italian is heavily based on the works of Dante, who wrote The Divine Comedy and other works in the common language of 14th-century Florence. This was important because it was a written form of the common language (Vulgar Latin) that was easily understood by most Italians.
@@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr That is not what these people are talking about. Even though no one speaks Latin much anymore, we still know words from it. A true dead language is something that we know was spoken, but no one knows the words or what they would sound like. So to say that they are speaking a dead language, they are implying that this "possessed" person is speaking something that no one alive now has every heard or has seen written. You do understand that don't you? We know Latin and Latin words. Just because it is not spoken much anymore, does not make it a dead language in this context.
We can definitely learn 'dead' languages, especially how to read them. Some better than others, of course. Pronunciation will, naturally, always be an estimation, but there are methods we can use to figure out how the language most likely sounded.
I didn’t know you had a triple bypass!!!! WOOHOOO Matt. Thrilled to hear this!!!! I have had 4 surgeries in the time of COVID-19 and I don’t know any theists to pray for me. Oh wait, a colleague found out and as I eating lunch with my back to the door, who put her hands on me and started praying. I came close to reporting her, but she requested a transfer). I, too, thank my oncology team(my surgical team was ALL woman), my orthopaedic surgical team, my internist surgical team and plastic surgical team).
Hurrah for modern anesthesia! Had heart surgery too October 1 : I went in and it was like I woke up 1 second later ( been under for over 2 hours): no nausea and the dizziness only lasted a few minutes. I wish you a good recovery, Matt.
The avoidance of answering questions and the going to the foul language play is stark and astonishing and a real failing of society overall encouraging people not to admit when they’re wrong!
Current society is tending to always believe you are right and its always the expert that is wrong. This way conspiracy theories can flourish and Republicans can make up whatever shit they want and it has to be true.
I have recorded over 5 hours of medical advice and personal hygiene + diet recommendations for Matt. I have written over 200 pages so far to go with the video advice series. I will send it all when I am done.
I looked up Dr. Richard Gallagher. According to an interview he did with Esquire in 2020, a few decades ago he woke up to the sound of his two cats attacking each other. The next morning, a clergy member he was associated with showed up at his door with a women. The women asked him "How did you like those cats last night?" and claimed to be possessed. Dr. Gallagher claims her behavior constitutes a "once in a century" possession and claimed she spoke in languages she said she didn't know and, get this, LEVITATED for half-an-hour during an exorcism. This event is what convinced him demon possession is real. He was also raised Catholic.
Theist: "God is common sense, it's absurd to think that everything came from nothing, something can't come from nothing" Atheist: "Well okay, where did god come from?" Theist: "From nothing, he's always existed." Atheist: 🤦♂️
How is it that John can hear Matt say “I love people, I love sex”. Then say he sounds like a hedonist because he’s only thinking about sex and not loving other people?
Like any person, who is expecting to do poorly in an argument with another person, they usually are not listening effectively to what the other person’s points are, but are instead only thinking about what they are going to say and how they are going to mount a counter response to support their opinion and hopefully “win the argument,” and as a result, they can’t actually understand what the other person is saying and then make an intelligent rebuttal. Religious people often argue poorly because of this behaviour, probably because the whole defence of their beliefs is built on a house of cards, their holy book.
Welcome back Matt, I am glad to say that although you were missed, the team did a really good job in your absence. I like the way you slipped in the word 'science' into your introduction if we had left it up to religion you would now be dead and buried.
Imagine a world Issa lives in. There would be scientists, doctors, researchers or even colleges or professors. EVERYTHING would be determined by his common sense, which is neither common or sensical.
There is a weird phenomenon that is getting worse in our society of the most ignorant people believing they understand everything, and making decisions based on that "common sense" ignorance.
I approve of the Viewer Discretion Advised warning screen. I feel I should always mention this when religion comes up and ask children to leave the room for their mental health.
@@Джонатан-р8д No, she can only not die from poison if you believe ( and clap your hands). You can only fly if you think a happy thought and have been sprinkled with pixie dust.
Wow, gasp-worthy when Abby disclosed he escaped Rwanda! "Get you killed", indeed! Truly furgled my manurgle. That kind of thing can even make the United States seem tolerable and throw the "Problem of Evil" into high relief. Does the United Nations have a program that takes obvious secular initiative? I doubt it, but my curiosity has been piqued to investigate there.
The UN's purpose is mostly to facilitate negotiations and coordination between countries that want to cooperate towards a goal. The government's of countries that have religion imbeded in their leadership will not want to work towards secularism, as it would undermine their own power base. Secularism needs to start with the population, and the leaders will follow.
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DAMN!!!! MATT IS SLAYING!!!! He must gotten a super heart that boosted his awesomeness.
hope it was'nt a pigs heart. know what im saying
He did not get a heart transplant, he had triple bypass(CABG)
During my years as a psychotherapist I had several psychiatrists in my clinical practice. I can tell you based on my experience, not all psychiatrists are playing with a full deck. Not saying therefore I know all psychiatrists are nuts, but I know at least a few are. Love the show. My son turned me on to it. We are happy atheists who don't expect to live in eternity together. So we make the best of the times we have together.
I get the full deck bit.
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@@goldenterrorfan The sound of? Is golden? Of am I looking for an opposites? Noise!
Not just psychiatrists. There are all kinds of doctors who fall for medicine's version of the God of the Gaps fallacy by STILL, after all this long scandalous cruel history of people learning years later that for example what they have labelled as "hysterical paralysis" is the post-viral autoimmune brain lesion disease called Multiple Sclerosis in some cases and the post-viral and often life-threatening Guillan Barre autoimmune disease in other cases, that "hysterical blindness" is suddenly NEVER diagnosed anymore because EVERY single time they now find the real cause, and so many more cases of embarrassing "yeah we just pulled this concept of hysteria out of our arses rather than saying we didn't know, sorry it ruined your life to be labelled with the stigmatising bullshit label", some STILL fallaciously label things with the evidence-less, magical thinking, woo, quakery label of "psychosomatic" symptoms.
Covid-19 gave me an intracellular, functional vitamin B12 deficiency that took 17 MONTHS to get diagnosed because they were doing the standard "total serum B12" test instead of the ones that specialists have said they should do instead for DECADES and been ignored cos cheap-arse insurance companies and government healthcare alike, don't give a shit that B12 deficiency takes on average YEARS of terrible suffering and debility to get diagnosed and that most get labelled with something bullshit for months years or decades before their eventual diagnosis. And then, "long covid" as a whole has also been found to not be anxiety as many have been told, but many different things, including post-viral myocarditis in 1 in 5 cases according to both controlled MRI studies and those particular consultants who are dilligent enough to do MRIs or echos on every long covid patient, it's consistently around 1 in 5 across age groups but disproportionately common in young people. Then also in every single long covid blood sample analysed by the Pretorius team in South Africa so far, it's also been found to involve a strange "new" (previously undescribed) blood clotting condition that needs a specific type of testing that people don't ordinarily get offered by their can't-be-bothered-to-read-anything-about-longcovid-research-doctors. See Resia Pretorius's already internationally famous work on this (but not yet famous enough, cos if it's not a vaccine side effect, the press doesn't give as much of a shit about reporting it; rare vaccine side effects are WAY more sexy to report about than the science of long covid and hugely under-scanned-for and so under-diagnosed myocarditis problem after the actual virus...).
So many things that take on average MANY months years or decades of being labelled with things that there is no logical reason to attribute their symptoms (and even obvious objective clinical SIGNS) to, like "anxiety", "depression" or straight up "conversion disorder" which is the new way to say "hysteria" without reminding everyone of the long history of medical embarrassments every time another condition got proven to not be "the mind". It's another version of "God of the Gaps" because both assume it must be either a super powerful mind, or a human mind, somehow causing the world to exist in one case or someone's legs to hurt for years in the other case, with NO mechanistic explanation of HOW the hell the mind is going to cause someone's damned legs to hurt or cause them to be exhausted and riddled with aches and pains and tinnitus and heavy bruising and nerve pains as in "ME/CFS" which has long been suspected to be BOTH a post-viral blood clotting disorder, and an undiagnosed specific type of post-viral B12 deficiency, for a number of reasons, and now FINALLY after decades of research under-funding, their blood is going to be run through the same tests by the Pretorius team that the long covid blood has already gone through, in a new study they've just started.
Absolutely. But to be honest there are also very problematic psychotherapists (just look at one Dr. Peterson....)
Its almost as if every theist caller has never actually watched the show... and it is amazing how, without coordination, they almost always follow the same path from smug confidence and false praise, to the stammering and stuttering tap dance, to avoiding direct questions, and finally to either threats of eternal torment or complaining about "foul" language or being interrupted.
Pretty much every theist caller ever on this show does that. Their god/s is so weak, it's not even funny.
@@jakesmith5278 I love getting them pissed when it is in person by telling them how lame their god is by letting me call it a cowardly piece of shit and the only way I'd be affected is if one of its pretenders took it upon themselves to get its revenge... making it doubly more lame! 🤣
THIS IS WHY THEY ARE ATHEISTS.
@@לאידועלאידוע-ש1ז You're an ANTI-VAX LIAR For jesus.
X @@לאידועלאידוע-ש1ז More nonsensical rambling like a street preacher with their megaphone.
MD Aware get mad props for being willing to peer review Alex’s presented study. Thanks Mad Dawg Aware, appreciate the extra efforts. See you next Sunday! 🤘
I loved Abby from the U.K.! When he described his experience in America as 50% of us are religious, and the rest of us are "normal", I just had to laugh. His experience as a survivor of the Rwanda genocide touched me deeply. I followed that very closely in real time. I'm glad he's so determined to help Africans learn critical thinking skills, hopefully to prevent future atrocities.
50% of the population is religious the other half are normal people!! Classic!! Love it!!
We Africans really need critical thinking skills. People believe anything here. I mean anything 🤦🏾
Time for our weekly game of Theist Bingo, everyone. Get your cards ready. Remember that 'Look at the Trees' has been retired and inducted into our hall of fame. If you have a bingo card with 'Look at the Trees', please return it for a card that has 'It's Just Common Sense' instead.
Related to George?
@@tragnilrats Nope. I sometimes call him 'Cousin George' just for fun, but no.
Common sense is a pretty low standard.
"Look at the trees" ,
and a million more useless christian cliches parroted every minute of the day.
"It's in the bible." is one
I recommend for the top of this needing to retire list.
Except every slot on the theist board is god and reality isn't pointing to a god in any category
Great to see Matt is doing good. We missed him ❤
Theists are so proud of their religion, so in love with their own God, yet 99 out of 100 of them appear to never put much tbought into it.
Is that just N America
Some of them do. They even bother to read their good book. We don't hear from those though. Because most of those ones are called atheists now.
Not thinking about things too much may very well the foundation for their confidence.
You know 99% of them do you? Nice straw man you are building there
@@Pippymint
No strawman at all.
99 out 100 of those I've interacted with. Would you like to add to it ?
Alex's 'disproving evolution' argument is based on a 2014 paper published in the creationist rag, BIO-Complexity. This is one of the 'professional journals' established by creationists to provide a place where their research can get peer review. A quick search indicates that none of their peer-reviewed papers have made it into any mainstream journal. MD Aware was correct to suggest that their methodology was flawed in that they started with complex enzymes instead of more 'primitive' ancestors. Also, they base their conclusions on a limited two-phase study. Even more egregious: They do not suggest areas for further research, do not evaluate possible problems with their research modalities, and worst of all, they conclude that the ONLY alternate explanation to enzyme complexity is Intelligent Design.
I have a study written on the back of an old cereal box, where I tried to grow weasels in a bucket of peanut butter, it didn't happen, so evolution is totally false, it's common sense bro...
An “Intelligent Designer” they admittedly can demonstrate in any honest, practical, scientific, or academic field. Just an emotional entitlement to a religion that said a “god” created everything, and a need to have that entitlement validated at all times. That’s why those “articles” exist, admit as their mission statement it’s not scientific, and have people repeat it.
They can’t demonstrate what this designer is, how it “designed” anything, why it designed things the way it did, who designed the designer and other basic questions.
Then they have to demonstrate a “CREATOR” and how it “created”, and what it used to “create”, why it “created” things the way it did, and who the “creators creator” is.
Everything thats promoted by creationists especially the discovery institute can be blindly assumed to be nonsense. And when checked it turns out its not what creationists promoted. Its pretty much every time the same with them. Its like my local conspiracy theorist. Everything he says is always wrong so Im justified to dismiss everything he claims because he believes it to be true because fact checking him always shows he doesnt know what hes talking about.
Is that one of the creationist journals they created to get peer reviewed by other creationists, so they could claim it was peer reviewed. Because they can’t get taken seriously even by Christian mainstream scientists.
Ffs!
Daughter had open heart surgery a few times since she was three weeks old . She was born with congenital heart disease , I had people pray for her but it really fucked me off because my answer was IF GOD EXISTS WHY WOULD HE PUT HER THROUGH THIS SO I DON'T NEED PRAYERS FROM SOME GOD TO MAKE HER BETTER?
And if prayer were to work, imagine a baby in the next bed with the same condition. She has nobody to pray for her- would this all-loving, all-knowing being just let her die (and be sent only he knows where!) just because no-one asked for his help? Absolute BS, innit.
@@angelamaryquitecontrary4609 Yeah, really. So a god gives babies cancer, and then only cures the one who is prayed for. That's a fucked up belief.
@@SamIAm-kz4hg God is beyond our belief - we cannot begin to understand power of the almighty .
@@romnarz
"we cannot begin to understand power of the almighty"
Do you understand that this is a claim you could NEVER EVER verify?
For example, if you claim that your god is eternal, yet you, yourself are NOT eternal, then you really can't verify the claim.
Only religion has people giving up on reasoning so easily.
@@romnarz If god is beyond our belief, then there's nothing left but disbelief. The reason that we can't understand is because there's nothing to understand. If there is a god, it is playing games with Humanity and is not worthy of worship.
Michael: Gallager says demons don't like to be photographed.
Well, shit, isn't that convenient?! Kind of sounds like the imaginary girlfriend syndrome. Yes, I have a girlfriend, but she goes to a different school and doesn't like to have her picture taken. But she's real. Trust me! Ha!
So, do angels like to be snapped? No excuse there's plenty of them by all account- one each!
You wouldn't know my God.
He goes to school in Canada.
Seriously though, I met her on vacation and she's just too cool to go on social media
I love my imaginary girlfriend.
MD Aware is such a cool and intelligent guy, I'm now officially a fan.
I find he warbles on too much. I found myself wondering if I was attending a lecture not a call I show. He needs to be more concise. They should be having conversations not blah blahing on
@@Pippymint Riiiiighhhttt...
When I was a Christian, I was always a strange thinker relative to my friends, family, and church family. At times, the Christians I knew would look at another religion (like Mormonism) and wonder how anybody could believe those things. I would always counter with “look at what we believe. Look at the magical stories.” Yea, it wasn’t popular take. And that is the kind of thinking that probably has me where I am today. When I think I can no longer be surprised by beliefs, I watch AE, and I become more convinced there is nothing out there beyond belief.
Might not be popular at that time and context but I bet that way of thinking rationally has paid dividends in your life.
There is plenty out there beyond belief- there is a whole universe full of realities to be discovered and worked out. But i know what you meant.
@@elevown this is what has been so exciting to me as an atheist. When I was a Christian, I didn’t think about anything beyond this planet. We were created, and the earth and everything else was also created for us, but because you believe that, you also believe that you’re special and here on earth is the only place that has life so why even bother looking anywhere else? I feel like a 10 year old boy learning all this cool shit about space and other planets and galaxies and stuff. I’ve lost so much time learning but I’m thankful I became atheist when I did because me and my 10 year old son geek out about space and science stuff often and it’s really cool to do the learning right along with him ❤️
@@hollywashburn5125Hi, may I ask you a question, I'm just curious, when you were in Christianity did you believe in a Flat Earth, space was fake and that the Earth was only a few thousand years old etc, I'm just curious, no disrespect.
Matt totally bitchslapped John around. I'm an atheist and I know my life is limited. I love my family, I love sports, I love art. I love my friends. I love skiing, I love flying. I love golf. I love sex. I love learning. My question for John is, since he thinks his life is worthless because it might not go on forever. What if it doesn't? What did you miss out on?
I want to add , I love trees !!
@@johnsnowdon4886 And grass.
I love turtles.
I love the Stars at Night in a forest.
I love lamp.
Very happy to see Matt looks great.
The call from John tells me Matt is healing just fine
I wanted to state I am the “friend” who Issa referred too on this show.
Matt and MD? You absolutely summed up what I’ve been trying to tell Issa for WEEKS.
Thank you. I’m donating to this show.
Fantastic Fan!
Congrats on getting him to call the show. I've had dozens (perhaps hundreds) of these arguments, and I couldn't get one of them to call the show.
@@greyeyed123 are you part of the ACA?
@@greyeyed123 I’ve been racking my brain with Issa, but his special pleading just kept on and on.
I love how Matt doesn’t take shit from callers.
Awesome show.
@@turvy1236 No, just a long-time fan. I've been an atheist since around 1995. (It's weird that I've been an atheist longer than Matt, lol.)
@@greyeyed123 lol. Yeah. You’re a veteran atheist like me.
I’ve always been atheist. I guess I pretended to believe long ago but finally said fuck that. SHOW ME EVIDENCE!
lol
Good to see ya back MD 👊
If I ever find myself to be a ghost some day, instead of slamming doors or knocking stuff off the table in some farm house in the middle of no where, scaring some old lady; I'm gonna right into the middle of town and let EVERYONE film as a materialize and be like, "I'm a REAL GHOST! There IS an after life"... I always wondered why ghosts, demons, etc.. have to be so secretive
Ha, yeah! If you’re gonna be a ghost, why not be like a Ghostbusters style of ghost and eat holes in the water pipes of a Catholic Church or something.
If there’s anything like an afterlife, my dad would have let me know right after he died. He loved me too much to leave me still wondering.
@@beckyepelle2860 I think my mother would have, too. I'm sorry for your loss, Becky. x
@@Ramen10420 That’s so much food for doubt that I’m full up on doubt now. The energy from a body as it dies, goes off as heat and the tissues putrefy, liquify and partly go off as gases.
why do you think? its because they dont EXIST lol. You need a reason for why they dont get seen!
Glad to be watching Matt this episode recorded today! Looking good ! Stoked you back 👍🏽🤙🏽
The Biologic Institute has this in the "About" section of its website: "Scientists affiliated with Biologic Institute are working from the idea that life appears to have been designed because it really was designed." So it is not a real scientific institution. It starts with the "designed" bias and seeks to prove it, not do actual research. One of the people involved: "Douglas Axe is the director of Biologic Institute and author of Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed" What a complete sham it is. Please look at the website; it is a parody of real science.
LOL LOL Did you see the mission statement on the footnotes of the webpage. LOL LOL "The More We Learn About Life, The More Clearly It Reveals Design" LOL LOL
@@chrisccc22 Yes, they are completely fake, pretending to be scientific while doing no science.
There's definitely no confirmation bias going on in their methodology 😄
Good to see you Matt
I haven't been to the channel in a while so I didn't know you were unwell.
Sorry to hear that and I hope your recovery goes very well. Best wishes to you
Not sure if this happened to anyone else but while watching the live stream the video stopped and the page became private. All attempts to continue the video failed including trying to find it via RUclips search... until now.
That happened to me too. I wasn’t sure if it always does that and I just never notice. I usually watch the show after it’s over. I thought all I had to do was refresh. Like the show was live and then it was a RUclips video. That wasn’t the case though.
The chat window went away from me for a second, i thought it was my Internet connection, maybe not.
The live show itself never interrupted for me. But straight after the live show, the vid was uploaded for 5mins, then it was removed. And about 2hrs later uploaded again.
I think the initial upload was probably taken down then reloaded due to the content of the episode. Especially with the warning at the very beginning of the episode.
This is usually the case if there’s a really offensive troll call that they don’t want to keep giving airtime to in future viewings, they’ll edit that call out for the permanent post. I’m not certain that’s the reason here, but probably
Yep, me too. Refresh didn't work, going back to my homepage didn't work. It finally came around. Seems we all should have experienced this if it was a tech issue on ACA.
I look forward to seeing more of MD Aware, his approach to the callers was great. I would have loved to hear more from him in this episode!
Ha! I loved when the caller said "I'm busy right now.."
Issa, that was just sad.
You say you didn't understand the atheist position, then didn't listen to anything the atheists said.
Not surprising that you're a theist, you're impossible to teach.
"But if i listen ill go to hell"
Fear fear fear. Gets the young ones for a lifetime.
@@ookeekthelibrarian
Yeah, I cherish those who have climbed out of that hell-hole and not jumped into another one.
Its not an easy challenge. Especially when a person is coming out of
the fundamentalists.
Whether its islam christianity or hinduism, the fundamentalist sects are the most ignorant, superstitious, and fear inducing.
I had a 10 yr stretch of southern Baptists that hit me deep from age 4-14.
By then I had seen plenty of cracks in those fantastical beliefs. Still the irrational fears of hell and lurking demons took over 15 yrs to fully shake off.
Abby should be a permanent host on the show. Im not kidding. He has so much to bring to the cause, being a witness to atrocities in his country driving his mission combined with his intelligence, compassion and spirit is so valuable to this world. I wish him well and hope to see him and support him in the future.
Dillahunty absolutely ROCKS!
Very enjoyable episode. I really appreciate how the different approaches that Matt and MD Aware take blend into a complementary presentation which covers a wider, richer array of thought. Cheers.
Somehow, many callers bring to mind this quote:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Issac Asimov. B. 1920 D. 1998. That’s right he said that about 25 years ago, 🤔
That's interesting, since he died in 1992. The quote was from 1980 so about 40 years ago.
Also Matt, not to be a sycophant but you were on point in this episode. Congrats man, welcome back.
Too right. I’ve no full understanding of what they have folk take for a while after open heart surgery, but I want some!
@1:04:30 5 states for the control of societies that shift being greatly dependent on the mind set of the society and people themselves:
- Rule by Ethics/Morality (A Utopian society based around the the golden rule / do unto others etc.)
- Rule by Law (community imposed consequence of actions)
- Rule by Money (Corruption, collusion, nepotism, )
- Rule by Force (military / anarchy)
- Rule by Religion (fundamentalism/supernatural)
Sadly, the UK is moving towards rules 2 and 3. It used to be a good place to live, too.
Welcome back Matt, glad to have you back and well!
34:52 "What happens if you have a kid and you just tdont take them to any church" - I can answer this one as being from UK we generally arent that religious anyway and as an atheist (and my father was too) I have never taken my kids to Church and whilst I explained that someople believe in Jesus etc I have never said to them its real or not they both just grew up not beleiving in it. Religion isnt something kids will just believe in without being taught.
2:00 scared me for a minute. Thought Matt was about to recount a transformative OBE lol
You have no idea how much it comforts me to be able to listen to you Matt and hear a perspective like my own in this world of insanity.
:)
I ate a cookie and drank a whole cup of chocolate milk for your recovery, Matt. I'm sure it did nothing for you, but I enjoyed it.👍
Who ate my cookie and drank all my chocolate milk, darn it?!?
@@Peter_Wendt No idea...
*wipes mouth with sleeve*
Plot twist: it was a weed cookie.
It was an edible.. The kind of cookie that takes you to the 6th dimension 💥
@@jesuscarrillo3705 yes but you only need one.* DO NOT EAT ANYMORE THAN 1!!*
John, John...There is reason to live even if You do not believe in afterlife.
Since i am here, i could can spend my time moping about my futile existence, or spend it engaging myself in something that gives my structure-less existence some semblance of structure.
I will still have a futile existence whether i am moping about it or not, but the way i experience it will be different.
It’s like going to a party and not enjoying. Because you know in a couple of hours it will be over.
And claiming the only people that can enjoy the party. Are the people who believe after this party finishes, they get to go to a better party.
For me I wouldn’t be as excited for this party if I’m waiting for the better party to start. A party we don’t even know if it exists.
@@JarlGrimmToys What i wrote in my OP may sound pessimistic or nihilistic even but i do not mean it to be that way.
The life for me any way, is an arable land that i cultivate during my life time.
I got my own row left to hoe
You know, just another line in the field of time and when that harvester comes i`ll be sitting there peacefully and to give what i have sown.
Good to see you back Matt, and in good shape apparently! The "I may have cancer" analogy is brilliant!
As if pining for eternal life *isn't* the pinnacle of hedonism.
Yes, it's completely sollipsistic, when you think about it.
And many of the theists that support the idea of it have the audacity to claim it's *atheists* that really worship themselves!
I've never heard of a more self-centered concept than a person refusing to accept the fact that they aren't so special that the universe needs them to exist forever and ever.
I started listening to Matt and thought "Boy, Matt has really slowed down after the op!" Then realized that I normally listen at 1.25x and it was normal! (doh). Glad to see you back in the seat.
55:00 in case you couldn't hear over the hosts interrupting, the caller just suggested that we should have regulations to hold *people accountable when [their illegitimate products and services] do cause harm.
He didn't say anything about punishing anyone's unjustified belief in it.
And I think what he'd probably agree with is the proposal of requiring products and services to MEET THEIR BURDEN OF PROOF in order to advertise the efficacy of their marketing claims.
If my business is selling electronic devices that are supposed to put out an invisible or sub-audible frequency to repel birds from crapping on your property.... Should I be responsible for having any justification that it does that? Or if a dissatisfied customer one day thinks to open it up and realizing it just stuffed with yarn and paperclips, should I be legally free to carry on convincing more buyers that it will repel their pests with undetectable frequencies?
So should we need to PROVE beyond a doubt that Chakra energy fields are false and cannot be adjusted as effective treatment for all manor of physical and mental health conditions?
Or should the burden of evidence be for the social media gurus and Yoga centers and "metaphysics" stores if they are SELLING this bullshit to innocent credulous consumers.
Because I don't feel like it should count as a fair free choice if you are investing your time and money into using a product or service based on misinformation about it.
Must be honestly informed to meaningfully consent, right?
So if a Chiropractor tells me I need to come in for an "adjustment" that will fix my something or other... and after years of investing in their business I come to find out that concept was attributed to a ghost in a seance and not supported by science, disillusioned clients should be able to sue for being scammed. And the Chiropractor should have a chance in court to provide what evidence justified the health claims of their business.
If they got nothing, they should be able to be held accountable for making their illegitimate business promises.
Matt is 210% back strong 💪
AND YOUR EGYPTION CROSS IS 210% A DECEPTION.
SEEK JESUS CHRIST.
@@לאידועלאידוע-ש1ז in this case Matt say GFYS
Morron what I show is not a cross
Is a symbol for the eternity
X @@לאידועלאידוע-ש1ז It’s not an Egyptian cross dingus. The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that was most commonly used in writing and in Egyptian art to represent the word for "life" and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. The ankh was one of the most common decorative motifs in ancient Egypt and was also used decoratively by neighbouring cultures. *Coptic Christians adapted it into the crux ansata, a shape with a circular rather than oval loop, and used it as a variant of the Christian cross.*
The cross, the flood story, Adam and Eve…all came from older cultures. You Christians were never original.
My parents were atheists, I have been an Atheist all my life, and I never had to "go through" anything. I wasn't taught what to think, I was taught HOW to think.
MD AWARE is great.
Matt...Glad that your heart surgery was obviously so successful! I have been through the same surgery & wish that the rest of me felt as good my heart.
Did the surgeon notice if you we're missing one rib? 😂
Nice to see you back matt and happy your on the mend
Aron Ra is correct. There is/are no god/s.
Sillyness.
I'm with you.
I have concluded that Matt and Aron are similar in belief, but just dissimilar in what they are willing to say.
Matt is very careful not to overstep where he is epistemologically justified.
Aron doesn't give a shit, because he knows practically that we don't treat other things that way.
If I ask you if you know where my dog is, I don't want you to worry about your answer being epistemology justified.
If you have practical reason to be very confident of where my dog is, just tell me that you know where my dog is.
I want you to be so confident that my dog is not on Mars, that you don't even waste time considering that.
I also want you to know that my dog has not traveled half way around the world in 30 minutes.
If you saw my dog run into the neighbor's yard 5 seconds ago, and you also know that yard has no other entrance/exit, I want you to know that my dog is in that yard.
The thing is, Aron Ra is more definite in his conclusion. He sees very little to no evidence and does a hard conclusion while Matt is more open to *any* sort of definitive evidence for any god (not just the christian one). Both are valid, tbh, because at the end of the day, it's up to a person how much time they want to give theists to prove the existence of their deity/deities.
Have to be careful because one of them clever theists will say now the burden of proof is on you! Yes it is silliness. I feel as confident in saying no gods exists as I do in saying the tooth fairy does not exist. But public policy is made based on these beliefs which is why we have to keep fighting the silliness.
Great to see you're doing well Matt. Best wishes, always.
So pleased Matt is back! Yahooo!
I guess he's quite pleased yeah ; - )
@@Goettel I believe he's pleased that the surgery went as well as it did.
I want him to put numerous good months of recovery between himself and the surgery date.
Was glad to see the footage of him, next day, up and walking.
Glad you are back.
Matt, you are great here!
Great show as always. I’m glad to have you back Matt! I am so pleased that the Lords of Creation, Enki and his wife Ninhursaga watched over you, or maybe it was Osiris. I hope you are at 100% soon.
Matt is sharp as never before, congrats and welcome back! Sometimes we must be "hard" to people talking nonsense, otherwise they just don't get the point!
Good to see you Matt Dillahunty,
Massive amounts of love and respect for you and the great works that you do.
Allen: “Christianity believes in a god, but it’s atheist…..”
Almost everyone else: “eh?”
Yeah, I am a Hedonist. What's wrong with responsibly seeking pleasures in life.
I went as far as I could in school just so I could afford to maximize my pleasure in life before I die.
Michael from Tx is referring to Q from Star Trek, while demonstrating the poor quality of Tx education.
Never heard of Q from Star Trek before. How do I demonstrate the poor quality of tx edu?
@@paul715 You already demonstrated the poor quality of Texas education. You don't understand how probabilities work, and do not know what "probably" means.
Love mat when he's fired up. But I'm concerned about his BP right after heart surgery. Take care Matt ❤
Matt is back and in fine form! MD you got words in, praise beebus :)
The second caller was an awesome few minutes. Thank you Matt.
Matt is back in great form!!
I want to know how someone "knows" that a person is speaking a dead language when the language is dead. That means that no one actually knows it or what it would sound like. I can't believe that people fall for shit like that.
The power of pretend is strong.
Well Latin is supposedly dead and yet sometimes people still use it in stories. Science definitely still uses it. Maybe watching the video would change my view of this comment, but this is what I thought before the video. People still know what it is/sounds like.
@@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr Italians speak "Vulgar Latin" meaning what the common folks talked in Roman times and that evolved to modern day Italian language.
Then there`s a Classical Latin that was mainly used for writing and public speaking.
Also Modern Italian is heavily based on the works of Dante, who wrote The Divine Comedy and other works in the common language of 14th-century Florence.
This was important because it was a written form of the common language (Vulgar Latin) that was easily understood by most Italians.
@@FullmoonPhantom-dn2sr That is not what these people are talking about. Even though no one speaks Latin much anymore, we still know words from it. A true dead language is something that we know was spoken, but no one knows the words or what they would sound like. So to say that they are speaking a dead language, they are implying that this "possessed" person is speaking something that no one alive now has every heard or has seen written. You do understand that don't you? We know Latin and Latin words. Just because it is not spoken much anymore, does not make it a dead language in this context.
We can definitely learn 'dead' languages, especially how to read them. Some better than others, of course. Pronunciation will, naturally, always be an estimation, but there are methods we can use to figure out how the language most likely sounded.
When the song came on at the end my speakers exploded! Jeez! 😵💫
Alex - ME - Please point to where the word "enzyme" is used in the bible.
I didn’t know you had a triple bypass!!!! WOOHOOO Matt. Thrilled to hear this!!!! I have had 4 surgeries in the time of COVID-19 and I don’t know any theists to pray for me. Oh wait, a colleague found out and as I eating lunch with my back to the door, who put her hands on me and started praying. I came close to reporting her, but she requested a transfer).
I, too, thank my oncology team(my surgical team was ALL woman), my orthopaedic surgical team, my internist surgical team and plastic surgical team).
Oh, John...Just... No.
Great to see you up and at em matt.
Biologic Institute is a creationist org. The paper was not peer reviewed by others than creationists.
It’s great to hear people like Abby want to help folks think more critically in developing countries! That’s good to hear. I wish him all the best.
38:40 Of course, there is an alien capable of building planets! And we all know his name: Slartibartfast! ;-)
He got an award!
@@cnault3244 42! (The answer to everything ;-)!)
@@cnault3244for the coastline of Norway
Hurrah for modern anesthesia! Had heart surgery too October 1 : I went in and it was like I woke up 1 second later ( been under for over 2 hours): no nausea and the dizziness only lasted a few minutes. I wish you a good recovery, Matt.
John another example of brain darkness
Please have MD aware on more often
The avoidance of answering questions and the going to the foul language play is stark and astonishing and a real failing of society overall encouraging people not to admit when they’re wrong!
Current society is tending to always believe you are right and its always the expert that is wrong. This way conspiracy theories can flourish and Republicans can make up whatever shit they want and it has to be true.
Just heard about your surgery Matt. Best wishes (no prayers!) for a full and speedy recovery!
I have recorded over 5 hours of medical advice and personal hygiene + diet recommendations for Matt. I have written over 200 pages so far to go with the video advice series. I will send it all when I am done.
Glad to see that Matt is well again
I looked up Dr. Richard Gallagher. According to an interview he did with Esquire in 2020, a few decades ago he woke up to the sound of his two cats attacking each other. The next morning, a clergy member he was associated with showed up at his door with a women. The women asked him "How did you like those cats last night?" and claimed to be possessed. Dr. Gallagher claims her behavior constitutes a "once in a century" possession and claimed she spoke in languages she said she didn't know and, get this, LEVITATED for half-an-hour during an exorcism. This event is what convinced him demon possession is real. He was also raised Catholic.
Cool. Has he posted the video of the woman levitating?
He convinced himself. Sounds like more bs
@@joeanthony7759 Absolutely! That and his Catholic upbringing probably caused confirmation bias.
@@cnault3244 LMAO! Of course not, we just have to take his word for it lol
I was the “Friend” Issa was referring too! He’s not my friend.
matt is very wrong about one thing: the all time hide and seek champ is Bigfoot
I'll never get tired of the theme song!
Theist: "God is common sense, it's absurd to think that everything came from nothing, something can't come from nothing"
Atheist: "Well okay, where did god come from?"
Theist: "From nothing, he's always existed."
Atheist: 🤦♂️
its absurd to think you can participate in discussions when you have no answers
19:58 Michael is great!! I absolutely love believers who honestly examine their beliefs!
A picture of your ribs spread open in an operating room on your refrigerator? That sounds like a great dieting technique.
Sounds disgusting and psychopathic lol
Sounds like the 'Thing' in Vikings!
On another show he's said that it's on the side of the fridge, so you don't have to look at it every time you use the fridge.
Nice to have Matt back on form! 🙂
How is it that John can hear Matt say “I love people, I love sex”. Then say he sounds like a hedonist because he’s only thinking about sex and not loving other people?
And also judge Matt for his supposed "hedonism". Theists are so fucking weird.
Well, he did mention ROCK-'N'-ROLL!!! (And I bet he turns it up to 11, the filthy heathen.)
Like any person, who is expecting to do poorly in an argument with another person, they usually are not listening effectively to what the other person’s points are, but are instead only thinking about what they are going to say and how they are going to mount a counter response to support their opinion and hopefully “win the argument,” and as a result, they can’t actually understand what the other person is saying and then make an intelligent rebuttal. Religious people often argue poorly because of this behaviour, probably because the whole defence of their beliefs is built on a house of cards, their holy book.
welcome back sir, here's to your health!!
TFW Matt replies to a theist who complains about "bad language." ❤
And the caller alternates between lower lip tremble and indignation.
Welcome back Matt, I am glad to say that although you were missed, the team did a really good job in your absence. I like the way you slipped in the word 'science' into your introduction if we had left it up to religion you would now be dead and buried.
Imagine a world Issa lives in. There would be scientists, doctors, researchers or even colleges or professors. EVERYTHING would be determined by his common sense, which is neither common or sensical.
There is a weird phenomenon that is getting worse in our society of the most ignorant people believing they understand everything, and making decisions based on that "common sense" ignorance.
Welcome back Matt!
I approve of the Viewer Discretion Advised warning screen.
I feel I should always mention this when religion comes up and ask children to leave the room for their mental health.
Great show as always.
The go F yourself ratio is high this episode, Matt's on fire.
Beautiful wonderful darling Matt!! How much you meant to such enormous amount of people! 🥰
Why is it that only the religious, somehow, get 'possessed by demons'?
Tinkerbell can only fly if you believe 🧚♀️
@@Джонатан-р8д No, she can only not die from poison if you believe ( and clap your hands).
You can only fly if you think a happy thought and have been sprinkled with pixie dust.
Matt's back yay!
“HEY JACKASS! SHUT UP AND LISTEN!”
I love ❤️ Matt!
Miss you Matt!!! I’m happy to see you.
Wow, gasp-worthy when Abby disclosed he escaped
Rwanda!
"Get you killed", indeed! Truly furgled my manurgle.
That kind of thing can even make the United States
seem tolerable and throw the "Problem of Evil" into
high relief.
Does the United Nations have a program that takes
obvious secular initiative? I doubt it, but my curiosity
has been piqued to investigate there.
The UN's purpose is mostly to facilitate negotiations and coordination between countries that want to cooperate towards a goal. The government's of countries that have religion imbeded in their leadership will not want to work towards secularism, as it would undermine their own power base.
Secularism needs to start with the population, and the leaders will follow.