The best optical illusion in the world!
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- You may have been looking at this illusion your entire life, but you haven't been able to "see" it! This short video shows you the best optical illusion in the world!
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This planted the seed of doubt in my faith in God when I was 11 years old, and since then I've been thanking this video. I'm a happy atheist.
Wow, I too was around 11 when I saw this video and the exact same thing happened to me. I just searched up this video again to re-watch the video that first made me doubt a God existed.
I saw this when I was around the same age, way back at the beginning of the "Golden Age" of the internet. I am still a Christian, but I remember this giving me some serious doubts to wrestle through.
Still to this day, with an 11-year-old of my own who's just beginning to explore the internet, I wrestle with the subject of God and faith. And I am willing to let my children wrestle with it as well, even if they do not reach the same conclusions that I do. We should have no fear of ideas that could poke holes in our biases and held beliefs, for if we fear that our foundation is too weak to withstand assault, then we merely prove that weakness as reality.
I watched this video when I was around 10, it made me question everything! I'm still an atheist .
@@SomeRUclipsTraveler😂 Golden age of the internet yes it was!
I was also around 11 when I saw this video. I never really thought much of God and probably never actually would've called myself a christian, but I still remember hearing him say "God does not exist" feeling so cathartic. It was probably the first time I ever heard another person say those words and honestly taught me that not believing in God is actually a legitimate thing and that I wasn't alone. Being raised surrounded by super religious people and just not relating to any of it can be alienating.
"You cannot deny reality"
Christian: "Challenge accepted!"
I believe I've mentioned this before, but there's a chapel in Wisconsin where nuns have been engaged in a perpetual chain-prayer for world peace since 1878. The combined death toll for wars in the 20th century alone was over 200 million. If that isn't enough to convince a rational person that prayer has no efficacy, then nothing will. They actually have websites where you can submit your prayer requests.
Dustin Zilbauer with your requests, don't frget your cash.
Often what one calls reality another can see as a perspective of reality.
@@DustinZilbauer35 Actually, it proves that we live in a fallen world. Praying for world peace does not fit into God's plan. It's all described in the Bible. Satan is allowed control of the earth but will get his butt kicked at the right time. Maybe these nuns don't know their Bible well enough.
@@billyholly - oh look, the "fallen world" excuse.
Ok, forget about prayer for world peace. I am thinking of a 20 character string made up of letters A-Z and digits 0-9. Pray to god to reveal that string to you.
If you can reveal it, I will believe your prayers are answered.
[Anyone want to bet on which excuse follows now?]
I remember a whole sermon on how "no answer" was in fact an answer from God. And ever since I thought "that is a literal negation, a true dichotomy - there is no way that no answer can be an answer, any more than yes can be no". It was a very helpful sermon.
Yah, yah, I know Sally needs help and she is a good person, and I didn't know that before the prayer, and she died in excruciating pain from her cancers, but, um, um, lemme think here for a minute, I'll come up with something.
The Illusion the devil is fake . Don’t believe science
There is a story about an old Israeli, who has been praying at the wailing wall in Jerusalem for over 60 yrs. He is interviewed by a local news service.
When asked what he was praying for, he answered, “Peace for the world and the end of conflict, disease and misery.”
He was asked, “what effect do you think it has?” He answered, “It's like talking to a wall.”
This video still stands up after all these years. I'm sure it's helped many people see what should be obvious if they could remove the indoctrination from birth.
Yes, it really helped me when I was in high school back in 2007, shortly after my Catholic confirmation. Some time passed and then I turned into an atheist for many years. Then I learned more about philosophy and theology, so right now I'm in an agnostic middle ground. Nevertheless, your videos were a really good food for thought, and I really appreciate it.
Impressive that you came back to it three years later.
Yes it's helped the ones who are normal intelligent people.
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Your april fools mocking faith was not funny, also make Xavier do some exercise
this! this video right here, made my belief system fall down like a house of cards.... never prayed again. never looked back. Thank you, I'm an atheist now.
Good for you. So many people have been brainwashed since they were kids. I'm sure now you have experienced real freedom you can see just how we were controlled and used.
Same
Imagine taking pride in this statement
@@AswagMouse i know right?
Welcome Home
why so many dislikes? I guess the truth hurts
fourteatwo LOL "as a grown up".... you shouldnt even be believing in that garbage as a grown up
im just gonna go ahead and block you beacuse apparently if im not a grown up then you arent either since youre wasting your time trying to argue with me
I was trying to educate you, as you seemed not to be ready to argue - as you shown by your reaction to the comment :-)
Vrock .
Would be better if adults started this idea of faith in a deity as a way to get kids to learn how to get along in society to prepare them for adulthood and parenting.
Yet, unilke fairytales that are taught to youngsters to get their imaginations working... somehow, adults forgot to remove all that religious crap when they come of age.🤔🤪🥴
My powers of divination tell me it's the fraction of the 5 million folk who came looking for optical illusions only to find this shit.
The first time I saw this video I was still Christian. My retort was that if I ask my parents for a red fire truck for Christmas, on Christmas Day I would either get a red fire truck, no fire truck or have them tell me I would get one later. And that's because parents don't exist.
The problem with that analogy is that in this scenario there are other reasons to believe the parents exist, such as the fact that I can see them hear them touch them smell them Etc. The same can obviously not be said about God. Kind of strange to come back to this video as the person I am now.
A good frame of reference would be if the child alone in their room asks Santa with out the parents hearing. It would be the same then too, because Santa doesn't exist.
That was my realization when I understood religion. If one claims truth, then all must be considered with the same relevancy. Santa could exist, Unicorns could exist, God, Thor, Ra etc etc. At least with many of those there are parameters for existence. Santa lives in the North Pole, he's fat and jolly. Unicorns look like horses with horns. Ra has the head of a falcon and the body of a human. But the Christian and Jewish god? Not so much. Is he in the clouds? Is he invisible? What does he look like, how could he exist theoretically? Does he have weight, does he produce energy?
All the bases are covered because there is no solid idea so you can never disprove something that can't be tested and has no parameters for existing.
This video introduced me to atheism. When I watched it, I was outraged. How dare this man question god?! Slowly, as I grew older and more intelligent I wrestled with the prospect. I debated atheists my age and they beat me every single time. Not once did I have a clear argument for his existence. Religion is a trap, I spent years contemplating becoming an atheist but I was so scared of what 'God' would think. Looking back at it, I realise how pathetic it was, how pathetic I was. To all believers watching this: please genuinely reconsider your position and research atheistic arguments: they cannot be beaten!
This is exactly what happened to me
Cognitive dissonance is painful.
OhMyScot Welcome to the land of free thinkers my friend, we are happy to have you!
Thraxxus S To be fair, I've been an atheist for three years now, but it's always nice to know we're supportive of new ones, so thanks :)
You're welcome!
well it's not optical... but it is an illusion
+YuhNinja but mr. Annoying Voice never actually explained that Optical Illusion stuff
+Solid Sorensen Is it a straw man fallacy? He's using the explanation of prayer given by christianity.com. If you honestly represent the thing you are criticising (he reprinted it in his video) that is not a strawman. It may not be how you think of prayer but it is a valid criticism of christianity.com's position.
It's hard to believe in prayer like John 15:7 but the act of prayer can help the person praying and that is enough sometimes.
I agree. I would call it a cognitive illusion rather than an optical illusion. He should have omitted the word "optical" from the title. But it's still a very good video and the slightly inapt wording doesn't take much away from it.
+ok
it is quite straight forward to believe in "If you live in me and what I say lives in you, then ask for anything you want, and it will be yours.". The constraint lies in the first part of the sentence.
+squ
and they then might figure that if they would stay as clueless about prayer like Mr Brain they might end up as deluded as him and start to look into prayer. They might learn that praying like Mr Brain is a deluded activity for those believing God to be Santa's big brother.
Worship the jug of milk!
If you drink water, you are going to hell!
Hey, moron! There's water in milk.
r/neverbrokeabone scrub
r/waterniggas master race
What if water is a disciple of milk?
SHIT. I also have to work on Sunday. Mephistopheles is gripping my ankles and pulling me down into an infinite inferrrrrrnnnnnnoooooooooop
Gods did not create man...
man created Gods...
that simple...
it was really all just a battle between nations of who has the better God,, until someone said "my God is the God of Gods & is all-powerful & all knowing!".. thus, the christian God was born...
modern day religions cant be questioned, & modern day Gods cant be seen.. all just a cleverly invented mechanism of self-deception
+Jose Gabriel It would make a lot of sense right?If man created god in his own image then that would explain why there are so many religions with different preachings out there.
exactly
Jose Rivera U STUPID TOO!!!!! if god is not real then who made the earth? Who made the universe?????
Karma Rico You have picked this up somewhere and you go video to video putting in on comments. And the "read more" trick , wow, the suspense just killed me. Get a hobby dude. I see you do this all over you tube.
I believe I heard that from Fox Mulder in The X Files.
I don't know which is more pathetic: that someone has to spell this out to people, or that some people still can't bring themselves to admit it. This should be obvious to anyone beyond the age of 9 or 10.
It took me till the age of 15, that was 53 years ago, been happy ever since.
Yeah, I admit it occurred to me around the age of 10, but it took me till I was 24 to really accept it. I felt like the pilgrim in "Pilgrim's Progress", except that the burden I lost was that of trying to make myself believe in something that was obviously false. I wish you the best, sir!
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I like your vision of the future. It's likely accurate. I think however that when death is conquered by transferring the mind into "computers" and from there into humanoid robots that these silly fairy tales will be left behind. The universe has an eternity of wonder for the taking.
It took me a long time to get the hell out, looking back, Iwas one stupid sob.
@@keithhull6749 It could be you're "happy" as you are leading the life satan wants you to lead and he leaves you alone. Being a Christian involves persecution and suffering. It comes with THIS life...but not the next one. Good luck on your journey and I will be praying for you.
I've watched this long ago, my parents made me shut it off at first. I was only about 10 looking at optical illusions. I came back 5 years later, now I am an atheist. This is amazing and I always remembered it. :)
I showed this video to my mom when I was 13-14 years old and she was just impressed with his logic and said "I mean he's right"
great analogy, i couldn't explain it better myself. and to the people who say this isn't an illusion; illusions aren't just "neat tricks", but they are a play on the senses or a "double take" on what we see as "normal", in this case, the idea of an answered prayer really only experiencing a coincidence. i as a sixteen year old male with no religious views find this well explained.
How can you assume someone believes in a god AND has common sense?
You never believed?
how can someone assume atheists assume that?
To answer your question, Yes, I used to believe. I even went to a bible academy as I wanted to be a preacher more than anything in the world. Then I began a study of the bible and realized it was all BS.
What? lol
gotem
"Faith": A piss poor substitute for thinking.
@FierySpirit5496 I rather have that then false hope and wasting life on something that isn’t there. You only live once.
Thank you, I will add this jug of milk to my arsenal of rational arguments.
I'm just going to run into church worshipping a jug of milk. :)
Devon Williams I'm going to worship all of the jugs of milk at the 7-11. Since I don't know which is the real one, I need to pray to all of them.
Oops, what if the real one is at the 7-11 down the street, or at Safeway instead? This is gettin' complicated!
HappyToBeReligionFree haha ya, and I will make it even more complicated for you and give you a link to wikipedia of all the religions known on just wikipedia :D en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions
And just to show that I am not racist, I worship chocolate milk as well.
*God_is_not_real* You are betting your life on that... Your eternal life... meaning you will regret this.
What is even worse is that all the people you convince of this, you have murdered. And I have seen Atheists who claimed they have morals??? WoW.
@@terryglenweaver You are betting your eternal soul that Allah did not speak the truth through his prophet Mohammed. You are betting your life on that... Your eternal life... meaning you will regret this. You are betting your eternal soul that you are not violating the very first of the Ten Commandments and placing another God before the true Jehovah, God of the Jews. You have made a human man, Jesus, into a trinity god, as the Pagans had. You are hoping the Jews are wrong and the Christians are right. "You are betting your life on that... Your eternal life... meaning you will regret this." I guess we are all in the same boat. The real problem is that you cannot prove there is a god anymore than I can prove there are leprechauns.
@william perkins --- I see you are not missing any parts. Yes Sir, you are complete... that is, you are a complete idiot.
-- For the fool hath said in his heart... there is no God.
@william perkins --- Oh you of such limited thoughts. How will you feel when you discover the fools you followed have murdered you? Well, murdered your body and sentenced you to Hell.
With your current understanding you have just 2 options...when you die... Limbo (if you are right...maybe) and Hell. Neither is a viable option for any intelligent person. And remember it does not matter what You want... When you discover there is a God... Hell awaits you. You cannot even opt for limbo at that time.
@william perkins You are clueless. What you do not know is that for Years (actually decades) I have challenged your deranged godz (Agnostics, Atheists etc...) to debate me. And in recent years I challenged them to a debate of all their most notable fearless leaders and... at the same time. However, I did inform them that in this battle the gloves would be off and the debate would have parameters to ensure a fair debate... (they of course, hate fair debates) I have made one minor mistake though... See I utterly destroyed what ever topic they had in the video they presented. (This allowed them to know that I can do what I claim.) And so, they ignore me, but usually only after attempting to defeat me... then upon seeing that does not work, they flee. (Or is it... FLEA?)
I have no fear of a battle of minds with them as they are all ill equipped. *Perhaps they should follow the yellow brick road to OZ and ask Mr. Wizard for a brain?*
But then what else would one expect... I am a Witness/Prophet Rev Ch 11. And they are mere... Well... scripture says it best... *"A fool hath said in their heart, there is no God"*
Lets see a Witness/Prophet with a tongue taught by God and hard work against... (what does Scripture call them? Oh yeah,) FOOLS
. They do seem smart enough to not take me on. But just give this a bit more time... I am patient and soon I will possess enough God given authority to FORCE them into a debate! So be patient and stick around.
I will give you this understanding: God gave us Prophecy that through its understanding we can prove God. Who but God knows the future? Better yet, Jesus is even a greater path to understanding God is real.
I am a Christian. I completely disagree with the "yes", "no", "wait" mentality. God responds in many other ways then just a simple word. Besides, not everything you pray is a "yes" or "no" (or "wait", for that matter) question. Prayer is much more than just asking. So much more than simply asking. Prayer is conversing, fellow shipping, discussing, chatting, crying, thinking, laughing, etc. to/with God. Therefore, the whole milk thing is irrelevant because I completely disagree with the yes/no/wait mentality.
Oh, and please no rude insulting comments. I am fine with opposition to my post and faith, but please be polite so that we may have a meaningful conversation. Rudeness is never the right start to a discussion. Thanks.
God bless.
Jerrica Hanson I completely agree with u on the yes/no/wait mentality. Honestly, I feel so bad for the person who made that video.
Actually, it's right on the money. You can't argue with facts.
1) That's your opinion, MattShizzle. ;)
2) I am fully aware that he didn't make it up. I am fully aware that Christians claim it. I am fully aware that I am disagreeing about something religious with other Christians. And that's fine. :)
3) Okay, again, that's your opinion and you are entitled to it as I am mine.
But let me ask you this (Note: I'm not saying this happens to everyone or is a huge question that will prove God necessarily; it is just a question.): What about times when someone prays for God to enlighten them with truth about something that a stranger is struggling with and it is true?
i.e.: I was at a bible camp type thing and we were in worship. I asked God to show me the picture of someone's face at the camp and tell me something to say to them to help them. God showed me a fairly clear picture of one of the girls in the gym (where it was being held) at that time. I had never seen her before and did not recognize her when I saw the picture of her. Yet I went out looking and found her then told her very specific things about struggling with certain eating disorders and her peers at school. I told her how the Lord could specifically help her get through her specific situation. She told me that she had been struggling with exactly what I said and that I helped her tremendously. I had never met her before right then, so how did I know everything about her struggles?
Another example: Also at this camp, and actually the same night and on my way to find the girl I was looking for, someone stopped me. I have met her before but we were not very close. She stopped me quite quickly and eagerly and was not nervous at all about what she was to tell me. She was, in fact, extremely happy to begin telling me. She began by saying that moving (I am moving from Minnesota to Kentucky in a couple weeks) was okay. At that point I had told close to no one about moving (due to my father's job and things) and I had no idea how she knew, except by God. I had been struggling with that because I didn't really want to accept the fact that I was leaving everyone here! She then began to tell me, with extreme detail (not all included in the following description), the vision that she saw earlier that night while praying. It was of my family and I in Kentucky. We had just moved there. I was the emotional and spiritual leader of my family as we crossed over a bridge and other landscape into our new home. She told me some details about what the home looks like and then said that Jesus, glowing, was inside the house when we walked in. He told us that we had done well and have been faithful. At that point, we had absolutely no idea what house we were going to buy and hadn't even began looking. Now we have a purchase agreement on a house. It has a river with a bridge very close by, the rest of the landscape she described is spot-on, and the details about the inside and outside of the home are also spot-on. Her telling me all this helped me deeply. It helped me accept that moving is for the better and that is really is okay. :)
So, how did I know that? How did my peer know that? Voo-doo? Demons? Coincidences? Or...God?
Hm...the thing is it was as close as I thought. Hear me out: I honestly am deeply considering each of your thoughts because I like to be open-minded. But there isn't really much of a way to get that off - at least not by that much. How coincidental would it be if, out of all the eating disorders, or normal disorders, or general problems a person could have, I guessed/made up that some random chick I'd never met or seen before had that? And the same with her specific feelings about her peers? And the same with how she specifically can learn from this and recover in a way that she specifically can learn from? Huh. I must be a better guesser than I thought...;)
And the vision to me: What a bunch of coincidences! How funny that of all things I could be going through, she happened to guess I was moving. Furthermore, how ironic that of all the countries, states, and places I could move to, she randomly guessed Kentucky. Furthermore, how coincidental that she guessed that there'd be a bridge over a river close by, that I'd be the emotional and spiritual leader of my family at that time (which I am), that the house would have lots of trees around it, that the overall landscape was rolling hills, that the house would be blue-gray in color, that the inside would have so and so details, etc. Huh. I suppose she is also very imaginative and has a crazy skill of randomly guessing the right things.
Huh. ;)
Like I said, I did truly consider those thoughts. But there is simply no way that we could be that good of a guesser or that creative.
Therefore, by your logic, that means that it just wasn't as close as I thought. But facts are facts.
For example, she told me we'd walk across a bridge over a river very close to my home. There is a river with a bridge located very close to my home.
Another example: she told me the house was blue-gray in color. The house is blue-gray in color.
Another example: The house would be surrounded by many trees, but not covered in the front. The house has fairly thick woods all around it except only the occasion tree in the front yard.
Another example: she told me the area had lot of rolling hills. The area of Kentucky my house is in is especially hilly.
The list continues. I'm hoping you see my point here. There is no way I was off; the words that she spoke are perfect descriptions of the home that I didn't even know about and she absolutely didn't know about. And there was no way that these were all coincidences; the chances of guessing even one of these things and being correct are incredibly slim, so all of these being guesses being correct? Not to mention the tens of thousands, if not more, things just like this that have happened. All of those must be coincidences?
I remember watching this video as a little kid. I would go up to my parents room after school to watch RUclips and play flash games. I got into a phase where I’d look at optical illusions a lot. I thought they were so cool. Eventually I came across this video.
To be honest it broke my heart a little bit. It was a scary idea for me to think that it was all made up. I was alone, watching this video telling me that the God that my parents took me to worship on sundays wasn’t real. That Jesus wasn’t real. That there was no God watching over and that he didn’t care about me or love me. That all the adults around me were lying. That there was no meaning to anything. That prayers don’t work.
As I got older, I still prayed for things occasionally. I prayed that my cat would come back home when she ran away. She did come back eventually. I prayed that id be able to make friends at school and that bullies would leave me alone. I never did make any friends and the bullies never did leave me alone. I prayed for lots of things, and the phrase “yes, no, and wait” stayed in my mind. The yellow image of the milk jug stayed with me. The seed that was planted by this video stayed with me for a long time.
I don’t know if I ever explicitly gave up my faith in God, but I stopped praying for a long time. And I didn’t really give God much thought. I had been through a decent amount of trauma in my life as a kid and teenager, and by the time I was 20 I had basically just given up on everything. I didn’t take care of myself, my family was falling apart, I slept with a bottle of whiskey under my bed, and I was in a relationship with a narcissist who treated me like I was garbage, and I believed it. I hated myself and thought I was worthless.
I lived on a fast, busy road. Sometimes at night, I would stand in the middle of the road and close my eyes. I wanted a car to come and kill me. I would call the suicide hotline number almost every night just because I wanted someone to talk to.
When I was 24, I was driving down a highway far away from my home. I had been publicly humiliated this particular day because I had done something stupid as a result of trying to impress my narcissistic partner. I was driving 3 hours to get back home. I had a lot of alone time to sit with this terrible feeling. I was beating myself up. I would say things like this to myself “stupid. You’re so fucking stupid. You never do anything right. You should fucking kill yourself”.
I don’t expect people to believe this next part, but I do. I consider this the most important moment of my life. I felt, for a few moments, like the sky opened up. And the world showed itself to me in a new light. I can’t describe the feeling, but all I can say is it was more powerful than anything I’d felt before or since. It was as if something was telling me without words “you don’t deserve to be feeling this way. You can make changes in your life. Get away from these people that hurt you. You don’t have to stay with them. Look at this world. It’s beautiful. I made this for you. I love you. You can become more than what you’ve been set up to be. Your life is yours, spend it the way you want”. Tears were streaming down my face. This lasted for a few minutes. I drove the rest of the way home.
After this experience, I began making changes in my life. I got rid of people who were hurting me. I learned to stand up for myself to my family, bosses, partners, friends, or enemies. I began reading, eating better, exercising. I slowly became disciplined in my life. I lost 20 pounds of fat and started putting on muscle. I eventually got engaged to a great woman who inspires me to better myself, supports me, and cares about me. I stopped drinking. I began sorting out my mental health and working through my trauma. I also bought a Bible from Barnes and noble. And I began to pray again and go to church.
All of this stuff didn’t happen to me overnight though. It’s not like God came down and zapped away all of my problems. There were a lot of horrible, depressing, low moments for me. And moments where I committed awful, shameful acts. Mostly these happened when I was drinking too much, or not in control of myself. Each time I felt like I couldn’t forgive myself, but the Bible told me that God would forgive me as long as I didn’t cross a certain line. There were times where this was the only thing that gave me hope. It wasn’t the promise of a perfect afterlife though, it was the idea that this tradition that was started by our ancestors and survived for thousands of years, was telling me that it was ok. That I’m not irredeemable, and that there was hope for me.
I had to do the hard work. All of it. I had to lift the weights, face the fears, dump out the liquor, and navigate my own life. If you’re expecting God to answer your prayers as if they’re demands, all I will say is that you are not God’s consultant. Prayer is a great way for you to sit down with yourself and think about what it is that you want out of life. If you’re praying everyday for a raise at your job (and you’re not an idiot), you will probably try to behave at work in a way that shows that you deserve a raise. Why would God, or even your boss for that matter, give you a raise just because you asked? You need to prove that you’re worthy of it. And that takes sacrifice. Which is a very important aspect of Christianity and prayer.
I’m not saying that I’ve got all the answers and that I know for a fact that God exists. All I’m saying is that God’s presence in my life has ONLY helped me. And it’s helped me in ways that I could have never imagined beforehand.
He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
Matthew 17:20
So, apparently nobody has faith even the size of a mustard seed, otherwise we would see mountains flying around everywhere, and all suffering in the world would end, because people with faith the size of a mustard seed, or larger would just be praying away all suffering.
@@Aphex217Twin it’s a metaphor bro
why would people be mean to you just because you were trying to impress your partner? that's so messed up
@FierySpirit5496 Experience isn’t evidence or proof. Because experience is just like the “yes, no, and wait” concept, it can be in any belief. It can be used no matter what which isn’t reliable.
For instance, one Christian and the other is a Muslim. They both have the concept of experience and testimony with others and themselves to rely on. To the extent of even calling it as “proof”.
If the Christian has an experience where a before they were in Christ life went downhill for them. But after knowing God, good things began to happen. To even their prayer being heard and healing a love one.
The Muslim can say they same thing. They’ve gained the experience of good things happening to them and even healing being made in front of their eyes.
So who’s wrong? Both experiences can be placed as evidence and proof for about any other belief, is that even reliable? Faith and experience is not enough because faith and experience isn’t reliable when it can make about anything the “truth” if someone wants to.
It's very simple. You make a claim, you prove it. You say there is god, you prove it. No excuses.
After watching my God fearing mother die horribly from cancer praying every day up to her last breath convinced God was testing her told me everything I need to know about prayer. That being said if prayer makes you feel better and you believe which could lead to a placebo effect on some things then I'm all for it. I'm 100% for people doing what is right for them and not judging them for it as long as they are not hurting others. Good video though, I quite enjoyed it.
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Take it God fearing is not what you want to be but God loving. Guess a lot of people think God to be Santa's big brother to give them Gifts when prayed for. If thise who claimto be bright really would be they would understand the subject of prayer to be to accept reality and to reflect and thank for your givens and to ask for strength to help others despite your own problems. You be amazed how you will be transformed
+William Open Your Mind! looks like your mind caught a draft.:-) The "lies the bible say can happen" The lie is born in your greedy head that tells you to receive means that you have your wish fulfilled. Your materialistic worldview makes you look at that 2000 year old book only using materialistic thinking and believe your thinking to reflect real life. pull your head out of the sand you put it into
+William Open Your Mind! so you are one of the "brights" that believe prayer does not work because no one has got a led regrown as an answer to prayer". can't get more materialistic. :-)
+William Open Your Mind! what a draft in your "mind" :-)
+William Open Your Mind!
I know you have the winds in your head but :
"at least I don't believe in fairy tails ....."
Are you sure they are not supposed to have them ?
when i was a kid i found this by accident and i got scared and turned it off. now i'm an athiest lol
lol same
You infidels just don't understand. The Jug of milk (peace be upon him) has helped me through up and down. OPEN UR EYES!!!!! THE JUG OF MILK IS REAL!!
I remember watching this when I was really young and it was honestly one of the first things that really started making me question
+Yit Did you question if your prayer was implying you to be God and that you had a silly understanding of God being Santa's big brother with the ability to do magic, e.g. to give you your own delusion of reality?
+fourteatwo The Bible does depict god as a magical being.
+bret shepard It is magic to the naive. Once you are past puberty you should be able to understand it
The definition for magic is the power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural forces. I think that sums up god. And saying that when I'm past puberty I will understand could be said about anything and any religion. Say you meet a Muslim, Atheist, ect. you would say something to the context of when you're older you will understand and they would say that same thing to. How can you say that when I'm older that I will suddenly look at things differently. Sometimes people have a different mindset, they look at the world differently than you or I would. Sorry if I came off rude but you came off a little rude yourself.
+bret shepard If you still believe the bible stories are about magic you have not yet passed puberty. Take the story of the wedding at Canaan - an absolute non-magic event. If you claim Jesus turned water into wine by magic you imply that he found it embarrassing that someone had not enough money to buy enough booze and that that a tasty wine would be more valuable than the water used for ritual cleansing. People who believe the bible stories to be about magic need to grow up.
A major contributing problem is that people hate being proven wrong. Imagine being told everything you've believed your whole life is a lie. Imagine you start to have an inkling that it may be true. Most people will fight viciously to protect their ego rather than come to terms with the new information. And religion preys (no pun intended) on that human trait. People invest too much of themselves in their beliefs to easily give them up when confronted with conflicting evidence or the truth. Religion and god are a crock. Deal with it.
Atheists try to protect their ego more than anyone I've ever met, though. They are too proud of their own intellect to accept anything else.
@@billyholly One side of this equation uses reason and evidence in it's conclusions, the other not. The "not" camp is irrelevant and to be discounted out f hand.
@@GusAndrikopoulos You're making a sweeping generalization and already discounting what I might respond. When one prays using reason (understanding how God works) and unlikely occurrences take place, why is that not evidence? It might very well be a "sample size of one" but evidence could consist of only one person's testimony.
@@billyholly Every Atheist I have ever known, is wide open to evidence... Religious people, by and large, are not... that is what religious faith is... In order to believe it is true, you have to have FAITH... and FAITH, is a horrible gateway to truth... you can believe literally ANYTHING on FAITH...
@@travisjazzbo3490NONE fo the atheists I've been discussing with...for the last two years, is open to evidence. Here is today's example of another atheist on another thread, giving his response for an example of what He defines as "magic," but realistic evidence and not His Harry Potter statement. He's stuck on Harry Potter and can't think of another example. HELLOH SAYTIN replied: "billy have you not been reading this feed? I have expressly used the example of Harry Potter rising from the dead as my argument many times."
Children of three get taught of God, heaven, and thus also, hell.
Traumatized for life.
hilarious xD haha
+hekje12345 we should sue theese liars, they fucked up a lot of people.. unfortunatly it will always be here, it's a multi trillion dollar racket that ain't going away anytime soon.
And Pat that is what's so damn sad. Please religion, go the hell away.
That nothing you hear when you pray to god is never going to get any louder.
assuming a God, he is unable to answer prayers. By definition, God is perfect and omniscient. He knows the future. Any change made by answering a prayer would change this future he already has known from the beginning of time. According to this, there is no plan. Everything would happen exactly as it would as if everything is scripted. Asking for God to change something is also like saying, "God, I don't like your plan and want you to change it" That implies he is not perfect as people say he is.
James Scobie supposedly, prayer is factored into the plan, so his answer is already chosen, like, "Jane Doe is praying to have a healthy child, but I will make it only have one arm", God said, knowing that he would say it...
Patrick McElrath ...if he already knew, the baby would have been born without an arm anyway. regardless of a prayer.
So why do so many verses in the Bible tell us to pray to God? I'm not sure if you know this, but this thing called the Bible (which you probably haven't read) has this thing called the New Testament, which contains the Gospels. The Gospels describe this guy called Jesus, the son of your god, who tells us in detail how to pray.
Additionally, if your god knows everything, how can we have free will? And if we don't have free will, then all evil caused by your god.
Your statement would be the basis for the thesis of the beliefs of Calvinism, a branch of Christianity established by revival evangelist John Calvin who preached among other things the concept of predestination.
This is the metaphorical straw that broke the camel's back for me. I saw this video 10 years ago, and I was already on my way to disbelief. This was the tipping point.
So 10 years ago you were gullible to the idea that God ought to be a genie that fulfills your wishes if you pray to him and he loves you. And you still believe that is what God ought to be about? I understand this to be a tempting thought when you are in puberty as after all, than one thinks to the centre of the universe to be south of ones bellybutton. Considered getting out of puberty yet?
You can't convince them, even with something like this - they get 'em when they're young. The religious would say red is blue if the church told 'em to.
Antony Bates I grew up in a church but didn't believe a thing until I came to a realization by myself. I don't take everything church say for granted but I need church to grow and have fellowship in God. just wanted to say not every christians are like that.
Oh yes it can, it got me, thanks internet!!!!
So true!
I knew nothing of God or religion but came into contact with God at the age of 19 after I heard the gospel of Jesus Christ and asked for forgiveness of my sin, can’t explain that away.
No one will know the truth until they’re dead, so don’t force opinions onto others. Don’t assume that people believe in god because it was forced onto them. But also, don’t tell people that god will strike whoever doesn’t believe in god down. If we’re dead and it’s like we don’t exist anymore, like we don’t live anymore and we can’t think anymore, then there is no such thing as heaven or god. If our ‘spirits’ stay on Earth and we can watch over people, it is undecided whether god exists or not. If we go to ‘heaven’ when we die, then god does exist. Well at least that’s how I think of it.
I saw this video at 17 and made me start to question what I had been raised to believe. I'm now 28 and an atheist. I'm so much happier not feeling like a worthless piece of scum for being born "sinful". Thank you to whom ever made this video, it's profound impact has truly been life changing!!
I'M AN ATHEIST AND PROUD OF IT
"I am also going to assume that you are a smart person [...] and you have what people call 'common sense' "
Judging by the number of dislikes, about half the people watching this neither have common sense or are smart.
Dexxter face palm. Mass delusion at its best
Like you. no offense.
@@hogbowlbeats oof, you hit the Dunning-Krueger effect hard with this reply, huh?
@@AbandonedVoid I do underestimate myself often
@@hogbowlbeats I doubt it
It did not work because you had the wrong jug of milk.
The dislikes... They are angry because they have wasted a lot of time praying.
Will chocolate milk work? Or 2%? Or does it have to be regular milk? Will it even work if the milk has been HOMOgenized?
it has to sour milk. that what everyone has wrong
The National Razor stone the 2%, and enslave the chocolate milk.. now you're a good Christian, I mean milk worshipper...LMFAO
Why are you asking us? ASK THE JUG!
Why are there so many negatives on this video? It's really good.
I guess a lot of atheists find it embarrassing
You're not American or English, are you?
Let's see, I'm dying of thirst. Would I rather pray to a god or drink a gallon of milk? Hmm.
***** That was a useless comment. Are you really that bored? Go out and live. The world awaits.
***** The point, jerk, is that your prayers for water or milk would go unanswered. and you would die of dehydration too. How dense can you be?
***** right. pffft
I know I don't get it
If you were dying of thirst and believed God would "answer your prayer" by creating a glass of water for you, you do not understand prayer.
Prayer is not a vending machine for when we make poor decisions.
Prayer is so we might make good decisions instead of poor ones
If god existed he would have saved my Grandfather.
done the same, first when praying for my hamster, that later for grandma. Then I grew up and realised it wasn't about God fulfilling my wishes for reality when I prayed, not even if I added "and this I ask in the name of Jesus" to it for faster delivery, but I leant what it meant to pray in the name of of Jesus., e.g. to pray like him. Ever since my prayers are answered.
lol
Billy Bob Jones no, he is now in a better place, GOD TOOK HIM TO HIM!!!!!!!!!!
ok jk
so, there is no god because your grandpa was not saved?
why do you think that?
46% of people don't like the truth.
This video is truly inspiring.
Wow I cannot believe how many thumbs down this has, there really are a lot of people out there wasting their time praying. Absolutely amazing. All those same people ought to not seek medical help and instead pray. Good luck, praying to the jug of milk will give the same outcome as a god in your head by the way. We have hands, we need to use them to accomplish things, not clasp them together and hope.
I was dismayed too, but it turns out a lot of those are from people that were disappointed at not seeing any real optical illusions (which is understandable).
It's because this was created in a time that not much people believed in atheism, everyone was Christian, but today the likes have been increasing much more rapidly
fringe *"this was created in a time that not much people believed in atheism"*
2006?
ExtantFrodo2 yes...
fringe
So we're gaining ground quite rapidly. Cool.
I was like 12-13 years old when I first watched this video, it only took 8 minutes to for me to go from believing in prayer to being absolutely convinced that its bullshit
Congratulations on getting out of that awful way of living. If you look at some of these comments.. recent ones, particularly, you can see just how close you were to becoming one of those psychopaths. Welcome to the rest of your life. 😊
@@shanehutchinson6350 wish I could see the look on you and your athiest friends face when the rapture happens and you and your friends are left behind on Earth to stay with Satan :)
@@scottydual864 you'll see no such thing, because your god is in your mind. Pray he proves himself to me. I'll come back when he does and apologize to you.
Have a great life!!!
@@shanehutchinson6350 This is what's wrong with people. Calling people with different beliefs "psychopaths". I pray you find the Lord.
@@hogbowlbeats they're psychopaths if they have, not only a "different" belief, but one that stunts them, makes them closed-minded, teaches them they are special and people like me are evil. Don't pray I find your lord, I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
This is the video that made me an atheist!
I watched a video of the telling of bible stories. Say the bullshit in the first ten minutes.
What a shame you became an atheist because of a strawman
@@Kuraimizu9152 yeah, it sure is sad and heartbreaking to see a lot of comments saying that they are now ' athiest '. But you know, there's no such thing as a real athiest. In fact, the bible even says that everyone, including those who claim they are non-believers, knows that God is real. Look up Romans 1:18-19 when you have a chance. For the wrath of God is revealed upon all unrighteousness, who SURPRESS the truth. Meaning they know the real truth, but they don't want to accept it.
@@jordancoronado1736 I can't tell if you're joking or not
@@toasty9339 No i'm not
It's too long. I recommend editing this down to 4 minutes max.
The part where you're asking about problems, why did you go into such detail??
It came off as mighty creepy.
Good journey.
I would add that prayer does not necessarily have no benefit. Prayer can help direct the mind stably to a certain goal, and consistency of purpose is a positive factor in striving for success. In this case, it is a prayer of aspiration. There can be situations where a distracted mind will miss the opportunity to further one's goals, whereas a focused mind will be more likely to notice the chance when it appears. But just groveling in passivity is not very likely to result in much that is beneficial, except perhaps more "waiting'.
Prayers r just
positive affirmations
Some people look upon using prayer to gain some sort of advantage, prayer to them is a type of religious entitlement mentality, eg, if I pray hard enough I get the goodies, cash and prizes etc.
The truth hurts sometimes.. and that's ok. We need to progress as a society and forget our mythological heritage
Ask a betting man how he has done he will only talk about the wins - thats how prayer works.
The thing is Yes/no/ and wait are always true even if you don't pray. Those are the only outcomes that CAN happen for any want or need in life, or even most activities.
Say you go to start your car, it either will start (yes) or it won't start (no) or it might start after several tries (wait).
Lets say you need 100$ to pay a bill, You either will get it someway somehow (yes) or you won't (no) or you might get it but a little later down the road (wait).
Lets say you're playing Craps you either will get snake eyes (yes) or you won't (no) or you may after many rolls (wait).
This is the only outcomes in anything in life, it either happens or it doesn't or it happens later. And this is true even if you don't pray to anything. It is the only things that can happen (the only other thing that could happen is you die lol). This is true if you don't pray, if you pray to the biblical god, or Zeus, or Fairies, or Gandalf, or cat shit.
Because these are the only outcomes that can happen about anything in life.
JUG OF MILK FTW.
I hate debates. Let's live our lives and believe in what we believe in and just live.
Philly Wonken I never thought I could agree w/ a brony, but I can agree w/ an atheist, pal. : )
And let's ignore the fact that believing in god has hurt ten's of billions of people over all the thousands of years.
illusion466 "Every one of those things are banned in the bible. To partake in any one of them, would be against gods will."
Okay partner, here we go! :D
There are many verses in the bible which condone the atrocities Philly Wonken mentioned. Since you are ignorant enough to have not fully read through your copy of the bible (and the millions of other versions -- talk about your consistency), I'll do you the favour of enlightening you.
Bible verse (out of the many) that condone..
Slavery:
However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
Misogyny & Rape
DEUTERONOMY 20:14 Take women, livestock as plunder. 22:13-21 Stone non-virgin bride. 22:23-24 Stone rapist and rape victim. 22:28 Rape victim must marry rapist; rape victim’s father compensated for depreciation of his property. 25:11-12 Cut woman’s hand for touching foe’s penis. 24:1-5 Man can “send” wife from HIS house. Man must not marry “used” woman
2 SAMUEL
5:13 David took many wives and concubines.
CH 13 Ammon rapes his own sister.
16:21-22 Absalom sleeps with his father’s concubines.
6:20-23 Mischal punished with bareness.
1 KINGS
11:3 Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
Murder:
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Genocide:
2 Samuel 24:1 - And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
1 Samuel 15:3 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Judges 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
And it goes on and on... :) I think the important point here, if you have gotten this far, is that the proper key in argument here should be that: why believe in something which there is no evidence for? do we know how life was created? No. So why believe fervently an illogical and unfalsifiable idea that there is a man who lives in the sky that breathed the first man from dust (which has been proven to be false, for that would call for the suspension of biological processes, and also evolution is now as much of a fact as the earth rotating around the sun), that has control over the things you do, the thoughts you think and the position you have sex in? honestly, it sounds a bit silly to me :) and it is. anyone who believes this is ignorant.
Zsavage1 haha well babes ignorance means they're lacking in knowledge, and Im sure if a self-respecting religious person observed their practices from an objective point of view while having done their proper homework, they'd kind of realise all the flaws and falsifications. People always say "respect others religions and let them believe what they want to".. see this wouldnt be a problem if there were no christian schools or islamic schools but there ARE. religion is being forced upon them before they can even reach an age of reason. besides, I think we owe it to each other if one of us isn't making proper sense, the other should tell them, and likewise.
Zsavage1 I believe its because of the plasticity of the brain. Our children are born empty, and know only what they observe or are told, thus if you teach a child that the answer to everything is god and life is about serving god then thats all he knows, and its hard to get out of him because hes being told every day, which strenghtens the neural connections :c
Jug of milk > God
The jug of milk exists, and is beneficial. ;-)
Prayer and faith are the lazy way out. Someone needs help, if your a christian you can just say, aw that is so sad, lets pray. Or you could be a good person and say aw that is so sad, let me make a donation or actually go help them!
So true man I'll donate you for your comment for real but how?
I really want a glass of milk after watching this, so....milk wins..
Religion is a cult but God is and always will be love
I tell people that I don't believe in god and they're like... but you have to believe in god, he made everone. I say to them... Then how do you explain all the non-Christian people out there?
And the numbers are growing by the second. Praise the lawd.
22,940 downvotes. Meaning there were probably over 22,000 people praying you'd delete this video...
Do you think that there are that many atheists embarrassed about Marshall revealing their shallow thinking :-)
this video and his other one asking why God does not heal amputees are perfect material to demonstrate how to do critical thinking properly by thinking critically about a self proclaimed critical thinker, that's why I upvoted it :-)
So my theory is that they pray because it gives them a sense of hope that there is a possibility something might actually happen to help or save them.
*There's no result that falsifies the experiment of prayer.*
When they pray & get what they were praying for then it's "God god is gracious & good"
When they pray for one thing & something ELSE happens to occur to be of benefit to them then "See god doesn't give you what you want, he gives you what you need."
When he doesn't seem to be there at all (most of the time), it's "See, god is testing me"
You could get the same results praying to a jug of milk.
"There's no result that falsifies the experiment of prayer."---ExtantFrodo2
Questionable clause fallacy.
Rooker11111 I just ask you can answer or not as you see fit. What result would falsify the experiment of prayer?
Seriously? Test it yourself you morons.
The Problem with this video: God is not a jug of milk.
i agree with you
then what is god lol do you know what god looks like
So now you've deleted two of my comments (along with many other people's comments)... All because I don't agree with you. Censorship is effective. It's also dishonest. You're a shining example of a Christian. Keep it up.
Yeah real nice dude. The only comment he left was "I agree with you".
The problem this video exposes: You can't distinguish if praying to God is any more efficient than praying to a jug of milk.
The fact you believe God not being a jug of milk is a problem with this video shows that you do not understand the purpose of the comparison to begin with.
But hey, how long before you delete this comment as well?
This video made me an atheist ten years ago, and, god willing, I am about to repay you the only way I can :D
Thanks man!
+Bassam Nabil
if ten years ago you still believed that praying to God meant asking Santa to make your wishes come true have been an atheist anyhow as you believed in Santa not God.
Two comments, it's not a jug of milk, it's a container of milk.
Prayer does work; last night before going to bed, I prayed that I wanted to wake up in the morning and it worked.
+Rog5446 it is one of those great lines in "the little prince" that to command the sun to rise works if you connan it to do so at sunrise. I suggest to use the video in RE classes as to teach the concept of prayer not to be asking Santa's big brother for presents or miracles but to ask God how you can be a miracle for others. those are the prayers that are answered.
I asked God to take away my habit. God said, No. It is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
I asked God to make my handicapped child whole. God said, No. His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary.
I asked God to grant me patience. God said, No. Patience is a by product of tribulations; it isn't granted, it is learned.
I asked God to give me happiness. God said, No. I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.
I asked God to spare me pain. God said, No. Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares and brings you closer to me.
I asked God to make my spirit grow. God said, No. You must grow on your own, but I will prune you to make you fruitful.
I asked God for all things that I might enjoy life. God said, No. I will give you life, so that you may enjoy all things.
I asked God to help me LOVE others, as much as He loves me. God said...Ahhhh, finally you have the idea.
THIS DAY IS YOURS DON'T THROW IT AWAY
May God Bless You,
'To the world you might be one person, but to one person you just might be the world'
Wow, that's a lot of text for you to have failed to refute anything in the video.
If I were more cynical, I would suspect you of trying to change the subject, but I like to give people the benefit of doubt.
I wasn't trying to refute the video... I was just stating what I believe. I think God says no a lot more than yes. You can look at a lot of real world things with this perspective and this be true... in other situations and in other questions. If this were true than most every thing would be an optical illusion. The bible says that God can work through any thing using any thing... If not then that would go against the very definition of God.... whose to say God doesn't work through coincidences. Thank you for respecting me and not being like a lot of other people and just going straight to insults. I wont try to force my religion upon you.
***** Well, if you won't refute any of the claims made in the video, then anyone reading your post can safely assume that the claims in the video are either true, or that you are unable to explain what's wrong with them.
I told you you i'm not trying to change anyone's mind or refute the video. I am just posting why I believe in God, I can do that if I want. People can believe what they want believe. What is with you atheist... y'all are always trying to start some kind of theological debate for absolutely no reason... If an atheist can post and atheist video then I (a Christian) can post a Christian comment...
***** You can, but any fence-sitters watching this video are going to be struggling with difficult answers to difficult questions. Even strong believers struggle with basic questions about intercessionary prayer.
So it is in this environment that you offer opinions completely unrelated to the topic of discussion. Any believers who are currently struggling with these questions will likely see your response as evidence that good responses don't exist.
When I saw this back in 07-08 when it went viral (or what was considered viral back then) I was a kid. I remember hearing the initial argument that takes place in the first 4 minutes. My immediate reaction was to reinforce the arguments against this video that I had been taught in church and to use various poor apologetics.
I felt a sense of fear and anxiety and literal searing pain in my chest. I remember it so vividly. I thought it was due to it being the first time I'd experienced Atheism in the wild and that these people actually exist. I believed they were sinners.
I realize now that the feelings I had were because I thought I was committing sin. I felt it because I realized that a logical refutation for the existence of god was made to me for the first time and it actually made sense. I was sinning and on the path to becoming an apostate.
I finished this for the first time in 13 years as a proud agnostic atheist free from the beliefs that gave me such anxiety. It wasn't just this video that changed me. It'd be another 4 years or so. But, I am a person who values logic.
This video is calm, to the point, and makes a great analogy. If we could still rate videos, I'd give it 5 stars.
I tried praying to my jug of milk and a 10lb slab of meat fell out of the sky and into my swimming pool.
Holy cow!
I believe Milk is REAL.
Religion ain't philosophy! Totally disagree!
I know the title is a bit clickbait and I fell for it when I first saw this video years ago - probably something like 2008 or 2009 (I was looking for actual optical illusions for fun). But this is genuinly THE video that opened my eyes and transformed me into a rational person I am today. Thank you.
Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior the jug of milk?
saddly, it died of thirst shortly after this video was made :( Gone but never forgoten... RIP
yes.. but WHICH jug of milk do i prey to?
why does this video have so many dislikes
Because he's an atheist
Paul Ajatuewo It is titled "Best Optical Illusion in the World", but it is just a sermon. An atheists sermon, but a sermon none the less. It is annoying when Christians use misleading headlines to draw you into a sermon. It is just as annoying when Atheists do it.
Because there still are lots of stupid in this world.
Thanks so much for this video, It was a huge awakening for me, I remember seeing it on the liked list of one of my favorite RUclipsrs back when I was 13 or so and It finalized my departure from Christianity. I had always questioned the existence of a god when I was a child around 9 or 10 years old, when I saw this video I made a much better life for myself and for some friends around me. The only thing is that I think my grandmother and great grandmother would be disappointed in me and they are far too invested in religion to let an 8 minute long video change their stance, they would probably disown me. So out fear of being ridiculed as possibly the only non Christian of my extended family I will wait for them to die out so the newer generations can be shown truth.
shows your level of intellectual capacity now and then to let you depart from Christianity by it's shallow argumentation. You should have checked why your "Christianity" was about praying to Santa to fulfill your wishes. Who taught you to ask God for your will to be done and that prayer is about wish fulfillment instead of helping you to fulfill God's will?
Hope they disowned you and put their inheritance to more worthy causes than your shallow and selfish existence.
Sorry for having caught you out on your naivity about praying to Santa. If you find the argument that God does not grow legs on amputees when they wish for it, as Marshall Brain argues, an easy to understand argument for the non existence of God you only demonstrate that you have the mental concept of a spoilt child about God being Santa's big brother. Only an irrational person would look for an irrational God doing magic to fulfill their wishes. A logically thinking person would look for a God that is logic and has put reality under the law that makes it accessible to human thought by being bound to such logic, and that is what the evidence shows us.
To pray like Marshall Brain explains in this "easy to understand" video only shows the materialism of those who pray like him, and I would hope that such prayers do not work, and thank God, science does seem to prove that point.
Now that you help others in your daily life is commendable as we all have an innate tendency for altruism as our survival depends on it. After all, what rules evolution is the law, e.g the word of God that is the foundation of all existence, to love thy neighbour like thyselves. And if you fail to understand this to be the essence of Christian teaching but your Christianity was about getting your wishes fulfilled you better leave your belief system and try to become a Christian.
oh mighty jug of milk
this made sense . i actually thought about this before... like if you pray for something one day , then it happens 6 months later , how do you know it was the prayer or just the fact that it was gonna happen? idk its a very controversial topic but it makes sense if you pay attention and have an open mind.
"In the beginning Man created God in his own image."
That's what happened, but that is NOT what GOD, Creator of the universe, ACTUALLY said to us! DIFFERENCE!
I try to keep my ass out of religion. By Birth, I am a Christian/Catholic and was Baptized. I went to church in my early years and decided against it when i got older. I am more of a half Atheist than any thing. I believe that there is in fact a god, just not the one that my religion describes. I only believe in certain parts of the bible. I believe that something would have had to create the universe. Due to there being no scientific evidence (Other then the big bang Theory) I just choose to believe that Maybe a god made it. I also believe in the concepts of Heaven . I believe that once you die, you are taken to a "Heaven". Due to their being zero evidence about anything related to it, I choose that there is a god. I do not believe in the concept of Homosexuality being bad or anything like that. I just don't know where I stand.
What is your reason for believing in god or heaven? And which god do you mean?
God is always the fill in answer to questions we don't know the answer to. The Big Bang Theory may be true or not, but either way, why does god have to be the answer? If there is a force that created all matter why call it god? That term has too much baggage attached to it. The Heaven thing is just fear of death. You need not fear though, it will be just like before you were born. You won't be aware of anything. I am not afraid of the centuries before I existed and I don't fear my future non existence. You shouldn't either.
John Doe Force that created the universe? If you blew up a Home Depot, would that force create a neighborhood let alone a doghouse? No. Keep the faith though.
Michael Ferris Huh???
Michael Ferris blow up and force do not nessessarly mean the same thing. I used it instead of the word create. I have no faith to keep.
Haven't seen this video in years and just came back! Was one of the first reasons I started questioning my faith.
this jug of milk guy sounds kind of smart and cool, not going to lie
How many people are praying for a negative on a pregnancy test?
+LadyEvilest i never prayed when my girlfriend thought she may be pregnant but everyone else did, turns out she was, maybe god would have answered thier prayers if i'd prayed too, prayer is for the delisusonal..
+LadyEvilest All those who believe God is a genie in the sky occasionally fulfilling their wishes. They might as well play the lottery. It makes sense to pray for the strength to deal with the situation arising from having had sex and to learn to accept that reality has arrived on your doorstep.
+Pat Brennan to pray to be released from responsibility for your actions shows that you are delusional indeed. Take it God answered the prayer loud and clear by not releasing them from their responsibility but those who can't take no for an answer better insist on prayer being delusional then to risk a no :-)
Please god, don't let my condom leak.
I posted this video on FB about a year ago. I forgot I even posted it, until my cousin who is very religious, just PM'd me that he wants me to remove the post from FB because it bothers him. I said, just delete it. I said, "You're always sending me religious stuff & I never complain at all. I like the jokes & stuff you send. But the religious stuff bothers me." We'll see if I ever hear from him again. He'll probably delete ME from FB. lol
He didn't delete me. We talked it out and now we're good.
He still sends me religious stuff. I just delete it.
That's not *OPTICAL* illusion...
The point was that a jug of milk is more useful than a prayer.
You could have ruined a Christians life with this video
I am not against
James Crothers Well the way you wrote your comment makes it look like that.
Nixion Trial Yeah, what em I supposed to tell you? "People have opinions and beliefs", you're a machine m8. Lol I am talking to a machine :< ain't that a thing of the future?
Etillion I have no idea what are talking about, so bye!
This video converted me.
*ALL HAIL OUR MILKY LORD!*
That's an utter miracle.
"God is no different than a jug of milk."
How dare you say that about milk!
The Wizard of Oz is beginning to hit different now.
After watching this video, I became an atheist. And for that I thank you very much!.
This is exactly what I needed. It helped me give me that last push, to open my eyes.
Thanks.
this isnt an optical illusion.
WarioWill yes, yes it is actually. Cuz you can't see the prayer being answered
You've convinced me! I have converted to Lactarianism.
The problem is that prayer is not begging. Prayer is believing you already have it. Every christian is indoctrine into believing God answers begs, but He says to believe you already have it. Every christian I know doesn't believe he already has was he has prayed for so nothing happens. Watch the movie the secret so that you can understand better.
looks like you have a reply that is hidden to the public.
Well spotted that Christianity does not teach us to ask God to change reality according to our will, but then the pubertarian thinks to be his bellybutton to be the centre of the universe and that his will ought to be done.
Well your first 2 assumptions are mutually contradictory. If they are Christian they aren't going to be smart and have common sense.
Also, it isn't an optical illusion. It is part of a con.
OMG! Thank You. I have learned something important today.
God is a Jug of Milk.
+Dexxter the jug of milk was real, i saw it with my own eyes, ''so there''.
Ok
However, I can see a jug of milk, I can drink a jug of milk, a jug of milk will give me nutrients. I can't see god, and he definitely doesn't feed me.
EXPLAIN to me where all the plants and animals and seafood that you consume came from! Where did the sun that grows the plants, and the moon, and the oceans and the land, and the VAST species of insects, animals, birds, etc. come from?! EXPLAIN to me where the changing SEASONS came from, etc., etc., etc.! I hope you're not STOOOPID enough to say "the Big Bang" 'created' everything, and that there was NO Creator!!!
@@janishart5128 Hey, God never exist, Men created the illusion of god. Science Will find out what creates the universe, but Religion? Never, that's too old of a cult that will never find out.
This video confirmed my atheism to me 10 years ago. Crazy.
God is real god is real god is real
Did you plug your ears while chanting that? :)
I'm imagining this dude huddled in the corner, head clasped in both hands, saying this to himself while rocking back and forth to comfort his compromised theist mind.
Lol, I favorited this years ago and it's still kicking it.
I'm a Christian, though not a perfect one, I have flaws and doubts and I am a sinner. I love science, I don't believe all the stories in the bible are 100% factual. I believe in evolution and that the earth and universe are billions of years old. My beliefs may vary from others but at its core I believe in Jesus Christ and his teachings and miracles. Prayer is not a letter to Santa. I don't think that if I pray hard enough I will win the lottery or my team will win the Super Bowl. I pray when I need guidance and to give thanks. Prayer is about feeling closer to God. No I cannot scientifically prove the existence of God. I don't think that can be done. Instead of scientific proof I have faith. I think that is what non-believers have the biggest problem with, faith cannot be argued with or proven false. My faith sustains my soul when doubts begin to creep in. Without faith the word of God would seem like nothing more than a fairy tale. Your video was very patronizing and you spoke to your intended audience like they were children. I encourage you to give faith a try, but I don't think that I have changed your beliefs in any way as you have not shaken my faith at all. God bless you.
+Mike Burnett It is indeed the problem of people to belief that prayer is to send your wishes to Santa's big brother and by saying and this I wish in the name of Jesus would make sure it has to be answered - and if not it would prove that there is no God. I remember when I was a child to pray to God for my hamster not to die, then for my Grandmother. Then I grew up but unlike many of those who conclude that the reason that my will was not done was not because there is no God but because I understood that I wasn't the centre of the universe and prayer was not about my will being done but about saying thanks for being there and to understand the will of God. For those stuck in puberty it is too difficult to let go of the idea that the centre of the universe is somewhere below their bellybutton :-)
+Mike Burnett Faith = belief without evidence. Why would I or any atheist want to try this?
+Bejīta Breigh they are the only people having such faith in the absence of any God. To a rational being Faith is trust in truth of something in the absence of proof, as they form their beliefs based on evidence given by other people and their personal experience or rational deductions.
+Mike Burnett you are a dishonest man mike, pick heads or tails, there are no other options on a coin flip..
Life, like faith, is not black and white, up or down or heads or tails. You don't know me so don't question my honesty, in return I wont question your intelligence.
You can do a simple test to see if god is real. If god really wants atheists to believe in him and other non believers, then an atheist needs to say “have an apple appear in my hand”. If it does then god exists, if not then not