What’s funny is he makes all atheists out to be these contemptuous creatures that don’t care about anyone and the only thing stopping them from committing murders or horrific acts is their own lack of giving a shit, when, I’m an atheist BECAUSE I have empathy and look at the abrahamic god as an absolute moral abhorrence let alone completely impossible, and I used to be a hardline Christian lmao.
@@LuubelaarHe's already demonstrated that he's easily convinced of nonsense. I don't think giving him a Christian delusion will keep him from murder or other violent crime.
His ability to lie is tied to his ongoing psychopathy. This creature is both broken and dangerous. So of course apologetics is an attractive job for him.
@@Puremindgames I wasn’t saying he was a good liar, just that he shows no emotion while describing torturing small animals and hunting people for sport.
If someone tells you they are a psychopath who has attempted murder, it‘s okay to take their word for it. Even if they are lying you should probably keep your distance.
I suspect he IS a psychopath, so he has no problem embellishing his stories. Maybe he FANTASIZED about doing all of these things & is just presenting them as having actually happened.
@@zemorph42 What are you talking about? There is no test that is taken to show if one is a pyschopath. A mental health professional can assess a patient as one after extensive time spent with a patient. But they can't sit down and give someone a test to determine if they are are aren't a psychopath.
@@solomonverrico I especially like on the train he says "I am the most evolved human" and the lady behind him doesn't even glance up from her book. She is well aware of idiots like him wandering around with a camera crew.
@@solomonverricoI think he's operating on a digitized background. Nobody in the background seems to be reacting to him or even noticing him in any way.
I watched this entire video of his some time ago. It convinced me this guy was a scary mental case. It was no wonder someone like this man fell for the God story. He had all sorts of wild, unfounded beliefs as he grew up. He appeared to be easily convinced of things with absolutely no solid reasoning or evidence. He confused his overinflated ego and mental disorder for being "better" than others. None of which had a thing to do with atheism. If I saw this guy on the street today I'd cross the road for my own safety. By the way. Cats really do run the world. I have been assured of this by my own cats.
@@QuintarFarenor -- why can't it be both? At some point in his life he accepted the Christian message, and is now trying to sell it. I don't actually believe all of his stories in this video. He's overdoing the atheist stereotype to ridiculous lengths. But, he's also making personal claims about himself that may be based in some reality. Even if a fraction of it is a true picture of his mental processes, he's a nutjob.
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." "Confess, my son." "Well...I've been spending time with a guy who might be a bad influence." "What is this person like?" "Well, he feels he can do whatever he wants to whoever he wants, wherever, whenever and however he wants & no one can judge him." "Good Heavens, my son, avoid this person!" Thank you for your wise counsel, Father. I'll ditch Jesus immediately!
😂👌 I'd would switch father and Jesus and start it with 'Jesus my Lord,.." Then finished with, "Thank you my Lord, i'll head your word and avoid your Father entirely."
If there's truth to this story, it sounds to me like a sociopath who participated when he was in prison in a rehabilitation program based on Christianity. He faked becoming Christian and got out on parole. Now he's making some money on it.
Psychopath, not sociopath. The definitions vary a bit, but the general consensus seems to be that psychopaths are more "okay" with their own issue, _really_ good liars, and often pretty charismatic, while sociopaths are more unstable and unhinged.
Or maybe... just maybe! God exists- only not "in reality" ... now I can already hear... both religions and non-believers saying that's the same as saying He doesn't exist... That's crap! if God- is outside time and space ... and reality is 100% inside of time and space .. then God would have to reach us outside reality or He would have to break the Laws of the Universe to manifest into reality... Maybe just maybe ... the God of our earth - the one who feels deeply for humanity.. is also the source of life on our planet (so was "part" of the source that created us) ... is able to us dreams/Visions/hallucinations to reach ppl... only because we also have free will and our own desires - its very very easy for humans to twist everything we are shown... Maybe ... just maybe.. The God of earth... the one who talks in our dreams -wants humans to tend the garden and care for earth (the source of life) Maybe He is also not the most powerful source out there... maybe the God of the earth ... can't break the Laws of the Universe... without the "god" of the Universe (the source of death) - would distory most life on our planet (again) if He tried
@@Dock284(I’m agreeing w you) which is fine, if someone HAS to believe in god, deism is the line where you don’t have to lie to yourself. Anything beyond that and they’ve become anchors on society.
What happens if someone is able to "prove" God? Would every single Human then be compelled to join the religious movement that proves IT? Would we ALL forever become Slaves to that religious movement 🤔 If a God - truly wants us to be free from being forced to obey those who can "prove" him ... we would never be able to prove that God exists. -otherwise He would have to take over and micromanage every single fight We have and pick sides ... cuz if one side can prove that God is on thier side .. everyone would be forced to join. -the only God you can prove... is one that doesn't love humanity enough to actually give us freewill And if we truly have Freewill- then NO it doesn't matter if You believe in Him or not- that would be a very very stupid way to judge humanity Cuz then we would just lock eachother into prison camps and not share the truth with those we deem inferior
Yeah. There's something totally terrifying seeing an individual who seems to have no empathy. Only 7 minutes in, and I had to stop watching. If believing in God is the only thing that helps him behave in a civilized fashion, then I really hope he maintains that belief.
@@TonyLambregts I had a good acquaintance (wouldn't go so far as to call him a friend) who was a diagnosed (and therapied) psychopath. While it was a little unsettling every now and then, it was _nowhere near_ as bad as Woody here. I'd say David's psychopathy isn't the main issue, it's that he's a complete and total assh*le, has always been one, and sees _zero_ reason to change (only present himself _as if_ he had...)
@@TonyLambregts there was a great remark in the comments of his 'debate' with dillahunty. 'the moment in the debate you realise that if dillahunty convinces him (that there isn't a god) no-one leaves the room alive !'
@haydenwalton2766 I see that the thread is still active on that comment. The debate was about morality, and for me, it comes down to that there is no such thing as objective morality. If there was such a thing as objective morality, it would exist without a god. If god is the arbiter of what is moral and what is not, then by definition, subject to that mind.
8:17 it's funny he mentions the anarchist cookbook when he talks about pipe bombs... considering that book doesn't actally contain any instructions to build one.
@@blastortoisethe book was supposedly altered by the government to make recipes un-workable. There's Supposedly unaltered copies in the wild. I dunno, the only bombs I have are on dvd.
In a debate with Matt Dillahunty, he said if not for his beliefs he would kill people. Matt told him he hoped David continued to believe in his god for the sake of everyone else. Clearly his beliefs did nothing for him. He's still a psychopath. I had no idea he made all this up. It's weird so many of us just accepted his story to be true.
I refence Wood's story without checking it because it's a lose-lose for preachers: if he lied then he's a liar, if he's honest about his case hen I ask "imagine if the writer of your scripture was just like this... do you still believe?"
In the case of the bad underworld, there is 2 problems: 1. you can follow this dude up the stairs 2. someone deliberately built this really bad world and didnt tell them earlier they could leave
In The Allegory Of The Cave, the cave-dwellers CAN'T leave... they've been chained to the wall, and all they know of the realm outside their cave is the shadows that dance in the sunlight and by the light of the fire lit for them. All they know is the world of darkness and illusion, so they think the person who's been outside in the land above to be a madman, and have no desire to be free of their chains. Of course, what I just described is also the mindset of every insecure 14-year-old who braces against a sheltered upbringing. That they, like the madman of Plato's parable, are this enlightened and holy being separate from the simple-minded and ignorant cave-dwellers. And anyone who doesn't think and act as they do are those chained to the wall of that cave, happy to do nothing but cavort with shadow and illusion. This can also be the mind of a sociopath, but all a sociopath boils down to is an immature asshole who was never disabused of the idea that whatever's staring at them in the mirror is The Bright Center Of The Universe Around Which Everything Else Revolves.
also, in his analogy they would be the people that never went to the surface, claiming they know what it looks like because a long time ago someone else claimed they came form the surface and there is no proof of that, just a long line of gullible people that believed that one guy that you can't even be sure existed
I'll give him credit for memorizing this speech. He must have been at the top of his highschool speech class. But religion is in no way a cure for psychopathy.😊
@@hannajung7512 oh thanks, interesting. It was something I read about some years ago, maybe consensus has changed. But it is certainly true for the vast majority. We can't teach eople to care, we can't teach them to have empathy. Psychopathic disorders, narcissism, lack of empathy, maybe pathological dishonesty, these were descrbed in the thing I read as "pernicious disorders" which can't be treated, and it is pretty hard to imagine how they could be.
That actually makes so much sense. I kept watching thinking there would be no way I could feel comfortable preaching like that in a crowded subway. He definitely is not neurotypical.
Tbh if a guy says he killed people and gives a description of it, I would just fake to not understand what he says, just to be safe and not provoke him to be like "oh, you reacted to my story, you're my victim now"
So basically when "he wasn't an atheist", he made up other stories and was a psychopath and crazy already. I don't know why he thinks that is a good point in his favor.
So, let me get this straight so far (minute 7:33): he felt nothing upon the deaths of other beings and therefore thought he's an evolved creature while simultaneously having broken the law all his life. That is an overwhelming indication of a sociopathic personality as well as the calmness in which he makes those statements. No matter what comes next in this video it is ovbious that he is in desperate need of all the professional help he can get...
The reason he is so calm about it is, he has been telling this story as a grift for years. In a story one has been telling for years, it becomes really easy to be calm about it.
True that. This is the kind of person religion was created for, because he lacks the empathy and restraint found in normal people. The problem is, all religious people have ebbs and flows, days when they doubt their faith. A normal person feels some loss and despair. A sociopath having a crisis of faith (spurred on by a manic-depressive episode) doubts their god, then decides to solve their problems with violence. The man needs more treatment than just religion.
Recently one of Woody's sons died. Then Woody, a man who became internet famous by bragging about beating his father on the head with a ball peen hammer, went on a tirade about how evil atheists and Muslims are because they said mean things to him on the internet. I didn't exactly cry my eyes out for him.
I don't think it was a tirade. He wasn't upset so far as I could tell. I think he was calling out the low behavior of people insulting him for his son dying. Which, that is poor behavior, he's not wrong for that. I didn't watch the whole thing, but if he implied that people were nasty about his son BECAUSE of their belief system, he would be wrong for doing that. But again, didn't watch, don't even know if that's what he did.
@@acebailey2478 I have news for you. If you run a tube channel, people will say mean things to you in the comments section, especially if your channel is dedicated to disparaging out-groups like his is. "but if he implied that people were nasty about his son BECAUSE of their belief system he would be wrong for doing that." He didn't imply it, he said it outright. You seem to have missed my point. Bragging about beating your father's head in online is much more despicable than making fun of a stranger's misfortune, which is a bad thing as well.
@@acebailey2478if you don't have the information then why are you commenting? I've never understood the need for people to comment that they don't know anything about the situation but they're going to make a judgment call on it anyway.
It's plausible that religion was invented by sane people to deal with sociopaths like this. David: "Why shouldn't I hurt people." Society: "Empathy." David: "What's that?" Society: "Caring that other people don't want to be hurt." David: "I don't." Society: "OK, don't hurt people because we will punish you." David: "So it's OK to hurt people as long as I don't get caught." Society: "Um, no, there's a big judge you can't see but he can see you when you do bad things, and he'll punish you after you die." David: "OK, fine, I won't hurt people, even though I can't understand why that's bad."
As I mentioned earlier he shows all the marks of a sociopathic personality. And later on he gives the explanation why he still can't get rid of that: he wants to be special, he wants to be the first among equals because he deems himself to be the most intelligent person (with only _one_ being better - but that guy's no longer physically around, so he's no danger to his status) and therefore has to be speecial. Now he's joined a club that reenforces his need of assurance in that regard. Which wouldn't be necessary if he actually was, at least in part, as intellignet as he claims to be. The story of his life as he told it, though, seems to be as real and true to me as the storybook he such much worships.
I've made to where he says he was starving himself in jail. I work at a state funded mental hospital as a housekeeper, and I know people who work at the prison. He wouldn't make it past dinner of day one before somebody noticed, and he absolutely would not have made day three without forced medical intervention. Especially as he transferred from a mental hospital to the prison.😐
Thanks for confirming. I am not an expert but I have watched a lot about mental hospitals and life in prison and they watch them carefully. I have seen that they have the job of keeping them safe and intervening if they are sick or even put people on suicide watch. I would think after not eating they would quickly put him in the medical ward and start putting food into him via a feeding tube then make him go to a mental hospital. That part of the story does not check out to me based on a few documentaries alone.
A guy very similar to this came to my Christian middle school and started graphically telling a bunch of 13 and younger kids how he brutally SAed and murdered his sisters friend. Our principle stopped him and escorted him out of the building and apologized to us- but the damage was already done. Apparently his goal was to tell us that without God, this is how everyone will behave. Not sure why they didn’t review his story before hand- but here we are.
I bet he lied to them about the content beforehand, or just said something vague about "conversion story" and "Christian witness" that had them excited to welcome him.
Worse. His story is actually ‘I am convinced that I an the only special person in the world, that everything that happens to me, or that I do, is somebody else’s fault, and that I have the right to hurt other living organisms… and now I’m a Christian.’
“I was the perfect warrior! Cold and ruthless! I lived by my strength alone! Uninhabited by foolish emotions!” I’ve heard the story of the “more evolved” psychopath before, though all they demonstrate, aside from the numerous holes in their stories, is that they definitely don’t understand how evolution works because if they did, they wouldn’t think they’re “more evolved” to begin with
@@condorboss3339that is not the point though. We are not "more evolved" then any other living being around us, is the point. Evolution has not goal, no target point and thus no "better" or "more"
Exactly. Lacking empathy and cooperation with your society ends up with you being restricted by imprisonment or banishment, or death as you have proven to be a threat to the survive of the tribe. You are not the 'fittest' hence will not survive. Woods went to prison for what he did thus proving him wrong that he is some higher evolution or that there is no consequences to one's actions if there are no gods.
Unfortunatly, for all too many, believing in gods is a justification for them to commit atrocities against humanity. Hence christianity became a world dominant religion via following the biblical morals of genocide, slavery, rape, subjugation of women, paedophilia, denial of free speech, slaughter of non believers and lgbtq people, instead of using truth, love and the betterment of humanity.
The Cave people were suspicious. Interlopers had entered their subterranean realm. They spoke of a beautiful world above and urged the Cave people to quit their dark, dank world and follow them up to the light. But the Cave people weren't stupid. They split the intruders up and questioned them separately. Their stories lined up! Blue sky, yellow-orange sun, wind, rain, snow, seasons. So the Cave people quit their gloomy home and ascended to a better life. Yay! The Cave people were suspicious. Interlopers had entered their subterranean realm. They called themselves "Christians" and spoke of a god, his son Jesus and the "holy" book that told of these beings. But the Cave people weren't stupid. They split the intruders up and questioned them separately. Is your god okay with drinking alcohol? With smoking/toking? With preaching politics from the pulpit? With homosexuality? With women in the pulpit? With evolution? With sex outside of marriage? With tattoos? With Islam and Hinduism? With cussing? With abortion is some cases? The answers of these "Christians" were all over the place. Obviously _liars!_ The Cave people found the intruders delicious.
Except that most aren't actually psychopaths, they've only "othered" everyone outside their bubble of fellow believers, and it actually takes effort to empathize with people like that (due to how we evolved in "in-groups" and had to compete against, or even fight, pretty much every other nearby tribe for a long time)
Even if the Christian god existed, I’d rather live a secular lifestyle where I treat everyone with the respect they deserve and end up in Purgatory than be stuck in heaven with a mass murderer and stochastic terrorist
This genuinely has me being afraid for my safety. I'll be double checking the locks of the house tonight before going to bed. I hope the next video is something a little more light-hearted because BIG YIKES this man shouldn't be allowed to be outside, lies or not.
People who think the way this guy claims he did are not changed by conversion. If anything they become WORSE!! Because now they know that they can be rewarded in the afterlife just by saying "jesus i did a bad 😢 im reawwy sowwy and wont do it again uwu" and rinse and repeat. AND they can believe that if they didn't get caught, clearly god is protecting them and supporting their actions. Also this man was clearly Schizophrenic, not a psychopath. He's mentioning delusional beliefs including all the classics: delusions of grandeur, delusions of mind reading, and being watched, like.... that's schizophrenia my dude... Also isn't there a sect of Christianity that basically believes "I gotta make Jesus' sacrifice really count so I'm gonna sin a lot before being absolved"? Like?? Edit later on: Randy was a Christian but he committed 20+ felonies??? My dude, this is not the good look you think it is also pfft when he said "who can take a psychologically broken person and make them better?" my first thought was "A good therapist and possible medication?" because like... THAT'S THEIR JOB!!!
yeah, and in those cases were they do not work the person needs actual supervision, not religion, because it is a well established fact, that these delusions are quickly adopting to religiouse ideas and then people think their deity told them to do things, or start thinking other people are possessed by demons. If what he says about his mental state is true he should have been in therapy from a very young age, not in a church.
@@hannajung7512 Yeah it's really scary. I remember a serial killer who thought his "sacrifices" prevented earthquakes and his god pointed out the victims to him. I felt so bad for him because he was so bothered by being "burdened with this task from god" but honestly religion and mental health should never be mixed because more often than not, religion can harm them....
As a kid, his dog gets run over by a bus, he doesn't cry or even feel bad about it. So, he's always been a psychopath then... This is why you avoid the weird guy ranting and raving in the subway station, your instincts serve you well on that one.
This is so crazy, for some strange reason I haven't questioned if he actually did hurt his father. This shows that even the stuff that I believe to be real must be verified. Good one SkepTick! Always double check everything.
Honestly, my response to his speech is the same as my response to the claim that the God of the Bible is real: If a person goes around claiming to be a complete psychopath, that they want to murder and torture random people, and that they have no respect for life whatsoever - it doesn't matter if they're lying or not: Reject them, avoid them, and if necessary restrain them! I don't care if God is real or not, or if this guy is truthful or not - I want nothing to do with either.
His setup is "I was a pathological narcissist who believed he was the center of creation." His payoff is, "Then I found out the entire universe was created for me, and I could commune directly with that God who created it and personally knows me."
I've seen this video before, and I am just as confused now as I was then. If we take him at his word, he is a sociopath with a history of violence, and violent tendencies. The almost boastful ease with which he recounts these tales, apart from being more than a little unsettling, seems to support his state of mind. Though his lack of empathy isn't his fault, this man is dangerous. Sociopathy isn't something he could just grow out of, or "get better" from. No matter what steps or measures he may take to counteract this impediment, I would not be able to trust this guy to not be lying for his own gain at best. Not even at the apex of my (now former) religious belief would I have been comfortable being in the same room as this guy. What confuses me is how he has any kind of a following, and association with various other pastors and such. "God saves/forgives" is one thing, but a[n attempted] murderer who lacks the ability to feel remorse for his actions is something entirely different. At best, he could lie to your face without flinching, and so would be untrustworthy. At worst, he's a monster wearing wolf's clothing, claiming to now be a vegan, who poses a clear and present danger to all those around him. Scary scam artist, or monster one step away from nightmare; neither has me thinking "yeah, this is a guy to follow."
Years ago there was a pic of an elephant carrying a lion cub to a watering hole. Under it was a blurb about God's glory and mercy and shit like that. The pic looked fishy to me so I spent LITERALLY TEN SECONDS researching it discovering that it was a photoshop creation. I teched out to the poster naively believing he must have made a mistake. I explained his pic was fake and gave him the appropriate link. He got back to me soon: He knew it was fake. It was his opinion that the feel good god glory story was edifying to believers and that was more important than the fact that the post was fraudulent. I pushed back a bit bc it was so WRONG to me. Discordant. When I asked why he couldn't just find a story he thought was TRUE to push his worldview wouldn't that be more effective? Surely such stories existed? He stopped responding rather than answer. The post had thirty thousand likes and many hundreds of shares. This is what religion looks like to me. Dispicable.
Oh they know they're lying their asses off. They think lying for Jesus is fine, somehow. THEY can break commandments whenever they want, after all. They're just suggestions for them, they're only commandments for us.
He was a budding murdered running from the police, then in the next scene of his story he was in college. Given the importance he’s given to even the trivia plot devices so far, I’d think that how he went from wanted criminal to college student would be at least worth mentioning.
Hey SkepTick: He was not an adult, so his court record for the case wasn't published, but I believe someone found the story in a local news archive and confirmed it a few years ago.
Woods uses the example of Plato's cave without mentioning that the man who has seen the world outside the cave can actually lead his fellows there. The man in he story does not remain in the cave and tell stories about what he imagines is outside.
Can you imagine being one of the people trapped on the subway with that lunatic? It's one thing when there's the guy in the corner muttering to himself, then you got these geniuses shouting in the car while filming it. Just as bad behaviour as "influencers", maybe worse.
Let's start a coalition to find who this guy is to see if he actually was arrested. Best case scenario is he's a giant liar Worst is he is a murderous psychopath
"Urge to kill... rising." - Homer Simpson So this guy has no empathy. He was a psychopath, now he's a psychopath on a leash. If any of this is actually real this guy should be monitored closely because any crappy argument could send him off on another killing spree.
If belief in a fairy tale is the only thing keeping that psychopath in line, then he's free to believe. Just to be safe, I'm gonna keep my distance. The dude is either a liar, psychopath, or, quite possibly, a lying psychopath.
This guy just sounds like a sociopath. Him blacking a lack of belief just sounds insane because he sounds absolutely insane. He still in his story telling seems to have some degree of joy in his voice, almost like a boisterous "Look at what I proudly did." He seems to have a sincere lack of empathy which he attributes to "when i was an atheist" but no sane person thinks of things this way.
He’s either not a psychopath and is just lying in order to garner favor with a Christian base, or he is genuinely a psychopath and lying is part of his psychopathy.
I really hope the FBI is monitoring this guy. The more he talks, the less it looks like he believes in a god and more it looks like he believes he is a god.
That was an absolute Groaner, S/T, an absolute groaner! That was pretty rough to sit through, and I can only admire your intestinal fortitude for having to sit through it multiple times to make this video. Well done.
Yes, the only citation on David's Wikipedia page for David's attempted murder of his father comes from his own book. Wouldn't you think Wikipedia would cite newspaper archives or criminal records? Wouldn't it be funny if David's back-story is filled with holes as is the case with other apologists like J. Warner Wallace?
@@johngavin1175 Correct, but I had suspicions about the hard sell of his one trick pony before PoZ's confirmation. However, I was shocked because it never crossed my mind that Wood's back story wasn't true.
I thought it was funny when he mentioned there being only 1 thing that could help him. My first thought was “oh good he’s realized he’s needs psychological help” but then I remembered this is America and our mental health management skills are pathetic and almost useless. So of course he thinks God
"I want to murder people but I am delusional, so I don't." I don't think he is making the argument he thinks he is. Yes, I know I am stretching the meaning of "thinks".
11:15 and there's the self report. "I can't imagine being anything but a complete psychopath without fear of eternal punishment inflicted by an all powerful entity who apparently can't make a human who isn't psychotic" It's truly frightening how often this comes up.
That guy sounds like a sociopath from a young age. His dog and best friend dies and he feels nothing. Magical thinking and delusions of grandeur where he imagines himself to be a superior human being because he doesn’t have normal emotions.
Hmm. This guy claims to have no empathy, fantasies of superiority, displays shoddy logic, and if some of his stories aren't lies now, then he sure must have told lies in the life he described. So, why would I let this guy convince me of anything whatsoever?
Or maybe let me put it like this: the percentage of socio/psychopaths (whatever the correct term is) is high enough that it is obvious most of them figure out how to live life in a fairly unremarkable manner even without empathy. Those who can't do that, are probably better off in some institution. And by his own words, Wood is the latter kind. And frankly, if it's all one big lie ... that big lie suggests to me he should also be in some kind of institution, though maybe a different kind. ETA: He's either a very, very sick - or a very, very bad person.
"And as I sat there watching the ants smell each others butts in formation, I knew then they ruled the world. Soon to I saw my dog and cat smelling butts, but never in a line, it was then that I knew that ants ruled the world, dogs and cats are somewhere next just lower than that, then there was us"
"I used to be an atheist, but I've _always_ been a psychopath. Now... let me tell you how you should live your life, what you should believe, and why you better fucking believe me!'
It just doesn't occur to most religious people that not everyone thinks like them. He clearly noticed that other people react to death differently than he does, but it didn't seem to occur to him that most people don't have an urge to murder.
Reminds me of a couple of Christian performers back in the 80s who claimed to be ex-satanist priests but who were eventually debunked. Back then, satanism wàs the boogeyman. Today its atheists. SSDD.
Yeah, I was thinking of Glen(n?) too. The man whose childhood consisted simultaneously of horrific satanic ritual abuse and mundane cookie cutter life lessons too bland for an issue of Highlights.
I have watch a few people react to this video before. In surprised that I haven't seen anyone point out that his core beliefs didn't really change through his "conversion". He believed that he was being watch and judged, and that there was someone controlling from the background. He was just being rebellious and defiant to his perceived reality. His ego was humble and someone gave him a specific name to the one watching, judging, and controlling the world, God. Then he decided that this god was to powerful for him to fight against and decided for a perceived self preservation to follow the "mighty one". He went nowhere, he had his existing beliefs reinforced and redirected at "god"
29:50 When he said "you get a list of one," an ad for Factor immediately played. So it came as "you get a list of one, Factor!" I busted a gut laughing!
Yeah I do most of my philosophising while being pursued by the cops. Something about the rhythmic whooping of the police helicopter that soothes me into contemplation of why I lack the ability to empathise with lesser human beings v.1.0
This guy has been having delusions of grandure since he was a child... I used to perform 'rituals' of control over my life as I couldn't control my thoughts and emotions after several incidents of child abuse... I got help after a mini break down age 24... This guy needs help. There's a reason why he feels no emotions. He's had them burned out by something 😢😢😢 Frustrating as I could help😮
So, David says the disciples must have been convinced they saw a resurrected Jesus... ...while he himself was convinced cats talked to him and his father and the entire world was reading his mind. So, if you're convinced of something, it's true, right?
it's also an old apologist trope about them all dying defending their belief in jesus, and it's just bullshit. We have zero idea what happened to most of the Disciples, they're simply never heard from again. there's exactly one case of one of them being put to death that can be historically verified, and it wasn't for his beliefs but due to some power struggle.
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"I was a serial killer until I acknowledged a greater sadistic serial killer than myself and began following their theist cult"
"What can I say, game recognizes game."
He followed the death cult, because he was fitting very well to it.
What’s funny is he makes all atheists out to be these contemptuous creatures that don’t care about anyone and the only thing stopping them from committing murders or horrific acts is their own lack of giving a shit, when, I’m an atheist BECAUSE I have empathy and look at the abrahamic god as an absolute moral abhorrence let alone completely impossible, and I used to be a hardline Christian lmao.
Suppose David has a hallucination of his god demanding he hurt or possibly kill someone?
What would morally hold him back at that point?
"All of this may sound unbelievable but it is true!"
4min in and this person has already described himself as a psychopath... Kinda hope he never stops believing in a god
In a debate with Matt Dillhaunty he also said that his belief in Yahweh is the only thing stopping him from commiting a mass murder.
Psychopathy with a side of paranoid delusion. I hope he never stops believing too.
@@VisiblyPinkUnicorn The problem with that is he will have no problem committing mass m*rd*r if he thinks " _God Wills It_ ."
@@VisiblyPinkUnicornI will take those people at their word. I hope it's hyperbole but who knows.
@@LuubelaarHe's already demonstrated that he's easily convinced of nonsense. I don't think giving him a Christian delusion will keep him from murder or other violent crime.
"When I was young I was gullible and had stupid ideas, but as got older and more experienced I became gullible and had stupid ideas."
*camera man begins to question whether $50 to follow this guy around filming was worth it.
🤣
😂😂
"Please don't kill me, please don't kill me, and also, why are we walking deeper into this subway station?!"
Or maybe the cameraman is like who the hell is gonna believe this idiot
More likely cameraman is thinking who is going to believe this dude
His ability to lie is tied to his ongoing psychopathy. This creature is both broken and dangerous. So of course apologetics is an attractive job for him.
Aren't psychopaths usually good liers?
@@Puremindgames The two aren’t always linked, but generally, and in his case, yes.
@@heiyuall But he's not a good liar though. Don't tell me you actually believed him?
@@Puremindgames I wasn’t saying he was a good liar, just that he shows no emotion while describing torturing small animals and hunting people for sport.
@@heiyuall To be fair I can do the same, it's easy when it's not true.
If someone tells you they are a psychopath who has attempted murder, it‘s okay to take their word for it. Even if they are lying you should probably keep your distance.
Very true, anyone who’d lie about such a thing is probably messed up anyway.
I suspect he IS a psychopath, so he has no problem embellishing his stories. Maybe he FANTASIZED about doing all of these things & is just presenting them as having actually happened.
He was diagnosed. Some years ago I saw a video of him being tested after he converted to find out if God had cured his psychopathy. He hadn't.
@@zemorph42 I’m somewhat less than surprised lol
@@zemorph42 What are you talking about? There is no test that is taken to show if one is a pyschopath. A mental health professional can assess a patient as one after extensive time spent with a patient. But they can't sit down and give someone a test to determine if they are are aren't a psychopath.
Am I the only one cringing from second hand embarrassment from seeing this guy walking around in public talking like this? 😅
i would say he is not the craziest person if you line in NY, but most likely he is
He slogging through so many lies I'm having a hard time being convinced that's not an elaborate zoom background.
@@solomonverrico I especially like on the train he says "I am the most evolved human" and the lady behind him doesn't even glance up from her book. She is well aware of idiots like him wandering around with a camera crew.
The Fail side of the Force is a pathway to many statements... Most would deem cringe...
@@solomonverricoI think he's operating on a digitized background. Nobody in the background seems to be reacting to him or even noticing him in any way.
I watched this entire video of his some time ago. It convinced me this guy was a scary mental case. It was no wonder someone like this man fell for the God story. He had all sorts of wild, unfounded beliefs as he grew up. He appeared to be easily convinced of things with absolutely no solid reasoning or evidence. He confused his overinflated ego and mental disorder for being "better" than others. None of which had a thing to do with atheism. If I saw this guy on the street today I'd cross the road for my own safety.
By the way. Cats really do run the world. I have been assured of this by my own cats.
Hats off to you, man, you are made of sterner stuff than I.
Had to turn the volume off after 20 mins because I can't take any more of his bullshit.
If you really think he fell for the god stuff and is not just trying to sell stuff, then you also belief his other stories.
@@QuintarFarenor -- why can't it be both? At some point in his life he accepted the Christian message, and is now trying to sell it.
I don't actually believe all of his stories in this video. He's overdoing the atheist stereotype to ridiculous lengths. But, he's also making personal claims about himself that may be based in some reality. Even if a fraction of it is a true picture of his mental processes, he's a nutjob.
This guy is a verified social path. He needs religion not to hurt people
@@Kevin_Williamson I never said he's not a nutjob, just that I don't belief him that he's a believer.
"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." "Confess, my son." "Well...I've been spending time with a guy who might be a bad influence." "What is this person like?" "Well, he feels he can do whatever he wants to whoever he wants, wherever, whenever and however he wants & no one can judge him." "Good Heavens, my son, avoid this person!" Thank you for your wise counsel, Father. I'll ditch Jesus immediately!
Love that 😁
😂👌
I'd would switch father and Jesus and start it with 'Jesus my Lord,.."
Then finished with, "Thank you my Lord, i'll head your word and avoid your Father entirely."
i don't get it
If there's truth to this story, it sounds to me like a sociopath who participated when he was in prison in a rehabilitation program based on Christianity. He faked becoming Christian and got out on parole. Now he's making some money on it.
Psychopath, not sociopath. The definitions vary a bit, but the general consensus seems to be that psychopaths are more "okay" with their own issue, _really_ good liars, and often pretty charismatic, while sociopaths are more unstable and unhinged.
spot on@@Wolf-ln1ml
To say that David Wood is faking being a Christian or that he's doing it for money is baseless and disingenuous
He specifically specializes in and targets Muslims, I almost feel like that's further a part of psychopathy.
If God existed, people wouldn't have to lie to provide proof in the first place. Evidence for God would be evident.
That or god simply doesn't care if we know about him or not
Or maybe... just maybe! God exists- only not "in reality" ... now I can already hear... both religions and non-believers saying that's the same as saying He doesn't exist...
That's crap!
if God- is outside time and space ... and reality is 100% inside of time and space
.. then God would have to reach us outside reality or He would have to break the Laws of the Universe to manifest into reality...
Maybe just maybe ... the God of our earth - the one who feels deeply for humanity.. is also the source of life on our planet (so was "part" of the source that created us) ... is able to us dreams/Visions/hallucinations to reach ppl... only because we also have free will and our own desires - its very very easy for humans to twist everything we are shown...
Maybe ... just maybe..
The God of earth... the one who talks in our dreams
-wants humans to tend the garden and care for earth (the source of life)
Maybe He is also not the most powerful source out there... maybe the God of the earth ... can't break the Laws of the Universe... without the "god" of the Universe (the source of death) - would distory most life on our planet (again) if He tried
@@Dock284(I’m agreeing w you) which is fine, if someone HAS to believe in god, deism is the line where you don’t have to lie to yourself. Anything beyond that and they’ve become anchors on society.
Thank you
What happens if someone is able to "prove" God?
Would every single Human then be compelled to join the religious movement that proves IT?
Would we ALL forever become Slaves to that religious movement 🤔
If a God - truly wants us to be free from being forced to obey those who can "prove" him ... we would never be able to prove that God exists.
-otherwise He would have to take over and micromanage every single fight We have and pick sides ... cuz if one side can prove that God is on thier side .. everyone would be forced to join.
-the only God you can prove... is one that doesn't love humanity enough to actually give us freewill
And if we truly have Freewill- then NO it doesn't matter if You believe in Him or not- that would be a very very stupid way to judge humanity Cuz then we would just lock eachother into prison camps and not share the truth with those we deem inferior
Whether his stories are true or not, this man is absolutely terrifying. He needs serious intervention.
Yeah. There's something totally terrifying seeing an individual who seems to have no empathy. Only 7 minutes in, and I had to stop watching. If believing in God is the only thing that helps him behave in a civilized fashion, then I really hope he maintains that belief.
@@TonyLambregts I had a good acquaintance (wouldn't go so far as to call him a friend) who was a diagnosed (and therapied) psychopath. While it was a little unsettling every now and then, it was _nowhere near_ as bad as Woody here. I'd say David's psychopathy isn't the main issue, it's that he's a complete and total assh*le, has always been one, and sees _zero_ reason to change (only present himself _as if_ he had...)
@@TonyLambregts there was a great remark in the comments of his 'debate' with dillahunty.
'the moment in the debate you realise that if dillahunty convinces him (that there isn't a god) no-one leaves the room alive !'
@haydenwalton2766 I see that the thread is still active on that comment.
The debate was about morality, and for me, it comes down to that there is no such thing as objective morality. If there was such a thing as objective morality, it would exist without a god. If god is the arbiter of what is moral and what is not, then by definition, subject to that mind.
@@haydenwalton2766 Orrrrr, we could just stop him. Maybe not let him out this time.
8:17 it's funny he mentions the anarchist cookbook when he talks about pipe bombs... considering that book doesn't actally contain any instructions to build one.
From what I know the anarchist cookbook doesn't really show how to build those bombs in a reliable way.
What? A theist grifter lying? Perish the thought!
@@blastortoisethe book was supposedly altered by the government to make recipes un-workable. There's Supposedly unaltered copies in the wild. I dunno, the only bombs I have are on dvd.
15:44 He never set foot in a prison. No convict would ever refer to the range as a "dorm". Fights in prison are not entertainment. They are business.
Hear
Hear
They also would never call it a jail the way he did over and over.
That’s a lie ppl in jail call it a dorm all the time u must not know anybody in jail
Bro, he didn't even mention the dementors
His life story is clearly exaggerated, but the specifics that he is so proud to tell leads me to see him as a very dangerous person to be around.
In a debate with Matt Dillahunty, he said if not for his beliefs he would kill people. Matt told him he hoped David continued to believe in his god for the sake of everyone else. Clearly his beliefs did nothing for him. He's still a psychopath. I had no idea he made all this up. It's weird so many of us just accepted his story to be true.
I refence Wood's story without checking it because it's a lose-lose for preachers: if he lied then he's a liar, if he's honest about his case hen I ask "imagine if the writer of your scripture was just like this... do you still believe?"
In the case of the bad underworld, there is 2 problems:
1. you can follow this dude up the stairs
2. someone deliberately built this really bad world and didnt tell them earlier they could leave
In The Allegory Of The Cave, the cave-dwellers CAN'T leave... they've been chained to the wall, and all they know of the realm outside their cave is the shadows that dance in the sunlight and by the light of the fire lit for them. All they know is the world of darkness and illusion, so they think the person who's been outside in the land above to be a madman, and have no desire to be free of their chains.
Of course, what I just described is also the mindset of every insecure 14-year-old who braces against a sheltered upbringing. That they, like the madman of Plato's parable, are this enlightened and holy being separate from the simple-minded and ignorant cave-dwellers. And anyone who doesn't think and act as they do are those chained to the wall of that cave, happy to do nothing but cavort with shadow and illusion. This can also be the mind of a sociopath, but all a sociopath boils down to is an immature asshole who was never disabused of the idea that whatever's staring at them in the mirror is The Bright Center Of The Universe Around Which Everything Else Revolves.
also, in his analogy they would be the people that never went to the surface, claiming they know what it looks like because a long time ago someone else claimed they came form the surface and there is no proof of that, just a long line of gullible people that believed that one guy that you can't even be sure existed
@@naruarthur oh yeahp
I'll give him credit for memorizing this speech. He must have been at the top of his highschool speech class. But religion is in no way a cure for psychopathy.😊
But it's a good excuse to behave like a psychopath.
@condorboss3339 Ha ha ha! Why am I laughing, you're absolutely right and there are a lot of religious people out there!
There is no cure for psychopathy. Or narcissism. They are pernicious conditions which do not ever change in a person.
@@chrisgrill6302it is unclear if that statement is true.
@@hannajung7512 oh thanks, interesting. It was something I read about some years ago, maybe consensus has changed. But it is certainly true for the vast majority. We can't teach eople to care, we can't teach them to have empathy. Psychopathic disorders, narcissism, lack of empathy, maybe pathological dishonesty, these were descrbed in the thing I read as "pernicious disorders" which can't be treated, and it is pretty hard to imagine how they could be.
A guy walks around the New York subway making a grand speech that states he's a dangerous sociopath. Clearly that checks out.
Whats concerning is how nobody even seemed to notice what he was saying
That actually makes so much sense. I kept watching thinking there would be no way I could feel comfortable preaching like that in a crowded subway. He definitely is not neurotypical.
@@Kova-ow2en
It's New York
Tbh if a guy says he killed people and gives a description of it, I would just fake to not understand what he says, just to be safe and not provoke him to be like "oh, you reacted to my story, you're my victim now"
Not the worst thing that's ever happened on the NY subway if the stories are true....
Thanks!
To paraphrase the late, great Dave Allen: "May his god go with him." (And take him far away from us.)
So basically when "he wasn't an atheist", he made up other stories and was a psychopath and crazy already. I don't know why he thinks that is a good point in his favor.
So, let me get this straight so far (minute 7:33): he felt nothing upon the deaths of other beings and therefore thought he's an evolved creature while simultaneously having broken the law all his life. That is an overwhelming indication of a sociopathic personality as well as the calmness in which he makes those statements. No matter what comes next in this video it is ovbious that he is in desperate need of all the professional help he can get...
He is an actual sociopath.
@@Nocturnalux I'd actually classify him as a psychopath.
@@biekgiek I mean that he apparently got had an actual diagnosis to that effect. Then again, that too may have been a lie.
@@Nocturnalux Right. And what is even more disturbing, is that this is probably an inspiration to a significant number of people.
The reason he is so calm about it is, he has been telling this story as a grift for years. In a story one has been telling for years, it becomes really easy to be calm about it.
Did this guy ever bother looking in the mirror and asking, "Crap, am I a douchebag? I feel that answer would solve a lot of mysteries.
This guy is Example #1 of "I hope he never stops believing in the thing that keeps him from acting on his thoughts."... even if that thing isn't true.
True that. This is the kind of person religion was created for, because he lacks the empathy and restraint found in normal people.
The problem is, all religious people have ebbs and flows, days when they doubt their faith. A normal person feels some loss and despair. A sociopath having a crisis of faith (spurred on by a manic-depressive episode) doubts their god, then decides to solve their problems with violence. The man needs more treatment than just religion.
@@nmappraiser9926 Nah, treatment might not work, better go with a gift, like a car...on top of him...
Recently one of Woody's sons died. Then Woody, a man who became internet famous by bragging about beating his father on the head with a ball peen hammer, went on a tirade about how evil atheists and Muslims are because they said mean things to him on the internet. I didn't exactly cry my eyes out for him.
It bothers me that Apostate Prophet hangs out with David Wood. He's NOT a good person
I don't think it was a tirade. He wasn't upset so far as I could tell. I think he was calling out the low behavior of people insulting him for his son dying.
Which, that is poor behavior, he's not wrong for that.
I didn't watch the whole thing, but if he implied that people were nasty about his son BECAUSE of their belief system, he would be wrong for doing that.
But again, didn't watch, don't even know if that's what he did.
@@acebailey2478 I have news for you. If you run a tube channel, people will say mean things to you in the comments section, especially if your channel is dedicated to disparaging out-groups like his is.
"but if he implied that people were nasty about his son BECAUSE of their belief system he would be wrong for doing that."
He didn't imply it, he said it outright.
You seem to have missed my point. Bragging about beating your father's head in online is much more despicable than making fun of a stranger's misfortune, which is a bad thing as well.
@@acebailey2478if you don't have the information then why are you commenting? I've never understood the need for people to comment that they don't know anything about the situation but they're going to make a judgment call on it anyway.
@@marcushill7070 because I go hard
It's plausible that religion was invented by sane people to deal with sociopaths like this.
David: "Why shouldn't I hurt people."
Society: "Empathy."
David: "What's that?"
Society: "Caring that other people don't want to be hurt."
David: "I don't."
Society: "OK, don't hurt people because we will punish you."
David: "So it's OK to hurt people as long as I don't get caught."
Society: "Um, no, there's a big judge you can't see but he can see you when you do bad things, and he'll punish you after you die."
David: "OK, fine, I won't hurt people, even though I can't understand why that's bad."
As I mentioned earlier he shows all the marks of a sociopathic personality. And later on he gives the explanation why he still can't get rid of that: he wants to be special, he wants to be the first among equals because he deems himself to be the most intelligent person (with only _one_ being better - but that guy's no longer physically around, so he's no danger to his status) and therefore has to be speecial. Now he's joined a club that reenforces his need of assurance in that regard. Which wouldn't be necessary if he actually was, at least in part, as intellignet as he claims to be.
The story of his life as he told it, though, seems to be as real and true to me as the storybook he such much worships.
And don't forget his absolutely WARPED understanding of Plato's "Allegory Of The Cave."
I've made to where he says he was starving himself in jail. I work at a state funded mental hospital as a housekeeper, and I know people who work at the prison. He wouldn't make it past dinner of day one before somebody noticed, and he absolutely would not have made day three without forced medical intervention. Especially as he transferred from a mental hospital to the prison.😐
Thanks for confirming. I am not an expert but I have watched a lot about mental hospitals and life in prison and they watch them carefully. I have seen that they have the job of keeping them safe and intervening if they are sick or even put people on suicide watch. I would think after not eating they would quickly put him in the medical ward and start putting food into him via a feeding tube then make him go to a mental hospital. That part of the story does not check out to me based on a few documentaries alone.
He also seems to have a big gap in his knowledge of what prisoners do to psychopaths that "make remarks" about 12 year olds.
A guy very similar to this came to my Christian middle school and started graphically telling a bunch of 13 and younger kids how he brutally SAed and murdered his sisters friend. Our principle stopped him and escorted him out of the building and apologized to us- but the damage was already done.
Apparently his goal was to tell us that without God, this is how everyone will behave.
Not sure why they didn’t review his story before hand- but here we are.
I bet he lied to them about the content beforehand, or just said something vague about "conversion story" and "Christian witness" that had them excited to welcome him.
His story boils down to "i am very gullible, stupid, and a liar... now I'm a christian"
Worse. His story is actually ‘I am convinced that I an the only special person in the world, that everything that happens to me, or that I do, is somebody else’s fault, and that I have the right to hurt other living organisms… and now I’m a Christian.’
No difference then!
“I was the perfect warrior! Cold and ruthless! I lived by my strength alone! Uninhabited by foolish emotions!”
I’ve heard the story of the “more evolved” psychopath before, though all they demonstrate, aside from the numerous holes in their stories, is that they definitely don’t understand how evolution works because if they did, they wouldn’t think they’re “more evolved” to begin with
Without compassion, empathy and cooperation, we never could have evolved to our present state.
@@condorboss3339that is not the point though. We are not "more evolved" then any other living being around us, is the point. Evolution has not goal, no target point and thus no "better" or "more"
@@hannajung7512 My point is those traits are important to our survival as a species. Without them, we would be something else.
@@condorboss3339,
Yet, we weren't always a social species...
Exactly. Lacking empathy and cooperation with your society ends up with you being restricted by imprisonment or banishment, or death as you have proven to be a threat to the survive of the tribe. You are not the 'fittest' hence will not survive.
Woods went to prison for what he did thus proving him wrong that he is some higher evolution or that there is no consequences to one's actions if there are no gods.
Thanks. I think psychopaths can be religious too, but if believing in God stops him murdering people, then perhaps he should stay religious. 😂
Based on the evidence to date, believing in God makes it *more likely* you will m*rd*r people.
Unfortunatly, for all too many, believing in gods is a justification for them to commit atrocities against humanity. Hence christianity became a world dominant religion via following the biblical morals of genocide, slavery, rape, subjugation of women, paedophilia, denial of free speech, slaughter of non believers and lgbtq people, instead of using truth, love and the betterment of humanity.
strongly agree
The Cave people were suspicious. Interlopers had entered their subterranean realm. They spoke of a beautiful world above and urged the Cave people to quit their dark, dank world and follow them up to the light. But the Cave people weren't stupid. They split the intruders up and questioned them separately. Their stories lined up! Blue sky, yellow-orange sun, wind, rain, snow, seasons. So the Cave people quit their gloomy home and ascended to a better life. Yay!
The Cave people were suspicious. Interlopers had entered their subterranean realm. They called themselves "Christians" and spoke of a god, his son Jesus and the "holy" book that told of these beings. But the Cave people weren't stupid. They split the intruders up and questioned them separately. Is your god okay with drinking alcohol? With smoking/toking? With preaching politics from the pulpit? With homosexuality? With women in the pulpit? With evolution? With sex outside of marriage? With tattoos? With Islam and Hinduism? With cussing? With abortion is some cases? The answers of these "Christians" were all over the place. Obviously _liars!_ The Cave people found the intruders delicious.
With great power comes great responsibility. With all power comes all responsibility.
Using fictional childhood tails to create a straw-giant as a basis for his argument.
Amazing! I'm converted.
Deranged David is like most evangelicals he has no empathy.
he was a psychotic atheist, now he is no longer atheist
Except that most aren't actually psychopaths, they've only "othered" everyone outside their bubble of fellow believers, and it actually takes effort to empathize with people like that (due to how we evolved in "in-groups" and had to compete against, or even fight, pretty much every other nearby tribe for a long time)
I actually read the Wholly Fables aka the Bible and that more than convinced me that I'm better off being an atheist.
Even if the Christian god existed, I’d rather live a secular lifestyle where I treat everyone with the respect they deserve and end up in Purgatory than be stuck in heaven with a mass murderer and stochastic terrorist
@@ExeEspe-by2ct
Same. 😎👍
@@ExeEspe-by2ctsame. Of god exists, he rather luts me in hell. No way im gonna spend eternity with a psychopath and r*pe lover such as god.
This genuinely has me being afraid for my safety. I'll be double checking the locks of the house tonight before going to bed. I hope the next video is something a little more light-hearted because BIG YIKES this man shouldn't be allowed to be outside, lies or not.
YAY im on the video😂😂😂😂thankyou lisa the rainbow giraff for accepting my tribute🙌🙌
I once met this guy and we had a great time in "Things that totally happened"-Land.
People who think the way this guy claims he did are not changed by conversion. If anything they become WORSE!! Because now they know that they can be rewarded in the afterlife just by saying "jesus i did a bad 😢 im reawwy sowwy and wont do it again uwu" and rinse and repeat. AND they can believe that if they didn't get caught, clearly god is protecting them and supporting their actions. Also this man was clearly Schizophrenic, not a psychopath. He's mentioning delusional beliefs including all the classics: delusions of grandeur, delusions of mind reading, and being watched, like.... that's schizophrenia my dude...
Also isn't there a sect of Christianity that basically believes "I gotta make Jesus' sacrifice really count so I'm gonna sin a lot before being absolved"? Like??
Edit later on:
Randy was a Christian but he committed 20+ felonies??? My dude, this is not the good look you think it is
also pfft when he said "who can take a psychologically broken person and make them better?" my first thought was "A good therapist and possible medication?" because like... THAT'S THEIR JOB!!!
yeah, and in those cases were they do not work the person needs actual supervision, not religion, because it is a well established fact, that these delusions are quickly adopting to religiouse ideas and then people think their deity told them to do things, or start thinking other people are possessed by demons.
If what he says about his mental state is true he should have been in therapy from a very young age, not in a church.
@@hannajung7512 Yeah it's really scary. I remember a serial killer who thought his "sacrifices" prevented earthquakes and his god pointed out the victims to him. I felt so bad for him because he was so bothered by being "burdened with this task from god"
but honestly religion and mental health should never be mixed because more often than not, religion can harm them....
This guy is a real piece of work...wow.
Hes such a pathetic person.
As a kid, his dog gets run over by a bus, he doesn't cry or even feel bad about it. So, he's always been a psychopath then... This is why you avoid the weird guy ranting and raving in the subway station, your instincts serve you well on that one.
This is so crazy, for some strange reason I haven't questioned if he actually did hurt his father. This shows that even the stuff that I believe to be real must be verified. Good one SkepTick! Always double check everything.
pretty sure the only actual true fact in his story is that he's a psychopath. everything else is made up.
Honestly, my response to his speech is the same as my response to the claim that the God of the Bible is real:
If a person goes around claiming to be a complete psychopath, that they want to murder and torture random people, and that they have no respect for life whatsoever - it doesn't matter if they're lying or not: Reject them, avoid them, and if necessary restrain them! I don't care if God is real or not, or if this guy is truthful or not - I want nothing to do with either.
What a Psychopath! He thinks he is superior because he has no compassion.
Since his entire past is a lie, I'm gonna assume he's in this for the 💰 and is going the "alpha Christian" route
His setup is "I was a pathological narcissist who believed he was the center of creation." His payoff is, "Then I found out the entire universe was created for me, and I could commune directly with that God who created it and personally knows me."
I've seen this video before, and I am just as confused now as I was then.
If we take him at his word, he is a sociopath with a history of violence, and violent tendencies. The almost boastful ease with which he recounts these tales, apart from being more than a little unsettling, seems to support his state of mind.
Though his lack of empathy isn't his fault, this man is dangerous. Sociopathy isn't something he could just grow out of, or "get better" from.
No matter what steps or measures he may take to counteract this impediment, I would not be able to trust this guy to not be lying for his own gain at best. Not even at the apex of my (now former) religious belief would I have been comfortable being in the same room as this guy.
What confuses me is how he has any kind of a following, and association with various other pastors and such.
"God saves/forgives" is one thing, but a[n attempted] murderer who lacks the ability to feel remorse for his actions is something entirely different.
At best, he could lie to your face without flinching, and so would be untrustworthy. At worst, he's a monster wearing wolf's clothing, claiming to now be a vegan, who poses a clear and present danger to all those around him.
Scary scam artist, or monster one step away from nightmare; neither has me thinking "yeah, this is a guy to follow."
He gets plenty of money from this grift.
Anyone who claims they can't understand why people cry about death is a huge red flag that religion can't solve.
Years ago there was a pic of an elephant carrying a lion cub to a watering hole.
Under it was a blurb about God's glory and mercy and shit like that.
The pic looked fishy to me so I spent LITERALLY TEN SECONDS researching it discovering that it was a photoshop creation.
I teched out to the poster naively believing he must have made a mistake. I explained his pic was fake and gave him the appropriate link.
He got back to me soon:
He knew it was fake.
It was his opinion that the feel good god glory story was edifying to believers and that was more important than the fact that the post was fraudulent.
I pushed back a bit bc it was so WRONG to me. Discordant.
When I asked why he couldn't just find a story he thought was TRUE to push his worldview wouldn't that be more effective?
Surely such stories existed?
He stopped responding rather than answer.
The post had thirty thousand likes and many hundreds of shares.
This is what religion looks like to me.
Dispicable.
And the elephant drowned the lion for attacking it....STORY OVER!
That's when I would post dms in his comment section until I'm blocked
Oh they know they're lying their asses off. They think lying for Jesus is fine, somehow. THEY can break commandments whenever they want, after all. They're just suggestions for them, they're only commandments for us.
He was a budding murdered running from the police, then in the next scene of his story he was in college. Given the importance he’s given to even the trivia plot devices so far, I’d think that how he went from wanted criminal to college student would be at least worth mentioning.
If that guy is telling the truth, he's a legit psychopath.
The most dangerous thing is a psychopath that thinks they are cured.
Or pretends to be cured to manipulate people.
I have a feeling this guy is still a psychopath.
Hello, NYPD? There's a nut in the subway filming himself talking about blowing up a bunch of random people...
All I will say is, whether lunatic or liar, this man should not be trusted. I hope he stays far away from me.
“If you have to lie in defence of your truth, then it was never truth.”
I feel sorry for all of those people that had to put up with him on the stairs, the train (yelling loud as hell) etc.
But he didn’t feel sorry for them with him being, you know, a psychopath.
Hey SkepTick: He was not an adult, so his court record for the case wasn't published, but I believe someone found the story in a local news archive and confirmed it a few years ago.
I believe you.🙄
He said he was 18 and was in college before he said attempted to kill his father.
Woods uses the example of Plato's cave without mentioning that the man who has seen the world outside the cave can actually lead his fellows there. The man in he story does not remain in the cave and tell stories about what he imagines is outside.
Can you imagine being one of the people trapped on the subway with that lunatic? It's one thing when there's the guy in the corner muttering to himself, then you got these geniuses shouting in the car while filming it. Just as bad behaviour as "influencers", maybe worse.
If he served any jail or prison time it would be public record so it should be accessible.
Let's start a coalition to find who this guy is to see if he actually was arrested.
Best case scenario is he's a giant liar
Worst is he is a murderous psychopath
Is David Wood his real name? We could start there.
"Urge to kill... rising." - Homer Simpson
So this guy has no empathy. He was a psychopath, now he's a psychopath on a leash. If any of this is actually real this guy should be monitored closely because any crappy argument could send him off on another killing spree.
pretty sure the fact that he's a psychopath is the only thing in his story that's true
@@dyamonde9555 I'd actually sooner believe that he's a compulsive liar. That would explain why he's not under observation.
I'm a psychopath, therefore God.
If belief in a fairy tale is the only thing keeping that psychopath in line, then he's free to believe. Just to be safe, I'm gonna keep my distance.
The dude is either a liar, psychopath, or, quite possibly, a lying psychopath.
This guy just sounds like a sociopath. Him blacking a lack of belief just sounds insane because he sounds absolutely insane. He still in his story telling seems to have some degree of joy in his voice, almost like a boisterous "Look at what I proudly did." He seems to have a sincere lack of empathy which he attributes to "when i was an atheist" but no sane person thinks of things this way.
He also blames others for his actions. I can see why he finds Yahweh so appealing.
If he had tried to kill his father and constantly got in fights while in prison they never would have let him out while he is still this young.
i have seen this video before but damn it still baffles me how insane this guy is.
This guy is genuinely scary. I woukd not want to be in a room with him for fear that he'd eat my face.
If he did these things, why is he walking free?
@@lorifiedler13 because the gears of justice turn slowly...
He’s either not a psychopath and is just lying in order to garner favor with a Christian base, or he is genuinely a psychopath and lying is part of his psychopathy.
Column A, column B.
I really hope the FBI is monitoring this guy. The more he talks, the less it looks like he believes in a god and more it looks like he believes he is a god.
That was an absolute Groaner, S/T, an absolute groaner! That was pretty rough to sit through, and I can only admire your intestinal fortitude for having to sit through it multiple times to make this video. Well done.
Yes, the only citation on David's Wikipedia page for David's attempted murder of his father comes from his own book. Wouldn't you think Wikipedia would cite newspaper archives or criminal records? Wouldn't it be funny if David's back-story is filled with holes as is the case with other apologists like J. Warner Wallace?
I take it you watched Zod's video on Wallass?
@@johngavin1175 Correct, but I had suspicions about the hard sell of his one trick pony before PoZ's confirmation. However, I was shocked because it never crossed my mind that Wood's back story wasn't true.
I thought it was funny when he mentioned there being only 1 thing that could help him. My first thought was “oh good he’s realized he’s needs psychological help” but then I remembered this is America and our mental health management skills are pathetic and almost useless. So of course he thinks God
"I want to murder people but I am delusional, so I don't."
I don't think he is making the argument he thinks he is. Yes, I know I am stretching the meaning of "thinks".
11:15 and there's the self report. "I can't imagine being anything but a complete psychopath without fear of eternal punishment inflicted by an all powerful entity who apparently can't make a human who isn't psychotic"
It's truly frightening how often this comes up.
Confirmed he had mental health problems when he referred to himself as a "thoroughly unremarkable ball of hot gas"... and yet, truthiness!!
That guy sounds like a sociopath from a young age. His dog and best friend dies and he feels nothing. Magical thinking and delusions of grandeur where he imagines himself to be a superior human being because he doesn’t have normal emotions.
Ironic how he put his hand on the trash container that said "Litter Stops Here." Everything he's been saying is trash, littering people's minds.
Oh, and prison isn't a place where you go to think about how you got caught, it's where you go to be punished for what you did.
Hmm. This guy claims to have no empathy, fantasies of superiority, displays shoddy logic, and if some of his stories aren't lies now, then he sure must have told lies in the life he described. So, why would I let this guy convince me of anything whatsoever?
Or maybe let me put it like this: the percentage of socio/psychopaths (whatever the correct term is) is high enough that it is obvious most of them figure out how to live life in a fairly unremarkable manner even without empathy. Those who can't do that, are probably better off in some institution. And by his own words, Wood is the latter kind. And frankly, if it's all one big lie ... that big lie suggests to me he should also be in some kind of institution, though maybe a different kind.
ETA: He's either a very, very sick - or a very, very bad person.
"And as I sat there watching the ants smell each others butts in formation, I knew then they ruled the world. Soon to I saw my dog and cat smelling butts, but never in a line, it was then that I knew that ants ruled the world, dogs and cats are somewhere next just lower than that, then there was us"
This honestly sounds like satire more than anything else
Ah yes, another one of these "I used to be an atheist" types.
As believable as Kirk Cameron saying he was an atheist.
"I used to be an atheist, but I've _always_ been a psychopath. Now... let me tell you how you should live your life, what you should believe, and why you better fucking believe me!'
@@FakingANerve lol that's a good summary xD
@@georgem2334 Lol, Kirk Cameron was "an atheist™" until he learnt to talk.
It just doesn't occur to most religious people that not everyone thinks like them. He clearly noticed that other people react to death differently than he does, but it didn't seem to occur to him that most people don't have an urge to murder.
Reminds me of a couple of Christian performers back in the 80s who claimed to be ex-satanist priests but who were eventually debunked. Back then, satanism wàs the boogeyman. Today its atheists. SSDD.
Yeah, I was thinking of Glen(n?) too. The man whose childhood consisted simultaneously of horrific satanic ritual abuse and mundane cookie cutter life lessons too bland for an issue of Highlights.
I have watch a few people react to this video before. In surprised that I haven't seen anyone point out that his core beliefs didn't really change through his "conversion". He believed that he was being watch and judged, and that there was someone controlling from the background. He was just being rebellious and defiant to his perceived reality. His ego was humble and someone gave him a specific name to the one watching, judging, and controlling the world, God. Then he decided that this god was to powerful for him to fight against and decided for a perceived self preservation to follow the "mighty one". He went nowhere, he had his existing beliefs reinforced and redirected at "god"
For financial reasons, i will probably not be able to give for a while.
But, once we are on firmer ground, I will be back to throw more money at you.
I hope everything is okay Kevin! Thank you as always!!!
As it has been said before. If it takes an unseen God to keep you from horrible things you’re not a godly person, you’re just a psychopath on a leash
Lies? For God?
What else is there?
You know!
Following a guy into an enclosed space while he openly admits to being a sociopath isn't the brightest idea.
There is no documentation or evidence that the apostles died for their faith.
29:50 When he said "you get a list of one," an ad for Factor immediately played. So it came as "you get a list of one, Factor!" I busted a gut laughing!
Yeah I do most of my philosophising while being pursued by the cops.
Something about the rhythmic whooping of the police helicopter that soothes me into contemplation of why I lack the ability to empathise with lesser human beings v.1.0
I do my best self reflection while being pursued by Batman.
This guy has been having delusions of grandure since he was a child...
I used to perform 'rituals' of control over my life as I couldn't control my thoughts and emotions after several incidents of child abuse...
I got help after a mini break down age 24...
This guy needs help.
There's a reason why he feels no emotions. He's had them burned out by something 😢😢😢
Frustrating as I could help😮
So, David says the disciples must have been convinced they saw a resurrected Jesus...
...while he himself was convinced cats talked to him and his father and the entire world was reading his mind.
So, if you're convinced of something, it's true, right?
it's also an old apologist trope about them all dying defending their belief in jesus, and it's just bullshit. We have zero idea what happened to most of the Disciples, they're simply never heard from again. there's exactly one case of one of them being put to death that can be historically verified, and it wasn't for his beliefs but due to some power struggle.
Ive never been so lied to in my ENTIRE LIFE
One time, at Psychopathic Band Camp……….
Why do these types think that telling us how terrible they were before being "saved" will impress us?