Master

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fz_C20TeaxE

What are your thoughts on this film? I've been trying to find faults in it, but it's pretty bulletproof.

backseatchris

its funny you posted this because i watched the entire thing just last night.

I was really curioius about all the coincidences and facts. and edned up spending most of my night looking things up. As far as i can tell, most of the things stated are factual.

The main thing to keep in mind about the religion portion of the film is that it does not deny the existance of god (although the author may be a non believer). but it does go out of its way to state that most modern day religions are based nearly detail by detail from ancient religions. And that many of our beliefs today can either be huge misunderstandings or just not true.

great piece of film right there

HMRNBOX

i like where they throw in a clip of the comedian talking about dinosaurs and the earth being only 12k old...
seems like an interesting video, i'll have to watch the rest later.

matt_a

You might want to check this out too:
http://www.kingdavid8.com/Copycat/Home.html

scionofPCFL

Can't watch the video at work, but that comedian is Bill Hicks, and he was outstanding.

THE_DON

Interesting.

-THE DON

Menace

x2

Jenna

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting indeed!

Menace

You know, I've been thinking about this all day but too lazy (and busy) to fact check it. Has anyone done it? After reading some of the comments on YouTube, apparently (don't know how credible) some found inconsistencies in the video. If it is in fact all true, I feel stupid, as should we all.

aen

humans need religion

otherwise we'd be bothering the really smart people with questions all day long

"how come i can't do this!"
"because god wont' let you"
"oh, okay"

see?

imagine no religion

how come i can't do do this?!!?!
einstein: uh. because you suck?
you: thats bull____ not fair! soem genius you are!

and back to god

"because you suck"
"oh....does that mean im going to hell?"

religion.....is a weird thing.

Menace

^^lmao

13edge

Or is it the other way around?

aen

ah, if you want to get into THAT we can

they coincide with each other, for you to have one, you must have the other. or else the existence of either is false.

one might argue, well athiests don't' need religion!
true, to a sense.
if you dwell deeper into the whole athiest religion and atmosphere, they never once say that god is impossible, rather they say that he is not plausible. therefore placing them in a plank where god MIGHT be possible in situations that are inexplainable.

yet, true to form, there are athiests that will stand there and repeat over and over again that god doesn't exist and that no higher being exists than themselves. so. upon hearing that. i bring in the definition of religion

religion |riÈlijYn|:
• a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance : consumerism is the new religion.

so..with that, the pursuit alone of not believing in a religion, and seeing yourself as the highest form of authority over your own life, you suddenly become the god of your own life. in turn creating a religion. it is inevitable.

so! all in all, the only TRUE way to ever be part of no religion, you must believe in absolutely nothing....

like emo kids.

or, one must figure out a way to place equality within everybody so as nobody is greater than anybody else. which is the way of certain forms of buddism and other such religions.

and we all know, even monks have opinions of soemthing.

yup.

religion is a biatch!

sorry to get all into it human philosophy is my steez.

aen

btw, sorry if i bored the crap out of you.

im quite bored myself. and didn't get to watch that youtube thing cuz im blackberrying my internet connection =(

scionofPCFL

what do anarchists have to do with religion?

religion is an idea. ideas cannot exist w/o people, but people can exist w/o ideas.

matt_a

Yes, but if a tree falls on an idea but there are no religions around...wait....never mind.

andysxA

i think aen meant atheists, not anarchists. Because anarchists don't need government rules and what not.

jsa3mm

I believe someone once said, "Keep thy religion hidden in secret,"...Oh yeah...that was Jesus.

scionofPCFL

I was considering the post:

But I figured he would have some sort of stoned out philsophy major explaination that I would not care two snits about.

matt_a

Umm...no, I don't believe so. I'm pretty sure it was George Carlin.