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Good video links

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Nick
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Re: Good video links

#121 Post by Nick » April 29th, 2009, 11:08 pm

Latest post of the previous page:

That's great, Alan :thumbsup: Not my usual musical genre, but then again, music of all sorts can be so powerful.

I think this is the right thread for this video, but I was thinking only today that we should have a 'favourite you tube' thread, for videos which just take our fancy, just 'cos we like them......

*toddles off to start new thread*

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Re: Good video links

#122 Post by lewist » April 30th, 2009, 8:14 am

Alan C. wrote:This is maybe the wrong place for this video but the thread title is "good video links"
And I think this is a very good video, only 5 minutes, enjoy.
Stand by me. The song.
Amazing! I sent the link to the rocker sons. :smile:
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Re: Good video links

#123 Post by Lemonade Lily » May 1st, 2009, 10:18 am


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Re: Good video links

#124 Post by lewist » May 20th, 2009, 11:11 pm

I think this is too serious for the comedy area.

Consider Monkeys!
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Re: Good video links

#125 Post by Nick » June 10th, 2009, 5:47 pm

You may be interested to know that Christopher Hitchens' "God is Not Great" is available on Youtube, read by the author. Unfortunately it is in 10 minute bites, but anyway, it's available, beginning at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh6qTKeO ... re=related

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Re: Good video links

#126 Post by Paolo » June 13th, 2009, 10:33 am

Wonderful TED talk on cross-discipline science: http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_le ... l.html#top

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Re: Good video links

#127 Post by Alan H » June 13th, 2009, 11:02 am

Utterly amazing and inspiring science! Such a change from the looking to the non-science invoked by AltMeds I've been doing recently!
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Re: Good video links

#128 Post by getreal » June 13th, 2009, 6:02 pm

Thanks for that, lewist. I really enjoyed it (not yet looked at Paolo's. I have to make dinner)
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Re: Good video links

#129 Post by Alan H » July 3rd, 2009, 11:53 pm

Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

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Re: Good video links

#130 Post by getreal » July 4th, 2009, 12:25 am

That was amazing, Alan!!
Truly awe inspiring!!
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Re: Good video links

#131 Post by Nick » July 30th, 2009, 7:17 pm

I don't know if this series has been posted before, but if I've forgotten, then maybe it's time to bump it, not least for those who don't want to trawl through all the past history of this thread (That's my excuse anyway.)

The motion is "We'd be better off without God"

And the speakers, on both sides, are a cut above the average.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivYoBJANsaM&NR=1

My reaction , though somewhat predictable, is this:

Even if (belief in) God makes us "better off", it doesn't make God true.

and

If we devoted as much time and effort into philosophising about what would make the world "a better place", in whatever field you care to name, whether it's human rights, art, music, comfort for the bereaved, law and order or whatever) as we (as a species) do about promoting religious falsehood, (official sanction and daily exhortation) we'd obtain some pretty spectacular results, maybe better than those obtained by belief in God.

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Re: Good video links

#132 Post by Alan C. » July 30th, 2009, 8:45 pm

Nick
I don't know if this series has been posted before, but if I've forgotten,
No I hadn't seen it before though it's a couple of years old, pleased to see the motion was carried.
If we devoted as much time and effort into philosophising about what would make the world "a better place", in whatever field you care to name, whether it's human rights, art, music, comfort for the bereaved, law and order or whatever) as we (as a species) do about promoting religious falsehood, (official sanction and daily exhortation) we'd obtain some pretty spectacular results, maybe better than those obtained by belief in God.
Absolutely!
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Re: Good video links

#133 Post by Alan C. » September 17th, 2009, 7:19 pm

This video is about Scientific Facts of Gender & Neurology. But the guy doesn't half lay into the Christians, (10 minutes)
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Re: Good video links

#134 Post by Nick » October 3rd, 2009, 6:35 pm

Another awesome performance by Hitchens, even if he is spectacularly rude at times.....

Here he is Down Under in a debate entitled God, Sodomy and the Lash

Enjoy!

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Re: Good video links

#135 Post by Alan C. » October 3rd, 2009, 7:08 pm

Nick wrote:Another awesome performance by Hitchens, even if he is spectacularly rude at times.....

Here he is Down Under in a debate entitled God, Sodomy and the Lash


Enjoy!
I watched it last night Nick, I think he was entitled to be rude as neither the catlic or the muzzie woulld give a straight answer on the subject of homosexuality.
Do you think the woman on the end (with the big neclace had the hots for the Hitch?
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Re: Good video links

#136 Post by Nick » November 3rd, 2009, 2:47 pm

On this site is a list of many video and audio discussions, some of which you may find interesting.

http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=50

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Re: Good video links

#137 Post by SoldierForTruth » November 3rd, 2009, 10:02 pm

This is a video depicting one Christian man's views on slavery, animated by a "free thinker." Amusing and disturbing at the same time...
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Re: Good video links

#138 Post by Alan H » November 4th, 2009, 12:18 am

Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

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Re: Good video links

#139 Post by SoldierForTruth » November 5th, 2009, 10:16 pm

Unabashed self-promotion warning! :laughter:
My thoughts on the Christian Heaven from my militant-atheist-era mindset. (and to those who would browse my channel, no I don't still agree with everything I've ever made a video on or said in those videos).
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Re: Good video links

#140 Post by Alan C. » November 5th, 2009, 10:41 pm

Nothing wrong with a bit of self-promotion SFT, Very good videos,
I wouldn't know where to start (making a video for youtube)
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Re: Good video links

#141 Post by SoldierForTruth » November 6th, 2009, 9:25 pm

Alan C. wrote:Nothing wrong with a bit of self-promotion SFT, Very good videos,
I wouldn't know where to start (making a video for youtube)
Thank you! :D
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