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fastest 'full contact' 'martial arts' punches
12/29/09, 00:46
Related video: heaviest car balanced on the head. Not "a" car, "heaviest" car. |
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Chris-Chan's holiday message to Jack Thaddeus: I'll break you dead!
12/28/09, 22:19
Christian apologized for the skipped audio, give him a break. He would try to imitate what people do when they're angry in crystal clear surround sound if he could. |
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A Jetson Christmas Carol (1985)
12/28/09, 04:15
Oh yeah, multi-part wasn't working for me.
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp4h8L9KgIo
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S6LA6ehPY |
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Why We Believe In Gods
12/28/09, 03:09
baleen: I was referring to naturalism. Like it says in the WP article, there are a couple of implications...epistemological ("everything we can know exists in nature") and ontological angle ("everything that exists, exists in nature"). It's the latter view that most often gets called reductionist.
Thing is though, even ignoring that, you still have to acknowledge that our brains evolved along lines that made religious experience possible, because if they didn't, religious experience wouldn't be physically possible. If language didn't have some survival benefit, we wouldn't have the physical capacity for it. Or so I have always imagined. |
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A Jetson Christmas Carol (1985)
12/28/09, 02:47
ah crap, morlocks |
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A Jetson Christmas Carol (1985)
12/28/09, 02:46
The Eloi live down there. |
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Three-Way Tie on Jeopardy
12/26/09, 17:40
His face on that first total. |
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A Jetson Christmas Carol (1985)
12/26/09, 17:29
Maybe it was because I saw this at the right age, but I still think this is a really good adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
I didn't unwrap this tape...it was sitting on the tailgate of a Power Wheels. Good fucking Christmas. |
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The Eyelids of an Asian Woman
12/26/09, 02:15
Is it the hips? No. Hair? No. Boobs?
Well what do you think, smart guy? |
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Rape-aXe Anti-Rape Device
12/26/09, 02:08
GOOD CALL |
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Rape-aXe Anti-Rape Device
12/26/09, 02:07
That was my favorite part too, short of the photos at the end proving that this person is actually making these things and running them through QC tests. |
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Why We Believe In Gods
12/26/09, 02:01
Who believes in dogs? That's a loaded question. |
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Why We Believe In Gods
12/26/09, 01:46
I guess you dislike the idea that everything, including consciousness, can be explained in terms of physical processes. I'll give you that it's a tough one. And it's beyond the scope of this lecture.
Even leaving that aside, religion must have arisen naturally, unless you believe that God gave/taught it to humans. But it's not crazy to think that maybe we a capacity for it, as we do for language. So why do we have that capacity?
You might say that it confers an advantage for survival. Or you might say it's an emergent side effect of other thought process which do that. Dr. Thompson is in the latter camp, but the neat thing is that he has put a lot of thought into which psychological processes support which aspects of religious experience.
If you are yourself religious then I could see where neither idea sounds very appealing, and maybe Thompson's stuff seems overly reductionist. Not to keep repeating myself but I don't really consider this stuff empirical science anyway. But there's something about it which stuck with me. I guess because I'd never heard the hyperactive agency detection thing before. |
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5 second films: Naughty
12/26/09, 00:44
Yeah but it's measure twice, cut once. |
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Why We Believe In Gods
12/25/09, 03:23
And you commented on the other one...weird. I smell a conspiracy.
The intros end around 2:35, btw. |
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Why We Believe In Gods
12/25/09, 03:20
dupe.
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=58261
still great though. if you missed it the first time around, watch it.
(He says something about empirical evidence in the beginning...they don't that. But it's still a really good look at how certain elements of our psychology might make gods a really natural idea.) |
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Laura Ingraham vs. Devout Atheist
12/25/09, 03:12
Nope. I think they're looking for money.
Which I think is a good counter to the "atheism is a religion" thing. Religions disappear without money. Atheism doesn't disappear until someone tells you you don't have to actually deal with how harsh life is. |
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Laura Ingraham vs. Devout Atheist
12/25/09, 02:58
That's exactly what makes her more evil for me. You can just imagine the folks at home saying "yeah, that's what I wanna know too" at the TV after every "question." |
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Laura Ingraham vs. Devout Atheist
12/24/09, 16:21
"Reason is always in season." I like it. She actually didn't do that bad a job. Fuck Ingraham for saying that atheists don't do charity. I *only* donate to secular charities (all the big ones are anyway) because I'll be damned if my money's going to go to indoctrinate the weak rather than the stuff I meant it to go to. |
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Laura Ingraham vs. Devout Atheist
12/24/09, 16:16
If asked to do so, I would not be against taking up arms in the culture war. |
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