Palestinian man is giving his t-shirt to his sister to use it as a hijab

I sometimes watch debates that Matt Dillahunty has with theists, and there was recently this guy who takes stupidity to new levels that I didn't even think were possible.

He opens with a long word salad about how numerology connected with number Pi proves intelligent creation - he even has cardboard diagrams that he puts on one another which he then spins like a propeller.

Then he started claiming that heart-shaped stones (that can be picked up off the ground around the world) prove that Noah's flood happened because they are fossilized human hearts from people who drowned in the deluge.

https://www.youtube.com/live/yPpljS8hY2w...g-4zjA32B0

(October 24, 2023 at 6:36 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Palestinian man is giving his t-shirt to his sister to use it as a hijab

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Don't you just love it when Christians can't keep their religion to themselves 33k feet above the ground?

Christians get excited as they think they are looking at angels flying in the night sky

I stumbled on this video yesterday, an interesting interview with Richard Dawkins:





And in it the interviewer - who claims to be an atheist, but one who caters to a partly religious audience, and speaks for them in some sense (and also speaks about his own fears) - put it to Dawkins the question/allegation that when atheists say there is nothing to fear about ceasing to exist in death, that it is "macho" [presumably implicitly posturing]. I've never heard that objection in my life, and can't imagine many atheists even being able to ask that question with a straight face. It's not macho posturing; I have no problem saying I fear the process of death, but I see absolutely no reason to fear non-existence itself. I can only assume that people who do fear that concept, have misconceptualised it as being consciously aware for eternity within a void, which of course would be terrifying, but that is not the contention. Or perhaps the fear is of essentially not waking up after sleep but either way, I really don't relate to these sorts of fears.

Watching the whole thing, I think the interviewer is an atheist, and is sincere, but this question and others - like he also asked, if you could take a pill or whatever to make yourself believe in an afterlife for the sake of comfort, would you take it?... again a question that I can't imagine many atheists being able to ask with a straight face - did make me have my doubts. I guess there are many degrees of atheism, but I can't say I relate to the sorts of fears this guy has at all.

200 years ago I didn't exist that wasn't a problem for me, in another 200 years I also won't exist also won't be a problem, not looking forward to the transition between existing and not existing though... could be unpleasant and painful

(November 6, 2023 at 7:20 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: 200 years ago I didn't exist that wasn't a problem for me,  in another 200 years I also won't exist also won't be a problem,  not looking forward to the transition between existing and not existing though... could be unpleasant and painful

Yep, exactly.