This might be offensive.

I watched this on BoingBoing, and I think it showcases the kind of thinking that frustrates people who believe you cannot have a discussion without reasoning, logic, or empirical evidence as your starting point.

Some of my more religious friends might also find this frustrating, as it shows how that squeaky wheel can portray everyone as belligerent anti-reason fools.

This is as frustrating, I imagine, as the militant Athiests are to the non-religious. Just like elesewhere in life, I think everyone has to make these decisions for themselves, and there is just no pushing someone one way or another – especially when your debate partners are unwilling to accept logic or empirical evidence as a starting point – not the final point, but the place of common ground.

If you were to say “The sky is blue” and I said “We all know that it is red!” and you replied, “Look up for yourself, if you don’t believe me” and I said, “I don’t have to” … well, that is the end of our conversation, isn’t it? If you can’t convince me to consider the idea that I am wrong, how can I expect you to do the same? If I believe that everything I can discover with my own eyes, ears and instruments are lies … what common ground can there be? What causes that blue sky, that may be debatable, but if you can’t rely on your senses?

There is nowhere to start from, not even the unity of the human condition.


Video taken from boingboing

~ by Skennedy on March 31, 2009.

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12 Responses to “This might be offensive.”

  1. Oh. My. God.

    And they wonder why atheists are angry?

    tommytoony said this on March 31, 2009 at 5:33 pm

  2. ….the sky is grey…..

    jellopony said this on March 31, 2009 at 5:39 pm

  3. Look, everyone is entitled to their own facts, but not their own opinions.

    clayfoot said this on March 31, 2009 at 5:44 pm

  4. My favorite quote, though : “We’d all dissolve if our bodies were full of that acid.”

    referring, of course, to DNA. ROFLMAO

    I can’t even begin to explain how much I detest that alternate reality, but I try not to deal with people who live there too much, and that helps.

    rachelann1977 said this on March 31, 2009 at 6:09 pm

  5. Unfortunately, the only thing that surprised me about that video was that guy’s amazing neckbeard. :-\

    myopicgreen said this on March 31, 2009 at 6:27 pm

  6. And now for something completely different!

    Hey, can I pick your brain? A lawyer I work with Downriver needs a VHS tape containing evidence transferred to DVD, and the sound enhanced. I’ve got a list of places off Google that might do it, but being that you’re in the A/V business, I also thought I should ask if there’s any company or method you recommend for getting this done.

    Isn’t expertise a bitch? ;)

    Thanks!

    pure_doxyk said this on March 31, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    • Re: And now for something completely different!

      *laugh* No problem. I do have the facilities for it. If you’ve got a list, I can probably tell you who is and is not reputable. email me at (thisljname) at gmail.com.

      atdt1991 said this on March 31, 2009 at 6:34 pm

  7. LOL

    ajaxx2 said this on April 1, 2009 at 7:35 am

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