Comments on: Bill Maher’s Religulous Trailer Directed by Larry Charles

By: bobcarp

bobcarp — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:45:28 +0000

What part of “Humans make up gods” do some people not get. Every culture all over the world independantly of each other all had the human instinct to create some magical creature(s) to explain how we got here and to provide hope that there is a life after death. It’s all part of the survival instict. It’s the 21st century people…. let’s try to catch up.

By: Trailer: Religulous - The Documentary Blog

Trailer: Religulous - The Documentary Blog — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:13:36 +0000

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By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:35:01 +0000

I still wish Lord Beetle told us what he liked so much about Jay’s specific brand of atheism

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:06:55 +0000

At your request, ProjectGenesisGangster, I will settle this dispute.

I spoke to God, but she says she doesn’t exist.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:59:36 +0000

Religion is guesswork. It doesn’t expand our consciousness it diminishes it with its nonsense answers that are very easy and comforting, but in the end may doom us (ie. not giving a fuck about global warming because jesus is coming anyway, and if he doesn’t before you die, as long as you praise him everyday when you die it gets much better, so why bother?). I think Marx was right, but to update him a bit, religion is fast-food for the mind.

By: Goon

Goon — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:34:45 +0000

well LD, you did bring it up. i entertained your notions and its getting into circle jerk.

rot, what can i say, i think you’re redefining things to fit your view. worse off, sorry, i dont find the hadron thing very interesting today, and am willing to walk away for now and help let this thread die.

By: rot

rot — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:20:27 +0000

You’re right Henrik because our consciousness extends beyond our mortal bodies… now you have talked yourself into religion!

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:56:10 +0000

Why are you concerned with the annihilation of man? We don’t deserve special treatment, and the only thing we have over animals is our consciousness. Why should we restrict the expansion of it just to preserve ourselves? It’s much more disheartening that we will die because of something as pointless as greed, which is much more likely.

By: rot

rot — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:42:10 +0000

btw regarding the hadron collider, there is a court case in motion to stop it because of the three doomsday scenarios it could pose.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/2033218&from=rss

and Henrik I am convinced mankind will not rest until it annhilates itself and its statements like your most recent which only further justify my concern.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:58:01 +0000

Well, in my opinion the pursuit of knowledge is the only thing that can justify human consciousness. So I’d rather have us annihilated in pursuing knowledge than have us exist forever in ignorance.

By: rot

rot — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:08:19 +0000

tell me Henrik what percentage of probability for a doomsday scenario occuring is acceptable for the sake of knowing whether or not string theory is justified?

ludicrous.

Our curiosity will be the end of us because we are not grown up enough to acknowledge moral boundaries for our actions.

The people who rage against religious fanaticism yet turn a blind eye to the same in science need to get their heads examined. The greatest fear of religious fanatics is they get there hands on nuclear weapons… well who put that weapon on the table in the first place?

Ren and Stimpy had a great gag where Stimpy was curious to push the History eraser button and Ren kept telling him not to, and what did he do, he pushed it and everything went up in smoke. Thats untethered science in a nutshell. No amount of airplane crashes can amount to the devastation afforded the pursuit of knowledge.

It doesn’t help either that morality has left the political sphere now too, a corporation decides what is right or wrong.
political fanaticism, yet again the problem.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:51:34 +0000

No point in existing if not to test new ground and make new discoveries. Remember, people said that the train was not possible, because physics would rip people apart if they were to travel at such speeds. Fear of science is nothing new.

Cloning in the Arnold Schwarzenegger sense (The 6th Day. ‘Cool’ anyone?) seems absolutely horrifying I agree, but just because some crazy idiots (usually cults based in some sort of weird worship) claim to have created doomsday machines and superhumans, we should not put the kibosh on scientific research.

Scientific research is driven first and foremost by people who enjoy doing it, second by curiosity. There is a drive to know more, a need to answer questions which you may say ‘uses us’, but where do you define what is based in the simple enjoyment of doing something, be it science or art or craftsmanship, and where somebody feels a need to test just to test? Scientific research is rarely pointless.

It seems your point is more or less that we can’t be sure that the answers are right anyway, so why risk anything in the pursuit of them? For that, I will reiterate that reality, for purpose of existing as a human being I’d say you have to accept this, exists, and if it claims to work in a certain way (ie. gravity) we’re better off if we accept it and work around it. Like I said, things exist untill proven otherwise.