This comes up a lot and I went and answered a question posed over on the MythVision YouTube channel today that asked if I believed that Jesus was real.
I don’t know. Define your terms first! Continue reading Was Jesus a Myth?
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Lots of Atheists are Clueless Too!
I don’t know why we have to keep having these conversations but apparently we do. A post popped up over on Reddit in which the OP wanted to know the views of atheist moral realists and I pointed out that they’d have a really hard time coming up with any of those because the overwhelming majority were moral anti-realists.
That’s when all of the doo-doo hit the fan. Continue reading Lots of Atheists are Clueless Too!
Examining “QUAM DILECTA”
I recently had someone mention an essay, written by Peter van Inwagen, which purports to be an interesting, perhaps even persuasive look at reasons to be a Christian. So, why not, says I? Let’s go take a look at it and see if it stands up to critical scrutiny.
Spoiler alert for the curious: it doesn’t. Continue reading Examining “QUAM DILECTA”
A Stupid Question for Calendar Makers
This is one of those things that I just don’t understand. Every year, I get a calendar, for the sole reason of marking what videos I’ve uploaded to YouTube and what days they premiere. That’s all I use it for. So why are there so many problems trying to do that?
I don’t get it. Continue reading A Stupid Question for Calendar Makers
Philosophy Isn’t Special
I’ve been having a lot of discussions on philosophy lately and most don’t go well. There are a lot of people who seem to think that philosophy is a one-size-fits-all solution for every problem without exception and that’s just not how any of this works.
Not that most of these people care. So I wanted to talk about a recent example or two and why these people just need a lot of help. Continue reading Philosophy Isn’t Special
The Emotional Parade
Seriously, I weep for the future of humanity based on the kind of crap that I see online all the time. People who, while legally adults, they simply cannot think or react as anything but little immature children and then, when they get called out on it, they can do nothing but scream and cry and throw temper tantrums.
Can these people grow the hell up please? Continue reading The Emotional Parade
That’s Not Going to Convince Anyone!
A while back now, I did a video over on YouTube where I took a look at the Cosmic Skeptic, Alex O’Connor and pointed out that, at least when it came to specific charity claims that he was making, he was going entirely off the rational reservation.
Since then, I’ve looked at a couple of his videos here and there and then, I saw this video from the Non-Alchemist addressing it and I thought I needed to respond. Instead of heading to YouTube though, I really wanted to take an in-depth look, so here we go. Links to videos concerned will be below the fold. Continue reading That’s Not Going to Convince Anyone!
NFTs are a Scam
Let’s be honest, the new trend toward NFTs and cryptocurrencies are a complete scam, a tax on the gullible and stupid who have more dollars than sense. Yet it doesn’t stop people from being dumb, does it? It doesn’t stop people from just wanting things so much that they’d rather hand over their hard-earned cash for, effectively nothing.
So why are people so damn stupid these days? Let’s go talk about it for a while. Continue reading NFTs are a Scam
Here We Go Again!
I keep telling myself that I won’t respond to this because it isn’t going to change anything, but every once in a while, I have to, because this time, it wasn’t just once. I could ignore it if it was once. It was twice in a row that Matt Dillahunty lost the intellectual thread and started ranting.
Come on, can we just stop? Please? Continue reading Here We Go Again!
Whatever Would We Do?
How many times have you run into this one? You’ll be talking to a theist and they will tell you exactly what you think. They don’t ask, they tell. They explain that they know you better than you know yourself. Why? Because they can’t face a world where everyone isn’t fundamentally exactly the same as they are.
So let’s talk about it. Continue reading Whatever Would We Do?