James Randi: Sleep of Reason
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- čas přidán 27. 09. 2011
- Alla linkit luennolla esitettyyn videomateriaaliin (below you'll find links to the videos shown in the lecture):
1) James Randin esittelyvideo (an introduction to James Randi):
• An Introduction to Jam...
2) James Randi demonstroi "psyykkistä kirurgiaa" (James Randi demonstrates psychic surgery):
• James Randi's PSYCHIC ...
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The world would be a better place if they taught james randi skeptic lessons to kids.
Yes... and the 'they' need not be parents or schools. It can merely be the humans that have preceded them. We must all do our part.
Skepticism is largely u.s. american, you know like illiteracy ? :P
@@marielunst1502 mistaking cynicism for skepticism?
This man is quite simply a legend.
He has no Ordination, so until that's destoyed we should all assist
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People have the right to be stupid. Makes life so easy for the rest 😌
He’s also a fraud
I admire truth, RIP Randy 🙏
I hope I have as much wit and wisdom at that age, as James Randi has. Great to listen to.
This is a reoccuring theme:
Astrology vs Astronomy
Evolution vs Creationism
Chemistry vs Alchemy
Phrenology vs Neuroscience....
yes Im closed minded towards phrenology as a psychologist
October 2020 RIP James Randi. Thank you !!!!!
I really enjoyed this lecture. Thank you for uploading it. To be honest, I know this sounds strange but another thing that caught my eye was your description in Finnish. What a poetic and mysterious language. At least in my experience.
dovahkiin :d
Here in the UK we use a brilliant system which is half metric and half imperial. So, for example the 15mm compression fitting commonly used in plumbing has a 1/2inch BSP thread. Although even then the thread is not actually 1/2inch in size. Oh no, that would be too obvious.
We combine the worst of metric and imperial with the added complication of having to continue catering for both.
That's why we don't have factories anymore - it just got too complicated and so we gave up.
Yeah just look at your cars tyre sizes. It's half imperial, size of wheel and the tyre width and depth is metric
I've seen a few of his lectures but I never get tired of the matchbox story :)
I was one of the organizers here in Helsinki. We didn't pay Randi (just travel, lodging and food) nor did we charge anything for this lecture.
We used to buy our dog’s food at a small store in our town. They also sold homeopathic medicines for dogs. One day, a girl there tried to sell me some of this medicine for my dog. I told her that I don’t believe in homeopathy. She said “You probably shouldn’t buy it, then. If you don’t believe in it, it won’t work.” I wish I was lying, but I swear on my life that’s what she said. If that doesn’t disprove homeopathy, I don’t know what will.
Oh, wow. And that she was trying to sell you, at first, without knowing whether you believed- when, according to her, that was a requirement for it to work- is appalling as well.
Fantastic! Core sicence message with supreme wise persona. Wonderful!
I don't know where he gets this thing about metric/imperial for the Hubble. That is not where Hubble's problems came from.
There was a probe in which metric/imperial seems to have contributed to the probe being lost.
Hubble's problems arose from a screw up on the calibration methods, and these methods did not involve an error on metric/imperial. The error arose because a calibration rod was prepared in a manner that confused the calibration process. When they were supposed to be on the end of the rod they were on the end cap by mistake.
this man at least makes you think, respect
31:55 No, that wasn't the Hubble. That was the Mars Climate Orbiter. The Hubble never had a problem with metric units vs. english units. It had an unrelated problem with a flawed mirror.
very interesting and fun to watch.
This guy is freaking awesome !!
If you mean the bottle at 9:10, it was bought from an apotheque here in Helsinki, so the instructions were actually in finnish.
SkepsisFinland, thanks for posting! =)
Lols I love his story about the comets. Hahahaha pissing matches just went cosmic :D
Pretty much. While the eye takes in all light like a camera lens, but the brain simply discards whatever it deems unimportant. That's why if you experience something, and watch a recording you made of it...your memory is never going to exactly line up. The brain is filtering images, trying to process it as quickly as it can to react to it. It's pretty interesting what is thrown out.
Devilmademedoit2 - "I love this!"
SweetSummer96 - "Wow. That's a cool story"
Vespasian052 - "Wow!what an awesome tale.."
Beekpr9 - "Amen to all you have said"
Saipan1777 - "Spot on bravo"
Duke Tinn - "Thanks again,Great Stuff"
Ainglkiss - "what a wonderful story. You write so well. Keep up the great work"
BlessedOne - "Glad to have you here ! Jesus is the way!"
MonkGirl - "Wow, thank you! That is really comforting...and all I really needed to hear!"
"My car gets 40 rods to the hog's head and that's how I like it!"- Grandpa Simpson.
Brilliant. Too rare.
He said several times that you will never stop these people, but I get the feeling he advocates for federal laws which restrict these types of things.
You can't outlaw it and make it go away, you can only continue to do what Randi has done, and he does a great job of it.
You can actually bring a case of fraud and likely either win or get a swift settlement if you were ripped off by one of these spirit healers, unless they told you it may not work...which shame on the people who get ripped off...
i was wondering what the hell kind of microphone that was.
And this was filmed when? Where? How hard can it be to put this up with the vid? My guess is at Stockholm Waterfront 2010, August 9.
You've got a crystal ball.
Actually the JREF forum didn't have the guts to ban me when i started running rings round them in religious debate, rather a mod named Lisa told me "your account has been suspended until you provide proof of your identity".
That's the first forum i've known that asks people for personal details, so i said "no way hozay" and walked out.
Sorry, it's my english, but what does that pen detects? "Sturch"?
Guess it is "starch"
What a wonderful and special man.
HenryS - "You are brilliant in finding appropriate phrases. Another one of your superb emails to store"
Coconut - "Whew! Thanks for sharing"
Sarah4Jesus - "Listen to him, he is a great teacher"
Kierri - "That was one of the best explanations I've ever heard!"
Haimehenmmli - "I LOVE IT MATE!!! I'm going to put it into my files, with some of my other favorites, from you"
Evachrst3 - "Thank you for defending the faith so eloquently".
Quite interesting...
Well I'm glad you posted, cos now I learned a new word in Finnish thanks to your hilarious well crafted joke. Why are you not on the stage? Ääliö .
You've probably never heard the filk song "The Lurkers Support me in email" by Jo Walton (1999)
Is Homeopathy and Naturopathy the same thing ?
I was wondering about the strange-looking microphone...
"I even challenged Stephen Fry to a debate, I dunno if he got it but I never heard back from him." he is a very busy man, and he will win hands down. But it would look good on your cv, but nothing in it for him.
I think I was a bit unfair. But the glasses and razor gags as well as the matchbox story could definitely do with being replaced with something a bit newer.
James Randi a Finnish dude using VLC in the same YT video, my life is complete!
I finally know what i want to do when i'm big: I want to say:" My asteroid is bigger than your asteroid."
The person's argument was that weed is natural and therefore okay to do. I said it's not natural but okay to do. The "but" was because it was of their opinion that natural= good/okay. Pay more attention to what you're reading and it'll save you a lot of time/questions.
you forgot the most important controversy: physics vs magic
good on u
I can't talk for atheists, but I know I am on the side of humanity, against ancient crippling superstitions.
It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. - Gloria Steinem
"Dr. Antony Flew (philosopher and former atheist) " an argument from authority.
What I've found the most bizarre in the UK is that humans are weighed in "stones" (14 avoirdupois pounds, approximately 6.35 kg), unused for anything else.
If you actually listened to Randi's lecture, he's all for new discoveries. He just doesn't believe they will be handed to us by magic unicorns, but that rigorous scientific research is the best way to discover them for ourselves.
Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out. - Carl Sagan (1934-1996): The Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark, p. 177, 1996
You still did not even acknowledge the question - so what? With my "welll... except for this part..." I was trying to imply a meaning for why you would add any "but" to the statement "I have no opposition to it."
I'm simply curious as to your train of thought. You have now said that you did not mean "not natural = bad," yet the "but" does not mean absolutely nothing, so what do you mean by adding in that additional information to "I have no opposition to it."? It seems entirely irrelevant.
"Within the tiny space of every cell, this code is 3 BILLION letters long!" cells are only tiny to us. They are huge atomically, . Atoms grow and change naturaly.
The video clip that was supposed to be at 51:20 czcams.com/video/LjF1sUZEy2U/video.html
Incidentally, Potts is not a real clergyman, he's just a jumped up 'Assistant Methodist Minister', my guess is he's the caretaker of their meeting hall and they bestowed that lofty title on him to keep him sweet in recognition of the good work he does cleaning out their shit house..:)
Joseph Tittle - videos here - at about 20 secs you will give up.. He says he is psychic but each one of his predictions can be any where any time- just nuts
Its like accusing someone of being closed minded towards the idea of a flat earth.
oooohh. Now I know what I'm gonna ask santa for christmas. I hope he fits on the shelf...
"unused for anything else." yup although fish markets traditionaly used them. So most of the world is metric. the UK only uses stones and pints for odd things, and these two measurments are not used in the USA, or are different. Metric is a brilliant system. Alians would think we were crazy trying to use 2 system. 1 watt= IKG moved 1 metre per second. Simples! ( don't even start me on acres:-)
But it works, have you ever still felt bad after drinking a bottle of spirits?(next day doesn't count)
Too hard to even copy and paste it into google translate? It will translate Finnish fairly well. That was a Finnish person writing in Finnish about a visit by James Randi to Finland. You think somehow they should always write in English just to suit you?
PS- i see one of my comments has been removed from this thread. See people, there are forces out there that don't want you to hear the truth from me..:)
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil " (Eph 6:12).
4 times in a paragraph about my opinion? O how dare I, O shit I used it again...damn did it again.
If dilution leads to potency, does that mean that the whole planet, being mostly covered in water, is close to exploding in a thermonuclear event? :(
Isn't pride a deadly sin?
I never realized that Zicam said it was homeopathic! Holy crap tons of people buy that!
HERO!!!!
A weed plant is natural, its the same process of growing one's own food and then eating it, except they are growing it to smoke it, both have the same process and both give effect to the body. So you would be saying that growing food and eating it is not natural. Also the smoke that comes from a weed plant is not the same as smoke from a fire in a house, i'm sure you knew that. Also to get the effect of weed you do not have to smoke it you can eat it as well and still get the effect.
Jonathan Swift was Irish, not English
I agree kind of, it's important that all of our actions are as much a part of nature as any other animals actions but then everything is natural and the word "natural" is entirely useless.
My ex used to tell me: Vlad: it's not the size of your asteroid, it's how you use it..
but now I'm afraid she lied to me :(
What?
I see that one of your comments in this thread has been voted down, which is certainly something quite different from it being removed. My suggestion is, make a minor effort not to sound so self-righteous.
"Yet she increased her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth when she engaged in prostitution in the land of Egypt and lusted after their paramours whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose seminal emission was like that of horses." -- Ezekiel 23:19-20
Who's to say there was a "Jesus" to begin with?
He also pointed out a problem with the federal government having control over schooling and what is taught.
Does Randi consider himself a libertarian by any chance? I'm not very familiar with him.
It's still the same logic; remember Avogadro's limit.
Again, I'm not a specialist on what the best way to teach children, but neither are you or anyone else, this is simply knowledge you can't hold.
What we can do is let parents, obviously with input from their children, decide what the best school for their child is.
If it ends up being the christian academy of ignorance, so be it, but you also retain the right to not have your child taught junk science just as much as they have the right to not have actual science taught to theirs.
In the reindeer experiment they all flew 300 meters!!
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Keep in mind your comment basically stressed the idea that smoking weed was natural and therefore okay. I just said smoking weed isn't natural but is still okay. Weed can grow naturally but the good weed we smoke doesn't just grow naturally. Eating food is necessary, getting high isn't. Also, cocaine grows naturally, do you advocate it's use? Probably not. Desiring to inhibit brain function isn't natural. Doesn't make it bad, just unnatural.
As opposed to megachurch preachers (like Peter Popoff), who have been known to throw away smaller denomination checks because cashing them would be actual work?
A very fundamental tenet of science is that even new discoveries have to be compatible with earlier findings and build on them. Einsteinian physics matches Newtonian physics in everyday life to extremely high accuracy. Thus, we can be quite certain that things like homeopathy are not going to suddenly be found to be "science" - they are merely pre-scientific (magical) ideas elevated to almost the level of religion.
And are you sure you don't sound like a loony when you use the word "minions"?
I dont know but here comes another one.............fuckin hilarious!!!!
Videoception!
All decent people seem to like me, so i must be doing something right, here's some of their fan mail i get..:)-
Spannerose - "I would like you to know that the result of reading your posts I am left with the desire to pick up my bible for the first time in years"
ChildofLight - "So good to read your responses , some are quite witty and made LOL"
Happysandyh - "welcome, welcome welcome!"
Well, it's good to see you could shrug it off as a joke, as it was mean't as a slightly mean, if a bit silly reprimand on my part.:P That being said tho' i think you need to be more tactful in the way you debate people. I've seen a few of your comments on here and you do come of as rather condesending at times and i don't think it's helping your case. haha, hope i'm not the condesending one for telling you this, just got tired from reading some of the stuff here.
// Friendly-Nonbeliever.
the religious have a different world view. they would submit that evidence is not required and faith is plenty if not more than enough. yes, i know, it isn't fair to the rest of us who try but some can compartmentalize well enough.
He's a bit vague on the nature of the mole.
But eating food out of the ground is alright ? Thats the same concept, we take plants out of the ground and eat them and use them for medicine and that is natural. But to take a plant out of the ground and smoke it is not ? Explain.
There are 66 separate books in the bible, the earliest dating from about 1500 BC.
Think of the bible therefore as a list of 'Close Encounters' with 'alien' beings.
Jesus said-" I am not of this world" (John 8:23)
"I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north, the center of the fire looked like glowing metal..Creatures emerged.. I fainted in fear..Stand up human and don't be afraid said one.." (Ezekiel 1:4+)
22:20 A video within a video within a video... wtf.
Why the Gospels ?? What about ALL the others "HOLY BOOKS'??
You use the word 'I' a lot.
Teaching a child creationism is fine, as with any religion and fairytale.
The problem occurs when religion takes precedence over fact, or when children are labelled with religion by their parents.
The sleep of reason produces monsters
its a dream
if you don't know hahnemann was not swiss how reliable will your info on homeopathy be? the answer is: it wont be.
FINISH THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE #FUNDTHIS !!!!
On the other hand it's totally possible to know that he wasn't Swiss, and still know fuck all about homeopathy.
The information of where Hahnemann came from is totally irrelevant to the understanding of what the claims of homeopathy are.
We have the same problem in the UK. virtually everything you buy is in metric, but we try and convert to another non standard system. Its crazy. Th ounce is French ( both types troy and avoirdupois) . The UK pint gallon etc, is bigger than the US pint gallon! (yay), but everything brits buy in a pub all over the world is metric, except draught beer. How crazy. When we go to europe we have half litre . Tis so simple. Lets just use one system metric.
he either has a very small torso or some huge legs
I watched this so it would bore me to sleep
listen from 7:45- he says they give advice and includes love and marriage in his -- its all nonsense statement-- not by accident either or he would have left that out
I do make stipends, with my taxes, the only problem is that I have to pay for these failures of public school systems instead of choosing well ran private schools.
Religious people have the monopoly on private schools because they do so much 'charity' through churches.
With a voucher system we could get some secular schools going knowing that 90% of parents want the best for their children, even the ignorant ones will know which are the good schools because they will become popular.
Who shot who in the what now?