The Atheist Experience 784 with Matt Dillahunty and Russell Glasser
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- The Atheist Experience 784 for October 21, 2012 with Matt Dillahunty and Russell Glasser.
Matt and Russell recap the Texas Freethought Convention (Oct 19-20, Austin). Special 2 hour episode.
SHOW TIME-STAMPS
00:54- Intro & Announcements & recap of the Texas Freethought Convention - Matt Dillahunty
09:49- Edward (actually Matt from episode 768, 769, 770 & 783, prank caller): the absence of morality in atheists, behaves stupidly
13:40- Joel (actually Jacob, Matt's 'brother' from episode 769, prank caller): Eric Hovind's argument that atheists cannot know anything, insults hosts
15:26- Tim (atheist): Einstein referencing Spinoza's God, comparing God to a reverence to nature
21:58- Amar (actually Matt from episode 768, 769, 770 and 783, prank caller): behaves stupidly
24:53- Johanan (theist from episode 675 and 753): the universe is on the inside of a conscious mind, brains and minds
28:54- Norma: indoctrination does not equal belief, at what age do children truly believe something
45:56- Julie: not leaping to supernatural explanations
48:04- Jason (theist): asks what the purpose of life is for an atheist, do the hosts believe Jesus Christ was a historical figure, science can only take you so far, believes in God based on faith, buildings have a builder, asks for the theory that explains existence, speaking in tongues
1:18:11- Bobby (theist from episode 757, 758, 760 and 769): what type of God do the hosts believe might exist, science is not opposed to religion, God is 'reality plus'
1:27:30- Robert (disconnected, hosts answer his question): how do the hosts avoid getting frustrated by dealing with theists
1:34:26- John: the definition of agnosticism
1:41:03- Andrew: living with a theist aunt
1:49:30- Charles: astrology is definitely factual and scientific
1:53:59- Alexander (atheist): the difference between a law and a theory
1:58:26- Randy (theist): the use of B.C. and A.D. in calendars proves the existence of God
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Im so glad Kermit called in to explain quantum physics to us.
LOL
I had my screen off and I thought this EXACT SAME THING.
@@Tkokat 0
@@ianbibbings2561 ... What
Cryinnngggggg!!!!!
One of the funniest show I've seen, back then I think Matt wasn't that frustrated with the callers and the chemistry between him and Russell was amazing.
Totally agree. The show was on fire then. The show these day is kinda dull. Still good but dull IMO
@Angels_From_Africa Still breathtaking the Matt can muster any patience at all to deal with the theist gibberish after so many years.
"and I left my lunch at home"
Thanks, Matt... You made me spit out laugh my coffee !! hahaha
Matt and Russell are two Giants of Logic.
It's really amazing they were together on the same show.
True dat
Two*
@@Amalekites Corrected.
@Carlos E I absolutely loved Russell. He did not have the same linguistic skills as Matt, but his mind was remarkable! Matt is very good on his feet, but I think other people could come up with better responses given 24 hours. Two different gifts.
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved."
Gotta love that ginger ninja
@@Tismitch You better be a ginger too :D
Always happy to see a Tim Minchin reference! Go Ginger Gawd
Hahahaha 🤣
I laughed out loud when Russell hung up on that guy for having an accent! He jumped the gun! 😂
Matt did not look pleased.
I haven't heard the rest to see if he called it wrong, but I definitely think he was right that it was a troll. We shall see if my trolldar is off and he called back.
Was that first caller Elvis Presley?
He certainly sounds like he's trying to fake an Elvis Presley voice. Because he's a dumbass troll.
One of the best episodes of all time. Should be known as the earrings episode. Studio audience made it a live comedy show
was he doing it to support a cause? I have listened to this episode before but first time im watching it and never noticed him wear earrings before
It also has two of the best quotes from the show. The "Woou, I know kung fu", I love that due to how random it is while at the same time being a nice reference.
And the line (which out of context potentially sounds extremely bad 😁) "I'm tired of these guys with accents!", after erroneously hanging up on a real caller.
This might be my favorite episode, and I watch this show ALL the time! Surreal, interesting, funny, informative, silly at some points. A very patient Matt, an always informative both of you. The approach of you both is always my favorite.
Forgot how awesome Russell is.
As a swede I’m ashamed to admit it but Joel from ”Austin” is , based on his accent, 100% from Sweden.
Tony Weseth I agree 🤦🏼♀️
Sounds like Elvis...
@@c.guydubois8270 You beat me to it!!!😅🤣😅🤣
Well Joel could live in Austin now, and be from Sweden
Weird. Cuz isn't the troll who knows the actual troll named Troll...from Oslo? Norway.
To the students economically depending from the ultra religious parents. Study hard, then get out and have a good life.
I always chuccle at folks pointing to the Christian declaration of what year it is, while nevver mentioning that the Romans named our months, and pagans named our days. On the same calendar.
These older shows are far better than the current ones. You can’t whack a good old fashioned theist.
I think much of that has to do with the fact that we have made SO much progress and there aren't nearly as many people that both use the internet and haven't met atheists and/or heard criticism of their religion. I remember 20 years ago, many people didn't even know atheism was a thing.
I love the nowadays bombastic Matt. I miss Hitchens’ bluntness and wondered if there was someone similar to him until I found Matt. Two very different styles, but just as effective at dealing with knucklehead theists.
Funny how for a shory while, a lot of Texans adopted a thick Scandinavian accent. That ought to be a topic worth studying for linguists.
Perhaps they were speaking in Norwegian tongues?
They're Episcopalians. Or Glosolalians. Speaking in Accents.
Vikings that took a wrong turn, up the Rio Grande, about a thousand years ago.
@@geezzerboy Newfoundland? Sure. Texas?
I just saw a Spiffing Brit vid, though, where he put Vikings on elephants. And conquered the world.
@@brucebaker810 Christians speak Idiotsitins.
This episode is silly lol a whole HANDFUL of nutters 🤣
which of the commandments says something on the line of “do not rape or force sex onto others”
8:40 Remember what Jesus said in the bible: "aabbUBABBBABWWAA-"
If Jesus said ‘aabbUBABBBABWWAA’ it would be the only original thing from him. Everything else a Jesus supposedly said was plagiarized from previous cultures. Jesus stole from Aesop, Confucius and the Zoroastrians to list just a few. Jesus was a fraud if he existed at all.
It would have been great if the show had caller I.D.and the prank caller's phone number were known.
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Nate Ellenberger
I get why you are wanting that. But these days it is pretty easy to disguise your number.
Online systems can give you a random number. People that swat YT channels use them all the time.
U mean something like "troll-trace" huh. Only the risk being selfcenscoring if they would call in at all.
If yiou call in the show now, it will block many numbers and hidden numbers. It was annoying to call in with VoIP because it also blocked Google Voice, now since discontinued.
How've I not seen this episode before? It's a classic in its own way 😂.
This was a fantastic episode!
One of the best!
Luv it when Matt smacks down stridently delusional godbots
When I was a kid a friend invited me to his Church of Christ church. I really liked his sister so I agreed to go. I got in the back of the station wagon with 3 other kids. His sister was laying on top of me.
When we got to the church and the show started I became terrified. Every time Jesus was mentioned people would throw their arms up in the air, they’d close their eyes and began yelling out “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!”. A lot of people fell to the floor and rolled around. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I was truly terrified of these people.
When they called for people to come forward to repent I was scared to death they were going to drag me to the front of the church and force me to be one of them. I felt like I was in the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and they were trying to get me.
I felt PTSD for years after that happened. It’s still disturbing to think that people could act that way. If it wasn’t for my friend’s hot sister I would never have gone to that church. But no amount of sex would ever get me to go back to one of those freak shows.
You have my sympathy!! The shouters and screamers are getting their "Jesus fix" by participating in what amounts to a form of community theater. One participant is triggered by the pastor's words or gospel music and appears to enter into a trance. The rest hear the THUD of a body falling to the floor -- often accompanied by the person "speaking in tongues" (meaningless sounds or glossolalia) -- which is their cue to join in. For an unprepared child to be exposed to this seemingly insane behavior has to be terrifying!
It's similar to a high school dance, with couples participating in wild gyrations set to music! But at a dance each song lasts a maximum of three minutes and with a few exceptions nobody appears to have entirely lost their minds. When properly structured, such a worship service provides a form of socially acceptable orgiastic glee that participants call being "possessed by the Holy Spirit".
I completely agree that Kevin in NY sounded Scandinavian - Russel didn’t jump the gun.
Best couple of the show
This video was created in 2012. It’s now 2022. If Jason wasn’t cut off this call would still be going on ten years later. And Jason would be just as willfully ignorant as he was in 2012.
😂 Right?! Sweet jesus, the dude will NOT hear anything different! 😆
on behalf of the people of norway. we are sorry.
Klapp igjen a, din forbanna morrapuler. Jeg spyler ned munnhølet til søstra di med masse gækk om du ikke tar deg sammen. Har allerede staka opp analen hennes. Kjellerluka har gått helt av hengslene lol.
If you put Jason's brain, in the ear of a mosquito, it would roll around like BBs in a box car ...
Mosquitos don't have ears 👀
55:47 "speaken" lmao Russell know he wrong for pointing that out lol 😂😂😂😂
Haha dude said “speak in”
Poor, poor Jason. If I had a mailing list of people like Jason I could become a billionaire by conning those fools.
"evolution is a proven theory, nothing more" thanks jason
The caller at 24 min in, Johannan, sounded like Kermit
Yeah he does
The last caller, isn't he also the caller who said he was from Meza Arizona? I think by the name Erik? The one who couldn't grasp that believing that say you don't accept X as true does not mean you believe X is false. He had like 7 (super easy to accept) premises, and they got stuck on the first one.
"It has happen to me"Spoken a language he never spoke?? What language did Jason spoke and what was said?😂
Here's a fun drinking game...
...Take a shot every time one of the hosts says the word "awesome".
If you can survive the first 6 minutes of the video, you win.
That last caller doesn't understand that in academia we use BCE, before common era, and CE, common era, instead of bc and ad.
Wait Matt was wearing earrings in dis episode?...lol
I’m all for it💃🏽
Actually that his best vision that I have seen so far from him :D
This*
Faith necessarily leads too closed-mindedness.
Never seen Matt with earrings. Looks nice. 👍
Jesus says, ask anything in my name and it shall be done. That's a lie and makes Jesus a liar, and i don't believe in liar's.
That makes no sense.
Do you mean you do not believe liars? To not believe IN liars would seem to suggest you do not believe in the reality of someone clearly who exists, or they would not be capable of doing anything, much less lying to you.
I would ask. How do you know anything that Jesus said? And why do you believe that? Indeed how do you know he existed in the first place to say anything?
Your language is very unclear and could really mean more than one thing.
It doesn't matter if it was Jesus or not, whoever wrote that was just making shit up!
I like it, where can I find the reference please?
@@rationalmartian lol it's an expression some people throw "in" after believe just because it's how they talk. Its a little nitpicky I think the majority understood. Jesus said that satan is the first liar and the father of lies (john 8:44) that is a lie. God said the day you eat the fruit you'll surely die. That's a lie, adam and eve didnt die that day. The serpent told them that they wouldn't die from eating the fruit and that they would gain knowledge of good and evil like god (genesis). If the serpent told the truth and god lied before the serpent ever did, then this means jesus lied and god is the father of lies and is the first liar. That's even if the bible is a valid source of history which is more leeway then any skeptic would agree too.
@@rationalmartian no one cares
“Science can only take you so far.’
Religion can only take you so false.
Brilliant!
What did Edward shout at the end of his call? (8:40)
I've tried several times to figure that out.
Jason is such a typical theist thinking only about his next comment and not listening to anything that might contradict it
10:24 best episode so far. 😂😂😂
8:38 - and prank is revealed in 3-2-1 (caller aka Matt from Oslo [I think] speaking in tongues) 😆😆🤣🤣🤣
looking back the bad arguments havent changed much, same old same old!....
Does ANYONE know where Ran Cambell went? He still have a channel? I can't find it
Last caller - we also have days of the week named after the pagan gods of the scandanavians - Thor (Thursday) Wednesday (Woden) so Woden and Thor exist. - shame they did not mention this.
Ah the good old days when callers still called Matt a pos.
I think many would today if the screeners weren't so good. Back then the tech was much worse, the show was smaller with less resources, and I'm sure they had fewer volunteers screening calls.
Sounds at first “a little crazy”; yes go on
Why don't they just say out loud that the word "theory" is a homonym, that is, a word that is used with _different_ meanings? It would make the conversation _so_ much easier. For Gods sake, even many scientists use the word in both meanings.
Well said Mat.
Jason's "what do you wake up to" Sounds like He's Happy to be Ignorant in his beliefs.
Next year we are in 51ALL (After Lunar Landing) and we should have 13 months a year, each with constant 28 days. We squeeze in the month "Sun" between June and July with 29 days. Then we get 1 extra summer month vacation.
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otrondal
Umm can you give me some context as to what you are speaking about? Never heard of a month called "Sun" - did you mean day?
Why would we want 13 months?
@@VestigialHead Good question, now we have 12 months a year, and we change between 28,30,31 days pr. month.
(Confusing). If we have 13 months a year, every month could have the same, 28 days except the 13th
which would have 29. This 13th month could be called "Sun" so in summer we will
have May, June, Sun, July, August. "Sun" is 1 extra summer month with 29 days and most people will have 1 extra month of vacation (29 days).
Also each month will start on the same day, example 1.Jan, 1.Feb, 1. March .... all start on Monday until 1.July which would be on a Tuesday.
Then every 1th in the month would start on a Tuesday for a whole year.
So easy.
And the moon landing was a real event, so we are independent of religion.
Muslims and other religions have different years today. We all could have the same.
These believers are dificult to direct. They fight every step.
Difficult*
~ Two years later and the video is interesting except for callers; they are still tedious. L.O.L. Cheers, DAVEDJ ~
Seven years. It was uploaded in 2017 but it was recorded in 2012.
Whoa! This opening theme is great! I def like it better than 'Saved' by Shelly (something), although I'm not knocking her song. Anyone know who does this theme?
44:30 I think we could figure out how to make something work. 🚧I bet we could figure out how to operate an unfamiliar construction site tool/vehicle by inspection 🏗
the last caller it’s a classic demonstration of how Americans considered the rest of the world like “not existing”. You guys are aware that year 2020 is called 1440 for the Muslim calendar right? Year numeration it’s a matter of convention, like the hour is 60 minutes and a week is 7 days, the whole of society has agreed to use one particular convention over another for various reasons none of which includes the existence of a particular God.
Johanan's voice is difficult enough to listen to never mind the gibberish he is saying.
any integrated information system is now a consciousness. So, my 3-ring binder of tic-tac-toe and DOTs games from kindergarten/1st grade 30 years ago was conscious? It was integrated, organized, and contained information, who played, who won, who lost, and what moves were made throughout the matches...
33:46 I think Matt was upset at Russell but that shit was funny
Laws were traditionally equations, like Moores Law, it's not a statement of fact it's a mathematical description.
I enjoy the old shows very much. The newer shows are a little more cut and dry.
33:45 oof
"So I was at a funeral" *click*
Norma had an idea. She better hang on to it, she may never have another one.
Harry Potter spoke in a language he didn't know..... that don't make it real
You’re teaching to the tutor.
i’m amazed at how Americans can still believe in the “speaking in tongue “ as a divine sign, how it never comes to their mind that if it’s not a real language it can just be made up. The great Nobel laureate for literature Dario Fo “The Swedish Academy praised Fo as a writer "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".[15] ....Fo was an atheist.” (wikipedia) He used to do the same thing in his live shows speaking in what is referred to as “Grammelot (or gromalot) /ˈɡrɒməlɒt/[1] is an imitation of language used in satirical theatre, an ad hoc gibberish that uses prosody along with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements to convey emotional and other meaning, and used in association with mime and mimicry” this is a 17th century thing and it’s still believed to be of divine origin!?
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33:01 Matt's reaction is hilarious
Those prank callers that call and say stuff like that, think they're being so funny but it just shows how pathetic Believers can really be. You base your entire life on a book that is filled with immoral actions and claimed to have the answers to morality and then go against what your own book says to spit insults and profanity over the phone two people that are morally Superior and much smarter than you are. All it does is make your beliefs look bad and make atheists look Superior to you. Haha and they're so stupid that they don't even realize that they are negatively affecting their own position, which is pathetic in the first place haha.
it’s not just christians that make the prank calls, atheists do, too
What did Matt say from Onslow say at the end I can't make it out
🤔 looks familiar.
Great episode from the time Matt wasnt so damn serious
Hahahaha at 39:05 he almost lost it..
Kermit from Wl
Sadness for Edward
Johanen. Let's cut out the middle man. Just have your Quantum Teleportation Guy call My Quantum Teleportation Guy. They'll do...Node transfer optimaxing?
Matt Dillahunty in his prime. Witty, insightful, charming, measured. How I miss this golden age of AE!
Great example of how these Christians are one fry short of a happy meal.. 😂
I only did barchelors physics and i can see the total flaw on the first caller
I think a caller may have lost out because of the stream of prank callers
Edward with his fake Elvis accent 🤣🤣🤣
Wow, I know Kung Fu!
Show me
Johanan has called many times..... its just as loony every single time
666 likes. I didn't wanna be the guy who changed it to 667.
Wait... WHO is the pinnacle of evolution?
The Silver Surfer.
*Voldemort did nothing wrong*
Mad hatter at the clock tower.
Does anyone know what the 1st and 4th caller say at the very end?
I think the 2nd one called Matt some choice words but the first one i didnt understand what he yelled.
If you have a 'relationship' with someone who's been dead for 2,000 years, I'm not sure I want to know anything else about your social life.
We can all live in our little pretend bizarro world deep in our heads.
It's called being nuts.
Who was it please that Russell mentioned? Sounded like Jessica Alkwitz
I'm only half way thru vid. So I either missed it or am not there yet. But I know he has referred people several times to check out atheist teen activist Jessica Alquist?
Johanan - I think it is perfectly reasonable to defer to scientific consensus when presented with a hypothesis which requires extensive scientific knowledge. He needs to get his ideas in an academic format and have them published and peer reviewed.
Jason. Building requires a builder. Reality requires a realtor.
The only time I heard someone say they were speaking in "Tongues" was a dude in prison. All he did was make popping and gurgling sounds.
My sister and her 3rd husband claimed they were speaking in tongues a couple times....
"Wsss-psss-wsss-dsss", over and over.
I never heard a better refutation of the idea. The bible never said 'angelic languages' or anything like it, just languages' the apostles never spoke before.
Theists are full of shit.
20:30 KERMIT!!!!!!!!!
I actually looked into a lot of Tom Campbells theories that Kermit mentioned.. Tom Campbell is an X NASA physicist who thinks we’re in a virtual reality and has a lot of “evidence” to show it. It’s definitely very interesting and somewhat compelling if you listen to him but still not something I can conclude as being “fact” yet
Russ gets it right by asking whether the conclusions of Johanan are the scientific conclusions, or even what's being tested for, in terms of quantum phenomena. (The answer is no.)
At least some of the time stamps are off.
The mono sound is killing me. Good show though