Prometheus Unchained
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Christopher Hitchens on Human fear of Death and Egotism
Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Still less can they hope to tell us the "meaning" of later discoveries and developments which were, when they began, either obstructed by their religion or denounced by them. And yet - the believers still claim to know! Not just to know, but to know everything. Not just to know that god exists, and that he created and supervised the whole enterprise, but also to know what "he" demands of us - from our diet to our observances to our sexual morality. In other words, in a vast and complicated discussion where we know more and more about less and less, yet can still hope for some enlightenment as we proceed, one faction - itself composed of warring factions - has the sheer arrogance to tell us that we already have all the essential information we need. Such stupidity, combined with such pride, should be enough on its own to exclude "belief" from the debate. The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted.
So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion. It is our common fate.
Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
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And do you think that unto such as you, A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew, God gave the Secret, and denied it me?- Well, well, what matters it! believe that too. Omar Khayyam
Christopher Hitchens on Knowledge, Courage, and Solidarity
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Christopher Hitchens on Malcolm X
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"You may be shocked by these words coming from me,But on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions. ... Each hour here in the Holy Land enables me to have greater spiritual insights into what is happening in America between black and white. The American Negro never...
The Epic Stars - They must burn out at length like used candles
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Death, thou shalt die
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Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. Thou art s...
The Emperor Julian and the last stand of the old gods
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Nature’s Beauty and Cruelty in the Artwork of Lauren and Caitlin
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The Universe - Dare to Know
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The Comic Perspective - Martin Rees, Christopher Hitchens, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman,Alex Filippenko,Neil degrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking
The Pantheon - Ancient Roman Temple
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The Roman Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome. As the brick stamps on the side of the building reveal it was built and dedicated between A.D 118 and 125. The emperor Hadrian (A.D 117-138) built the Pantheon to replace Augustus’ friend and Commander Marcus Agrippa’s Pantheon of 27 B.C. which burnt t...
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Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas read by Anthony Hopkins
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  • @gooddaysahead1
    @gooddaysahead1 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    With brains that remember and obsess over mistakes, and worry far into the future, what message would be the most comforting? Love? No. "Absolute certainty," is the message. The problem with this message is that "absolute certainty" doesn't exist and it is always the message espoused by the most diabolical and authoritarian leaders in the world.

  • @timwalling3101
    @timwalling3101 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    it's not scientific at all it is indoctrination the fear of death and ignorance ...religion is simply the cancer of mankind

  • @dreddredd7137
    @dreddredd7137 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Impacter Extinctions like with te dinosauriërs 66 million years ago is caused ( in my opinion ) because the impact blew a lot of lighter warm oxygen in to space and the heavier CO2 sink mostly to the surface where the survived MegaFauna is casping for oxygen that is not there .

  • @FaultLines-nd2nc
    @FaultLines-nd2nc 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Random chance" - the basis of Darwinism - only works for super small numbers like dice games th-cam.com/video/MU6b9VM9j3Q/w-d-xo.html

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      keep spamming it till you believe your religious superstitions

    • @FaultLines-nd2nc
      @FaultLines-nd2nc 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@AMC2283 So you have no answer to the video, but no no honesty to admit it

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@FaultLines-nd2nc first of all, you have zero cause to criticize someone for not clicking on some link and you know you don’t. Second, there’s really no need anyway. You can’t talk mathematics to just conclude that your god did it. But feel free to write the equation in the comments.

    • @FaultLines-nd2nc
      @FaultLines-nd2nc 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@AMC2283 We all know you've watched the video, have no answer to it and are not honest enough to admit it

    • @AMC2283
      @AMC2283 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@FaultLines-nd2nc my answer to your pathetic video is let’s see the math equation that proves your god did it.

  • @Sitting8ull
    @Sitting8ull 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Bonobos are said to engage in sexual relations for non-reproductive purposes.

  • @thomasmurphy9429
    @thomasmurphy9429 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Interviewer is a dumbass

  • @AFMMarcelD
    @AFMMarcelD 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I know I am not going to live forever and neither are you, but until my furlough here on earth is revoked, I shall elbow aside the established pieties and raise my tumbler of Johnnie Walker Black 🥃 (with 2 Oz of Perrier) to a courageous most exalted thought provoking thinker, his legacy ensures his immortality, thank you Christopher! 💐

  • @tehspamgozehere
    @tehspamgozehere หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thankyou for sharing this.

  • @MattSingh1
    @MattSingh1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    *The two consecutive short men questioners are utter obnoxious pricks.*

  • @maryharpley294
    @maryharpley294 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What year was this???

  • @claudiaschneider5744
    @claudiaschneider5744 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Religion is a hoax. Simple as that.

  • @Communist-Doge
    @Communist-Doge 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What translation is he referring to?

    • @fre2725
      @fre2725 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He misspeaks in the clip; this is the Richard le Gallienne version, which is a paraphrase of other more literal translations.

    • @Communist-Doge
      @Communist-Doge หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fre2725 Thank you!

  • @Leggiebeans
    @Leggiebeans 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a breath of fresh air. Just yesterday a hard core Christian tried threatening me by saying demons were real and the devil was going to get me. I’m an atheist , and this video really helps to counteract the total nonsense I had to listen to yesterday.

    • @prometheusunchained4236
      @prometheusunchained4236 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      only insecure men threaten. God has no such insecurity. Check the video "The Ghosts of Evolution - The Terrors of Natural History" the fear of demons and ghosts is evolutionary baggage from primates under threat from snakes, large cats and other predators in the night. Superstition takes advantage of this human evolutionary baggage.

    • @Leggiebeans
      @Leggiebeans 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prometheusunchained4236 thank you so much for the suggestion- I’ll definitely check it out! It makes sense from an evolutionary point of view that a fear of predators in the dark helped our ancestors survive.

  • @PeterShaw-ne1yq
    @PeterShaw-ne1yq 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I sleep at night, the possibility is there of never waking, that does not frighten me 🤔

  • @ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96
    @ComicBooksandVideoGameNerd96 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey look if Mr Garrison's boyfriend from South Park LOL 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 in all seriousness though this guy sounds like Professor Xavier all this talk about mutation and evolution

  • @krisbest6405
    @krisbest6405 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would prefer NO RELIGIONS EN MASSE, just well educated sense of the world and your humanity. Soultrap is an interesting concept.

  • @yourhealinghome8812
    @yourhealinghome8812 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Are these Levite scientists, at Tel Aviv University?

  • @SleepyPenguin-8og
    @SleepyPenguin-8og 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lol fuck u too ;-) there is no god. We all know it.

  • @JJ-fr2ki
    @JJ-fr2ki 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    love youtube

  • @JJ-fr2ki
    @JJ-fr2ki 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    gem. and good use of Atran.

  • @fat_bastard215
    @fat_bastard215 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love his mind-expanding lecture on the immune system. It might be in the top three greatest evolutionary developments, number one being the human brain. What do you think the third one would be? Maybe we could consider AI in that same group. It's just so fascinating how evolution is working just as many miracles on a microscopic level.

  • @johnrumpf6014
    @johnrumpf6014 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think it should be fine to slap someone that adds um every 3rd or fourth word. Slap them every 3rd or 4th word. I hope um everyone has um a nice um day.

  • @crbe2159
    @crbe2159 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Christianity destroyed my family and childhood.

  • @kelvingenechater6004
    @kelvingenechater6004 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What if this one says eyes does not exist because one is blind... Main time there is billion of evidence that people have eyes

  • @kelvingenechater6004
    @kelvingenechater6004 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Evolution is not a believe

  • @abhiseksarkar3566
    @abhiseksarkar3566 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Didn't know he said that he wrote for posterity. Really thankful that he did, got to know him after his death and oh boy, did he resonated. I wish he was here today as a strong voice against the neo-religious revivalism we see everywhere.

  • @no-oneman.4140
    @no-oneman.4140 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    15th December 2011 - the day the world became a much dumber place. Sorely missed.

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How much would Hitchens be bothered by djt?

    • @elvisleeboy
      @elvisleeboy 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One thing we do know, is that his view would not be informed by hysterical irrationality. He would have something far more intelligent and thoughtful to say than the usual ad hominem based anti-Trump rhetoric who are unable to get past their idiotic hatred of him.

    • @MattSingh1
      @MattSingh1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@elvisleeboy *The Trump movement is comically-absurd to begin with, comprised of either fools or extreme fanatics. Nice attempt at water-carrying for this crackpot though.*

  • @willmpet
    @willmpet 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oliphant produced a cartoon with a man saluting Khameinie with a drink saying, “to Khameinie who has saved us from the brutal repression of the Shah” to which the holy man replied, “Drinking in public my son?” and then saying to one of his henchmen, “chop off his hand and sew his lips together-it is written.” The people of Iran had no idea what they had caused!

  • @anthonycraig274
    @anthonycraig274 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This interview is brilliant, he is giving us the so much from Stephen with a few key questions.

  • @sachindatt4045
    @sachindatt4045 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Science has its own rituals...peer review, research methods...conference lunches...

  • @westaussieatheist
    @westaussieatheist 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is that his wife wearing black sitting next to him?

    • @MattSingh1
      @MattSingh1 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *No, it's not his wife Carol.*

  • @emmmmmmma92
    @emmmmmmma92 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this mans hair is a force to be reckoned with

  • @princess.blumarine111
    @princess.blumarine111 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this

  • @1984isnotamanual
    @1984isnotamanual 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was shot in the now closed Village Voice bookshop in Paris

  • @xslonk
    @xslonk 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish I had just one ounce of this man's wit.

  • @dharmayogaashram979
    @dharmayogaashram979 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In other words, we are hot-wired for religion! Go find your religion!

  • @dharmayogaashram979
    @dharmayogaashram979 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Our podcasts deal with many of these issues. Dharma Yoga Ashram

  • @tyleranyways
    @tyleranyways 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:40 38:14 57:35 LOL. 8:35 45:46 1:10:20

  • @mikebuchanan3018
    @mikebuchanan3018 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    57:26, we all derived from a single man and woman: Adam and Eve.

    • @theod6898
      @theod6898 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No we didn’t

  • @slyfoxxsr.941
    @slyfoxxsr.941 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    9:40 Skip all the BS to start tearing RD. 😜

  • @kieran5302
    @kieran5302 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everything he's said here about Israel/Palestine is so prescient.

  • @jereburkholder5137
    @jereburkholder5137 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “I was just getting my trousers off about Karl Marx” 😂 50:18

  • @chriswatson3464
    @chriswatson3464 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ALI is a Christian now.

  • @personalpairprogrammer7915
    @personalpairprogrammer7915 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was there for this talk and here with Ayaan today. What a world.

  • @1979ce
    @1979ce 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Malcolm x taught hate.

    • @draco9513
      @draco9513 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😐😐😐

    • @Prat-zi1ou
      @Prat-zi1ou 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well love won't change anything if it did mlk would have been alive

    • @addounsamiyoucef1999
      @addounsamiyoucef1999 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only against whites

  • @jordank4889
    @jordank4889 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Howis this video 15 years old, but comments are only from the last ten months

    • @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists
      @MakeSomeNoiseAgencyPlaylists 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      asked Sergey Brin and that other dude who sont pay any TAXES 🤣😂

    • @1984isnotamanual
      @1984isnotamanual 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Must have gotten popular, I’ve been watching this videos for years

  • @heavenlyReza
    @heavenlyReza 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How beautiful Poetic justice....

  • @ph8077
    @ph8077 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Curse of the Hitchens' mic strikes again...

  • @ph8077
    @ph8077 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    'Good to know that even my main account is censored by YT