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Prometheus Unchained
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2013
History, Philosophy, Science
Champion of Humankind. Prometheus created humans by shaping lumps of clay into small figures resembling the gods. Athena admired these figures and breathed on them, giving them life. Zeus disliked the creatures, but he could not uncreate them. He did, however, confine them to the earth and denied them immortality. Prometheus felt compassion for humans, so he gave them fire and knowledge.
Zeus was mad. After so many times being defied by Prometheus, Zeus decided that it was enough. Nevertheless, he made Hephaestus himself to chain Prometheus on Mount Caucasus where the eagle would eat his liver forever.
Champion of Humankind. Prometheus created humans by shaping lumps of clay into small figures resembling the gods. Athena admired these figures and breathed on them, giving them life. Zeus disliked the creatures, but he could not uncreate them. He did, however, confine them to the earth and denied them immortality. Prometheus felt compassion for humans, so he gave them fire and knowledge.
Zeus was mad. After so many times being defied by Prometheus, Zeus decided that it was enough. Nevertheless, he made Hephaestus himself to chain Prometheus on Mount Caucasus where the eagle would eat his liver forever.
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
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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Christopher Hitchens - Omar Khayyam
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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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"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others." - Samuel Johnson “[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let al...
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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"we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers" and "We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That ...
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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Author Lars Brownworth on Julian: larsbrownworth.com/ (born ad 331/332, Constantinople-died June 26/27, 363, Ctesiphon, Mesopotamia), Roman emperor from ad 361 to 363, nephew of Constantine the Great, and noted scholar and military leader who was proclaimed emperor by his troops. ulian’s freedom as a student had a powerful influence on him and ensured that for the first time in a century the fu...
Nature’s Beauty and Cruelty in the Artwork of Lauren and Caitlin
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www.caitlinhackett.com/ laurenmarx.com/ I hope to remind those who view my artwork that we too are animals, embedded in this fragile world even as we poison it. My work alludes to the boundaries that separate humans from animals both physically and metaphysically, and the way in which these boundaries are warped by science, mythology, and religion alike. Like the gods of so many myths Humanity ...
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...
The Goddess in History
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goddess ancient religion antiquity women divine power fertility fortune
Rome and Jerusalem at War - The destruction of the Jewish Temple
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Source: www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/jerusalemthebiography.aspx First Jewish Revolt, (ad 66-70), Jewish rebellion against Roman rule in Judaea. The First Jewish Revolt was the result of a long series of clashes in which small groups of Jews offered sporadic resistance to the Romans, who in turn responded with severe countermeasures. In the fall of ad 66 the Jews combined in revolt, expelled the...
Less Than Human - Dehumanization and Genocide
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During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats. Hutus involved in the Rwanda genocide called Tutsis cockroaches. Slave owners throughout history considered slaves subhuman animals. In Less Than Human, David Livingstone Smith argues that it's important to define and describe dehumanization, because it's what opens the door for cruelty and genocide. Treating other people like game animals o...
The Renaissance - The coals from Antiquity helped light the Modern flame
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The Renaissance - The coals from Antiquity helped light the Modern flame
American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
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American Founders inspired by Classical Greece and Rome
The Problem of God - Philosopher Peter Singer
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The Problem of God - Philosopher Peter Singer
Christopher Hitchens - The Indifference of Heaven
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Christopher Hitchens - The Indifference of Heaven
Facing Death - Watts, Solomon, Nietzsche, Hitchens
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Facing Death - Watts, Solomon, Nietzsche, Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens - Reasonable Doubt
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Christopher Hitchens - Reasonable Doubt
Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You (Interview with Dan Riskin)
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Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You (Interview with Dan Riskin)
Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain (Patricia Churchland)
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Touching a Nerve: The Self as Brain (Patricia Churchland)
Are Human Beings Determined? Philosophers and Neuroscientists on Free Will and Determinism
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Are Human Beings Determined? Philosophers and Neuroscientists on Free Will and Determinism
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas read by Anthony Hopkins
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Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas read by Anthony Hopkins
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.
it's not scientific at all it is indoctrination the fear of death and ignorance ...religion is simply the cancer of mankind
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 .
"Random chance" - the basis of Darwinism - only works for super small numbers like dice games th-cam.com/video/MU6b9VM9j3Q/w-d-xo.html
keep spamming it till you believe your religious superstitions
@@AMC2283 So you have no answer to the video, but no no honesty to admit it
@@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.
@@AMC2283 We all know you've watched the video, have no answer to it and are not honest enough to admit it
@@FaultLines-nd2nc my answer to your pathetic video is let’s see the math equation that proves your god did it.
Bonobos are said to engage in sexual relations for non-reproductive purposes.
Interviewer is a dumbass
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! 💐
Thankyou for sharing this.
*The two consecutive short men questioners are utter obnoxious pricks.*
What year was this???
Religion is a hoax. Simple as that.
What translation is he referring to?
He misspeaks in the clip; this is the Richard le Gallienne version, which is a paraphrase of other more literal translations.
@@fre2725 Thank you!
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.
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.
@@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.
When I sleep at night, the possibility is there of never waking, that does not frighten me 🤔
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
I would prefer NO RELIGIONS EN MASSE, just well educated sense of the world and your humanity. Soultrap is an interesting concept.
Are these Levite scientists, at Tel Aviv University?
Lol fuck u too ;-) there is no god. We all know it.
love youtube
gem. and good use of Atran.
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.
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.
Christianity destroyed my family and childhood.
What if this one says eyes does not exist because one is blind... Main time there is billion of evidence that people have eyes
Evolution is not a believe
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.
15th December 2011 - the day the world became a much dumber place. Sorely missed.
How much would Hitchens be bothered by djt?
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.
@@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.*
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!
This interview is brilliant, he is giving us the so much from Stephen with a few key questions.
Science has its own rituals...peer review, research methods...conference lunches...
Is that his wife wearing black sitting next to him?
*No, it's not his wife Carol.*
this mans hair is a force to be reckoned with
Love this
This was shot in the now closed Village Voice bookshop in Paris
I wish I had just one ounce of this man's wit.
In other words, we are hot-wired for religion! Go find your religion!
Our podcasts deal with many of these issues. Dharma Yoga Ashram
4:40 38:14 57:35 LOL. 8:35 45:46 1:10:20
57:26, we all derived from a single man and woman: Adam and Eve.
No we didn’t
9:40 Skip all the BS to start tearing RD. 😜
Everything he's said here about Israel/Palestine is so prescient.
“I was just getting my trousers off about Karl Marx” 😂 50:18
ALI is a Christian now.
I was there for this talk and here with Ayaan today. What a world.
Malcolm x taught hate.
😐😐😐
Well love won't change anything if it did mlk would have been alive
Only against whites
Howis this video 15 years old, but comments are only from the last ten months
asked Sergey Brin and that other dude who sont pay any TAXES 🤣😂
Must have gotten popular, I’ve been watching this videos for years
How beautiful Poetic justice....
Curse of the Hitchens' mic strikes again...
'Good to know that even my main account is censored by YT