@@ennisdelmar807 I doubt it, most people believe that Richard Dawkins is from Longyearbyen, after being left to sleep outside at -5C while his parents drank coffee severally as a baby...he swore to leave as soon as he could, never to return.
8:10 Psychedelics and 9:30 afterlife 13:00 religious intelligent nice men 14:40 till 20:35 Young religions, Mormons, Cargo Cults, Scientology 20:35 Tribalism 23:00 Placebo Effect, Homeopathy 26:55 Everyone is an atheist 32:50 Acceptance of atheism in office and as base for morals 34:28 Where do people get morals and ethics from?
@Tweaky Robin He actually did: "We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'. Dawkins, Richard" (1989), The Selfish Gene (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 192, ISBN 978-0-19-286092-7,
This is what happens when you clamor for nonexistence, your heroes are no longer to be had. At least inasmuch as Jesus is just a story, He still lives!
@@Her_Viscera If Jesus can't make us better people and Jesus didn't rise from the dead and people permanently die when our bodies give out then sure, you and Samuel Wallace are making a valid point. But I've been beyond and back three times and have a friend who has lived a tumultous life with lungs that have kept him in the hospital for weeks at a time. They scrape his lungs so he can breath, it's the worst kind of tortue, and he's died three times there. I have his 500 line testimony, it's really something. Anyway, he's been beyond and back _four times._ The first time he died was a drug overdose. So there's good evidence people live after our bodies give out. However you want to discribe the Entity that's holding us in existence that doesn't die when we do, we know He persists, and so that's better than the potty god you two have turned your lives over to. Your god doesn't guarantee you eternal life, what a shitty god that is. At least with Jesus and the evidence of me and my friend having been beyond and back 7 times total, we make a good case.
@@Fenderstratosphere98 It's an inside joke, "IT's our secret, Lord." Bilocation of the Christ. God is obvious to anyone who seeks the data with an open mind and an open heart. A spark of truth that catches on fire, our first taste of the New Wine, day by day the integration of the concrete and the spiritual. - lines from the song Matters of the Heart by Bob Bennett.,
@@waksibra Rather than answer your question I shall give you the tools to find out for yourself. The second paragraph is the one you're looking for. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
I really loved this interview. As a guy who grew up in Iran under the Islamic Republic and all its Islamic (dogmatic) indoctrinations... This interview was rewarding and affirmed my personal conviction that God is a myth. Joe Rogan is an outstanding and very well read and intelligent interviewer. Watching him is always a joy because he's not only like your next door brother, but asks extremely great probing questions from his guests (and comes to the table very well prepared as they say). As for the honorable Mr. Dawkins, well...let me just say that he's been a long time hero of mine, and the reason I am proud to be an Aetheist. In my native country of Iran (and the Middle East at large)... It is (to this day unfortunately) largely frowned upon if you don't consider yourself a Muslim. But then again, how could I be a Muslim if I never read the Koran and can't pray in Arabic? I have a healthy enough respect for all religions of the world and its people, but it doesn't do much for me personally (at least not until I get evidence otherwise). My background is in Computer Science, and although my early schooling in Iran (first through third grade involved going to a Madrasah and getting heavy indoctrination in Islam)... I was lucky enough I guess, to have had parents who immigrated to the United States and opened my eyes and my world to that of Science, Logic, and Rational thought... All of which I ascribe to Mr. Dawkins logic and science ... And he has been a source of great inspiration and wisdom to myself and countless other people I know (from Iran) who are no longer identifying with the Koran or Islam for that matter. I think Mr. Dawkins life work is immensely valuable (especially for the middle East) where time and time again, we have witnessed the brutality of regimes like that of the Islamic Republic of Iran against innocent citizens (not only of Iran, but the rest of the world). I don't think the religiously slanted (biased) people have any idea what the work of Mr. Dawkins means for humanity (not only in terms of freedom from the shackles of religious dogma, but also in terms of hopes for Democracy in Iran, and a departure from an extremely dangerous Theocracy that has never been anything short of a total Dictatorship in my native country of Iran). I salute both of these Gentlemen for their show, and it would be an immense honor if I ever had the chance to meet Mr.. Dawkins in my lifetime because his teachings have the potential to free the Middle East and so many countless millions of people who have been suffering from the Oppression of Religious ideologies, influences, punishments, murders, and so much more).
It’s good to see people like you who rise from the shackles of their religion and see the world for what it truely is. I hope the best for you in all your endeavors and I hope that you lead a happy life
I had a classmate who was Iranian, and she had come to India to get away from the madrasa's you talk about. I heard her mother talk to my teacher about how she escaped with her child to India in pursuit of a better life and education for her daughter, and she was elated, almost moved to tears to see her daughter's performance improving across the year. It just reminds me of how fortunate some people are to escape from the clutches of religion. I read about Iran's story with regards to the Government shifts and it makes me happy to hear that you have learned the truth, not just about Islam but religion as a whole. There is no better religion, for all of them are equally as counter intuitive as the next one. Cheers brother, have a good one and stay safe :)
Yeah it sucks. I was dating a Pakistani girl once, she was extremely smart in her field of computer security but once I took her to a museum and she was surprised to see human made artifacts older than 2000 years. Her country raised her with the misconception that the world began around 2k years ago. It was hilarious and cute and sad.
@@trailersfromhell2539 Hitchens was a neocon, Bush worshipping, war mongering psychopath. His fanboys are the most cringeworthy people around. None of them have even read a single one of his books. His only talent was oratory.
Umer Tracker imagine being alive because of the process called natural selection. And pretending to know a non existent sky daddy exist, and force your ridiculous imagination into others
John gatti lol he’s not a total idiot but he is a know it all and speaks about things with this sense of authority when he has no idea what he’s talking about
21:17 "Steven Pinker you probably had him on at some point." For Richard Dawkins to assume that Joe has had Steven Pinker on his show means that he must have some knowledge that Joe is a famous interviewer.
I just bought a brand new 50 inch 4K tv and this was the first thing I watched after setting it up. I was so bummed when the screen started messing up because I thought my tv was busted. But, to my relief it was just the podcast. Woof!
Richard seems much better after his 2016 stroke. Brilliant man. Loved his book, "The Selfish Gene". 13 million Arabic downloads of his book-for free. That is how you take action!
I think it's super cool that Dawkins is letting his books be available free of charge for those who in the Middle East, shows he cares more about people thinking freely than making a profit.
@@syhunta3454 he still didn't have to do it, most rich celebrities probably have more than enough money but you don't hear about actors making movies for free or rich athletes playing sports for free.
all love and respect to you dear professor Dawkins you are highly admired between the youngsters and intellectuals in my country Syria and yes all of your books are translated to Arabic and a lot of us even read them in English thank you very much and the number of people who read your books in Arabic is way more than that
You play a dangerous game, reading these books in Syria. For that, I applaud your bravery. However, I would not take Dawkins as the ultimate authority when it comes to life beyond our physical universe. Like Joe, I have done many psychedelics and they alone turned me from a Dawkin’s worshipping militant atheist, into a man that does not identify with any religion but whole heartedly believes there are worlds beyond our own. Stay safe my friend.
@@ericbooth3393 Stop being ridiculous. No one should be worshipping any person but psychedelics are chemicals that alter your perception of reality. Belief in "worlds beyond our own" is just as much mumbo jumbo woo woo nuttery as believing in Jesus resurrecting people and walking on water. There's no reason at all to believe that there is anything but our physical universe. The brain is incredibly susceptible to deception, ESPECIALLY while on drugs. For me, that's the whole point of psychedelics - deceiving my brain into seeing things differently or things that aren't there at all, and altering my thought patterns. Problems arise when the user is unable to distinguish these delusions from actual reality. And before you tell me to shut up unless I've experienced them, I have tried a few psychedelics. But they are nothing more than a bit of mind-altering substances that I enjoyed with my friends.
Happytown It’s only “Mumbo jumbo” to you because you haven’t seen it with your own eyes. The first time I ever ate Psilocybin mushrooms I bought 10 grams off a friend, and ate 8 alone in my room on a Saturday night. I walked into that experience an Atheist who would’ve written the exact same comment you just wrote, and by the end of that experience I was a different man. The things I saw and heard to me, could be explained by one of two things; either it was all in my head or I had an experience that the conscious mind is not normally incapable of having. Trust me, I have considered that my experiences are possibly nothing but a figment if my imagination but at the same time, I am like 95% sure they weren’t. I whole heartedly believe that humans are arrogant, egotistical creatures and we’re stuck in the reality we perceive. But as time goes on it’s pretty clear that we don’t really know what is going on in this physical universe on our planet, let alone within the solar system or the entire universe. We only know what we are capable of detecting. Somewhere down the line we forgot how to have faith. Isaac Newton devoted his life to the sciences he perceived but in the end he chose to believe in god because he couldn’t even fathom the idea that there wasn’t a creator of everything we see now. It’s all just so perfect. I hope you get to a point in your life where you are willing to open your mind a little. I used to be just like you. I appreciate the response.
@@ericbooth3393 This just proves his point that the human brain is highly susceptible to deception. I felt many "other-worldy" experiences that would really make someone question reality but then you realize that there's an exact reason for that - psychedelics. They simply mess with your brain in such a way that makes you see and feel crazy stuff. Also, saying that there are other worlds or dimensions and what not just because we "don't know" is exactly what religions do. Deal with it, you live while you're alive - after that there's nothing to support your consciousness (aka brain) and you simply don't exist anymore. Now, personally I believe in reincarnation but not the one that everyone is familiar with. You see, when you die you can't experience time anymore - there are no instruments to perceive it and therefore billions of years are 0 seconds. As soon as you die you fast forward to the next life form of your atoms (or you relive your life, if the universe repeats itself). Okay I got carried out but my point is: life is physical and the soul doesn't exist
@@Amero2323 its so weird seeing atheists stick their ass up christopher hitchens as if they're forgetting he supported the iraq war and continued to support it until the day he died. What a clown.
Richard is one of the human beings who helped me rid my mind of the shackles religion had me in. What a liberating feeling, folks. I took some time to come around. But well worth it.
No commas needed in the above comment. The comment should have ended with "...seemed like a long time..." If I must be a grammar Nazi, single digit numbers should be spelled out as well. * * That is how you use commas.
I literally was thinking "this is the right time to ask him about psychedelics". I came to the comment section and he said it in the exact second I read this lmao it was just meant to be. the guy needs to do some DMT and that will change his whole view about what he's talking about and standing for
@@el0j No it wouldn't. Whatever a person experiences when using DMT is just the result of chemical and physiological changes in the brain. Just because you experience something which feels profound etc. is irrelevant to the question of the afterlife. Your personal experience as a result of changes in biology does not prove the existence of an afterlife. People who use psychedelics always make arguments like this as if they are providing some brilliant piece of evidence that will change peoples mind, but the reality is anyone who has studied a bit of science knows that somebodies subjective experience under the influence of a drug isn't very good evidence to prove the existence of an aftlerlife/supernatural/immaterial.
@@TheJamesHfilms "weather the experience is real, or a fabrication of your brain, it is the same thing". let's not go into debate of HOW or WHAT or WHY we see what we see because in the end no one knows and it's just theories that we like to entertain. that being said, the experience does have a hint of an afterlife feeling to it, when you're dead and you're "back into that place that you never went to before" and you feel "home" and it's literally eternal since there is 100% no sense of self or time, in that moment whatever you believe in, it will for sure raise some questions. if you don't have the same opinion I would say you need to go deeper next time
I love Dawkins. This episode was great but I don’t understand why Dawkins discounts the fact (at 30:38) that Muslims do in fact believe in Jesus and that Jesus is mentioned quite a lot in the Quranic verses, arguably more than the bible or any other monotheistic religion. It is a bit too pedantic of me to mention this, I too am an atheist but i just wish Dawkins would carefully revise his statements before they’re uttered aloud.
@A Human Being Presumably his books on evolution. Lots of countries (such as Islam-based states in the middle east) exclude the theory from curriculums due to it being problematic in regards to religious belief.
@A Human Being Okay. If you say religion is nonsense but god is not, are you a deist? Or are you a Christian who says their Christian beliefs aren't religious?
@@siim605 It is a problem in regards to reason. Evolution is bunk. Sad thing is that it's too late. Most humans today are absolutely convinced of that lie.
@James Tisdale Imagine, we live in a world where there's information that someone does not know, and instead of being ignorant, looked admitted to not knowing said information, then looked it up. If the mind of Richard Dawkins can admit to not knowing something, what's wrong with that person doing it. What's common knowledge to an American may not be the case for a foreigner. Until you've exhausted all possibilities, it is you who is the dumb ass for assuming.
@@asrgaqgq sdfgsdgsdfgsdg Sure friend.. the silly anti-theist rhetorical maneuver that conflates the gods of the pagan world with the object of worship of Jews and Christians and then rejects them all is a category error that either fails to understand (i.e. "miscategorizes" ) or is a bad faith strawman - pun intended- I felt an obligation to humor you
A theist by definition believes in a higher power, namely a God or Gods. Alternatively and atheist would by definition say their is no God or any God. To dismiss one God as false while holding to another existing does not make you atheist, it makes you logically consistent by differentiating the different truth claims of one God or another. It’s just dishonest to say everyone is atheist when it comes to most Gods. It’s not even a logically consistent argument.
@@ethanpierce8567 Your mistake is that you don't know what an atheist is. An Atheist is someone who doesn't believe a god exist and not someone who says there is no god. There is a huge difference in there. Do you believe in Santa Claus or pixie creating universes? No, neither do I. Both you and me don't believe in the same amount of gods ad infinitum. The difference is that you believe in one out of the infinite man made gods. Basically to sum it up, I don't believe infinitum and you don't believe infinitum - 1 which still makes you an Atheist , same as me. We have more in commom in our disbelieves than you give credit for.
@Sabin by definition, an atheist does not believe in the existence of ANY God, any higher being. A theist simply believes in a higher being, a deity, a God or Gods. Atheisms fundamental truth claim is that no such higher being exists. A theist’s central truth claim is that some higher being does exist. To make a claim that any deity exist means you cannot be an atheist by definition. It is silly and dishonest to argue otherwise. Definitions: “Atheism: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.” “Theism: belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.”
@Ty Thomas Boxing Training he's not supposed to be an intellectual, he's supposed to help the working class. he and others raised the minimum wage for amazon workers, lead the opposition against the iraq war when it wasn't cool. votes against massive millitary budget and doesn't take lobbyist money. wants to give everyone healthcare and raise taxes on billioners and big corporations and raise minimum wage. you're brainwashed by Rightwing talking points.
@@ziakhan6060 Clearly you didn't hear joe say at the end that Dawkins had to leave because of his schedule. There is so much more they could've gotten into but only talked about surface-level stuff.
Czech Republic, my country, is among the most secular in the World. Great majority of about say 80% people either openly are agnostic/atheist or do not care for religion at any capacity. What a wonderful country, record low crime rate, high employment and a generally nice place to live, even though many of my countrymen will easily find flaws.
@deathtocommies No, it wasn't. He meant something different than we think of (internet traded pictures and text), but it is his own invention. He was likening the process of developing culture to genetics with these 'memes' as the atomic structures in the system that selection pressures are actually applied to. There was no such thing as a meme as we know it today before he started calling them that.
@john dillion Much the same can be said about existence as a whole, but one ascribes one's own meaning and derives subjective importance from it. Maybe that seems less valid to some than a purely objective meaning, but unlike objective meaning, subjective meaning is a thing that actually exists.
Time For Pancakes Subjective explications do exist, but they aren’t (for lack of a better term) scientifically credible. Even if there really is this dimension that we aren’t able to peer into without psychedelics, history begs that the most reasonable explanation is that it’s something we label as spiritual because we don’t understand it. À la miasma behind disease before germ theory, or Demeter regulating the seasons. EDIT: explanations, not explications
@john dillion just from that comment, i can already tell how shallow as a person you are, so yes in a way you are absolutely right, to you - a trip is just a trip. for us individuals with a soul anchored somewhat deeper, this is something else. Something way beyond our reach & understanding.
George Sander Well actually extremely smart people such as Elon Musk Bill gates and richard dawkins himself have genius level IQ. Stop replying this on every comment as well haha.
😂 I will say, dosing someone unknowingly is bad. But dosing Kreischer vs. Dawkins is an entirely different animal, I don’t think Ari could handle dosing Richard Dawkins...
@Alfons Falkhayn You really talking after making a complete fool of yourself on the other thread? Have some shame and go crawl back in your hole never to be heard from again.
I felt that. Unless you are a child, there is almost no excuse to be persuaded by it. It has a really absurd premise and imagine coming at it from a blank non spiritual perspective...it's nuts. It has the problem of being within a few generations of living memory, it only worked in the beginning because it appealed to a vulnerability of the budding American mind... How existentially crushing the 1800s expansion of America and industrialising world must have been, it made people feel like their generation was somehow as special as the supposed biblical times... And here we are. No more special than ever. More transparently less spiritually significant than ever. It sucks but it's real. Look elsewhere for meaning and don't let yourself become corrupted by stories
@Michael Gallimore any major religion is depressing when you see how mentally crippling they end up being. How waking up to it can divide a family. Mormonism and Scientology are significantly horrible because they encourage you to cut off the non believers in your family.
@Michael Gallimore i mean Dawkins here has a choice right, to keep his thoughts (regarding religion etc) to himself, or letting the people know, that what they're believing is a sort of a lie.. I guess he's compassionate, wants to see a better world ? Also helps him make some money, & do what he loves, while somehow helping the community.. what do u think ?
Mormonism in particular is horrible. Dawkins is absolutely justified in being depressed by its success. Only 1% of the population, but that's far too much.
@Michael Gallimore I was raised Mormon and they still count me among their members despite me wanting nothing to do with them. Being raised Mormon was the worst aspect of my life. Now that I'm free of that cult, I feel like I'll never have a comparably bad experience ever again. It has been many years and no problem has ever compared to the horribleness of that cult.
Yeah it's funny how disproving God is impossible yet he makes a very strong claim that there isn't a god. I mean technically a god could be proven if he appeared before people, or some paranormal shit happens. What came first, the chicken, the egg, or dmt?
I realized atheism before I knew who Dawkins was. However, he inspired me to not become an ignorant atheist, learn/hone a structured argument, and call out invalid claims. I will always thank him for this.
Oohh this one should have been a "3 hours plus" episode. Hope to see Richard Dawkins back soon again, for a longer episode. This one was great! Good job Joe!
@@KaesOner well... he's old and much slower now than he used to be. What do we expect out of people anyway? He's had a long, successful and entertaining career educating the world on evolution.
I went to a lecture by Dawkins yesterday in The Hague. Afterwards, during the book signing, I saw an opportunity to ask him a question and I asked him if he would ever appear on the Joe Rogan Experience again. Sadly his response was that he wouldn't know what the use of it would be since he had said everything he wanted to say in this episode already and he wouldn't know what to add.
I am curious, do you have to pay to attend? or is it a free lecture when philosophist and scientists come around? If it is profit then there is always reasonable reasons but that would be amazing if they were sponsored and free lectures for the sake of spreading critical thinking habits.
@@maruchannuudle657 Tickets for the event I went to were 15 euros for a talk about an hour, where he said basically the same things as in this interview and with a Q&A at the end. After the event, you could get your books signed, which you could also purchase at the venue. He requested not to take selfies due to timekeeping reasons and the number of people that wanted to get a signature. The event was sold out. 15 euros is not that much for Dutch standards, considering the travel cost, marketing of the event, costs of the venue, etc.
@@HalloikbenJim Why sad? This guy has more important things to do. Joe's audience are already smart enough to be atheist. His second appearance would not change anything in the world.
Sina Danmark it kinda goes in line with why you’d see a musician more than once. Hearing what he has to say more than once would cement the lessons into the mind :D
Erik Ferreira haha I was jus scrolling through the comments to see if anyone had said this and you were like the 6th comment haha . Joe loves it he does
Joe Rogan is a good interviewer because he flatters his guests. It gets them to open up so we can get to know them better. Everyone likes flattery, especially public figures.
Chris Jjjj There’s no reason to believe that is true though. There has to be an original species in that theory, and there is no guarantee that humanity will ever actually have that kind of tech.
@Enoch~ Dawkins "intellectually vacuous"? How many of his books have you read? How many books have YOU written? How many professorships have YOU held at world-leading universities? Maybe, just maybe, YOU are the one who is "intellectually vacuous". Give that some thought (if you CAN think).
@Enoch~ How exactly is not believing in the existence of god dogmatic. Why didn't you mention Christians as believing in the barbarism too? Check the dictionary definition of the big words you try to use before you use them. The reason why atheists have to repeat the same stuff is because theists cannot come up with better arguments. It's pathetic really.
I realized how crazy religion was when I was dating my a girlfriend and one day she had a serious talk with me about how our relationship couldn't go to the next level (I invited her to come live with me) because she was afraid she wouldn't see me in heaven. It made me think of kids in elementary school that had imaginary friends and the days when I thought Santa climbed down our chimney to give me gifts.
@@crispusmahea2135 we had been dating for almost a year. I was 25, she was 23 and was looking to move out of her parents and I owned a home. Nothing odd about it to me.
@@crispusmahea2135 I wouldn't date someone that I wouldn't marry and I wouldn't marry someone if I wasn't sure. I also think it's important to know someone better before you actually get married though. You don't really know someone until you've lived with them.
@@TheLouisianan I like your logic and would actually vouch for it to a great extent. Thanks for your sincere response. One problem I experienced being married happily for 11 years now is that each person keeps gradually changing with time in many aspects, so may be what you can get living with someone is a "degree of comfort" but there is no assurance this person or indeed you will be the same 15 years down the road.
If Dawkins asked why anyone would want to live in a Christian's heaven for eternity, then I totally agree with him. It's an eternity of worshiping god. That would definitely get boring. Imagine being kept alive to serve a celestial being for all eternity, with the only other option being tormented in perpetuity. How narcissistic does that deity have to be to make those the only options?
it depends how much fun you are having, if you have a miserable attitude you might not like eternity....on the other hand if you like life...the more the merrier
Respect to this man! He has wonderful views on animal and human behaviour, and has one hell of a prose as well. I shall always recommend his books, particularly The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype.
Joe is so American and Richard is so British
Correction, BREE-ISH ha ha ha ha
@@crispusmahea2135 😃
Dawkins is from Kenya, but yeah british colonies
@@ennisdelmar807 I doubt it, most people believe that Richard Dawkins is from Longyearbyen, after being left to sleep outside at -5C while his parents drank coffee severally as a baby...he swore to leave as soon as he could, never to return.
@akjohnny you sound so angry cursing and everything, why not learn something new by channeling that raw emotions to learning something about Norway?
Took my man a whole 8 minutes to ask about psychedelics
The answer was a tad bit disappointing. He would gain from the experience I'm sure.
Crazy you can order DMT on Amazon
Brandon Blackfrye give me the link i cant find it
@@brandonblackfyre5783 swear 🙉
@@Ascketism He's just trying to avoid a religious experience.
Richard Dawkins and Edward Snowden. What a way to break the internet......
Greatest week of podcasts yet.
Should've also scheduled Alex Jones this week to really put the final nail.
I mean like damn..!!!
indeed
@@manuelper Put Alex on with Dawkins.
Imagine:
Alex -''science is an illuminati globalist zionist' conspiracy.
Dawkins - 'Who is this wanker?'.
8:10 Psychedelics and 9:30 afterlife
13:00 religious intelligent nice men
14:40 till 20:35 Young religions, Mormons, Cargo Cults, Scientology
20:35 Tribalism
23:00 Placebo Effect, Homeopathy
26:55 Everyone is an atheist
32:50 Acceptance of atheism in office and as base for morals
34:28 Where do people get morals and ethics from?
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Looks like Joe finally convinced the camera to try DMT
My favorite part of the podcast is when there are a bunch of pixelated Richard Dawkins flying around the room.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Preposterous.. Consciousnesses is to do with BRAINS!”
Cale Anderson Like a strange monochromatic Warhol pop-art hologram, that shit was wild my dude
I thought it was my TV
for all you memelords out there, THIS is the guy who invented the word 'meme', in his book 'the selfish gene'. the more you know.
@Tweaky Robin He actually did: "We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'. Dawkins, Richard" (1989), The Selfish Gene (2 ed.), Oxford University Press, p. 192, ISBN 978-0-19-286092-7,
@@jacoblevenson7934 Damn thank you for that 😂👌🏽
Interesting as well to hear Terence Mckenna mention this and bring it into his own dialogue - when he had to explain what is was first.
No. You are such a gullible submissive goof.
Meme Lord Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins sounds like an older Stewie.
Jonasa Leakai 😂😂😂😂😂
now i can't unhear it
You won this episodes best comment
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LMFAO dude 🔥 🔥 🔥
Wish Christopher Hitchens was still alive so he could be on jre
This is what happens when you clamor for nonexistence, your heroes are no longer to be had. At least inasmuch as Jesus is just a story, He still lives!
@@oursecretlord9008 I ate Jesus for lunch today
@@Her_Viscera If Jesus can't make us better people and Jesus didn't rise from the dead and people permanently die when our bodies give out then sure, you and Samuel Wallace are making a valid point. But I've been beyond and back three times and have a friend who has lived a tumultous life with lungs that have kept him in the hospital for weeks at a time. They scrape his lungs so he can breath, it's the worst kind of tortue, and he's died three times there. I have his 500 line testimony, it's really something. Anyway, he's been beyond and back _four times._ The first time he died was a drug overdose. So there's good evidence people live after our bodies give out. However you want to discribe the Entity that's holding us in existence that doesn't die when we do, we know He persists, and so that's better than the potty god you two have turned your lives over to. Your god doesn't guarantee you eternal life, what a shitty god that is. At least with Jesus and the evidence of me and my friend having been beyond and back 7 times total, we make a good case.
Our Secret Lord how is it you know anything about your secret lord anyways? I’ve heard he’s mysterious yet he’s so obvious. Mysticism.
@@Fenderstratosphere98 It's an inside joke, "IT's our secret, Lord." Bilocation of the Christ. God is obvious to anyone who seeks the data with an open mind and an open heart. A spark of truth that catches on fire, our first taste of the New Wine, day by day the integration of the concrete and the spiritual. - lines from the song Matters of the Heart by Bob Bennett.,
This guy actually invented the word "meme".
th-cam.com/video/WdU-UtEJEIA/w-d-xo.html
What an accomplishment
@@zartic4life He also made significant breakthroughs is evolutionary biology, his work on meme theory is just his most well known for obvious reasons.
@@ddandymann What breakthroughs in evolutionary biology has he made?
@@waksibra Rather than answer your question I shall give you the tools to find out for yourself. The second paragraph is the one you're looking for.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
I wish Hitchens was still alive and on Joe's podcast.
Reilly O'Brien yea me too.
Agreed.
Reilly O'Brien his brother is still alive and is a practicing Christian . You couldn’t make it up😂
I don’t think he would like joe
Every damn day
jamie turn the camera off and on if you're being held captive
😂😂😂
Lol
Lmaaaooo
I really loved this interview. As a guy who grew up in Iran under the Islamic Republic and all its Islamic (dogmatic) indoctrinations... This interview was rewarding and affirmed my personal conviction that God is a myth.
Joe Rogan is an outstanding and very well read and intelligent interviewer. Watching him is always a joy because he's not only like your next door brother, but asks extremely great probing questions from his guests (and comes to the table very well prepared as they say).
As for the honorable Mr. Dawkins, well...let me just say that he's been a long time hero of mine, and the reason I am proud to be an Aetheist.
In my native country of Iran (and the Middle East at large)... It is (to this day unfortunately) largely frowned upon if you don't consider yourself a Muslim. But then again, how could I be a Muslim if I never read the Koran and can't pray in Arabic? I have a healthy enough respect for all religions of the world and its people, but it doesn't do much for me personally (at least not until I get evidence otherwise).
My background is in Computer Science, and although my early schooling in Iran (first through third grade involved going to a Madrasah and getting heavy indoctrination in Islam)... I was lucky enough I guess, to have had parents who immigrated to the United States and opened my eyes and my world to that of Science, Logic, and Rational thought... All of which I ascribe to Mr. Dawkins logic and science ... And he has been a source of great inspiration and wisdom to myself and countless other people I know (from Iran) who are no longer identifying with the Koran or Islam for that matter. I think Mr. Dawkins life work is immensely valuable (especially for the middle East) where time and time again, we have witnessed the brutality of regimes like that of the Islamic Republic of Iran against innocent citizens (not only of Iran, but the rest of the world). I don't think the religiously slanted (biased) people have any idea what the work of Mr. Dawkins means for humanity (not only in terms of freedom from the shackles of religious dogma, but also in terms of hopes for Democracy in Iran, and a departure from an extremely dangerous Theocracy that has never been anything short of a total Dictatorship in my native country of Iran).
I salute both of these Gentlemen for their show, and it would be an immense honor if I ever had the chance to meet Mr.. Dawkins in my lifetime because his teachings have the potential to free the Middle East and so many countless millions of people who have been suffering from the Oppression of Religious ideologies, influences, punishments, murders, and so much more).
It’s good to see people like you who rise from the shackles of their religion and see the world for what it truely is. I hope the best for you in all your endeavors and I hope that you lead a happy life
I had a classmate who was Iranian, and she had come to India to get away from the madrasa's you talk about. I heard her mother talk to my teacher about how she escaped with her child to India in pursuit of a better life and education for her daughter, and she was elated, almost moved to tears to see her daughter's performance improving across the year. It just reminds me of how fortunate some people are to escape from the clutches of religion.
I read about Iran's story with regards to the Government shifts and it makes me happy to hear that you have learned the truth, not just about Islam but religion as a whole. There is no better religion, for all of them are equally as counter intuitive as the next one.
Cheers brother, have a good one and stay safe :)
Yeah it sucks. I was dating a Pakistani girl once, she was extremely smart in her field of computer security but once I took her to a museum and she was surprised to see human made artifacts older than 2000 years. Her country raised her with the misconception that the world began around 2k years ago. It was hilarious and cute and sad.
“Proud to be an Athiest”
Depressed that I’ll never get to see Christopher Hitchens on the podcast
He's also depressed now as he's being punished in his grave, while looking at his appointed place in Hell.
@@AbdiSuited your a moron
@Propaganda Blitz We need more level headed, balanced athiests like yourself.
@Propaganda Blitz Any atheist using the term islamophobia is not a real atheist. Hitchens warned about people like you a decade ago.
@@trailersfromhell2539 Hitchens was a neocon, Bush worshipping, war mongering psychopath. His fanboys are the most cringeworthy people around. None of them have even read a single one of his books. His only talent was oratory.
Joe: “have you ever tried psychedelics “
Camera: “maybe a little...”
Michael Coombs where does this happen?
Branden apexo 17:10
@@brandenapexo604 12:45
I thought it was my phone..
47:00
The cameras took DMT during this podcast.
not just me
Thought my tv was messed up lol
💩
Right at the mormon part
"You are okay there, Jamie?"
It pains my heart to see this man age. He has been so inspirational and I’ve been reading his books, I’m so in love with science and what teaches.
Sung Jin-Woo at least we know he’s not going to hell
Aging is a privilege many are denied.
Laughman that’s facts.
Let's not forget, he had a stroke not too long ago.
Umer Tracker imagine being alive because of the process called natural selection. And pretending to know a non existent sky daddy exist, and force your ridiculous imagination into others
Joe: "Hey, how are you?"
Guest: "I'm good, thank you"
Joe: "Have you ever tried DMT?"
Ikmel A.A.A. How original
I like when he brings up psychedelics up with intellectuals, i personally feel I’ve benefited from so
is that where Rogan gets his 70 IQ
John gatti lol he’s not a total idiot but he is a know it all and speaks about things with this sense of authority when he has no idea what he’s talking about
😂😂😂yes
Refreshing to see a guest who has no idea who Joe is...
You're right but that doesn't makes him better because he's just selfish..
i have the brain to prove this guy wrong.
GOD DOES EXIST, if you do not believe me, write.
@@Jesuravc I don't believe you. Prove it to me with the power of your brain
the amazing Jesus, how can you prove this?
21:17 "Steven Pinker you probably had him on at some point." For Richard Dawkins to assume that Joe has had Steven Pinker on his show means that he must have some knowledge that Joe is a famous interviewer.
the real tragedy is that we never got to see Joe sit down with Christopher Hitchens
Thats so fucking true
You should look up the word “travesty”. I don’t think it means what you think it does.
That would have been fucking cool
@@burroughs334 you're right. looks like my phone autocorrected tragedy while typing too fast with my gorilla thumbs
@@cashewpistachio1826 a "nice" wad you say. By that is it safe to assume you mean "hefty" as I very much doubt you intend to be "gentle"?
My man Richard has the DNA structure on his tie😂😂😂
Lol didnt noticed it thanks captain
Week, you ever heard of a COSMIC TIE, sir?
Hahahaha
Just like how Neil deGrasse Tyson wears a Cosmos themed vest, both representing their fields of expertise 👌
haha wtf, i wonder if NGT influenced him.
I just bought a brand new 50 inch 4K tv and this was the first thing I watched after setting it up. I was so bummed when the screen started messing up because I thought my tv was busted. But, to my relief it was just the podcast. Woof!
Oh shit, glad it wasn't just me.
I genuinely thought "oh, there goes my TV." Fuckin' trip.
Yeah, I thought that too at first. Def seems to be the recording. Very strange.
Weird way to flex bro
Yeah video is a bit messed, thankfully the audio was flawless
“My fathers cousin. He was the one who introduced Aldous Huxley to mescaline..” casual..
John Smithies.
Yup, I don't think Joe caught that one
Drove me nuts Joe didnt ask a little more about this
Book wasnt too bad.
he just slipped that into the conversation like "no big deal"
I wish Christopher Hitchens was still alive and spank Joe Rogan with his wit and humor.
Ultimate podcast
He'd have Hitchslapped him every ten minutes. Just because he could 😎
Yes! He was so quick and so vicious while being so charming. Like watching a perfect fighter countering every single attack.
Rip
@@KatotownUSA we lost a legend truly
Richard seems much better after his 2016 stroke. Brilliant man. Loved his book, "The Selfish Gene".
13 million Arabic downloads of his book-for free. That is how you take action!
I think it's super cool that Dawkins is letting his books be available free of charge for those who in the Middle East, shows he cares more about people thinking freely than making a profit.
Aidan Papps via the council of foreign realtuons, IE the fucking illuminati
And the depression that comes with it.
That becomes easy when you have had a highly successful career and already made a ton of cash.
Sy Hunta for sure but even then he could easily have decided that he charge them for it as many people would have
@@syhunta3454 he still didn't have to do it, most rich celebrities probably have more than enough money but you don't hear about actors making movies for free or rich athletes playing sports for free.
Ah, finally, the CEO of Memes.
kiran babu
The founder even
Lol I wonder what percentage understood your comment
@@Arcsprite apparently 22 of em... Of probably 500k
Good job sir! I seee you are an educated meme scholar :)
@@Arcsprite everyone who read the selfish gene , great book.
classic joe. 10 mins in with richard dawkins “Have you ever done Psychedelics?”
You just knew it was coming.
Came here to say the same thing.
8 minutes 40 seconds he lasted 😂
Once we get to podcast episode 4000, Joe will just be drooling on the microphone and making random sounds.
LOLOL
He's a caricature of himself at this point.
all love and respect to you dear professor Dawkins you are highly admired between the youngsters and intellectuals in my country Syria and yes all of your books are translated to Arabic and a lot of us even read them in English thank you very much and the number of people who read your books in Arabic is way more than that
You play a dangerous game, reading these books in Syria. For that, I applaud your bravery. However, I would not take Dawkins as the ultimate authority when it comes to life beyond our physical universe. Like Joe, I have done many psychedelics and they alone turned me from a Dawkin’s worshipping militant atheist, into a man that does not identify with any religion but whole heartedly believes there are worlds beyond our own. Stay safe my friend.
@@ericbooth3393 thank you man i appreciate your empathy and thanks for the advice too
@@ericbooth3393 Stop being ridiculous. No one should be worshipping any person but psychedelics are chemicals that alter your perception of reality. Belief in "worlds beyond our own" is just as much mumbo jumbo woo woo nuttery as believing in Jesus resurrecting people and walking on water. There's no reason at all to believe that there is anything but our physical universe. The brain is incredibly susceptible to deception, ESPECIALLY while on drugs. For me, that's the whole point of psychedelics - deceiving my brain into seeing things differently or things that aren't there at all, and altering my thought patterns. Problems arise when the user is unable to distinguish these delusions from actual reality.
And before you tell me to shut up unless I've experienced them, I have tried a few psychedelics. But they are nothing more than a bit of mind-altering substances that I enjoyed with my friends.
Happytown It’s only “Mumbo jumbo” to you because you haven’t seen it with your own eyes. The first time I ever ate Psilocybin mushrooms I bought 10 grams off a friend, and ate 8 alone in my room on a Saturday night. I walked into that experience an Atheist who would’ve written the exact same comment you just wrote, and by the end of that experience I was a different man. The things I saw and heard to me, could be explained by one of two things; either it was all in my head or I had an experience that the conscious mind is not normally incapable of having. Trust me, I have considered that my experiences are possibly nothing but a figment if my imagination but at the same time, I am like 95% sure they weren’t. I whole heartedly believe that humans are arrogant, egotistical creatures and we’re stuck in the reality we perceive. But as time goes on it’s pretty clear that we don’t really know what is going on in this physical universe on our planet, let alone within the solar system or the entire universe. We only know what we are capable of detecting. Somewhere down the line we forgot how to have faith. Isaac Newton devoted his life to the sciences he perceived but in the end he chose to believe in god because he couldn’t even fathom the idea that there wasn’t a creator of everything we see now. It’s all just so perfect. I hope you get to a point in your life where you are willing to open your mind a little. I used to be just like you. I appreciate the response.
@@ericbooth3393 This just proves his point that the human brain is highly susceptible to deception. I felt many "other-worldy" experiences that would really make someone question reality but then you realize that there's an exact reason for that - psychedelics. They simply mess with your brain in such a way that makes you see and feel crazy stuff. Also, saying that there are other worlds or dimensions and what not just because we "don't know" is exactly what religions do. Deal with it, you live while you're alive - after that there's nothing to support your consciousness (aka brain) and you simply don't exist anymore.
Now, personally I believe in reincarnation but not the one that everyone is familiar with. You see, when you die you can't experience time anymore - there are no instruments to perceive it and therefore billions of years are 0 seconds. As soon as you die you fast forward to the next life form of your atoms (or you relive your life, if the universe repeats itself).
Okay I got carried out but my point is: life is physical and the soul doesn't exist
When is he going to interview the South Park creators?
Because they havent done anything to talk about
@@CannibalMan09 They put on dresses, dropped acid before going to the Oscars. Those guys have stories.
@@CannibalMan09 they made team america, not just one of the funniest films ever made but objectively almost flawless
@@CannibalMan09 that made me feel sad
South park is old and unfunny.
Joe went whole 8 minutes before mentioning psychadelics ,
I'm impressed
Richard went 10 without debunking spirituality lol
@@krisseraph lmfao!!
They Are Fun Man Find Your Wiener
8:35... Give him some credit hahaha
haha wow what a funny joke, no has ever said that before :DDDDDDDD
If only Joe had a chance to interview Christopher Hitchens.
What a loss we suffered with Hitchens
He'd be great asset to the common sense side of the culture war.
Brendan Schummer okay
@@Amero2323 its so weird seeing atheists stick their ass up christopher hitchens as if they're forgetting he supported the iraq war and continued to support it until the day he died. What a clown.
Richard is one of the human beings who helped me rid my mind of the shackles religion had me in. What a liberating feeling, folks. I took some time to come around. But well worth it.
Glad you've escaped my friend!!
@TheHardcore Gamer You sound ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. lol.
@TheHardcore Gamer lol. Atheism isn't an ideology man. You shouldn't comment if you're ill-informed.
@TheHardcore Gamer atheism is a religion like off is a channel. lol "hardcore" gamer. what makes you "hardcore"?
vctjkhme Okay
I remember a time when a 1 hour interview seemed like a long time that time had passed.
@Janjão Jonata that sentence required no commas
@@matil7039 correct. grammar could use some work though
No commas needed in the above comment. The comment should have ended with "...seemed like a long time..."
If I must be a grammar Nazi, single digit numbers should be spelled out as well. *
* That is how you use commas.
@Janjão Jonata Ich comma
I was really shocked to see it was only an hour
8:33 "Have you had any experience with psychedelics?"
That's gotta be a record.
To Richard Dawkins, no less.
LMFAO!!
Does anyone know what happened with the national anthem
I literally was thinking "this is the right time to ask him about psychedelics". I came to the comment section and he said it in the exact second I read this lmao it was just meant to be. the guy needs to do some DMT and that will change his whole view about what he's talking about and standing for
@@el0j No it wouldn't. Whatever a person experiences when using DMT is just the result of chemical and physiological changes in the brain. Just because you experience something which feels profound etc. is irrelevant to the question of the afterlife. Your personal experience as a result of changes in biology does not prove the existence of an afterlife. People who use psychedelics always make arguments like this as if they are providing some brilliant piece of evidence that will change peoples mind, but the reality is anyone who has studied a bit of science knows that somebodies subjective experience under the influence of a drug isn't very good evidence to prove the existence of an aftlerlife/supernatural/immaterial.
@@TheJamesHfilms "weather the experience is real, or a fabrication of your brain, it is the same thing". let's not go into debate of HOW or WHAT or WHY we see what we see because in the end no one knows and it's just theories that we like to entertain. that being said, the experience does have a hint of an afterlife feeling to it, when you're dead and you're "back into that place that you never went to before" and you feel "home" and it's literally eternal since there is 100% no sense of self or time, in that moment whatever you believe in, it will for sure raise some questions. if you don't have the same opinion I would say you need to go deeper next time
An hour is not enough for Richard Dawkins :(
It's too much.
I think the guest sets the time usually, probably just has a busy schedule.
I love Dawkins. This episode was great but I don’t understand why Dawkins discounts the fact (at 30:38) that Muslims do in fact believe in Jesus and that Jesus is mentioned quite a lot in the Quranic verses, arguably more than the bible or any other monotheistic religion.
It is a bit too pedantic of me to mention this, I too am an atheist but i just wish Dawkins would carefully revise his statements before they’re uttered aloud.
I'm not even 20 minutes in, and you can tell Joe is a bit uncomfortable, or not enjoying it as much as he thought he would
He is a complete clown...
Mr. Dawkins educated me more than the education system of my country.
@A Human Being Presumably his books on evolution. Lots of countries (such as Islam-based states in the middle east) exclude the theory from curriculums due to it being problematic in regards to religious belief.
@A Human Being I said "such as" to just give an example. Yes, creationism gets peddled in the US as well, you're right.
@A Human Being Okay. If you say religion is nonsense but god is not, are you a deist? Or are you a Christian who says their Christian beliefs aren't religious?
How unfortunate!
@@siim605 It is a problem in regards to reason.
Evolution is bunk.
Sad thing is that it's too late. Most humans today are absolutely convinced of that lie.
God I miss Christopher Hitchens, imagine him as a guest on JRE.
Stop it man I don't wanna think about it. Lol
He be slapping mans in Heaven
Nathanfx2006 he certainly left a void in the discourse
He would have at least been more right :P
That would have been great, I can't imagine the conversation that would come form that.
Interesting interview, though the camera needs to lay off the hallucinogenics
or the demonic spirits....ooooo
I thought I forgot to pay Verizon.. 😂
@@countrycorndog me tooooooooo. Either that or horrible signal. Turns out it was just a wild Jamie.
Hahaha thanks, Jamie, for fixing it.
God was annoyed
God was here syncing and uniting dimensions for this one.
1 hour is all we get with Mr Dawkins? That's almost a crime.
I know, almost more than I can stand...
He doesn't spew bullshit, cant have that on the Joe "it's entirely possible" Rogan Show
@@chriswarwick6977 You believe in little jesus and his false ass papa, god? Read Dawkin's books and educate youurself bey ay itch
@@directingstaff8525 stfu
@@winstonsmith937 do you need a safe space from these triggering atheists?
“The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.” is in fact, the most British string of words possible, provable by science.
13:25 Timestamp
There's a lot of beauties in this. 58:19 "A man at Oxford called Bernard Kettlewell."
Just happened to be scrolling and read this as he spoke it word for word....
Less than 9 minutes folks. 9 minutes and he's talking shrooms with Richard Dawkins
Fred Taylor idk why he does it with everyone
GOOD
He should do shroms so he become God.
Great to see Dawkins so full of energy. He is back to his old self, getting a 2 hr conversation crammed into an hr 😎
Imagine them with spliffs and goofy looks on their faces.
I close my eyes and when this guys speaks all I hear is “did you ever hear the tragedy of death Plagueis the wise?”
it's not a story Richard Dawkins would tell you.
*darth
It’s not a story the Christians would tell you
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂godlike comment.
was an biologist, so powerful and so wise he could use the theory of evolution to influence the midi-chlorians to create life. ...
Was super excited to finally see Richard Dawkins on here but was quite sad to see it only be an hour long. We need him on again for 2 or three hours!
And Joe, per usual, talked more than Dawkins, or rather snarked his way through the interview.
@@davidadams2395 had to look up the word snarked thanks for the new word
@James Tisdale Is this how you would speak to 6 year olds?
@James Tisdale Imagine, we live in a world where there's information that someone does not know, and instead of being ignorant, looked admitted to not knowing said information, then looked it up. If the mind of Richard Dawkins can admit to not knowing something, what's wrong with that person doing it.
What's common knowledge to an American may not be the case for a foreigner. Until you've exhausted all possibilities, it is you who is the dumb ass for assuming.
@James Tisdale once again, your assumptions fail you.
“We are all atheists when it comes to most gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us goes one god further.”
@@asrgaqgq sdfgsdgsdfgsdg Nice category error...clever fella
@@asrgaqgq sdfgsdgsdfgsdg Sure friend.. the silly anti-theist rhetorical maneuver that conflates the gods of the pagan world with the object of worship of Jews and Christians and then rejects them all is a category error that either fails to understand (i.e. "miscategorizes" ) or is a bad faith strawman - pun intended- I felt an obligation to humor you
A theist by definition believes in a higher power, namely a God or Gods. Alternatively and atheist would by definition say their is no God or any God. To dismiss one God as false while holding to another existing does not make you atheist, it makes you logically consistent by differentiating the different truth claims of one God or another. It’s just dishonest to say everyone is atheist when it comes to most Gods. It’s not even a logically consistent argument.
@@ethanpierce8567 Your mistake is that you don't know what an atheist is. An Atheist is someone who doesn't believe a god exist and not someone who says there is no god. There is a huge difference in there. Do you believe in Santa Claus or pixie creating universes? No, neither do I. Both you and me don't believe in the same amount of gods ad infinitum. The difference is that you believe in one out of the infinite man made gods. Basically to sum it up, I don't believe infinitum and you don't believe infinitum - 1 which still makes you an Atheist , same as me. We have more in commom in our disbelieves than you give credit for.
@Sabin by definition, an atheist does not believe in the existence of ANY God, any higher being. A theist simply believes in a higher being, a deity, a God or Gods. Atheisms fundamental truth claim is that no such higher being exists. A theist’s central truth claim is that some higher being does exist. To make a claim that any deity exist means you cannot be an atheist by definition. It is silly and dishonest to argue otherwise.
Definitions:
“Atheism: a person who disbelieves or lacks belief in the existence of God or gods.”
“Theism: belief in the existence of a god or gods, especially belief in one god as creator of the universe, intervening in it and sustaining a personal relation to his creatures.”
Joe: Hey Dawkins ever done DMT?
Dawkins: No
Joe: Think Charles Darwin ever did DMT?
dawkins? snowden? damn joe ur on fire
Don't forget Bernie.
Public Guy you mean Yang
u'r *
@@publicguy1664 Bernie is a lying pos, like all politicians
@Ty Thomas Boxing Training he's not supposed to be an intellectual, he's supposed to help the working class.
he and others raised the minimum wage for amazon workers, lead the opposition against the iraq war when it wasn't cool.
votes against massive millitary budget and doesn't take lobbyist money.
wants to give everyone healthcare and raise taxes on billioners and big corporations and raise minimum wage.
you're brainwashed by Rightwing talking points.
I can't put my finger on who Richard's voice reminds me of, but I feel like he enjoys Cool Hwhip with his dog Brian.
Jo Po it reminds you of Hannibal Lector
Montgomery Burns is who you’re looking for.
😂
I always thought he kinda sounds like C3PO
Hannibal lector
how are the comments still about people joe hasnt interviewed yet. This is richard freaking dawkins
Right, you'd think that by now Joe would be able to attract a better guest.
The type of comment i would expect from someone who slaps their mother for preaching kindness^
exactly
I so agree!!!!! LOVE Richard Dawkins!
@@chriswarwick6977 actually read the god delusion. You will think differently about him and his atheism
Seeing a four-headed Rogan reminds me of Diglett.
W
@psyopus syzygy needs more work
Lmao.
Top comment!
Oh thank god. My computer is slowly dying, and I thought it was hallucinating.
The real voice of Stewie Griffin
Bruh
Hahaha
What the deuce ?
Lmfao.
Lol! You won the internet today!!
The conversation was far too short in my opinion.
cz he had nothing much to add.
@psyopus syzygy What shit are you on
@@ziakhan6060 Clearly you didn't hear joe say at the end that Dawkins had to leave because of his schedule. There is so much more they could've gotten into but only talked about surface-level stuff.
not much to talk about if one hasnt had a breakthrough
@@doperaphitz1260 What do you mean by that?
Czech Republic, my country, is among the most secular in the World. Great majority of about say 80% people either openly are agnostic/atheist or do not care for religion at any capacity. What a wonderful country, record low crime rate, high employment and a generally nice place to live, even though many of my countrymen will easily find flaws.
Well, someone nicked a friends car when we visited Prague :-P
@@RoninTF2011 bad luck :( sorry to hear that. don't be deterred though :)
@@vine01 ...;-)
Nothing to do with europe or the US...
You build nice gliders too
Jamie’s computer has some experience with psychedelics
thought my GPU where melting down.
Wait, u saying the 4 headed Dawkins isn’t real?
Richard Dawkins: The man who coined the term "meme"
His greatest accomplishment by far
Do you know what happened with the national anthem
You ignore all his books to say this, it might be true but it is unimportant in exposing the falsehoods of religion.
@@timanderson1054 bruh chill
@deathtocommies No, it wasn't. He meant something different than we think of (internet traded pictures and text), but it is his own invention. He was likening the process of developing culture to genetics with these 'memes' as the atomic structures in the system that selection pressures are actually applied to. There was no such thing as a meme as we know it today before he started calling them that.
8 minutes in and Joe is already asking about psychedelics. Priceless.
As annoying that it is, a guy that's entire life has been dedicated to death and religion should at least have one psychedelic trip.
@john dillion Much the same can be said about existence as a whole, but one ascribes one's own meaning and derives subjective importance from it. Maybe that seems less valid to some than a purely objective meaning, but unlike objective meaning, subjective meaning is a thing that actually exists.
Time For Pancakes Subjective explications do exist, but they aren’t (for lack of a better term) scientifically credible. Even if there really is this dimension that we aren’t able to peer into without psychedelics, history begs that the most reasonable explanation is that it’s something we label as spiritual because we don’t understand it. À la miasma behind disease before germ theory, or Demeter regulating the seasons.
EDIT: explanations, not explications
Good but it should be in first 5 minutes.
@john dillion just from that comment, i can already tell how shallow as a person you are, so yes in a way you are absolutely right, to you - a trip is just a trip. for us individuals with a soul anchored somewhat deeper, this is something else. Something way beyond our reach & understanding.
Richard was my hero when I was 14 years old. I watched his debates so many times
Hahaha, same here.
Mine too. Not anymore thank God.
Bruh you became an atheist that early? Lucky you.
Mass debates? 🙂
Joe: that's cool, have you tried DMT
Camera: Breathes in fractals
The fractal shattering of the visual world on the 3rd hit is a sight to behold.
"A very nice woman friend."
That's just what old people call a booty call.
yeah right? macaulay culkin did the same thing.
Agreed, that's what I call the hand job from the woman in the park.
Have you had an unsolicited hand job in the park?
I would encourage you to read James Joyce.
Why...what a very plesant laydeh.
Not even 10 minutes into the podcast and joe is already trying to get Dawkins to try DMT.
Tallaght mountain mushies anyone?
You say that like it's a bad thing. The old fart could use a toke.
@@NDE108 I dont intend on it sounding like it's a bad thing. It's just so typical of joe to bring up psychedelics off the cuff.
Why not talk about quantum physics vis consciousness? Do scientists understand consciousness?
@@andrewmolina7792 it's not off the cuff, he's inviting him to think outside the box to look at consciousness differently.
I wish this was a 3 hour podcast
There was nothing of value in the first hour...
@George Sander if you say so
@George Sander any proof for that or can it be dismissed?
George Sander Well actually extremely smart people such as Elon Musk Bill gates and richard dawkins himself have genius level IQ. Stop replying this on every comment as well haha.
@George Sander how am I stupid for not believing in a magic man living in the sky.
Ari should've popped in when they were talking about psychedelics and told Dawkins that he should be feeling it any moment (dosed you!)
Best comment hands down
😂 I will say, dosing someone unknowingly is bad. But dosing Kreischer vs. Dawkins is an entirely different animal, I don’t think Ari could handle dosing Richard Dawkins...
Then Tom Segura walks in and kills Ari
LOL
Richard Dawkins is like the final boss once you’ve defeated all the edge lords
hahaaahahaha
@Name No.
O C You sure? Catholic church? Youth pastors?
@@Viriyascybin I'm sure.
It's not 2007 kid, bashing religion ain't fucking based.
Me: I cannot
Joe Rogan: I am unable to can
LOL, so true
that's americans
R.D. "I know a woman who is a horse chiropractor.."
J.R. "Oh Christ!"
LMFAO
When I close my eyes it sounds like he's interviewing Stewie from Family Guy
nah more like palpatine, he doesn't even have the same dialect as stewie.
Yes.
👏🏻🤣
Have him say "Wheeaat Thin" then we'll know
Richard dawkins is slowly becoming The Emperor from star wars 🤣
I just spit my cereal out laughing at that! Thanks.
Lmaoooo!!!
This is what all us English become after years of gloomy weather 😂
@@lloydhinshelwood 🤣🤣🤣 very true
Only with glasses.
I’ll sum up the comments in two sentences
- No your screen is not broken
- “Have you ever done Psychedelics?” 🤣
Deadass 😂😂😂😂
Hahaha I read this comment about 20 seconds before I noticed the picture freaking out.
I’m sum it up in 1234 sentences later I’m tired
came to comments to see if other peoples' videos were doing that weird shit lol
You have to send it up in three sentences you forget that bout the sick anorexic Colonel Sanders
What an absolute legend. Only wish Hitchens could of been sat beside him.
Hitchens got throat cancer after spewing so many lies.
@Alfons Falkhayn You really talking after making a complete fool of yourself on the other thread? Have some shame and go crawl back in your hole never to be heard from again.
@Alfons Falkhayn shoo fly, don't bother me
WaterspoutsOfTheDeep these comments will definitely get you into heaven! Keep it up !!
@@DM-lh5hk Beat an Atheist a day, get to heaven ok!
“ Mormonism I’m depressed by how successful it is “ 😂
I felt that. Unless you are a child, there is almost no excuse to be persuaded by it. It has a really absurd premise and imagine coming at it from a blank non spiritual perspective...it's nuts. It has the problem of being within a few generations of living memory, it only worked in the beginning because it appealed to a vulnerability of the budding American mind... How existentially crushing the 1800s expansion of America and industrialising world must have been, it made people feel like their generation was somehow as special as the supposed biblical times... And here we are. No more special than ever. More transparently less spiritually significant than ever. It sucks but it's real. Look elsewhere for meaning and don't let yourself become corrupted by stories
@Michael Gallimore any major religion is depressing when you see how mentally crippling they end up being. How waking up to it can divide a family. Mormonism and Scientology are significantly horrible because they encourage you to cut off the non believers in your family.
@Michael Gallimore i mean Dawkins here has a choice right, to keep his thoughts (regarding religion etc) to himself, or letting the people know, that what they're believing is a sort of a lie.. I guess he's compassionate, wants to see a better world ? Also helps him make some money, & do what he loves, while somehow helping the community.. what do u think ?
Mormonism in particular is horrible. Dawkins is absolutely justified in being depressed by its success. Only 1% of the population, but that's far too much.
@Michael Gallimore I was raised Mormon and they still count me among their members despite me wanting nothing to do with them. Being raised Mormon was the worst aspect of my life. Now that I'm free of that cult, I feel like I'll never have a comparably bad experience ever again. It has been many years and no problem has ever compared to the horribleness of that cult.
Dawkins: "the epistemological underpinnings of any deity rests on a unprovable premise"
Joe rogan: "but have you tried DMT though?"
8:32
Yeah it's funny how disproving God is impossible yet he makes a very strong claim that there isn't a god. I mean technically a god could be proven if he appeared before people, or some paranormal shit happens. What came first, the chicken, the egg, or dmt?
It’s just wrong though go to a Pentecostal spirit filled church then tell me it’s unprovable
Chad Warden As soon as I heard Joe say that I started to scroll down the comments to see someone quote him 😆
He is too dumb to interview Dawkins
Richard: I know a woman who’s a horse chiropractor.
Joe: oh Christ
I realized atheism before I knew who Dawkins was. However, he inspired me to not become an ignorant atheist, learn/hone a structured argument, and call out invalid claims. I will always thank him for this.
Stephen fry needs to be on here man
Definitely
For sure!
Yesssss!
Fuck
You should check out Stephen Fry's podcast with Sam Harris
Oohh this one should have been a "3 hours plus" episode. Hope to see Richard Dawkins back soon again, for a longer episode. This one was great! Good job Joe!
FINALLY! FINALLY! FINALLY!
He finally has Dawkins on his podcast.
I've been wanting this for ages
Dawkins is as boring as batshit.. i Hope he never ocmes back on
Waited all that time for Joe to ask if anybody's "ever been angry with him"
Kaes someone’s salty
@@demonboy3779 he is kind of boring. When you are that constantly grounded in absolute reality it's hard not to be lol
@@KaesOner well... he's old and much slower now than he used to be. What do we expect out of people anyway? He's had a long, successful and entertaining career educating the world on evolution.
I went to a lecture by Dawkins yesterday in The Hague. Afterwards, during the book signing, I saw an opportunity to ask him a question and I asked him if he would ever appear on the Joe Rogan Experience again. Sadly his response was that he wouldn't know what the use of it would be since he had said everything he wanted to say in this episode already and he wouldn't know what to add.
Mr Dawkins has been in many mediocre interviews like this.
No wonder he gets tired of it.
I am curious, do you have to pay to attend? or is it a free lecture when philosophist and scientists come around? If it is profit then there is always reasonable reasons but that would be amazing if they were sponsored and free lectures for the sake of spreading critical thinking habits.
@@maruchannuudle657 Tickets for the event I went to were 15 euros for a talk about an hour, where he said basically the same things as in this interview and with a Q&A at the end. After the event, you could get your books signed, which you could also purchase at the venue. He requested not to take selfies due to timekeeping reasons and the number of people that wanted to get a signature. The event was sold out. 15 euros is not that much for Dutch standards, considering the travel cost, marketing of the event, costs of the venue, etc.
@@HalloikbenJim Why sad? This guy has more important things to do. Joe's audience are already smart enough to be atheist. His second appearance would not change anything in the world.
Sina Danmark it kinda goes in line with why you’d see a musician more than once. Hearing what he has to say more than once would cement the lessons into the mind :D
8 minutes in: "Have you ever tried psychedelics?"
Erik Ferreira haha I was jus scrolling through the comments to see if anyone had said this and you were like the 6th comment haha . Joe loves it he does
still better than jesus freaks, right?
Lol, I read this comment literally the second before Joe asked that!
And then they kick in at 16:50
Came to the comments to say this. Hah
I’ve waited so many years for Joe “have you tried DMT” Rogan to talk with Richard Dawkins about psychedelics. It’s a dream come true!
ya hope he tries it...hahaha....
this is one that really shouldve been 3+ hours its a shame he had to leave
I was saddened it was only 60 mins. Still a great podcast, but this should have been a lot longer.
Giles Austin ffffrrrrrrrrrttttt💨💨💨💩💩💩
Play it half speed and it’s an acid podcast...BOOM! 2 hrs lol.
Just 1 hour talk with Dawkins? We want more Joe
1.5 speed is season 1 Stewie.
😂😂😂 Bravo!
Lmfaoooooo
@Marcus Hillerström it's the only way I can watch this 😂
Wwwheeatt thins.
Dead
- Have you had any experience with psychedelics?
- I know a woman who is a horse chiropractor.
In case you're wondering, it took him 8:33 minutes to get into psychedelics with Richard Dawkins lol
Joe Rogan is a good interviewer because he flatters his guests. It gets them to open up so we can get to know them better. Everyone likes flattery, especially public figures.
Just one time I want him to say "Cool wHip."
DalyLife hhhwippp
Hwip
Ok now you’re just being hweird
Hwil Hwheaton
Kewl huuuuhhhwip
The only way this podcast sucked was that Richard was only on for an hour.
Richard needs to put on his big boy pants and debate Bishop Robert Barron: th-cam.com/video/cml9Frl8_DE/w-d-xo.html
Angelic Doctor your comment is completely irrelevant to the person you’re replying to
@@totalanthony maybe - maybe not
Chris Jjjj
There’s no reason to believe that is true though. There has to be an original species in that theory, and there is no guarantee that humanity will ever actually have that kind of tech.
Chris Jjjj
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it may very well be impossible. Simulations and VR is very far from a matrix.
I haven't started watching this, but I'm betting Joe asks Richard about psychedelics.
Pretty much seven minutes in
8:33
Let’s all just assume that he will ask everyone that.
I literally read your comment, chuckled, and then joe said it
Who is here for Richard Dawkins???
I was here for Dickhard Rawkins. I was mistaken
I was here for Jippy Tawkins. I was mistaken.
Montreal Repair Center literally everybody that clicked on the video to watch a podcast with dawkins
Joe Rogan should have read "The Selfish Gene."
Biologist Dawkins is exponentially more interesting than Atheist Dawkins.
Indeed.
I do agree with you, but happy to watch this anyway.
@Enoch~ Are you on of those who call atheism a religion?
@Enoch~ Dawkins "intellectually vacuous"? How many of his books have you read? How many books have YOU written? How many professorships have YOU held at world-leading universities? Maybe, just maybe, YOU are the one who is "intellectually vacuous". Give that some thought (if you CAN think).
@Enoch~ How exactly is not believing in the existence of god dogmatic. Why didn't you mention Christians as believing in the barbarism too?
Check the dictionary definition of the big words you try to use before you use them.
The reason why atheists have to repeat the same stuff is because theists cannot come up with better arguments. It's pathetic really.
Stop trying to overclock Joe's graphics card while streaming Jamie.
No. God is angry. ;-)
I thought it was my tv or my card. Thank God! err thanks.
He got the memory up to 4GHz i heard
I thought it was my Laptop! Whew!
Imagine a Joe Rogan podcast with Christopher Hitchens. We are lessened as a species without him.
Jonathan Bowen lol but completely statistically likely given his lifestyle.
@Jonathan Bowen Maybe he shouldn't have smoked 100 cigarettes a day and drank scotch all day and slept 1 hour a day he could have lived longer.
Imagine INXS still with Michael Hutchence. They are lessened as a band without him.
that interview would have been EPIC! Rest In Power Hitchens!!!!
I miss that human more then many..
Thank you Joe for bringing Richard Dawkins. A beautiful conversation. Both of you have my deep admiration.
The Gods did not like this podcast, and smited Camera 2.
Smote??
Lol, good call and the guy above me is correct, it's smote.
Smote checks out
God: 1; Camera 2: 0
Smote**
Like this if joe needs to get Arnold Schwarzenegger on the show!
"Get to the Choppa!!!"
Gunnar B Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?
@@gunnar5489 I dont give a shit.
Michael Valderrama and show him the cartoon where Joe impersonates Arnold!! Lol
Gunnar B you’re the second person to post this exact message. Why are you doing this ? Lol
I've just noticed but Dr Dawkins looks like an aged Elon Musk with a Stewie accent
I can't unsee/unhear this now...
Hame you’ve outdone yourself
He reminds me of ducky, from NCIS
@@flumpyhumpy I'm sorry what was that?, I'm too busy swimming in this pool full of TH-cam bucks
@@flumpyhumpy he kinda does though
I realized how crazy religion was when I was dating my a girlfriend and one day she had a serious talk with me about how our relationship couldn't go to the next level (I invited her to come live with me) because she was afraid she wouldn't see me in heaven. It made me think of kids in elementary school that had imaginary friends and the days when I thought Santa climbed down our chimney to give me gifts.
Invited her to 'come live with you'? Just like that? What a world it would be with people casually inviting each other to come live with each other.
@@crispusmahea2135 we had been dating for almost a year. I was 25, she was 23 and was looking to move out of her parents and I owned a home. Nothing odd about it to me.
I hear you. I am thinking she wanted to do a wedding first? I mean Church wedding. In your view, is divorce an acceptable idea?
@@crispusmahea2135 I wouldn't date someone that I wouldn't marry and I wouldn't marry someone if I wasn't sure. I also think it's important to know someone better before you actually get married though. You don't really know someone until you've lived with them.
@@TheLouisianan I like your logic and would actually vouch for it to a great extent.
Thanks for your sincere response.
One problem I experienced being married happily for 11 years now is that each person keeps gradually changing with time in many aspects, so may be what you can get living with someone is a "degree of comfort" but there is no assurance this person or indeed you will be the same 15 years down the road.
Dawkins: why would anyone want to live for eternity?
JR: Idk, I like my life.
Elio Puyol a biological imperative is to live and avoid death and harm, so I get wanting to live forever.
If Dawkins asked why anyone would want to live in a Christian's heaven for eternity, then I totally agree with him. It's an eternity of worshiping god. That would definitely get boring. Imagine being kept alive to serve a celestial being for all eternity, with the only other option being tormented in perpetuity. How narcissistic does that deity have to be to make those the only options?
Your memories dont live forever, then it's just like being however old you can think back to. Is that still called eternity?
it depends how much fun you are having, if you have a miserable attitude you might not like eternity....on the other hand if you like life...the more the merrier
@@jlopez47 you watch way too much Family Guy...
Richard Dawkins: there is no god.
Joe Rogan: that’s cool man but have you ever try psychodelics?
Drugs that make you go psycho?
There are medicines and there are drugs. Dmt is not a drug
@@fffkino medicine is drugs dude wtf everything is a drug
@@fffkino and the only reason I asked what I asked is because op said psycho not psychedelics.
Was a cheesy joke that's all
Matt stone and Trey Parker would make for an amazing podcast
Respect to this man! He has wonderful views on animal and human behaviour, and has one hell of a prose as well. I shall always recommend his books, particularly The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype.