I love that quote; I hate that people do not realize that they were made to be slaves, that is, if the interpretation of God through the Bible is true.
To go back to those forgotten days of humanity, trying to outrun antelopes on the African grasslands, and to tell our ancestors where the winding road of time would lead us...
This is... ...astonishingly wonderful. I'm almost in tears at how moving this is. It's almost like a spiritual experience. It's also beautifully animated.
"Humankind wore the glasses of worship in the times before the sciences, but they found that it was hard to see. And yet they struggled forth with it, blind to the world. And they were okay with it. In more recent years, many have dared to remove these false lenses, and have found that they can see the world, and the universe clearly. They who have risen above the blind masses, while they use logic, and science, to unlock the mysteries of our world and the world beyond. They care not what happens after death, as long as they do their part in the only life they have. So long as the Glasses of Religion plague the human species, then we are doomed to fall, as our disagreement, our isolation from each other, and our hateful bickering over what is true and what is false will bring humans to shed each others blood once again, as it has since we first donned the lenses that left us blind." -dinoman9877, on Friday, December 27, 2013 Quote this if you will, perhaps help those who are blinded remove their glasses.
What at wonderful and well presented explanation of our existence. The key work in this is that we as everything else are EVOLVING. Does this not show the insignificance and irrelevance and just plain wrongness of religion. We have to make this small rock in the middle of all this vastness a better place for all.
***** I challenge you and your god to a duel and see how kindly you both react. Jesus walks into a hotel, puts for nails on the counter and asks can you put me up for the night?
todd matheson - A lot of pictures of Jesus hanging on the cross show him with one nail pounded through each hand, but with his feet overlapping and only one nail going through both feet. So where does the fourth nail go? In the middle? Ooh, ouch!
Still beautiful but now it made me get goosebumps and teary eyed. I can't tell you enough how much I enjoyed this video, Seth. Really fantastic work. I hope it goes viral and gets millions of views.
Really good voice over work and a high-quality production overall. I really appreciate the work you put in these videos, and I know it takes a lot of time and effort. +1 like
Had to come her to give you props Seth. I just watched your hour long bit at INR2 in 2012 and you played this video at the end. I had to give it it's credit and say thank you.
Wonderfully done, but you won't convince religious people, never! I've tried, I've stopped. No point. It's a beautiful presentation talking to our intelligence. Religion is not talking or coming from intelligence, so if you use intelligence to talk to it, you'll fail. You can show this to the pope ten thousand times and fail each time.
The point is not to persuade fundies and christianidiots, but to inspire those who are not and give them passion and strength to grow in numbers, its about changeing apathists to passionate science loving humanists not converting people who think the world is 6000 years old.
That's completely not true. Many atheists come from religious backgrounds, so you can convince someone, you just have to know how to do that (hint: not by witty comments and funny jokes about how stupid their beliefs are). Religious people aren't more stupid, they just less informed because churches and cults almost always deny information from outside of their circles, by frobidding to talk with people of different beliefs, by telling that everyone is an enemy to them ("There is a war on Christianity!" - does that sound familiar to you?), by lying and misrepresenting information (many christian apologists, especially creationists are guilty of this). They discourage free thinking and playing guilt card to control their "flock". Do you really think that if you were born, for example, in Texas, in deeply religious community, you would be able to figure the truth out by yourself without any information from outside? Chances are, you wouldn't. This people need help, like addicts need it, and the best help is to rpovide infomation so they could start thinking for themself.
Funny...I'm reading 'Cosmos' right now, and I just read that quote at 4:40 today! I wish Carl Sagan was still around so I could talk to him, thank him for helping make science popular, and encouraging our species to keep exploring and asking questions.... Carl Sagan was a great man and the best teacher ever to walk this Earth,... he was so passionate about the cosmos, and that passion is so easy to recognize in his work...
@David Henry, you mean like the arrogant pride in proclaiming that YOU know that there really is a specific god and that you know what it wants? Learning things and admitting when ideas are wrong and changing them based on evidence (how science works) is not in the same neighborhood of pride as proclaiming to know the answer and refusing to adapt to change (how religion works.)
David Henry I'm not going to continue to other comments you've made elsewhere but I DO feel compelled to point something out: _"We..We..We..We.. The pride of man has always been his downfall, that's why he needs a God"_ The notion that Humans are a special creation of a deity is but another form of pride. Indeed, there is no greater conceit.
Beautiful. I don't understand how theists can accuse the skeptic of dull nihilism after a presentation like this. What they see as a belittling of humanity is in fact a celebration of the glorious grandure of existence and the realization that we are a tiny and fleeting, but precious part of that.
Wonderful............but, of course, the world is only 6000 years old and humankind are the only concern of a single deity's musings and plans since the infinite beginning of time, in an infinite universe of galaxies - The deity had done nothing else to do, during the millennia of his existence, but to think of how to eventually create us, just those few short years ago ................from mud ............................surely that's right............isn't it?!!!
Carl Sagan was so far ahead of his time as a philosopher, in every quote I see from him there is more truth and wisdom than anyone else could cram into so few words. Thanks for the video Seth, you can't go far wrong with Saganisms, and maybe a few harder hitting Hitch-slaps.
I love the ad at the beginning: "If you hate watching ads like this one, you can skip it if you want (guy points to skip ad function)..." Done! I dont' care what you have to say! Now onto the video!
I shared this video with a science teacher and he shared it with his students and immediately after that class ended every student started to question their parents and religious leaders in their own church. this was an evening news here in my city that day.
you were right what you said in your blog about this guy's voice...he's really good! It would've been for naught without that absolutely fabulous build of concise and eye-opening information, illuminated that brilliant video work...very very well done!
Just think about how long we as humans have existed and now realize how long it took us to figure out our true place in the universe. We have only just opened our eyes in the great "eternity" of the cosmos. I am still privileged and humbled to be born in this moment of time.
Marvelous!!! If it's any way to boost your confidence Seth, I'd truthfully say that both narrations skillfully convey the great ideas presented while evoking wonder, awe and curiosity.
Thank you Seth for this new video production. It is amazing. Please also know that it takes nothing away from your original production. That video was inspired and wonderful and many of us loved it.
Seth, this has always been one of your finest videos. I have to be honest, I liked your narration better. I hope the original is still available to watch. For some reason, it delivered the point better. L Harvey Gold has a nice voice, but it wasn't punctual enough for this piece. Either way, thanks again for bringing this video back into my life :)
I just watched your original video again. As awesome as it is that you got a professional narrator to do it, don't underestimate your own voice. I liked the new narration just as much as I like the original one, but I'll still link the original to my friends.
Awesome video Seth. Definitely a win. After seeing Brave New World and then seeing the Solar Eclipse, I'm definitely on a Science high right now. Your video is just helping to feed my addiction.
My dad would've loved this segment..he always strove to show just how small we are compared to the rest of the Universe. I don't bow my head when I need to be humbled..I look up.
Thank you Seth, this video is awesome. We are but a tiny piece of an unfathomably huge universe that is trying to understand itself. Philhellenes said "Would it be cruel to tell an adult mayfly it only has 1 afternoon to live?"
It's amazing to realize that we are simply a speck of dust on our planet, and not even noticeable in the entirety of it all. And yet a small event can bother us so much. An event that will not be remembered in our time, much less in a million years.
The more we learn.. the more we realize exactly how wrong we were. He's not exactly throwing out the entire human experience or our past.. just opening his eyes to a future of speculation and not assuming things anymore.
[wikipedia says: The universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space.] That extends out past the matter spewed by the "big bang". The "big bang" was not a solitary event. That's just the local one and the one that we resulted from. You're also assuming that matter was thrown from the "big bang" in all directions at equal speed. Not necessarily so.
That piece of machinery was far bigger and heavier then anything we sent to another planet and we used an incredibly sophisticated contraption to land it. And it was first studying the stars that taught us that the Earth was round. By looking at faraway things and making seemingly pointless discoverys we learn more about ourselves and our problems.
Seeing homage to the great Carl Sagans pale blue dot, always makes me shed philosophical, intellectual and understanding tears of the glorious and unending universe we are all apart of and all its glory,mystery and near infinite knowledge locked away to someday be found and conquered(If humans can get their asses in gear and start realizing they are not DESTINED of greater things, but CAPABLE with their own body's,minds, and hearts.
When I was a child, maybe 7 or 8, I always wondered why god didn't create cars and airplanes for us but instead made us figure it all without him. But now, it's so breathtakingly clear now. He was never there to begin with, we've always been alone. I find value in that - that means we as humans are amazing.
Seth , I think you have an incredible voice , theres no need to replace your voice with another narrator. L. Harvey Gold has an incredible voice too , but , he is not better than you . Keep the good work !!! If you allow me , i want to upload this video in my channel with spanish subtitles.
Voiced by Optimus Prime, renowned atheist.
Haha 😂 nice one
Little known fact:
Humans aren't the center of anything. Ants are. Death to the egocentric ones.
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
-Carl Sagan
Great video Seth!
If only you could reason with people there wouldn't be any religion.
I love that quote; I hate that people do not realize that they were made to be slaves, that is, if the interpretation of God through the Bible is true.
Lol.
The Imperial Knight
It isn't!
To go back to those forgotten days of humanity, trying to outrun antelopes on the African grasslands, and to tell our ancestors where the winding road of time would lead us...
This is... ...astonishingly wonderful. I'm almost in tears at how moving this is. It's almost like a spiritual experience. It's also beautifully animated.
All praise to the Flying Spaghetti Monster (pasta be upon Him)
ramennnnnn!!
We must bring back the Pirates!
mrdirtydead Does this mean that the Flying Spaghetti Monster (pasta be upon Him) lives in Pittsburgh?
Sounds like an impasta!
This is the best video of ThinkingAtheist
100% agreed
"Humankind wore the glasses of worship in the times before the sciences, but they found that it was hard to see. And yet they struggled forth with it, blind to the world. And they were okay with it.
In more recent years, many have dared to remove these false lenses, and have found that they can see the world, and the universe clearly. They who have risen above the blind masses, while they use logic, and science, to unlock the mysteries of our world and the world beyond. They care not what happens after death, as long as they do their part in the only life they have.
So long as the Glasses of Religion plague the human species, then we are doomed to fall, as our disagreement, our isolation from each other, and our hateful bickering over what is true and what is false will bring humans to shed each others blood once again, as it has since we first donned the lenses that left us blind."
-dinoman9877, on Friday, December 27, 2013
Quote this if you will, perhaps help those who are blinded remove their glasses.
This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you!
We are at the center of all things, and so is everything else.
What at wonderful and well presented explanation of our existence. The key work in this is that we as everything else are EVOLVING. Does this not show the insignificance and irrelevance and just plain wrongness of religion. We have to make this small rock in the middle of all this vastness a better place for all.
And starting with the smaller army...luckily we have the more powerful message!
Oh, if only more people could see life and the world this way, just imagine how much better everything would be!
Yes, God is the Way the Truth and the Life!
GodWorksOut - Jesus Fucking Christ, did you even WATCH this video at all?! Open your goddam fucking mind.
Tanned Willie Do not allow yourself to be deceived. Let Jesus come in you! Beg for His merciful salivation!
*****
I challenge you and your god to a duel and see how kindly you both react.
Jesus walks into a hotel, puts for nails on the counter and asks can you put me up for the night?
todd matheson - A lot of pictures of Jesus hanging on the cross show him with one nail pounded through each hand, but with his feet overlapping and only one nail going through both feet. So where does the fourth nail go? In the middle? Ooh, ouch!
Beautiful, simply beautiful
Still beautiful but now it made me get goosebumps and teary eyed.
I can't tell you enough how much I enjoyed this video, Seth. Really fantastic work. I hope it goes viral and gets millions of views.
Really good voice over work and a high-quality production overall. I really appreciate the work you put in these videos, and I know it takes a lot of time and effort.
+1 like
The internet, where religion comes to die.
Had to come her to give you props Seth. I just watched your hour long bit at INR2 in 2012 and you played this video at the end. I had to give it it's credit and say thank you.
BRILLIANT.
That has to be one of your best videos yet!
I felt chills down my spine! Very well put together.
Wonderfully done, but you won't convince religious people, never! I've tried, I've stopped. No point. It's a beautiful presentation talking to our intelligence. Religion is not talking or coming from intelligence, so if you use intelligence to talk to it, you'll fail. You can show this to the pope ten thousand times and fail each time.
The point is not to persuade fundies and christianidiots, but to inspire those who are not and give them passion and strength to grow in numbers, its about changeing apathists to passionate science loving humanists not converting people who think the world is 6000 years old.
Who said, "You can't reason people out of something they weren't reasoned into"?
The glass wall they build.
"so that's the mirror you break your nose on" - Vladimir Nabokov as HH.
That's completely not true. Many atheists come from religious backgrounds, so you can convince someone, you just have to know how to do that (hint: not by witty comments and funny jokes about how stupid their beliefs are). Religious people aren't more stupid, they just less informed because churches and cults almost always deny information from outside of their circles, by frobidding to talk with people of different beliefs, by telling that everyone is an enemy to them ("There is a war on Christianity!" - does that sound familiar to you?), by lying and misrepresenting information (many christian apologists, especially creationists are guilty of this). They discourage free thinking and playing guilt card to control their "flock".
Do you really think that if you were born, for example, in Texas, in deeply religious community, you would be able to figure the truth out by yourself without any information from outside? Chances are, you wouldn't.
This people need help, like addicts need it, and the best help is to rpovide infomation so they could start thinking for themself.
Is it strange that I find this video so comforting?
2:00 Epic!!
Funny...I'm reading 'Cosmos' right now, and I just read that quote at 4:40 today!
I wish Carl Sagan was still around so I could talk to him, thank him for helping make science popular, and encouraging our species to keep exploring and asking questions....
Carl Sagan was a great man and the best teacher ever to walk this Earth,... he was so passionate about the cosmos, and that passion is so easy to recognize in his work...
It was way better when you narrated it Seth.
Carl Sagan is always spot on. So relevant today, more than ever.
@David Henry, you mean like the arrogant pride in proclaiming that YOU know that there really is a specific god and that you know what it wants? Learning things and admitting when ideas are wrong and changing them based on evidence (how science works) is not in the same neighborhood of pride as proclaiming to know the answer and refusing to adapt to change (how religion works.)
I said WE including me, but what does being theist, agnostic or atheist have to do with science?
David Henry I'm not going to continue to other comments you've made elsewhere but I DO feel compelled to point something out:
_"We..We..We..We.. The pride of man has always been his downfall, that's why he needs a God"_
The notion that Humans are a special creation of a deity is but another form of pride. Indeed, there is no greater conceit.
Beautiful. I don't understand how theists can accuse the skeptic of dull nihilism after a presentation like this. What they see as a belittling of humanity is in fact a celebration of the glorious grandure of existence and the realization that we are a tiny and fleeting, but precious part of that.
Wonderful............but, of course, the world is only 6000 years old and humankind are the only concern of a single deity's musings and plans since the infinite beginning of time, in an infinite universe of galaxies - The deity had done nothing else to do, during the millennia of his existence, but to think of how to eventually create us, just those few short years ago ................from mud ............................surely that's right............isn't it?!!!
Carl Sagan was so far ahead of his time as a philosopher, in every quote I see from him there is more truth and wisdom than anyone else could cram into so few words. Thanks for the video Seth, you can't go far wrong with Saganisms, and maybe a few harder hitting Hitch-slaps.
"What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? It's irrelevant!" :)
I love the ad at the beginning: "If you hate watching ads like this one, you can skip it if you want (guy points to skip ad function)..." Done! I dont' care what you have to say!
Now onto the video!
I shared this video with a science teacher and he shared it with his students and immediately after that class ended every student started to question their parents and religious leaders in their own church. this was an evening news here in my city that day.
I've been discovering quite a few gems from the Thinking Atheist archives lately . This is fantastic.
These videos are so awesome, Seth!
Wow. Just wow. Great video. Well written, produced & executed. Inspirational. Thumbs up.
you were right what you said in your blog about this guy's voice...he's really good! It would've been for naught without that absolutely fabulous build of concise and eye-opening information, illuminated that brilliant video work...very very well done!
Saw this in my subcriptions and instantly favorited and liked! Awesome work as always, Seth!
Seth I prefer your voice but this guy did a great job too, your work always appreciated.
Just think about how long we as humans have existed and now realize how long it took us to figure out our true place in the universe. We have only just opened our eyes in the great "eternity" of the cosmos. I am still privileged and humbled to be born in this moment of time.
I love how more powerful and powerful the video gets. Really good job Seth and great Voice actor. He was definitively worth every penny.
Nice! I love these videos, they are the main reason I subbed to this awesome channel, not for the unswallowable 1 hour length podcasts
one of your best ones, seth, because the focus was on the positive... the wonder of science and the universe.
Marvelous!!!
If it's any way to boost your confidence Seth, I'd truthfully say that both narrations skillfully convey the great ideas presented while evoking wonder, awe and curiosity.
Wow, very impressive! I had to watch an 11 year old podcast to hear you mention this. You should mention it more. It’s worth watching. Good job!
Thank you Seth for this new video production. It is amazing. Please also know that it takes nothing away from your original production. That video was inspired and wonderful and many of us loved it.
Thanks Seth Andrews. You are an inspiration and a great communicator, not to mention a darn nice guy ! Hope you produce more videos like this !
This may be the single most important video on TH-cam. Seriously.
From one professional video editor to another- GREAT JOB!
The production value on this channel is simply amazing.
it was worth getting the voice over guy in to narrate this, .. excellent stuff Seth.
Seth, this has always been one of your finest videos. I have to be honest, I liked your narration better. I hope the original is still available to watch. For some reason, it delivered the point better. L Harvey Gold has a nice voice, but it wasn't punctual enough for this piece. Either way, thanks again for bringing this video back into my life :)
It makes me cry - every time! My favourite vid of all time!
Yes reupload, but with a new voice. The very expensive National Geographic guy. I have to admit, Seth, he's really worth the money! :-)
A truly impressively well-made video. Kudos Seth, amazing work.
Awesome presentation! Something i would download to my cellphone and show to all my friends!
I just watched your original video again. As awesome as it is that you got a professional narrator to do it, don't underestimate your own voice. I liked the new narration just as much as I like the original one, but I'll still link the original to my friends.
Carl Sagan would be proud of you Seth. Great work!
Awesome video Seth. Definitely a win. After seeing Brave New World and then seeing the Solar Eclipse, I'm definitely on a Science high right now. Your video is just helping to feed my addiction.
This is brilliant, one of the best videos on this channel.
Yet another top notch production thanks Seth!
This is gold
What a gorgeous, inspiring video! Thanks, Seth!
Wonderful video, thank you Seth, Harvey and all involved in it!
My dad would've loved this segment..he always strove to show just how small we are compared to the rest of the Universe. I don't bow my head when I need to be humbled..I look up.
Great production value and very well made. Thank you for this.
Thank you Seth, this video is awesome. We are but a tiny piece of an unfathomably huge universe that is trying to understand itself. Philhellenes said "Would it be cruel to tell an adult mayfly it only has 1 afternoon to live?"
This channel has some of the best-produced atheist videos I have ever seen. Props to the creators.
This is seriously freekin' cool and extremely well done. Bravo.
The narrator as the most amazing voice ever!
L.Harvey Gold. What a golden voice are.
That was really inspiring~! Time to go change the world!
this video send chills down my spine... so much awesomeness
Very good narrator, awesome edition and amazing pictures. Great video!!
Powerful and awesome, the sheer splendor of the words, very poetic.
Really enjoyed that. His voice really suited the video.
This is the best video from the thinking atheist that I have seen so far!
One of my absolute favorites!
As always, excellent, in content and in production work.
Carl Sagan is the man!
Great to see you in Kamloops today, Seth!
:D awesome and awe-inspiring. Also, I want to say that I think both you and the guest's voice are equally as powerful and piercing. Thank you. :)
Seth, this brought tears to my eyes. Beautifully done!
It's amazing to realize that we are simply a speck of dust on our planet, and not even noticeable in the entirety of it all. And yet a small event can bother us so much. An event that will not be remembered in our time, much less in a million years.
It is of a truthful vision from this video. I can not explain it any better way. I believe in being human, now what do I do?
Excellent video!!!...gave me goosebumps...and I actually teared up a little
Bravo. You always have the best commercial atheist videos. This one was outstanding!!!
That, sir, was absolutely beautiful!
The more we learn.. the more we realize exactly how wrong we were. He's not exactly throwing out the entire human experience or our past.. just opening his eyes to a future of speculation and not assuming things anymore.
1. This should be a "preview" in movie theatres.
2. The new narration was great, but I'd be lying if I didn't say that I was hoping for Optimus Prime.
"The universe was not made for us".
- Carl Sagan
(this video is awesome).
Thank your Seth for investing all your time and money. You are doing great! :)
[wikipedia says: The universe is commonly defined as the totality of everything that exists, including all matter and energy, the planets, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space.] That extends out past the matter spewed by the "big bang". The "big bang" was not a solitary event. That's just the local one and the one that we resulted from. You're also assuming that matter was thrown from the "big bang" in all directions at equal speed. Not necessarily so.
That piece of machinery was far bigger and heavier then anything we sent to another planet and we used an incredibly sophisticated contraption to land it. And it was first studying the stars that taught us that the Earth was round. By looking at faraway things and making seemingly pointless discoverys we learn more about ourselves and our problems.
Great work Seth. Another fantastic video.
Seeing homage to the great Carl Sagans pale blue dot, always makes me shed philosophical, intellectual and understanding tears of the glorious and unending universe we are all apart of and all its glory,mystery and near infinite knowledge locked away to someday be found and conquered(If humans can get their asses in gear and start realizing they are not DESTINED of greater things, but CAPABLE with their own body's,minds, and hearts.
When I was a child, maybe 7 or 8, I always wondered why god didn't create cars and airplanes for us but instead made us figure it all without him. But now, it's so breathtakingly clear now. He was never there to begin with, we've always been alone. I find value in that - that means we as humans are amazing.
The quote at the end is epic.
Seth's voice is just as epic as any
Seth , I think you have an incredible voice , theres no need to replace your voice with another narrator.
L. Harvey Gold has an incredible voice too , but , he is not better than you .
Keep the good work !!!
If you allow me , i want to upload this video in my channel with spanish subtitles.
Damn the thethinkingatheist for posting these videos that get me all emotional.
Great video tho..
I thought you said "thethinkingGaythiest for a moment
lol I hope that made your day at least..
andrew Nygaard
Do you discriminate sexual behavior? I hope you are not an Atheist....
WiseFlower I never said it was bad, I just said thats what I heard, also gay = happy