Making me think, April 2008

From Sy

1 A new idea (for me)
2 Malcolm X
3 Pat Condell
4 God Is Imaginary
5 The Blasphemy Challenge
6 God is Imaginary
7 TheAmazingAtheist
- 7.1 Tana Scheel
8 Edward Current
9 The Big Debate! Religion in School!
10 Beyond Good and Evil
11 Proselytization and Religious Freedom

[edit] A new idea (for me)

Inspired by some videos I had been watching, I decided to begin a kind of weblog entry showing the chain of videos I had watched.

This stream of consciousness surfing began with my watching some videos of Malcolm X and then Martin Luther King.

[edit] Malcolm X

MALCOLM X: You Never Will Get Protection From the Government

MALCOLM X DEBATE: Roundtable Discussion

MALCOLM X: Apartheid in America

Martin Luther King on Malcolm X

(and many many more)

Then I detoured to watch religion and belief, prompted partly by the whole Malcolm X Muslim thing.

I took a detour to watch some famous speeches because of the political interests.

Then I ended up watching some general religious opinions, which YouTube is full of. That's when I bumped into Pat.

If you're interested in some more Malcolm X, check out this series that I bumped into much later:

Malcolm X Rare Canadian CBC TV Show 1965 Part 2
part one

part two

[edit] Pat Condell

Pat Condell is a comedian who has created a great series of videos.

It's unfortunate that Pat's videos get angrier as time progresses, but if you look around at his peers this is a common trend. Don't like it? Read through the comments. There are a lot, and I mean a *lot* of astoundingly stupid comments on YouTube videos. This chain of them happens to collect some of the best of the worst.

What have I got against religion?

[edit] God Is Imaginary

God Is Imaginary

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?p=r&user=AngryLittleGirI&page=2

Ok, I'm going to admit that I clicked this video for the same reason that I clicked on Cocasseries' promoted video. Because she's beautiful. But I'm posting it here because it's very well-spoken and led me into an interesting series of videos.

It's really unfortunate that this video is unique in her line.

[edit] Cocasseries

http://www.youtube.com/user/Cocasseries

Her videos are mostly French, because she's self-conscious, but her videos are really well done.

And yes, she did remind me of Jennifer Love Hewitt. =)

I do speak english!

[edit] That's so GAY!

http://www.youtube.com/user/paytotheorderofofof2

I bumped into this girl because she was subscribed-to by Cocasseries. For similar reasons to the above click, I clicked her. Gorgeous, and smart. This particular one is notable.

That's so GAY!

I really wish she made other videos of this calibre.

http://blueskyy.wordpress.com

Gayness led me to..

[edit] Transgender voice

candiFLA posts an educational and entertaining video on the transgender voice.

016 transgender voice-3

This led me to...

[edit] CalperniaAddams

Very smart and very funny. Ignore the tits.. I mean breasts.

Bad Questions to Ask a Transsexual: Old Version

I went down this path for a while, but nothing seemed to top Calpernia's video.

Now back to the main train of thought..

[edit] The Blasphemy Challenge

It started with Pat Condell's video:

Re: The Blasphemy Challenge

If you still haven't watched Pat's other videos, go and do it. They're great.

I went back to watch this video again and I realized that it was one of many responses to this video from rationalresponders.com:

The Blasphemy Challenge

[edit] God is Imaginary

They're all very good videos, but here are a few highlights:

10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer

Proving that the Bible is repulsive

Calculate Your God Delusion Index

Check out their other videos or their websites.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GIIVideo

[edit] TheAmazingAtheist

I liked him, but he seemed to slide way downhill.

Liberals and Libertarians: What's the big difference?

STUPIDITY: What is it? Where does it come from?

He has a LOT of other videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAmazingAtheist

[edit] Tana Scheel

Later on when I came back to find some example videos for TheAmazingAtheist he recommended Tana

NaturalSelector89 is a sub par human

It's a response to this vid:

Be Good!

(The song is Nine Inch Nails - Burn)

http://youtube.com/user/tanascheel

I'll have to check her out sometimes.

[edit] Edward Current

This is amazing sature.

The Atheist Delusion

I've Converted To EVERY Religion (Just In Case)

Edward is very good with his physical expression too:

Intelligent Design Really Is Being Expelled!

[edit] The Big Debate! Religion in School!

A brief clip about "islam getting owned", which was a brief clip from a series, had me bumped into a wonderfully entertaining series of videos. It amounts to exactly nothing because it draws no conclusions, but I think that it's still interesting to watch.

Remember, don't judge anything one way or another from the way one of their "representatives" is like or what they say.

part one

part two

part three

part four

part five

part six

[edit] Beyond Good and Evil

I really loved the expression and writing of this video. It made me think. In fact, this video is why this entire page came to exist. I researched MediaWiki video-embedding to make this page and got everything working very easily.

I've had enough fun doing this that I'll begin noting more of my stream of consciousness surfing in the future.

Beyond Good and Evil

I happened upon this other video which is by the same author. I can't imagine this being very effective towards kids, but it's still interesting to me.