djjd62
 
  2  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 07:09 am
@Setanta,
nope, you'd need itunes installed, download it and play through the itunes player

the podcast was originally done with gervais, the producer of the office steven merchant and their friend karl pilkington, it's basically three pretty funny guys siting around taking the piss out of each other (though mostly karl) and the world around them
Setanta
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 07:14 am
@djjd62,
There's a lot of youtube vids on those three . . . i spent some time this morning listening to his stuff over there . . .
djjd62
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 07:16 am
@Setanta,
here's the link to the podcast

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-ricky-gervais-podcast/id135789411

i've never seen the office , but i've seen a few of gervais's comedy specials and i have the four seasons of the podcast, he's pretty entertaining, and karl as the idiot everyman is a hoot
edgarblythe
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 07:32 am
@djjd62,
The Office is a very successful show, but I have never been able to force myself to watch an entire episode.
djjd62
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 07:35 am
@edgarblythe,
the office hinge and i are talking about is the original 12 episode british version, some day i'll get around to seeing it

as for the american version i have no desire to watch it
edgarblythe
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 07:46 am
@djjd62,
Yeah, I know all that. Just putting in my 2 Cents
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reasoning logic
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 08:49 am
let's make atheism a religion! Spendius would like this because of the dancing girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I92vQ0Nj4LA&feature=related
spendius
 
  0  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 11:58 am
@reasoning logic,
It's an impossible thing. It is implicit in the terms required for a discussion of such a matter rl that the discourse would be incomprehensible.

There were pre-Socratic philosophers who said that only physical/mechanical processes existed. Descartes followed that line regarding animals--they are machines. La Mettrie said that if man is an animal then man is a machine. And how do machines discuss philosophical problems?

Hegal claimed that the only fruitful line was to study the presence in consciousness of religious notions and the consequences of congeries of roughly similar notions acting together.

But machines have no consciousness. This discussion implies a "God", a "something", and thus atheism boils down to resistance to received wisdom usually sourced in sexual convenience and, as I have already explained, gathering energy as it goes to the point where the source has been forgotten or is denied.
reasoning logic
 
  0  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 12:16 pm
@spendius,
Oh come on Spendius Did you not like how well the girl danced? I thought she was pretty hot myself!

If we are going to talk philosophy and science at the same time should we not do it at the level of understanding consciousness?
I think that Sam Harris would be a good place to start if we have any interest in how our own brains understand things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0GvH-3Nm70
spendius
 
  0  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 02:40 pm
@reasoning logic,
She was hopeless rl.

And I don't need Sam Harris to explain how my brain works. He should worry about how his own brain works--still---judging from the bags under the MC's eyes he must have a pretty good idea.

I'll try and watch Sam later assuming I don't fall asleep after the automatic voice kicks in. He has practiced in front of a mirror you know. That fey casualness is a dead giveaway. What is it you want to discuss about it? His performance is the only interesting natural phenomenom worth bothering about. And that of the audience. And film crew. His microphone, for example, is plugged into the electricity generating system which, as you must know, was an invention of Christianity. Atheists would never have invented electricity generation and distribution all over the campus as well as in the hall where the gig took place. Not whilever they had a hole in their arse. No chance. Nor a bloke strolling up and down a stage in flash kit, open neck shirt obviously, dead modern that, tickling up the egos of wannabee intellectuals at an early stage in their formation.

If you can explain how atheists, starting from a cave on Mt Sinai wearing goatskin leotards, could have invented Sam's admittedly smooth show I might listen to what you have to say. But --boy oh boy--that electricity generation and distribution is one miraculous ****** by the side of which walking on water is a piece of piss. Don't you think? Or had you never thought about it before?
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reasoning logic
 
  2  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 05:27 pm
If Atheists Ruled the World?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvZO11u6gTc&feature=related
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ossobuco
 
  2  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 05:46 pm
What was that, Spendi, your best blow that we would dare have a thread to talk?

Hi, to other atheists.
edgarblythe
 
  2  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 05:49 pm
@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:

What was that, Spendi, your best blow that we would dare have a thread to talk?

Hi, to other atheists.

If spendi wants to talk, let him start a thread to that purpose. I still maintain that he shows up here just to muddy the thread.
ossobuco
 
  3  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 05:51 pm
@edgarblythe,
We'll sure.
Or, maybe he is an atheist trying to work up antagonism.
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reasoning logic
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 06:21 pm
Do all atheist support human rights? What about womens rights or gay rights?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Freidenkern
ossobuco
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 06:23 pm
@reasoning logic,
why do you ask?

I figure most of the planet are not active believers, whatever the proclamations.
reasoning logic
 
  0  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 06:29 pm
@ossobuco,
I just wanted to add somthing to the horrible video I shared!
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spendius
 
  2  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 06:32 pm
Funny how the whole world is setting off fireworks to celebrate the New Year in the Christian reckoning of TIME.
reasoning logic
 
  -1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 06:42 pm
@spendius,
And if the world new the true Jesus and the Therapeutae how much sweeter the world would be!
ossobuco
 
  1  
Fri 31 Dec, 2010 06:45 pm
@reasoning logic,
Oh, watch the perfume waft..
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