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- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -27/+128Seriously now... a video of a guy hitting himself in the face with some balls can make the front page, but a clear and concise message of great magnitude can dwindle in the pits? If you like it please digg it. Also, don't digg this comment up. If you digg it up it will make me look like a pompous ass who comments on his own submission just to get diggs on his comment. I'm not that selfish so don't digg this comment.
- SelfishApe, on 10/10/2007, -5/+45I joined digg to digg this, watch it you MONKEYS!
- climbon321, on 10/10/2007, -7/+46Dwindle in the pits? It's already made the front page before
http://digg.com/videos/educational/We_re_all_just_monkeys_4
Plus I need videos of people getting hit in the face to make it through the work day... - revarien, on 10/10/2007, -3/+35He told us to dance... I'm totally down with that.
- whaleyboy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+34Still, there are probably some monkeys who didn't catch it the first time round. Worth a refresher, great vid.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21I like it, because it's true. I don't get why it is registered as comedy, it should had been registered as "tutoring".....
- Memitim, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22I think that the religious often believe that atheists spend as much time considering their atheism as the religious do considering their respective religions. The thing about atheism is that it can happen quite naturally, whereas religion cannot. I didn't get religion hammered into me in some fashion during my formative years, even though my mom does profess to believe in God, so the idea never stuck. Now I can accept the possibility of one of these warring religions being correct, just as I can accept any other proposed theory such as being able to burn salt water for fuel as being potentially true, but I'm surely not going to believe any theory without proof. The theory of supreme deities has done nothing but lose credibility over the course of history as scientifically tested explanations for phenomena previously attributed to gods are discovered.
So to offer a possible correction to your own theory regarding atheists, which I certainly won't profess to being the truth without adequate scientific experimentation, I offer that there are indeed two kinds of atheists:
1. The atheist that never found a compelling reason to believe in any religion but prefers to keep quiet about it because they are either trying to succeed in an arena where being openly atheist can be detrimental like politics or the military, or they just don't care enough about religious distinctions to deal with the lifelong stream of crap that inevitably goes with having to live with busybodies who feel that it is their solemn duty to show us ignorant fools the shining path to a god's glory.
2. The atheist who never found a compelling reason to believe in a religion and believes that they either have a duty to promote reasoned judgment over the blind acceptance of the words of other people, or they just like to stir ***** up with religious folk because it is so incredibly easy.
I will agree that most on Digg are type 2s, although I am curious as to why you put "atheist" in quotation marks. Did you know that typically denotes a sarcastic take on the word in quotes, as though the person that you are describing regards themselves as such even though you believe them not to be? I can assure you that interpretation does not apply to the vast majority of atheists. You spend a nice chunk of time in quiet contemplation of the fact that one day you will close your eyes and from that point forward you will cease to be. Complete and utter oblivion, as though you never existed. Not another breath, another thought, no more life, love, pain, or sadness. Just nothing, forever. NOBODY WANTS THAT, DUMBASS.
But some of us are incapable of blindly accepting things, not matter how tempting they may be. I would love for God to come to me and just say, "Hey, don't sweat it. There's more to come." That's all. I don't want world peace, I just want to know that my death is not inevitable. I WISH that someone could convince me that there is a God, and I can assure you that many have tried throughout the years in so many ways, and I am typically one of the quiet atheists so it's not like I was out picking theological pissing contests. Someday I will tell my daughter that I am an atheist, but only after my wife has a few more years to work on convincing her to believe in God, as I asked my wife to do. Because I would rather that my daughter be spared this misery, even if it does increase her gullibility to other specious claims in her life.
But you go ahead and keep thinking that atheism is about getting back at the man or whatever other delusions that you happen to live under. The real problem that most of us have with the religious is that you simply cannot be trusted. You pick and choose ideas more befitting a Lewis Carroll novel than a rational lifestyle and yet act as though we non-believers are insane. Not that I actually think that you will even pay attention to any of this, since I haven't made any wild claims that I can't back up in some way. That seems to be your preferred method of getting your "facts." - artish, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22The only video I don't mind watching over and over again on digg.
- humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -1/+20"run by a bunch of monkeys"
In what sense do we "run" the planet? Bad news. This planet is run by bacteria. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Which would explain why people are seeing it just now since it would have taken an ass and a half to load on dial up.
- Godlesswanderer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12It seems the monkeys also like to count things.
- psients, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12We're not monkeys. We're GREAT APES.
- OutThisLife, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Welcome to Digg.
- covertbadger, on 10/10/2007, -9/+19Er, or type 3 - which covers the majority of atheists I've met, including myself - which is the atheist that sees absolutely no evidence whatsoever for the existence of God, and finds arguments in favour of the existence God to be littered with circular arguments and pitiful logic, and therefore chooses not to believe until something a bit more concrete shows up.
Of course, having a sensible middle-ground undermines your attempt to polarise atheism as rank ignorance or dedicated philosophy, so I can see why you dishonestly chose to ignore it. - danasghar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10..the files are IN the computer?!?!
- maddla, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15He said Monkey 67 times, waaawahahwaa, ooo ooo ooo ooo
- Elliuotatar, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10Hey, hey, we're the Monkees
And people say we monkey around.
But we're too busy singing
To put anybody down.
We're just tryin' to be friendly,
Come and watch us sing and play,
We're the young gneration,
And we've got something to say! - covertbadger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Wait, so you're saying rather than understand a concept, you'd rather read a book of faith that contradicts it without evidence? Nice to see the standard of thought you hold yourself up to.
- 7fields, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Dance, monkey, dance!
- benperth, on 10/10/2007, -5/+12This is the first time I've seen this video, and it's just great.
- theworldisflat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Code monkey like tab & mountain dew....
- satanatnmtedu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6You two aren't the only ones. It is just that we are dugg down by the faith based zealots or either side of the fence. Yet, I disagree with the last statement. It smacks of arrogance that no one could have the capacity to understand God. It sounds more like a theist argument than one of someone that accepts that they do not know - not that they couldn't comprehend.
- funkydude101, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8It's funny how no one considers Agnosticism as more ideal than being theist or atheist. A truly humble individual would not declare that God either exists or doesn't exist- but would rather accept the fact that such an idea of God would be beyond the capacity of the human brain.
- Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Why not understand how evolution works before posing an arguement against it.
Evolution doesn't run on tracks, you know. - xtmno3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7Welcome to digg, you must be new here.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -35/+40
It has come to be known that there are two kinds of atheists in the world ...
1) This is the atheist who has listened to all sides, read philosophic texts (not just the "God Delusion"), weighed in logic and reasoning, formulated his own arguments, received higher education in the form of seminars, lectures and courses on the matter,and finally, has made a well balanced, rational decision based on the collected knowledge.
2) This is the atheist who hangs around online message boards, posting anti-Christianity propaganda, reciting Sagan's "A pale blue dot", and broadcasting his beliefs loudly because somewhere, someone told him that declaring yourself atheist makes you automatically smarter, more independent, better looking, and well endowed in the pants. He has never cracked open a book about theism, philosophy, physics, and has never bothered to read a religious text, because he has already brilliantly declared all of them as "stupid". Instead, he relies on his other Type 2 Atheist buddies to post more and more pro-atheist blogs on the internet of all places, and regards them all as scholarly and profound.
I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that pretty much every "atheist" on digg is type 2... - Ghoztt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7So very, very true. Loved it the first time I saw it, loved it the tenth time I saw it. DUGG!
- covertbadger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Not true. I'm not agnostic, since I don't buy into this woolly "isn't provable either way" school of thought. I think if God existed then at some point we'd be able to prove it. Until that happens, I don't believe.
The "I believe there is no God" standpoint is not the definition of atheism, it's just a particularly strong interpretation. Atheism is literally a- (without) -theism (belief in God).
- MrHappy123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5want some bananas?
- Erixxxxx, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11Your #1 is absurd. Not being religious has nothing to do with philosophy (essentially secular religion), 'seminars', lectures or courses (outside mathematics and physical science courses) or any of that crap. It has to do with a lack of proof. A lack of evidence. There is nothing whatsoever rational or logical about believing in something when there is no empirical evidence.
- deathsquadx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Did you seriously just post an entire Monkees song thinking you wouldn't get Dugg down?
- ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I'm a monotheist/Deist with a support for New Testament Christian ideals and everytime I open my mouth to mention the difference between agnostics and atheists, the atheists swarm to swallow up the agnostics into their little ball of apposition. It's not that the agnostic position is being denied by theists, it's that so many digg atheists refuse to acknowledge the agnostic as anything but a cowardly atheist.
- epiccollision, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4its in our monkey nature to shout scream and pound the dirt when we see something we don't like
- sciencebase, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yep, old...good but old...
http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/are-you-a-monkey.html - covertbadger, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5In what way does that make 'more sense'? Bearing in mind the huge, huge amount of geological evidence that would have to be disproved to make a 6,000 year old creation even vaguely possible?
Still, I think it speaks volumes that a nice simple diagram without too many long words and some reassuring Bible quotes is more convincing to you than reams upon reams of research, experimentation, study, and tests. Must be nice to have the sort of brain that can ignore all that complex reality stuff. - ghettodev, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7Monkey Hive. Brilliant.
- theworldisflat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Or choose one of the countless other religions invented by other monkeys, all of which have exactly the same validity.
- moskaudancer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Agreed! Good to know I'm not the only one willing to admit the impossibility of determination.
- ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Covert, you neglect to mention that the word "ATHEOS" means "the absence of god," therefore atheism means quite literally "a belief in no god." The dictionary definition, untainted by political maneuvering, is most accurately "a lack of belief in gods."
And agnosticism isn't wooly, it's actually a well-defined philosophical instrumentalist position with pragmatic origins. Why bother worrying about god if it can't be proven, therefore why hold an untenable position above and beyond the perforation of logical instability? That's what separates agnostics from atheists and pragmatics from skeptics. Atheists are religious skeptics, agnostics are religious pragmatics, so I have always found it annoying when atheists try to "adopt" a completely separate religious position as their own. - joeydoo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Shut it monkey..
- raptorj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Oh yeah! I'm a monkey! And if I'm a monkey I might as well ACT like a monkey!!
So there you go! We're the retarded offspring of five monkeys having butt sex with a fish-squirrel! Congratulations! - ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Nothing to do with philosophy? Philosophy is the study of belief and knowledge, *****! How can religious belief have nothing to do with philosophy!?
--signed, Philosophy Major - Chicken2nite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I like his bit on Airwolf. I had completely forgot about that show, having only seen it once when I was a kid. Really funny stuff.
http://www.ernestcline.com
"Nothing is more Airwolf than Airwolf." - proghead, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's so SIMPLE!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3and why must you assume when when someone mentions 'God' they are talking about the Christian God?
- fiestaninja16, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3***SPOILER ALERT!!!***
Jesus dies in the end - Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"If you digg it up it will make me look like a pompous ass who comments on his own submission just to get diggs on his comment"
Why would you care what other monkeys on the internet think about you, you monkey? - ZenMojo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3***ANOTHER SPOILER ALERT!!!***
He comes back! - BuckCynnie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Said one monkey to another...
- rune420, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The majority of the population has to be wrong, since no single religion is held by more than 50% of the worlds population and they all exclude each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Worldwide_perce ... -
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