About
Content
Store
Forum

Rebirth of Reason
War
People
Archives
Objectivism

Post to this threadMark all messages in this thread as readMark all messages in this thread as unread


Post 0

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 8:40pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Hello Rebirth of Reason users:

YouTube videos are being posted quite frequently to RoR, which is great. But, as I have seen in other forums I participate in, it is useful to post all YouTube videos and videos from other video sites to a single thread so that they can be viewed in succession by users.

There need be only a few rules for this to work smoothly.

1. If posting a video to RoR as a news item, etc., please post it here on the YouTube thread as well.
2. Include a link to the initial thread for this video when you post the video on the YouTube thread.
3. No discussion of the video within the YouTube thread, only on the initial thread.

Essentially what this creates is an easily referenced library of videos that are of interest to RoRers.

Hope to see dozens of videos on this thread in the coming weeks...

All the best,

T

P.S. The rules were modified to include the Teresa's input in post 2.

(Edited by Tyson Russell
on 2/15, 8:11am)


Post 1

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 8:51pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
I'll get things started...

This video shows that it's okay for a husband to beat his wife... lightly. Why? Because Allah says it's okay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nUI3TUdFCk&mode=related&search=

Isn't true that a wife refusing to cook dinner for her husband is an initiation of force?

:(

All the best,

T

P.S. Remember to post any comments to this video on a new thread to keep this thread for videos only.


Post 2

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 3:38amSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Hi Tyson -

It seems to me that two threads would be confusing and I don't see any advantage to that method.  I wouldn't want to wade through tons of video links to get to the one being discussed.  The thread about the Hillary Clinton video is a good example. 

Another problem would be that the video link could get quickly buried while the discussion thread is raging and active (threads don't get "bumped up" just by clicks, threads only get bumped by discussion activity). Visitor's wouldn't have a clue what was being discussed, unless the video was linked directly to the discussion thread.  See what I mean?


Post 3

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 8:07amSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Teresa:

I see your point.

Perhaps my wording was a bit less clear than it should have been.

I'll edit the rules to read:

1. If posting a video to RoR as a news item, etc., please post it here as well.
2. Include a link to the initial thread for this video when you post the video on the YouTube thread.
3. No discussion of the video within the YouTube thread, only on the initial thread.

I think that's more clear. This way, the video need not be posted to the YouTube thread, but creates a better resource if they are. A resource is all I wanted this thread to be. All videos get their own thread and the video library grows as well, kind of like a wiki. I newer wanted to create confusion.

Thanks for the input Teresa,

All the best,

T

Post 4

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 8:20amSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
I see this as being likely to break down quickly, when people who don't know about this system simply post videos on other threads as is usual, and others imitate them.

Also I don't see the value in watching unrelated videos one after another.

Finally, if there is no enforcement posters who are feeling lazy will just ignore the system. And possibly pretend they don't know about it!


Post 5

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 12:34pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Rodney:

You may be right. The forums that do have this function are highly moderated.

So maybe I will put this idea on hiatus for now. But once RoR is a metropolis of rational individualist with its own police force then this thread will reach its potential.

All the best,

T

P.S. Sorry about jumping the gun.


Post 6

Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 5:38pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
I've posted a Youtube link of Darth Vader goofin' off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM&eurl

 Here's a pretty neat one of the Terminator vs Robocop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ltDTU1R8A

Episode 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_sSsJBFvR0

This thread has potential.


Sanction: 5, No Sanction: 0
Sanction: 5, No Sanction: 0
Post 7

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 9:38pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
No sir, there's nothing like an uncoordinated giant fat kid swingin' around a long and very pointy steel rod of some kind.  And look!  How serious he is, too!  He thinks he's good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPj6viIBmU

Nothing wrong there.  It's probably the most exercise he's had in a very long while.  Whatever motivates, I guess.

Of course, what's even funnier are the comments left by the viewers.  My personal favorite is:

"I can never get that time 1:48 back."

Nothing is funnier than a fat maniac, than a time-obsessed maniac trying to criticize him.

Of course, someone did eventually do the fat kid some justice, and finished up his scene real perty:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GJOVPjhXMY&mode=related&search=

I do so love a happy ending.

(Edited by Mr. Jeremy M. LeRay on 2/16, 9:41pm)


Post 8

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 11:05pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
*snort!*

Post 9

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:28amSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Here is an interview with Ayn Rand. There is a few more off to the side also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-pHxlwFgOc


Post 10

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 10:31pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Capitalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUrgllzsoQQ

Another view -- life might have been different for the last 50 years, if more of this had been common fare.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2gfEEYn8HU

Ludwig von Mises:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpATNp5DjYI

... which brings up the problem of copyrights.

About 1985 or so, Michael Crichton in his book Electronic Life argued against pretending that copyright could exist in an informatic culture.


Sanction: 5, No Sanction: 0
Sanction: 5, No Sanction: 0
Post 11

Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 10:20amSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Michael:

I really liked the high school Capitalism video. Nothing like cheesy propaganda to turn rebellious teens against capitalism.

I watched the other short 18 videos in the other series and I thought they were a bit basic, but they were good.

I had seen the Mises Institute video before...

Now I have some gems to share:

Creation Science cartoon (attacks low hanging fruit):

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ffX9msPCwZk

The Blasphemy Challenge:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i7QVbJnSPQE

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (documentary). I highly recommend spending the 45 minutes it takes to watch this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v3p51MBKMLk (Part 1)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O_aw1O6nyms (Part 2)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ussdzdnj_dE (Part 3)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZU111Q5ASs (Part 4)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nZgX4lSy-Mg (Part 5)

Enjoy!



Post 12

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 6:09pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Atheists beware! Richard Dawkins interview. Very good interviewer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr-9N9fEgNA


Post 13

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 7:27pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
And another ...

... with some humorous 'real-time' email-in's.

Ed


Post 14

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 7:44pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
The Dawkins Delusion

Dawkins was funny. I did watch, and enjoy, all the links. But not for the reasonb Dawkins might hope. All I could think of was a world run by the same population of nominally Judeo-Christian believers and agnostics in their same ratios as are found in America, or a world run by the populace of France, with the beliefs found there. (Quelle Imposture!) Or a world run by the popualce of Communist Russia, with the beliefs found there. Hitler, Stalin and Mao, Castro, Pol Pot and Kim Jong Il were all cuddly atheists, god bless'em.

Cromwell killed more than the Inquisition ever did. Let's get our priorities and our facts straight here people. For God's sake, there's no reason to keep silent about the nonsense of the religionists, and the terrible danger of faith. But Christianity is not the biggest threat facing us nowadays. Rappers rapping the Lord's Prayer? Sounds more like a career move than a confession of faith. Very Scott Stapp. I am glad Dawkins could find one mad m*slim to film. (Everyone knows it's impossible to find one in London) Being a Brit, I can see why he had to travel so far as Jerusalem to do it. The only scary religious types to be found in Europe are all at Lourdes, n'est-ce pas?

Dawkins is an elitist self-promoting paleomarxist socialist who lies and says he's never heard of Ayn Rand, and he's the best that we can do for an ally? Oh, and I have read all his books on biology. He's not a bad writer on that subject, for the most part.

Ted Keer

Post 15

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 8:57pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
Ted:

Perhaps it is a process of natural selection.

If Dawkins is a "elitist self-promoting..." [okay, that's not bad] "... paleomarxist socialist" [ah crap!] as you say (I have not looked into it) perhaps his ideas will propagate and by the time Richard Dawkins' ideas version 21.6 comes around in 2218 the most well-known proponents of the ideas will be accurately described as "rational, self-promoting individualists."

Was that one sentence? Yep!

Checking his head,

T


Post 16

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 9:12pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
I have thought Dawkins a mixed bag since I read him in junior high in 1980. His biology books are stimulating, but his radical claims have all been softened to the point of withdrawal over the years. His radical gene-level selectionism was derided as bean-bag genetics. One can't separate out a gene's effect from its effect within the context of an entire genome. It is only organisms that live or die, reproduce or do not, and even genes do not "survive" sexual reproduction due to "crossing over" during gametogensis.

As for his elitism, I did not mean it in a good way, but in a second-hander's I'm good because I'm better than you way.

I think the South Park send up of him was great.

He also interjects politics and obvious anti-americanism into his work. (There are no televangelists in Britain? No Muslims? Balderdash!) In The Ancestor's Tale he pictures Bush, Cheney, Powell and Rice speakingg together at a public event, and asks which would we naturally group together by appearance. I opposed Rice to the others. She is obviously female, the rest not. He expected Americans to group Powell and Rice, as they are "Black." That thought did not even occur to me until he mentioned it.

The man is a biologist of little historical importance, a pretty good popularizing writer who does stimulate thought, and a jerk.

I put him below Steven Jay Gould and Carl Sagan in my book, but above Mesmer and Velikovsky.

Ted

Post 17

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 2:37pmSanction this postReply
Bookmark
Link
Edit
**Concurrently posted in a Global Warming thread, but since it links to a video I'll post it here as well**

I don't know how sound its science is, but the documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" aired by Channel 4 in the UK (same channel that aired "The God Delusion" documentaries) delivers a resounding refutation of the science behind the media-driven global warming scare.

Follow the link to view (1 hr 16 min):

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=4340135300469846467

All the best,

Tyson



Post to this thread


User ID Password or create a free account.