James Randi & Matt Dillahunty In Conversation 

Far better than that Jesus Christ character of the Bible, I might add, given the topics here

I'd love to reach 88 or even 80. I'll be 68 soon.

TyDie85 Who cares. In this universe there’s only random unguided processes. He’s a meat bag who fizzes in his way just as other meat bags fizz in their way. All “truth” is subjective. He’s just as right or wrong as anyone he’s ever had an argument with.

Right! I'm 39 and I've lost most of my sharpness. By 50 and if I even see 80 I'm not going to know my top from the bottom.. 😳

Gustav Ibrowzinbehrd truth is subjective? How so? Also, random unguided process? Please demonstrate this.

@@gustavibrowzinbehrd3871 a mad theist.

His eyebrows could contest Gandalf's

You mean "old senile man"

@@davidsmock8235 nope he means "badass"

Great teacher

"Everyone must go..." - Err what? Why? Who the Hell benefits from being dead?? If you said "Everyone must go on forever " I could have got behind you but this idea you have about death being a good thing is just bizarre!

@@dommidavros2211 Death is necessary. Without death, your life is meaningless. Endless existence would be worse than a hell.

​@@dommidavros2211 WTF Mythical hellbound? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

​@@dommidavros2211Um what? The statement you are refuting is not a statement painting death as a positive it's a statement indicating that everyone dies and cannot live forever. "Everyone must go" literal is a fact of life. We must all face our inevitable death. No man can avoid facing the end of his day.

matt is diabolical (!) on AE, but in debate he's a real sweety, i think he lets his ego get the better of him sometimes, he usually talks all over his cohosts on AE, but in debate, he's cool as a cucumber.

@@HarryNicNicholas I think it's because he just knows SO MUCH more than his co-hosts!

Goaty McGoatface What is happy?

I know the feeling. It's like seeing Sascha Baron Cohen not in character.

It's not weird at all.. He's just speaking to someone with a brain, Matt only disagrees with idiots.

zorglub667 right

I would like to join the conversation. Maybe over lunch.

that's great, man! James helped me to escape religion, just a few years ago. I'v had grave concerns about religion for some time, but, by taking their advice, dismissed them and, instead, blamed myself. WOW! Five years ago, I would have hoped that I'd never be saying these things. Today, I am much happier than I had ever been before. Mainly, because now I am free of the fears and anxieties and self-loathing that religion demanded of me. James is a great pioneer in the modern skeptic/atheist movement. I like Carlin, too. LOL. His brazen way of telling the truth about "bullshit".

+LARRY'S BRAIN I'm really glad to hear that. I'm sure Randi has inspired many people throughout the past half-century to begin questioning things, or at least planted seeds of doubt. George Carlin was always one of my favorite people too, I was very sad when he died. Yeah, all those negative feelings that religion imposes on people is one of the things I detest most about religion, especially Christianity with it's concept of original sin. But even above that, it gives people false hope in an afterlife, which prevents them from fully living life _now_. Live long and prosper!

Thanks! Yeah, the afterlife thing is really really something... Just imagine if there were no religion. I like to view disillusioned believers as coming out of their tattered cocoons. My entire perspective has drastically changed! No longer am I a pathetic sinner, in desperate need of saving, who's supposed to have his head hung low. Today, I am just an average ape who desires to live with pride, dignity, self-love, and kind generosity. Free to evolve day by day. And, a little more understanding of other apes' predicaments. But, being a former amateur christian theologian, turned agnostic, lol, I have much resentment towards religion now. It is a terrible and harmful thing. People like Randi and Hitchens and Carlin are needed. Back in 90', I turned to religion as a means to stop drinking and to organize my life at 18 yrs old. In and out and up and down, it was a crazy fucking road. Finally, after banging my head off the alter one thousand times and humiliating myself in public, my eyes opened and, I said, "this stuff is bull shit!". Well, since then, after all the research I'v done, I'd never go back! I don't mind ordinary believers much; I let them alone. But I detest these leaders such as Popoff, ect... I'd like to see scientific programs develop and engineered to help addicts maintain sobriety. The A.A. nonsense hasn't help many people at all. And, i sure as hell never saw many ex drinkers and druggies going to church for very long, except between binges. Like James Randi said, " people are believing this crap and they are dying". All I can say to doubtful Christians is, this way is, by far, so much better. Thanks again, William!

+LARRY'S BRAIN No thanks are necessary Larry, it's always a pleasure for me to compare notes with a fellow ex-believer (as most of us are). :-) I would like to point out a few things to you though, that might help change your perspective even more. One, we are not average apes, we humans are _highly evolved_ apes. I personally feel a bit humbled that we are only apes, and thus share a kinship with most of the life-forms on our little blue dot, but at the same time our evolutionary ancestors survived everything an indifferent universe could throw at them, resulting in our emergence as the only species on the planet capable of creating a global civilization. We are fricking _awesome_, and we should act like it. By that I mean we have an obligation to our species to help as many people as possible to emerge from their cocoons (as you put it) with understanding, compassion and patience, to work towards the goal of removing religion from the human experience. Second, there ARE drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs that are science-based, and for most people they are indeed more effective than AA, because they look at the core causes of addiction from both a psychological and physiological viewpoint, giving the individual the tools necessary for self-reliance and self-empowerment, thus greatly increasing long-term success. AA doesn't work well because it relies on a "higher power", i.e. an external agent. I also would never go back, and from my exchanges with others on FB group pages like The Thinking Atheist Fanpage and Atheist Safehouse, the vast majority of atheists not only wouldn't, but _couldn't_, go back. We have fought too hard to overcome our indoctrination, to win our freedom from the controlling and demeaning mind-set of religion, and we are forever changed by that.

I like your comments... It's exciting to be "open" to new info, with freedom to change my mind. You're right, humans are an extraordinary species. As former believers, we have fought hard. Many of us have become roundly self-educated in the issues and subjects concerning religion & science. I'v been using SMART recovery to deal with my alcoholism. It's working. If and when I have an opportunity to help someone else, especially a young person, I would say to them, "there is a hero, and that hero is you! Only be willing to change your mind about yourself and acquire tools to enable you to help yourself. You can do it!"

Saw you comment in something unrelated recently but can't remember what. You have good taste though!

NOW with the coronavirus there are many profeciese came true..! I am sceptic and against religion but in the BIBLIE say about this: "nobody will buy or sell If they don't HAVE the best number implanted în hand or head(chip 666)"! WHAT about this prediction???

Cojocarasu Mariusm I think you need to lay off the Info wars, lol.

Pyros Chemistry Teacher Star dust thinks what?

One of mine too.

I love Shuckle xD

I don't know if I would call him a hero, but he uses common sense .... and he's right.

Jerry-- Sometimes that's all it takes to be a hero.

Progress and religion in one sentence? It's magic you managed to do that.

I would suggest a few "Beautiful naked dancing ladies" googles before making this statement :D

geeez way to go with the joke

It`s not the easiest thing to jerk off to though, takes some real determination and advanced technique but I managed it eventually.

There's the joke

To those who are perishing.

You just dated yourself. That's fine, we all do it sometimes.

KKKKKKKK

8DX actually RU-vid dates your comments, we can't.

😂👍👍

Wasn't that wonderful when he told the story of him going to Sunday school? They told him not to come back because he was disturbing everybody. And also how he described the difference between cynicism and scepticism?

If you consider it a miracle, Randi will spin in his grave!

That's definitely gin

What evidence do you have? Lol

He’s my hero.

Icons are religious symbols. You could have used a better term

@@zapkvr Icons are used to help you quickly determine what you have on your desktop.

This is only the second time I have seen Matt Dillahunty. I am impressed. As for James Randi I have admired him for a long time.

Felt? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-85q_hRnl3oI.html

Hi Matt! I'm a huge fan, keep doing what you're doing!

Pimpin' almost as good as that DS avatar u got there😁

You get skinnier and your pants tend to slip; belt or no belt.

Than James is at least 214

Men lose their ass as they age.

He earned every inch of those pants

That's what I started to question after I analyzed samples of basically anything and always found at least some amount of heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead). If homeopathy is correct and 1 part in a billion is enough for a component to heal you because water has memory, then it would also be enough to make you sick and we would all die of lead or arsenic poisoning or for whatever dangerous component that ever touched that water before we would heal of anything.

@@92brunod would the bad stuff be canceled out by the good stuff perhaps haha

Dinosaurs freak the hell out of Christians. I also love the song by King Crimson. "Dinosaur"

Aug 2021 He’s in Heaven now or Hell.

It seems true enough. I was the one in my rather-large family who loved and learned "magic". Now I'm the most skeptical.

I also love Matt's purple velvet jacket! 💜💜💜

José Luis Vidal he was recently moderator for a debate between Robert Price and Bart Ehrman

Price and Ehrman! gotta watch that, can't wait for the braingasm.