The Atheist Experience 812 with Jeff Dee and Martin Wagner 

These two are legends. The “uhhhhh”s in unison are hilarious 😂. I love watching the old shows and lost episodes. Martin and Jeff were there from the beginning.

~ Six years later (2019): Thank you, Jeff and Martin, for your brevity, truth, and friendly sincerity! Cheers, DAVEDJ ~

I wish Jeff would do more modern shows.

Jeff is the man. He’s the best

Faith is nothing more than a cuddle blankie to make feel warm cosy and safe so you feel all fuzzy inside

Believer: Your Relationship with god is simply a profound and dynamic relationship with the self, with your ego. This is why god can seem so very real to you. In a sense he is real. He is you. This is why god's opinions are so very often your opinions. This is why two believers of the same religion can both claim to agree with god's opinion but not with each others. When you pray and god gives you answers you are the source of those intuitions. You are simply having a conversation with yourself and don't even realize it. This is why god can always assuage any doubts of the believer. You see, "God" knows exactly how you think because he is you. He knows your tastes, your biases and all the gaps in your logic. Therefore it follows that "he" knows what arguments you will find compelling and what mental gymnastics you are capable of to ignore any arguments to the contrary. Ironically I probably can't convince you of anything I stated above because of the very fact that it is in fact true. You are "god". The next time you hear someone preaching or waxing poetic about god, Jesus, Mohamed or Joseph Smith, change all the names and pronouns you hear them say, in your mind, so that they refer to the person speaking and trust me you will get a whole new perspective on life. This is why believers have such a strong emotional reaction whenever they encounter a non-believer. They simply misperceive the non-believers rational skepticism about the supernatural and occult as an assault on their "god" which is to say their own personal identity. There are a vast multitude of religions and superstitious beliefs in the world that espouse many mutually contradicting doctrines. Therefore they cannot all be true. but they can certainly all be false. Even if one were actually proven to be true it would still follow that human beings have a rather remarkable propensity for making up entire religions from whole cloth. I think that all religions and other supernatural beliefs are cultural phenomena of purely human making. Much of this impulse in human culture is driven by peoples existential angst, their innate and instinctive fear of death. Their own death and the death of the people they love. It can seem easier to deal with death by convincing ourselves that it is not real. "My loved one is not dead they are in the afterlife", we tell ourselves. And "Of course I will never die! that's absurd!". You all need to grow up. Embrace the reality! And make the most of the time you actually do have. You are mortal. Death is real...... Get over it. I sincerely and earnestly do not believe that gods exist. But you have each other. Perhaps that alone could bring meaning to your lives. However if you insist on believing in supernatural claims at a minimum please do us all a big favor and don't give your hard earned money to religions pimps and hucksters.

Isn't Richard the caller who keeps asking "How many species are there on the planet? How many have our capabilities?"

I am not afraid of death. I am afraid of pain and the process which leads to the inevitable end.

41:06 That guy is proof that neanderthals might still be around.

Jeff and Martin are a good combination.

Message from the caller at 26:45 brought tears to my eyes. Very beautiful. 🥰

Jeff is the best

Man I miss the good ol days when Martin, Jeff and Russell were keeping the tone a little more friendly and lighthearted with a good sense of humor. Matt's great but I think he's just been on the show too long for his own good.

We are not good. We are not bad. Our behaviour may be acceptable to others or not. If I was alone on a desert island, I couldn't be good nor bad.

Martin and Jeff, my favourite team.

These guys and Matt are great, they cut right through the theist smoke screens and illogical thinking

Jeff is batman..the plumber analogy is hilarious...

Mirrors! Therefore... GAWD! Seems legit. lol ;)

Hail Jeff!

Running into a lot of "private" videos as I go through the archives. What is up with that?

i agree mortality is an engineering problem, however you cannot escape the reality that things become boring after infinite repetition. there is only a number of times you can eat chocolate cake before you hate it. i believe the only solution if you want to continue living is to erase your memory and start fresh otherwise i believe it would become unbearable. imagine if you couldn't die instead of you couldn't live forever.

It's funny that Sarah says she has 14 churches in her town of 24,000. Not far from my mom's house there's a stretch of road with 14 churches in the span of about 4 miles. (I'm in Michigan.)

Brett is terrible at good byes lol

People are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to you own facts. Facts are facts and the truth is the truth and does not care what your opinion might be.

Ahh, just have Faith...the christians version of...Just Pretend.

My Chicago friends are similar to her description of Canadians. I hang out with theater people though. It might be city vs not city or education (formal and self taught), etc

Blake, your characterization of Tracie not being afraid of death is inaccurate. They were not talking about death. They were talking about fear of no afterlife. They can be afraid of death and not be afraid of not existing anymore as in heaven and hell. You won't even know you died

EVIDENCE is the END result of interpretation. Evidence is not up for interpretation, it is the facts in support of a thing. Interpretation of things is what points toward something. When a thing that is proven to be fact now becomes evidence. If you can interpretation evidence, then it might not point towards the target. If it doesn't prove something then it's not evidence for it

Is Kevin that Hovind fan in Tokyo?

Eventually, we will have to take the "walking dead" approach...beheading the zombies. Wow!! Richard is the zombie of the week.

Bunch of nutball theists on this episode

He also looks like the Joker.

Such an annoying Bret

Sorry you're dissatisfied. Double your money back.

These dudes ducking hate each other.

(Luk 16:29) "Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets. They should listen to them!' (Luk 16:30) "But the rich man replied, 'No, father Abraham! But if someone from the dead went to them, they would repent.' (Luk 16:31) "Then Abraham told him, 'If your brothers do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded, even if someone were to rise from the dead.'"

I don't like when they hang up on callers because the caller won't agree with them.