Government, energy policy, and religion (Video Response)

• Celicia wrote on 2010-07-30 05:02
  Now after reading the guidelines, I didn't see anything that breaks the rules. As the section, I would love to discuss and debate these issues, but the videos that I will post that I would like to debate over is a comedy with George Carlin and Billy Mahers (two people that talk about serious issues in their specials). Move this to Entertainment if you see it appropriate.
  
  

  [video=youtube;_h2EYPvQDqE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2EYPvQDqE&feature=PlayList&p=7DCA4853F82A2073&playnext=1&index=4[/video][video=youtube;b_bYnvR_fRg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_bYnvR_fRg&feature=related[/video]

  
  
  And as advice, do what George Carlin does:
  
  Sit back, let everyone that needs to speak finish what they need to say with their viewpoints, and then speak for yourself.
• JustNoOne wrote on 2010-07-30 17:18
  I'll start with Religion first since I felt like I paid attention more to it.
  
  I don't believe that people should enforce the belief of God existence, it is the choice of the person to have the belief of God existing, not them. That being said, I like host point, that if there is a person who doesn't know about God, it is not just to make up a story and to tell them that God exist. If a person does not have any clue about God, information should be given to the person and they should be allowed to dwell on information supporting God existing or not.
  
  To tell a person with no clue about God that God exist or God does not exist is fine since they need to start from somewhere, but it's just to impose the belief of God existing or not on one person since you would be infringing on the person's right to have freedom, freedom to choose.
  
  I'll edit this post for more on the other topics... currently I'm doing something else ^^
• Zid wrote on 2010-07-30 17:57
  I don't know what to say on the energy policy (because I have little clue about it)
  
  Religion-wise, George Carlin made a good point about prayer. Maybe it's probability, or maybe it's not. Probability, in light of what he said, seems to me to be a human definition of this universe's fundamental.
  
  As for anybody to follow their own beliefs, that's fine too. They also shouldn't be excluded like outsiders either.
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-07-31 00:30
  I think religion and politics are retarded, and that we could have had better sources of energy 60 years ago if not earlier.
  
  I just have nothing to say about religion anymore, it's so silly that I have to start laughing when people from 2 different religions try to defend their viewpoints. It isn't even because their wrong. It's because we just don't have a f---ing clue yet everyone else thinks they're right and everyone else is wrong and going to hell.
  
  Politics is kind of like religion, except everyone's wrong and tries to argue that they're right, and instead of hell we all end up paying taxes.
  
  As for clean energy, research Nikola Tesla, if his research wasn't destroyed/confiscated our world would be much different. That man had succesfully harnessed free electricity from the atmosphere, and had ways of transmitting it wirelessly.
• Serathx wrote on 2010-07-31 00:34

  Quote from Osayidan;111501:

  
  I just have nothing to say about religion anymore, it's so silly that I have to start laughing when people from 2 different religions try to defend their viewpoints. It isn't even because their wrong. It's because we just don't have a f---ing clue yet everyone else thinks they're right and everyone else is wrong and going to hell.
  
  Politics is kind of like religion, except everyone's wrong and tries to argue that they're right, and instead of hell we all end up paying taxes.
  

  
  
  Agreed, so, so much.
• paladin wrote on 2010-07-31 00:45

  Quote from Osayidan;111501:

  I think religion and politics are retarded, and that we could have had better sources of energy 60 years ago if not earlier.
  
  I just have nothing to say about religion anymore, it's so silly that I have to start laughing when people from 2 different religions try to defend their viewpoints. It isn't even because their wrong. It's because we just don't have a f---ing clue yet everyone else thinks they're right and everyone else is wrong and going to hell.
  
  Politics is kind of like religion, except everyone's wrong and tries to argue that they're right, and instead of hell we all end up paying taxes.
  
  As for clean energy, research Nikola Tesla, if his research wasn't destroyed/confiscated our world would be much different. That man had succesfully harnessed free electricity from the atmosphere, and had ways of transmitting it wirelessly.

  
  
  Didnt tesla devlop something along the lines of radio controll wayy before anyone eles did?
  And yes So many taxes
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-07-31 00:56
  Tesla technically invented radio/tv/internet wireless transmission concepts that are used today. There were some earlier experiments but they didn't develop into the modern variations of it.
  Here's a documentary on Tesla: The Missing Secrets Of Nikola Tesla