Comments on: Free Will Doesn’t Matter

By: John Kellner

John Kellner — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:13:51 +0000

Dang. After the … I wrote “eye brow lift” which is but in < brackets and it wasn’t included. I thought that was a very good part of the video. Anyway I will continue persuing your site. Going through your web site is encouraging me to create my own.

Keep well,

John

By: John Kellner

John Kellner — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:10:37 +0000

“or you can choose to not follow these rules and be tortured for eternity….

Hilarious. Not only are you presenting true information you are funny and entertaining while doing it. A+++

There are many more instances like this in your video. Keep up the good work and keep well.

John

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:09:19 +0000

sorry bought the last one, tried to post the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQuPBX1_U

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:07:07 +0000

for anyone who has seen the film “Waking Life” it is clear that you pulled some of these ideas, almost in some cases line for line. Now i dont really have any issue with this, but i thought credit should be given to the film.

By: Jolly Sapper

Jolly Sapper — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:23:41 +0000

This made me giggle for about 10 minutes.

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http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=j1ir31e06p

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By: Jolly Sapper

Jolly Sapper — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:36:31 +0000

hehe.. Its all Xenu’s fault… ;)

By: Gull

Gull — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:08:42 +0000

Albert, may i ask for a video of your opinions on the church of Scientology and its ideals and dogma. I would be interested in an intelligent and well spoken atheist’s point of view on the subject.

Hope you are well and continue to be so.

Gull

By: Socrates Johnson

Socrates Johnson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:40:34 +0000

Fun in a pragmatic way. Assuming that there are no meaningful or discernable differences between the two states this is pretty good. If however one is concerned with questions which do not conflate the descriptive with the prescriptive (which is to say the is and ought) then this falls a bit short.

After all, one only “ought” to do something if one “can.” Obviously without free will one cannot but do what one does. Therefore if one does the “wrong” thing they can’t have done the right, and thus ought not. The “is vs. ought” distinction even matters in many moral systems which do not appeal to the supernatural.

By: 6Thanatos66

6Thanatos66 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:10:36 +0000

Yay, I waited 4 months but it was worth it! haha. What are your thoughts on the current state of democracy in America? :D.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:22:52 +0000

Great to see a new video from you Al! We share so many of the same thoughts on the universe I have to keep watching (to see what I already think). Just nice to see someone else out there I can sort of connect with.
To Neil - Use evidence to make claims, not appeals to ignorance. Oh and if we knew everything, science could not exist. We do what we can with what we got. Science has saved literally billions of lives (see Norman Borlaug). I’m not sure what you mean by science thinking it knows more than it does- anyone that has looked a Quantum Mechanics will be confounded, or to astronomy- humbled. Have a great day everyone.