Comments on: About | Contact – Al Sweigart

By: wolf

wolf — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:41:48 +0000

your book is easy to understand and i like python so much . thank you for your outstanding works .

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:44:31 +0000

Good work. You explain your thoughts very well.
Keep itup.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:32:41 +0000

…yet at the risk of stubbornness I have always replied people do not expect enough from themselves. Maybe this will change when the religious crutch has largely dispersed and no longer supports such things. As it is right now, I’m struggling to find a job that I most likely will care very little to do, that will probably do as much negatively to people’s progress in life or more than positive, so I can live in a place I’d prefer not to be, so I can pay off the debt of a college degree (which in my perspective was a sad waste of 5 years of my life). If I can find a job that pays enough for me to actually survive on, who knows how many years it will be until I have all my debt paid off. I don’t want money. I don’t want a large expensive house with expensive possessions. I don’t want to be around the masses of ignorant people lost in their preset perceptions of how to live and what to strive for = money. What I want seems impossible for me to have, but not impossible to exist. So in short, I’m very unoptimistic about my very optimistic goals in life. Are you satisfied with what you are doing/where you’re at/who you’re surround by?

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:32:05 +0000

It’s times like this I wish I had more time to find people like you to sit down with and discuss how to progress the world. But of course that would take a greater supply of money than I currently could employ. It’s hard to tell sometimes if I’m extremely unoptimistic, or too optimistic. I want to believe that people can see past their most obvious surroundings; of course a few don’t even make it that far. Maybe even a depressingly large amount.

I understand that Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs is probably what so many people fail to climb. At times of my life, I have felt that even when I was at the bottom; I could at least still envision and ponder what was at the top. I am so discouraged by the masses in general that I currently hold more respect for cats. I’m not sure if Dr. Dawkins has ever felt this way, but I feel like I’ve been born too early. I look around and wonder if, how, and when most everyone else might catch up. I understand that it is likely I would not feel this way if I had merely been born in a place where the endeavors of living took all the time away from thinking about living.

If I ever do have children, I will most definitely regret not attempting to do more to provide for them more than a world full of people that I think, if I may steal a line from the Matrix, easily meet and supersede the description of a virus. I value human life and our potential as creatures so much I cannot describe in words the level of disgust I have for how it is being utilized today. I am proud of those few, very few, champions of progress that are out there. I would like nothing more than to travel on a quest to bring these individuals together; to discuss among us our ideas on progressiveness, and how to promote agreed helpful behaviors. So our difference no longer drive us apart, but rather inspire us to achieve more and at a higher standard.

I’ve been told several times that I expect too much from people, …

By: Vessi

Vessi — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:54:43 +0000

It’s nice to know that there are people (like yourself) who aren’t afraid of voicing their opinions about being an atheist. For a long time, I felt uncomfortable about expressing my thoughts on religion, mainly because I didn’t want to oppose other peoples’ beliefs. At the same time, however, I couldn’t help but sigh and wonder why (during this time and age) others still believe in outdated books and fictional characters, such as the “Bible” and “God”. Yet when I gained the courage to tell people that I don’t believe in god, they were shocked. I guess what must have been going through their minds would’ve been something along the lines of, ‘No, it can’t be – She’s just too innocent and kind to be an atheist’. I know it sounds silly, but I could see it in my 6th grade teacher’s eyes when I told her. She would act more… I don’t know, awkward, I suppose, when she talked to me. Of course, I didn’t hold it against her, because I knew she was a good teacher.
I don’t understand how all of these countless religions (Christianity, Jewdaism, Buddhism, and so on) are accepted in most places in the world, but as soon as someone mentions Atheism, everyone grabs their pitch forks and chases that person (not literally, but you know what I mean). Even as a freshman in high school, I still have trouble when talking about religion. Someone once asked me, “Why don’t you believe in God?”, and I wanted to say (but I didn’t), “Why do you believe in God?”. My two best friends are religious (one is Catholic an the other Jewish), and they both hate each other. I feel like I’m stuck in the middle, but I can’t go on either side. At times, I think the only reason why they are still friends with me, (even though they are aware that I’m not religious), is because I’m more kind and soft-spoken than your average person.
If there is one thing in the world that I hate most, it is religion. But it IS good to know that rational people ARE still out there. *points to you* ^__^

By: Steel

Steel — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:43:33 +0000

Hello, I would just like to leave a message of respect from norway. I am a Classical Marxist, hence an atheist, and find your videos very amusing. You are clearly very intelligent and funny, and logical in your reasoning. And would you research some political ideas, say those of marx, lenin, trotsky, luxembourg, and maybe gramsci, I think you could be a major contributor in making this world a better place, I am ofcourse open for discussing this with you. However I wish you would upgrade your soundscheme and videosource, this would undoubtedly mean more viewers, as I myself am quite displeased with the status quo.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:18:02 +0000

Dear Al-

You give atheists a good name.
Intelligent, precise, positive, humorous.
You’re amazing.

Love Danielle

By: Benicek

Benicek — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:29:30 +0000

Like you, I believe that supernatural gods do not exist. It’s an excellent, positive and succinct definition of atheism.

I live in Sussex, England, in a town with a fairly active Jehovah’s Witness population and just down the road from the British HQ of the Scientologists. These fringe groups aside, however, the majority of British people are what might be described as ‘rationalist Christians’, and this includes many Church of England bishops and the Archbishop of Canterbury himself.

They believe that the bible is allegory, not literal fact, and they are not creationists. Being protestants, of course, they don’t believe in transubstantiation either. In short, they don’t believe in the supernatural at all. To all intents and purposes their beliefs are identical to mine. They believe in the natural world and ethical conduct. The only difference between me and them is that they feel there is an intelligent force in the universe, present in nature, though not shaping it.

So, I’m confused. Most of my Christian countrymen and women appear to be atheists too. Can atheism actually accommodate a ‘natural’ god?

By: Oakley

Oakley — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:10:01 +0000

WOW! Remarkable collection of videos! I’m stuck in the Bible Belt, so your flawless thought process is a breath of fresh air…

By: Joolz Bobbysocks

Joolz Bobbysocks — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:42:17 +0000

Your videos are great! Just discovered them on YouTube and I hope you upload some more. People such as you and Pat Condell are my heroes these days….and Barack too, of course!