The Game is Afoot | House M.D..

An 18-year-old who is the sole provider for his younger brother and sister is admitted into the hospital and House turns diagnosing him into a game.
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From Season 3 Episode 8 ''Whac-A-Mole'': An 18-year-old (guest star Patrick Fugit) who is the sole supporter of his brother and sister has a heart attack while working at a children's party restaurant, and House turns his diagnosis into a game for the staff. Meanwhile, Tritter has gotten the DEA to revoke Wilson's prescribing privileges, leaving House scrambling for a new Vicodin source as he develops a pain in his shoulder.
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[@ThomasRoiloup]

One of the few times House said "good for you" to a patient. Primarily for finally being honest with him.

[@AvarageOhioan]

i- this is wild. i didnt watch the video all the way and went to sleep yesterday, i read this comment and continued watching this right?. the FIRST THING HE SAID WAS "good for you" i have never seen such perfect timing in my entire life.

[@AvarageOhioan]

like, imagine reading "good for you" and starting the video and he says "good for you" im baffled rn.

[@AvarageOhioan]

i only read the first comment, yours. lmaoo

[@strangelee4400]

Or perhaps realising his own limitations and being honest with himself.

[@ungolcost]

Being honest with House and himself

[@Erwin0550]

I like how bro leans in to not miss the cake with his throwup

[@poopshitcrapwaste]

parenting his siblings or not he is still a teenager.

[@Inyourhideyhole]

​@@poopshitcrapwaste true, but not many of us have it made like others do with the life we've been given. But have start adulthood at very young age, & most of us at an older age because we couldn't catch on when we was younger. Patient here never got a fair chance and that's life 😢

[@newbirth35]

Right. I’d throw up on the floor.

[@Μύρων-β7τ]

0:40 😂😂

[@njokithiearry7547]

I hate that in movies

[@RealCoolstriker64]

2:40 I appreciate him saying "If I'm right, he'll still be alive." Indicating that he believes his joke is about an un-serious situation. It's house so it's obviously gonna escalate from here, but at least he isn't toying with something he THINKS is dangerous...

[@dangeary2134]

The best case would be to ask his siblings who they want to raise them. It would hurt anyone to ask a younger brother or sister to help save themselves. The other side of that would be that they have an older brother that would be raising them “by hand” over someone that did not share their values doing it. It’s a tough decision.

[@jessicaolson490]

It's not that tough actually. It doesn't actually take surgery for bone marrow. Maybe it was still only the old-fashioned way back when this episode aired, but nowadays they can literally filter out what they need from your blood. So no worse than donating blood. But even the old fashioned method it wasn't like removing a kidney. It involved a painful procedure but that's what medication is for.

[@SnowPink90]

@@jessicaolson490 With the old way didn’t they have to screw into your bone marrow and take some out and then you get stitched back up again. Then they tested the bone marrow to see if it’s a match? I know when I had double pneumonia they wanted to do it to me and I wouldn’t let them because I had seen it done and there was just no way I was gonna have that done to me. I like the new way a lot better.

[@jazzyje5ter223]

@@jessicaolson490you missed the point completely lmao. The tough decision isn’t the bone marrow procedure it’s the burden placed on a kid asking him to raise 2 other kids

[@ToHonorKnowledge]

“Put your ear above your head” would have been a perfect line

[@StewyAdamRules]

I can’t imagine the stress of being barely an adult and suddenness having the responsibility of two kids. He has an impossible choice and Foreman is just trying to make him feel guilty.

[@thecabbageman1]

He should feel guilty. He's compromising his own health, retraumatizing his siblings and making them lose the last family member they have. If he can't handle the responsibility, he should take the treatment, then relinquish custody after talking to them about it and taking steps to make it easier. He took the coward's way out.

[@jazzyje5ter223]

@@thecabbageman1wow you are unbelievably harsh on a fake person lmao. But to play your game, he’s a kid. A kid raising 2 other kids is incredibly stressful and such a huge commitment. He doesn’t want to feel guilty for not being able to support his brother and sister, he doesn’t want to continue being stressed day in and day out for the next 10 years dealing with everything his parents should have dealt with, he wants his brother and sister to be okay and not in a group home or have them get split up, etc. A kid dealing with all these emotions while being sick in the hospital obviously isn’t going to be thinking 100% rationally. Many adults wouldn’t be able to think rationally at first either, which is evident because the boys parents left. The parents were so stressed they abandoned their children. It’s not this kids fault he’s tired. He just needs help and support which forearm offered with rational thinking and solutions to some of the kids problems.

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

​@@jazzyje5ter223Being fictional isn't the issue. Such situations exist in reality. That's the point.

[@InnocentC0]

​@@jazzyje5ter223Their parents died.

[@nekorisnik]

He's not a kid.​@@jazzyje5ter223

[@mcaloogravy]

lil bro: does your arm hurt big bro: arms fine bro lil bro: well its bleeding

[@anxiousscribe]

The actor that played this kid is now 41. His name is Patrick Fugit.

[@aurorauniversalis1633]

I totally forgot he was in Almost Famous.

[@ashleydah27]

Those kid actors are something else! ❤

[@bruhtimes223]

​@Cantbearsed447 i have an omega body shape ... all the boys at school talk about how they want to hold my waist- 😭✋Bruh. U calling me out 😭 I’m. A 6’1 dreadhead with 12 hell cats and 16 mansions

[@rushayhays7524]

It’s dumb that Foreman is shaming that teenager for not taking care of his siblings. It’s not like he would lose the right to visit and check up on his siblings if they were in foster care, and that would take a lot of the pressure off of that kid so he could focus on getting his own life straightened out/ in a better situation.

[@Izabela-ek5nh]

He wouldn't lose the right but the ability, being more and more sick.

[@crisdlcruz145]

Ah children living in bubbles A lot of scary nasty stuff happens in foster homes state run programs tend to be awful

[@dars5229]

I think he's projecting. His own older brother is a criminal and Foreman resents him for not looking after him or their mother more.

[@jacoblesher453]

Kind of ironic considering foreman refused to visit his own brother in prison

[@sonicvids]

Foreman has this weird habit of being wrong about every single thing he ever does. Its kinda amazing how, as far as I know, he has never been right lmao

[@laurapeter3857]

“Party of Five” Powerful stuff - the OC of its day. 👍🏻 Deep cut, I’m glad someone else remembers Party of Five.

[@egonmilanowski]

All of them airing on Fox, too.

[@forallthestupidshit3550]

​@@egonmilanowskithat hadn't occured to me. No wonder they were cool breaking the fourth wall.

[@slayerduval1]

The OC was a shoddy rip-off of 90210. Party of Five strived for the earnestness of My So Called Life, and failed. I do remember that era well! 😉

[@VTuber_Central]

@@slayerduval1 if it failed then why did the stars do so well

[@Solararisa]

Foreman shaming an 18 who lost both his parents for not taking "care" of his siblings is definitely something. Anyways, I am more curious how he is going to pay the bills.

[@vitalityfox]

Nobody pays hospital bills anymore

[@douggieharrison6913]

I mean, he needed to hear it. Tough realities make people grow

[@sarahm.5356]

Orphans get money from the government

[@RemyDarling]

He's so young. He's so tired. He did what he could, but it wore him into the ground. He wasn't ready to become a parent. Foreman shouldn't have said that to him. Just because that's what you want to believe -- the poor kid lost his parents, was fighting for his life and is taking on the responsibility of his siblings.

[@victorascencio9938]

As a Doctor, Foreman probably knows what Foster homes are like. He's gonna visit them, if they even stay together, and see that all 3 being miserable is 100x worse than only him.

[@RemyDarling]

@@victorascencio9938 I know the foster system sucks, but he is broken. He was run into the ground. Some choices aren't easy. He needed an out so badly he MADE it for himself. He got it, and he took it. It sucks, but human survival is a selfish, solo thing. In order for him to survive, he had to let go.

[@kirkcornelius1074]

@@RemyDarlingI agree, sure the kid is selfish. Most people in the world are.

[@louwrentius]

House was always on his best in episodes with patients in moral / ethical dilemmas where he would be sympathetic to the underlying motives of people, like the episode of the thin sporty woman, who rather be sick and thin than fat and healthy 🤷‍♀️

[@tirididjdjwieidiw1138]

being fat and healthy doesn’t exist. at age 20-39 you should have 21% fat as a woman (which isn’t considered being fat)

[@jasonbender2459]

fat is not healthy

[@junko4166]

No such thing as fat and healthy. The diet she needed in order to survive without pills would make her slightly overweight at worse.

[@j-hackhammer6078]

Foreman : "the risk for the kid is next to nothing." Jack : "this is a surgery, he's gonna die" Foreman : "am i a joke to you ?"

[@notagooglesimp8722]

Most unrealistic thing. 18 year old kid with a job, in the USA, no parents with insurance to cover him. Somehow getting medical care.

[@benjaminrosiek5007]

Oh no. You will get medical care. You will just be in debt... forever.

[@jeanroger4738]

They can’t deny you medical care at the ER, but they sure can charge you for it

[@msoileau83]

Ok boomer.

[@shrikesanguine8391]

... he's the legal guardian of children with a low income, it's Medicaid. Free and no co-pays. His sob story and Drs passing the buck led him to House.

[@ANG3LALMANZA]

I'm late to the party but here in the US, they can't deny you medical help in the ER, and yes you will receive a hefty bill afterwards but if you don't pay it and let it go to collections, it doesn't affect your credit score or chances of getting a loan. I spent 4 days in the ICU just two months ago. My bill is for $1300. My insurance covered nearly $98K. This was the 5th time in three years. I'm expensive but I'm still alive

[@N1k4_Gr1v]

Sometimes, responsibility is like a mountain

[@JaymiLei]

I love House, always have.. but their medical consultants should have told them that looking at axial brain images Left and Right are opposite from your personal left and right. I know it was labeled that way in the images but that would have never been that way in real life lol

[@tpolutts3309]

Reminds me of the scrubs intro. An x-ray image was backwards by accident, but they thought it was funny and something new nervous doctors might do so they left it in.

[@badwolf9090]

"Our parents died" 👁👄👁

[@tuyous]

Didn’t Foreman leave his brother while he was down? Kinda hypocritical to preach “do it for them” to this kid.

[@tylerdurden4121]

well his snr bro was an adult doing crime...we can't save everyone

[@Gothic20162]

Would you want someone making the same mistake you did?

[@WowOafus]

We lie a lot to patients to show them empathy or understanding. Giving this kid advice that he didn’t follow goes along with that.

[@tonyravioli1982]

@@WowOafus In fact thats the point of advice.... Fucking literally.

[@tonyravioli1982]

Do you not understand advice? What people who make mistakes can't give you advice to stop it? What are you a genius or something?

[@mihirdalwadi6336]

I absolutely love these clips

[@PicklePunFun]

3:45 He couldn't even see his arm how did he know...

[@Beepogen]

Wet

[@douglasrau5094]

The way he was sitting, he could feel the bottom of his shirt getting moist and the only thing that could come out of his brother's arm is blood.

[@Sandra-xd2qf]

He probably looked back real quick

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Why didnt they just all go live with cuddy. She wants kids, they are kids, everyone's a winner! 🏆 🥇 🏅 🏆 🥇 🏅 🏆 🥇 🏅 🏆 🥇 🏅 🏆 🥇 🏅 🏆

[@kyuubifox33]

“You okay, bro?” asked the giant squirrel, all while the room spun around me.

[@Well_I_am_just_saying]

Finally back to noon releases...

[@irift3]

I wish they showed the medical bills the survivors of these episodes had to face after being "saved". Nothing like crippling debt and the joys of that anxiety/stress to live with for the rest of your life to be "thankful" for being "saved" 😂

[@yeckiLP]

I'll make an assumption that they planned for international audiences to an extend, most of the rest of the developed world has figured out that those bills are counterproductive to psychological health which is a fairly heavy influence on overall health. That rest of the world couldn't really sympathize with medical bills that bad and perhaps didn't want to make people think on the cost they incur on whatever healthcare system they use to avoid the really great freedom of not wanting to seek professional help because they will ruin their financial life because of it. ..a .. sorry for shooting the messenger, looking back your comment already supports the view that that system is flawed.

[@Gigachadly]

Yup this is one of the only things that make me not think america is better then Canada literally almost everything else Americans have is much more free and less restricted.

[@MrNinjaman63]

@@Gigachadlyyour free euthanasia sir

[@tonyravioli1982]

Free. Its a learning hospital.

[@tonyravioli1982]

@@Gigachadly Canada has one of the worst healthcare systems in the world. They can barely fill normal patients, and the doctors take cash to speed up the process. They also ask old people to Off themselves to free up room, and in 2027 will allow mentally ill people to off themselves... Canada is not a good place, and the sooner people realize that the sooner the continent we stand on might finally solve our issues.

[@echognomecal6742]

On the one hand, it's good that everyone didn't lose focus & concentrated on the patient. However, it might have been interesting to question the little brother at some point regarding how he knew about the arm bleeding behind him 3:48 (Did none of the actors or crew come up with another way to do this? Like have him hop down to see why the back of his shirt was getting wet.)

[@leannemori9688]

That's what I wanted to know

[@tonyravioli1982]

He probably looked down to the left after feeling it or something.

[@echognomecal6742]

@@tonyravioli1982 If that's where it was, yeah, but it's quite literally behind his back. (The patients fingers are visible at the time mark, showing the position.) As far as feeling it, that's why I said "have him hop down to see why the back of his shirt was getting wet." At 3:51, the blood is still contained & only starts to flow at 3:52 after arm is raised. So that doesn't even work. Shmear it around, have the kid say, "Hey" & tug at his shirt as he hops down. Everyone looks over. Problem solved.

[@Destinyirus278]

Idk why but I always found this episode to be one of the saddest episodes on house 😭

[@bbb462cid]

Cake AND presents. My man did it right.

[@YouriBuilds]

so what did house write in the letter

[@TheActionAsk]

Was a (correct) list of predicitons on what tests they would run

[@DisKorruptd]

​@@TheActionAskchoose your doctor, choose your diagnosis

[@whitleypedia]

it took me a while to realize he was Sherlock Holmes.

[@avastinnett9447]

​@@whitleypediaYes, which is alleged to be the reason for the name House. Wilson is Holmes' Watson.

[@jenanimazed5932]

@@TheActionAskdo you remember how the episode ends?

[@smcvids814]

They should make a one off film, high ranking government official or someone super important gets a strange illness, gets sent to Princeton where chase can't diagnose and is threatened. Foreman knowing house is alive sets out to try and find him against the clock. House is in Peru or somewhere like that and hilarious consequences ensue

[@suzanne4721]

Ah! The case of Psittacosis!

[@namelessdork2256]

They did that on purpose; had a song about someone named "Ralphie", had today's patient throw up. It's not clever, but at least it's not a missed opportunity.

[@haven600]

N naming the place ralphie's what's a diabolical choice

[@danny-molina]

Please do a house and wilson compilation!!!

[@davidrennie8197]

No masks etc when close to a patient who is apparently prone to catch everything.

[@kirkcornelius1074]

I don’t look down on the kid for not wanting to be a parent at his age. Most people wouldn’t, he’s an average guy. But the kid ain’t a hero either.

[@8632tony]

No lab techs, no nurses, no housekeeping, nothing but doctors in that hospital and they do it all. Do they scrub the floors and wash the windows themselves, too?

[@harrisonhurst6480]

Reminds me when house tired to do surgery on his leg and had to scrub down his bathroom by himself by hand.

[@TheHammy2211]

At least one episode made a memorable side character out of a janitor; they obviously focus on the main cast, but they show other staff often enough

[@Tommy92gunner]

yes

[@chungusamongus519]

The above comment mentions the janitor. That episode was awesome. House had to show Cuddy he doesn't need a team, but he needed someone to talk to for the ideas to flow. Janitor was a legend in that episode.

[@robosuit]

Have we had a "Top 13 13 Moments"?

[@dontask2412]

How will he pay for this?

[@Leatherargento]

Foreman wasn't being awful. He was being realistic.

[@yixo]

Can he not just get treated and send kids to social services? He can still visit them but he's clearly not equipped for parenting.

[@markmiller3713]

Has there ever been an episode where no one has a seizure?

[@janelle9707]

"An" ... itchy foot

[@ABCYL-2]

Why are all these doctors so judgemental

[@chaseedmond7832]

I feel like the patient is almost famous... :)

[@VRIceblast]

He had a job he hated, and he took on too much pressure trying to be a parent. Those kids were pretty mature. They would have done fine without him having to be perfect. He only needed to get money, to pay the bills, and put food on the table, and those kids would have taking care of themselves for the most part. He should have switched to another job, or maybe moved to a low cost of living state, where it would have been much easier to juggle all those things. He could have got a job easily delivering pizza, almost anywhere, as long a he had a car. You can make decent money doing that. Maybe try to buy a small trailer. Something he can pay off quickly, and once he manages that, it will all be a lot easier. When this aired, he could probably manage that, but today, with the cost of everything house related sky high, maybe not. Move to low cost of living state, and get on as many gov't benefits as he can to help limit the bills, and put all his focus on trying to pay off the Mortgage on the smallest place for the money.

[@tonyravioli1982]

Nope.

[@gambleaway8252]

Horrible take

[@jessicaolson490]

It's a good example of why all parents should have life insurance. It should also be in a trust so that somebody is over seeing the money and making sure it's not wasted. But being used to pay for the cost of raising the children, whether it's an 18-year-old sibling or another family member.

[@civilwildman]

So what was the final diagnosis and the outcome of this episode?

[@agustinbarquero8898]

Please watch the show to learn it.

[@AlexK-ew1mo]

Then what happened?

[@tpolutts3309]

All these years later and I still seem to be the only one that laughs at "its time for Ralphie". Did no one else call vomiting ralphing as a child

[@silverback1953]

that job would be the worst

[@karyndewit193]

I don’t understand what the guy is saying about visiting them 3 months from then…

[@dimitriosdoulgeris4659]

It's even more irresponsible to make his siblings suffer the loss of yet another family member because he can't swallow his ego and his selfishness for one second. Arguing that minors can decide on their own after reaching adulthood is cowardly beyond belief. His brother will scream and curse at his grave because he was too proud to get helped by his younger siblings who could have easily taken the risk of the surgery.

[@Tommy92gunner]

kids amright, i dOn'T wAnnA bE a dAd

[@g.t.g1111]

Somehow House gets on my nerves! I know he says he doesn’t care!

[@djoakeydoakey1076]

I think this show might not be for you then.

[@sakurauyou749]

gamer

[@MsRayleo]

He don’t even have a wife

[@100bulletsmiranda9]

i even won the game.

[@cry.skull745]

conclusion?

[@phantom_drone]

We need to make it illegal to have children for poor people

[@raidahblossom]

@@phantom_droneNo, we need to make it so children of all monetary classes can be given the care they need. The argument you're making is rooted in eugenics and robs people of the ability to live their lives the way they wish, which is a joy poor people shouldn't be robbed of. Why come after the people suffering when you should be coming after the people who put them in that position and do nothing about it, the higher ups? We have billionaires flying private jets to get Starbucks but you want to come after the people who aren't in the position to have a guaranteed meal every day because of the billionaires hoarding their wealth?

[@81ghale]

We are definitely living in a “me” society. It’s gotten even worse since this aired unfortunately. Just look at the comments taking up for the inconvenienced adult brother having to take care of adolescent kids and saying the number one place for childhood trauma isn’t so bad compared to his “not getting to live his own life”.

[@MonsterusCow]

Why would you lean into the table full of food and throw up?

[@WhatEvenIsAGoodName]

Extreme lightheadedness sometimes destroys your spacial awareness, and your body resorts to absolute basic survival hardware: we're gonna yuke, lean against something so we don't fall in it. The something just happened to be the table.

[@PowerSenpai]

Dude was not able to keep upright and was in the midst of his body shutting down. Him puking on the table was probably the last thing on his mind at that point.

[@kellydorazio]

Lol😂 feral kids....😅

[@sylisr6567]

Sherlock Holmes reference ! 😊

[@Sniperboy5551]

The entire show is a Sherlock Holmes reference

[@ChrisTian-sd5yq]

yeah even his address in show

[@sylisr6567]

Yes it is of course. I just liked how the channel put this citation in the title of the video

[@Nikifuj908]

The opening is FNAF

[@The-Rose-and-the-Cross]

So, liver failure.

[@fancytoxicsoda]

Cuddy is very pretty

[@markiangooley]

I find myself thinking of her as Cuddly…

[@mikelarry2602]

Better than Stacy ?

[@fancytoxicsoda]

@@mikelarry2602 apples and oranges but both sweet

[@RobinTheMetaGod]

There should not be ads before a clip of House MD.

[@tristen_grant]

Why?

[@alexritchie4586]

Genuinely hard to believe that the patient is Patrick Fugit 🤯

[@100bulletsmiranda9]

i get to be ahead of everyone.

[@aksharaghav9657]

Is that the guy from Wristcutters?

[@jeremymikhaelcogan7639]

Is that tobey Maguire or im trippin?

[@undyingentropy6736]

Nah

[@XaladraTM]

Was that thirteen as a EMT?

[@Leatherargento]

This one is gutting.

[@bonniegettingthrumyday2866]

Wow! Wow wow. Heal cure get DCF to help!!!

[@Kitten479]

Omg it’s Spider-Man!

[@civilwildman]

It’s not Tobey McGuire.

[@--julian_]

he doesn't look 18 lol

[@rodrigospanish8231]

the actors is obviously not 18 but I can ignore that and pretend he looks older because he was suddenly orphaned and made into a parent of 2.

[@douglascaldow8978]

Bad grammar

[@EZ-D-FIANT]

No, its not "the game is a foot" At the end if a leg is a foot The game is played in the house, someone finais

[@ricardopalma5769]

Hello Everyone

[@TemmyGaming]

Hello Ricardo

[@trevorhuff5307]

Hey Ricardo

[@vegasoverheaven]

sup ricardo my man

[@kodo2795]

Hope you're having a good day Ricardo

[@PuncherOfWomenAndMinorities]

Its my boy ricardo

[@noturbusiness941]

The fnaf episode

[@thepwrtank18]

I lost The Game

[@Zomboo]

Bruh

[@DearLordItsLookinAtMePutItAway]

You just made me lose the game

[@MasterManto]

Seventeen years... I hate you so much.

[@gastonborda5607]

I did not think I would lose the game in the comment section of a House video

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

*an

[@DuckDoolittle]

It’s intentional. The line is a reference to Sherlock Holmes’s famous catchphrase, “the game is afoot.” House draws a lot of inspiration from Sherlock Holmes. It’s also House giving a clue to his team, as the patient tests positive for Hepatitis A in a scene not shown here, that’s what House diagnoses in the first scene.

[@dryb3301]

Formens bs disgust me

[@phantom_drone]

Is it because he’s blsck???

[@ManaBDew]

One time my grandmother 👵 stumbled at chuck cheese Pizza 🍕 🎉 🎪 ✌️😁👍😂👩🏼‍⚕️👵 An fractured 🦴 Her humorous. A member only beer 🍺 allowance. We had to get her an X-ray 🩻 and, the Doc asked her well where was she. An she replied oh some Honky Tonk I don’t have any business being. 😂🎉lol The get together was a family member who had a birthday 🎂 very funny but, she was ok . Once the fracture mended. True events

[@critiquing_chad9520]

I am having a stroke trying to read that...

[@kolper6799]

Uh. Instagram cavalery is here.

[@PowerSenpai]

I hate this. A lot.

[@Legacy-sw7bv]

Use your words

[@ManaBDew]

She doesn’t drink beer

[@Parapoint13]

You just lost The Game

[@snooopledinkeroo]

Gotta love some awful child actors

[@Gomace]

He did drugs before his parents died. Call me religious, but maybe his punishment is growing up to be a responsible adult before he culturally should, because he was being too reckless when he could be immature. *Yes, it is a TV show, so there might be something like this behind the writing, but I am also actually religious, so it checks out either way.*

[@tristen_grant]

Sorry to hear about your brainwashing.

[@Gomace]

@@tristen_grant It's ok. We all have different opinions. To me religion is just my belief of how the world actually (to me) is or works. It's just my perspective. I think calling it brainwashing kind of indicates that you view it the same as KKK, or like when people think they have to go to the church or mosque to be allowed the "reward" God grants them, and that avoiding punishment is the reason they even perform religious acts. To me, it's more that I just think that's how the world works. I don't do any religious acts outside of prayer, because to me it's just what exists. God exists from my point of view, and that is my belief. I don't pray because I have to, I pray because I believe I am protected and I need the protection. I live a very good life, and I give credit to God for that. You might think it doesn't matter, but that's fine. Maybe it doesn't, maybe there is nothing, but to me it just makes more sense that there's a "game dev" who created us and our world. Calling it brainwashing seems to me like you think I wasn't convinced, but actually made to think this and anything else is wrong. While I can think of cases where family have behaved in ways that could be recognized as pressuring me into "never doubting" and that it was blasphemy, it was later my own choice when my friends and some other parts of the family stopped believing. All in all, I don't think I know better. I think you have a reasonable point of view where I can see and argue for and against my own and your views, but I do ultimately think, to me, that it makes more sense to believe. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[@tristen_grant]

@@Gomace What reason do you have to believe that a God exists? Have you seen God? The Bible isn't a good source because anyone can write anything in a book.

[@Gomace]

@@tristen_grant It's not about proof, it's about what you think makes sense. Just like some people believe in aliens, abd their logic is: "If we exist, then statistically, because the universe is infinite, then there should be aliens somewhere." To be fair, these little moonbears or waterbears or whatever we call them can survive in space, and I can imagine them landing on a other hospitable planet forming life somewhere because of meteors blowing them off the earth, but I don't think aliens exist. There are also plenty of logical explanations for a being like God, if you look at physics theories about the 5th dimension and higher dimensional beings, if those theories point towarss the truth, then there's a scientific chance some power or entity like God does exist. All in all, it's just about how you view the world. It's not really that deep. I just believe it because I find it plausible based on my luck in life.