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[@Ray_Mac]

4:42 such a good fucking line "with all power comes all responsibility"

[@chrisgrill6302]

"With great power comes great responsibility, with all power comes all responsibility". Nice.

[@EastSider48215]

One of my friends who is both trans and the child of very conservative Christians uses the argument that he is exactly as God created him and since God does not make any mistakes, then God must have wanted him to be trans and he is perfect just as he is. This has not yet changed his parents’ minds, but it does shut them up for a while

[@merrigalebeddoes1921]

if i were to find out god actually did exist, i’d have to believe in them, but i’d never be able to forgive them.

[@AlwaysGuessC]

Your Nora Ephron remark caught me off guard and made me spit orange juice on the dog. Truly a guffaw moment. Bravo!

[@misterdeity]

My apologies to the dog!

[@skepticusmaximus184]

I was getting drunk with my buddy many.moons ago, when he threw up on my Chihuahua. It could have been an awkward moment, had he not wiped his mouth, looked down and said "That's funny. I don't remember eating that".

[@realhumanist71]

@@skepticusmaximus184That's because he just wolfed it down.

[@ushere5791]

fellow hsp here (autistic if not genetic etiology) the photo of celine after hitler and hungry hungry dahmer made me laugh out loud so hard i think i scared the neighbors XD brilliant analysis. wish the people who need to see it most somehow miraculously see it.

[@WingDiamond]

That's an awesome line! With All Power comes ALL Responsibility! 😅

[@drewharrison6433]

I think Uncle Ben was cut off before he could finish. What he said was, "With great power comes great responsibility..or at least it should. Mostly it just comes with a lot of money and sex."

[@misterdeity]

Thanks! Been saying that for years.

[@sledzeppelin]

I think this is your best video ever.

[@cass_p]

I'm reminded of Mother Theresa's contention that suffering is a gift from god - it is amazing the knots into which people will tie themselves in order to deflect criticism from their ostensibly perfect creator.

[@campfireaddict6417]

She was a demon to do that to those poor, suffering people. An absolute demon, with all the money from her dear catholic cult, those people would have had the best medical care the world could offer. But they had nothing to pay with, nothing to offer. Tit for tat.

[@clancyalexander6192]

I love this video! I especially like the point about God not giving us consent before creating us. I know there are a lot of people who would have taken the option not to be created if they knew everything they were going to have to do and be and deal with.

[@misterdeity]

Absolutely!!!

[@clancyalexander6192]

@@misterdeity keep up the great videos. I really love the amount of snark you put in them to remind people how ridiculous some of the beliefs are.

[@davidsellon4580]

Great point about needing our consent to be given free will. I've often thought that, if I'm bound for hell as an atheist, why was my free will -- to not be born, given the known outcome -- taken from me? As usual, it was Christopher Hitchens who nailed this issue shut when he said, "Of course we have free will; we've no choice but to have it." He went on to explain that, with that statement, at least he knew he was being ironic, but to say, "The boss *makes* us have free will" makes a mockery of the entire concept.

[@billirwin3558]

Another masterpiece misterdeity. I put a similar view to a pair of Jehovah Witnesses some years ago. After wailing to me about the evil in the world, I replied "the world is as god wants it, or else he is not all powerful". And the look on their faces was priceless. How could they argue against that. So they quickly changed the subject. Good save, NOT!

[@adrianrutterford762]

Brilliantly put, as ever, thank you

[@CreepyMagician]

As a kid, whenever I was angry at my parents, I would yell at them, "I didn't ask to be born!"

[@dirtydish6642]

I can already see the Apologist bologna excuse: "How do you know you didn't consent and willfully chose to not be aware of said consent? Checkmate Athiest!"

[@misterdeity]

That's the beauty of positing another world - there's always an out.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

Isn't that a tenet of Mormonism? You essentially come here from some other level of reality. Don't think you get a choice, though.

[@michaellines2063]

​@@brunozeigerts6379in Mormon theology 1/3 of the hosts of heaven chose not to come to earth

[@brunozeigerts6379]

@@michaellines2063 I knew it was something along those lines. Wonder how many volunteered to be Lamanites and bear the 'Mark of Cain'... ie... darker skin.

[@eugeneoisten9409]

Then I would say to the apologists.....Adolf Hitler has entered your excuse! 😬

[@finestPlugins]

You may just have the voice of George Clooney and the looks of Seth Andrews, but that's not shabby either.

[@theoutspokenhumanist]

I love how people cite Adam & Eve's actions as the way sin entered the world and thus mankind is responsible for it's own suffering. And yet, before they ate the fruit they could not have known they were doing wrong and an omniscient deity must have known what they would do. None of it makes any sense. And if our actions result in either the very best of all reward or the very worst of all punishments, how can we possibly be free?

[@aubreyleonae4108]

As i look back on 65 years i can truthfully say that no answer i was ever given made any sense and every single one contradicted at least one other answer given . A shit show par excellence!

[@theoutspokenhumanist]

@@aubreyleonae4108 Well put 😂

[@stanfrymann]

The whole idea of inherited guilt, that we are born sinful, absolutely flies in the face of "free will"

[@clemstevenson]

Based upon the obvious lack of supporting evidence for biblical assertions, i consider my disbelief in such assertions to be entirely reasonable. I have no reason to think that divine laws exist, and there is no supporting evidence for either heaven, or hell.

[@chrispysaid]

With each new video you release, the crushing realization of how utterly broken what I used to believe with my whole heart is grows even crushinger. Thanks for crushing me, Señor Deidad

[@misterdeity]

Love that!

[@anghusmorgenholz1060]

I've always found the question of free will to be nearly pointless. The argument like Hitchens stated is wr have free will because the boss said so is dumb. Another track is that every choice we make is determined by all my other choices. That can never be proven. Get a time machine go to the moment of your first choice and follow the path to the current. Can't do it never will. So a pointless position. Then every choice we make is our own, again unprovable.

[@kc7476]

Points were made!

[@amy_pieterse]

Yeah, if God does it then it is cause he loves us. But if a human did half the shit god did, their actions would be seen as abusive and criminal.

[@muttsareus]

If every debate about free will required that the affirmative side define free will, so that that everyone involved in the discussion at least knew what they were arguing about... There would be very few debates about free will.

[@postal_the_clown]

Another "well, duh" moment. Like Carlin said, If god has a plan, what do you expect prayers to do? God is a serial killer with a business card that reads, "Invite me to your party or my next visit is free."

[@aubreyleonae4108]

🤗🤗🤗 LOVE IT ! 🤣😂😃

[@jaradams]

My favorite analogy is a hand of computer solitaire: once the hand is dealt, winning and losing are closed options. Some hands can't be won, period. Others may depend upon your skill (or luck alone) as to whether you actually win. And of course, in computer solitaire you can't cheat unlike with cards. You may well be free to make some moves, but in the end your input doesn't matter. What kind of freedom is that?

[@aubreyleonae4108]

Great analogy 🤗

[@campfireaddict6417]

I'd have done away with a lot of painful physical problems I've had in my life if I had free will to choose my body.

[@GodEqualstheSquaRootof-1]

Did I have a choice to have "Freewill"?

[@skepticusmaximus184]

3:17 "...not to be confused with the lovely Nora Ephron". OH! I'd always thought her middle name was Penn. 😂 Hi Brian.😊👍

[@misterdeity]

Hello there!

[@rafaelallenblock]

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses. Wait, what happened to 'free will' ???

[@shriggs55]

"But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the Lord your God HARDENED his spirit and mad his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him in to your hand."(Deut.2:30) " For it was the Lord's intention to harden their hearts, so they would engage Israel in battle, be completely destroyed without mercy, and be annihilated. ( Josh.11:20) "Why,Lord, do you make us stray from your ways? You harden our hearts so that we do not fear you.(Isaiah 63:17) " He hardens whom he wants to harden." ( Rom.9:18)

[@geoffstockton]

You just absolutely made my day mentioning Jacob Collier. That kid is honestly a hero of mine. As is Julian Stockton, my son who introduced me to his music and has released some tracks of his own. Check out his cover of Rock My World. Totally self-produced and definitely Collier influenced.

[@misterdeity]

He’s sofa king awesome!!!

[@tommyvictorbuch6960]

One of you best videos, Brian. Good job.

[@mattjohnston2]

Makes sense. For example, I feel absolutely compelled to watch every misterdeity video that comes out when it comes out. Almost like I don't have a choice!

[@leyrua]

He built you to do... what he knew you would do... so that he could punish you for doing it. But no... that's YOUR fault somehow. 😐 "Perfect plan."

[@misterdeity]

So well said! So much more succinct than my long diatribe!

[@stanfrymann]

But don't forget! if he built you to accept his son/self, then you won't be punished for the evil you did that he knew you would do, created you to do. A sick game of solitaire he plays with himself after stacking the deck.

[@dk6024]

In John le Carré's "Smiley's People" is this memorable line: God needs to be ridden and kicked like a horse until he takes you where you want to go.

[@misterdeity]

That’s such a great line!!!

[@KeithCooper-Albuquerque]

Excellent video, Brian! Great fun in this one!

[@laurajarrell6187]

Brian, again, excellent!👍💙💖💙🥰✌

[@arielle2745]

💗💖💓 Brilliant, Brian! Some religions, such as some Buddhaism, some Hinduism, and some New Age religions already say that we chose what we get in this life. As a Neopagan I was told that I actually chose my disability because I’d done something wrong in the last life and was paying for it in this one.

[@c.a.t.732]

That's a horrendous viewpoint, a facet of the blame-the-victim mentality of so many religious people. I'm surprised though that you heard that from Neopagans... that's a new one to me.

[@pnwtreehugger806]

To mangle Billy Shakes-a-lot "All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women are merely meat puppets, They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. - - - - - Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans free will, sans everything." I like your voice. Peace!

[@misterdeity]

People are saying such nice things about my voice. I really do LOVE my audience!!! You folks are the smartest, kindest, funniest, most insightful people. It is the thing I'm most proud of - that I could attract such amazing humans to this channel!

[@mrwallace1059]

One if your best yet!!!

[@nedludd7622]

What a treat, two references to Céline in one vidéo.

[@grapeshot]

Yeah, since the invisible sky wizard knows everything, including the future. There can't be any free will because that means the future has been fixed just like the past.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

free will : the ability to choose things you would never choose.

[@weldabar]

Excellent insights, thanks for sharing Mister D.

[@Drudenfusz]

Even if free will would exist, it would mean nothing without informed choices, but that is exactly where we all are in the blind since we never got clarity on anything about this life and even less about anything beyond this life.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

everyone seems to assume satan is going to be horrid. if i go to hell then GOD is "punishing me" for my sins, but why would satan want to punish me too? satan hates christians. if i'm being punished by satan, then satan is doing god's work - that makes zero sense, hell is eternity having WAY MORE FUN than you ever could on earth, this is what god hates, god wants you to suck his toes for eternity, satan is SAVING you from singing amazing grace for eternity. hell is where satan thumbs his nose at god and gives everyone a good time, no mind control, no ten commandments to follow, just eternal life that you can probably quit if you get bored with learning guitar from hendrix or trying to grasp relativity from einstein. why would hell be undesirable? why would satan want to torment me - he hates god and christians, not sinners.

[@josephbelisle5792]

It does make logical sense. God wants bad people to suffer. Satan is supposed to be bad. Against god. So why would satan fulfill gods wishes after tossing him out of heaven? It really doesn't take any sense. It only works from a standpoint of 'I made this up to manipulate people into believing what I say'. Most of the bible makes as much logical sense as strumming your pursed lips while making a sustained noise of the letter B.

[@misterdeity]

Great points!!!

[@HarryNicNicholas]

@@josephbelisle5792 nail on the head.

[@BeenDownSoLong...]

So I don't have free will? So who do I blame for all this shit?

[@aubreyleonae4108]

Well, the shit fairy of course. They hid under our beds... 🤗

[@misterdeity]

Exactly!!!

[@seraphonica]

imagine having a succinct, readable, recently updated contract in a hokey... I mean, holy book meanwhile the people out there converting? the fact that you have ALREADY VIOLATED this contract you never signed is one of the strongest weapons in their arsenal.

[@realhumanist71]

We should have been allowed a lawyer to look at that contract first.

[@SpareSimian]

I program robots. My robots have the same amount of "free will" that I do. They make decisions, too. Humans and robots both come with programming. Human programming evolved. So did robot programming, actually. No engineered object was produced without lots of experimentation to get it right. It goes through natural selection, just like humans did. The watchmaker argument is backwards: Life looks designed because designed things evolved.

[@Egooist.]

Praise -the Lord- _misterdeity!_ :-D

[@Oswlek]

I know that "spied on" feeling. When I started going to Alateen (something like AA for children of alcoholics) they handed out a book about the dynamics in alcoholic families. It went into great depth about the three major personalities that tend to emerge in these kids - the problem fixer, the hero and the shit stirrer - which my siblings and I fit to a T. I had gone my life thinking we were a unique brand a screwed up, but it turned out we were as common as can be. So common that you could have used us as case studies without having to change a word.

[@findsharon]

Absolutely right. It takes decades to know yourself, and you realize that the info you now have would have been really helpful all along. I haven't been diagnosed, but I'm definitely a HSP also. It explains a lot.

[@charvaka9526]

I don't care and will do what I want anyway. Hell is for losers.

[@misterdeity]

You do you!

[@SteveEwe]

Here's an approach. Does anything not go according to God's plan? Either way you answer this, it does not look good for god. It doesn't matter if we're talking about evil or free will or natural disasters or man made ones, heaven or hell.

[@misterdeity]

That's a great (and very simple) way to put it! Well done!

[@SteveEwe]

@@misterdeity lol. How many different ways can we beat the same dead horse.

[@Mark-Ace-LaForce]

It always amazed me that the christians claim that their god dude gave us "Free Will" and also claim that he knows everything that is, was, and will be. If the god dude knows everything that "Will Be" then we would have NO CHOICE but to do what the god dude already knows we will do. If we DON"T do what he already knows then he DIDN"T know. So Christians, your god knows the future or he gave us free will, but it CAN"T be BOTH. (But it can be neither).

[@thescoobymike]

I actually did choose my circumstances. I almost chose to be born as Brian Keith Dalton but I knew it would lead to a Dennis Prager phase and I thought it best to avoid that.

[@misterdeity]

Good choice!

[@campfireaddict6417]

Watching for years. This is one of your best -- food for thought. Things I had never considered before; eye opening. It makes so much sense.

[@misterdeity]

If you haven’t already, check out Mr. Deity and the Consent. I think the point is made even better there.

[@ronjohnson4566]

what does god get out of all this anyway? he created all of heaven, which seems to go on forever. And, god created the smallest thing or things we can see. he not only created the atom, but he created the particles that created the atom. And, gosh darn, he created the particles that created those things. not to mention the duck-billed platypus. free-willy i say unto you, god you have way too much time on your hands. may i suggest a bible coloring book. this should keep your interest like it does some of your adult creations.

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

Evil exists because of free will? OK. In other words, free will is stronger than god. Because if god didn't want evil, and free will made it, then free will is stronger than god's will. Bye-bye to omniscience and omnipotence if free will is actually a thing.

[@misterdeity]

Great points! There's also the fact that if God wanted to see if we'd make the right choices, etc... (which He already knows, btw), then He could have limited free will beyond the current limits (I can't wish you harm, for instance - that's a limit). The wrong choices could have been benign, like eating the wrong fruit, stealing a pencil, or cheating on one's taxes. Our "freedom" never had to entail the harming of other sentient creatures. That's just cruel!

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

@@misterdeity Wow! Mr. Deity! Thanks for the great presentation and the detailed reply! Cruelty is is apparently what the Old Testament god was all about. What is there, 3 times, 5 times as many murders and tortures mentioned than instances of the word, love in the bible? Cruelty indeed.

[@j7bsecond540]

Interesting video, ty

[@darrennew8211]

I always thought the whole debate over whether we have free will was started to answer the question of evil. Nobody is going to look at particle physics and use it to answer morality questions. Especially if your conclusion is that "the criminal was destined to crime, so he shouldn't be punished." Because that begs the question of why the judge isn't destined to sentence the criminal. As soon as you give up free will in favor of determinism, all question of "should" goes out the window. The phrase "he could have done otherwise" makes no sense. Could have have done otherwise after he did it? Of course not. Could he have done otherwise before he did it? For sure, because we all know what that means, even if the universe is deterministic. At what point in time are you asking "could he have done otherwise"?

[@misterdeity]

Have you looked at Robert Sapolski's new book, "Determined"?

[@darrennew8211]

@@misterdeity No, but now you've made me curious. (Quick peek: looks interesting, will check out the kindle sample. :-) I kind of like Wolfram's definition: you have free will if nobody with complete knowledge of everything in the universe could predict what you were going to do. Which is true for a surprising number of things, including even pretty simple computer programs.

[@shriggs55]

" He hardens whom he wants to harden." (Rom.9:18)

[@TorstenPihl]

If there's no free will, punishment can still be a deterrent.

[@realhumanist71]

@@shriggs55 Sexy!

[@utubepunk]

There's more than a few stories in the bible where god DGAF about free will, so it's hilarious to hear modern day Christians constantly harp on it.

[@merbst]

Yes, I would choose to have your voice!

[@misterdeity]

Awww!!! You people are so sweet!

[@c.a.t.732]

If free will exists, here's an obvious example of its abuse: "A small New Zealand city is being plagued by young people who blast Celine Dion at ear-shattering volume. Residents of Porirua say their lives are being disrupted by late-night "siren battles", competitions between young people who affix loudspeakers to their cars and bicycles and see who can blast music the loudest and clearest. Dion's songs, featuring her soprano-like voice, are favored because of their high treble and low bass. They 'love Celne Dion', said mayor Anita Baker, who has fielded a skyrocketing number of complaints. 'People are just not getting any sleep'." (From the current issue of "The Week" magazine.)

[@misterdeity]

WOW! I love how you rolled with the Celine thing! Well done!

[@littlebitofhope1489]

I can't wait to read Dr Sapolsky's new book. I bet you would like it too.

[@misterdeity]

Just watched the interview with on Shermer's podcast. It's good! And yes, I'm looking forward to reading his book. He's one of my favorite people/thinkers.

[@gregoberski5897]

Immediate bonus points for Jacob Collier tie in!!!

[@misterdeity]

That kid blows my mind!!! He’s almost evidence of a god!

[@latheofheaven1017]

Did God ask us if we wanted free will? If He did, we would have had it already so that we could choose yes or no,. So the offer would have been pointless. If He didn't, then he imposed it on us; we didn't have a choice. Not very free willy.

[@campfireaddict6417]

Deep. How could we have said anything? This would have been preconception.

[@KarlBunker]

Good one. It reminds me of the story where a guy goes back in time to give himself a time machine that allows him to go back in time and give himself ... etc.

[@Giuvannuzzeddu]

THAT'S free will, mf!

[@rychei5393]

Sensory issues? That's why your vid's sound is ahMAZing with a nice esthetic to boot.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

What's wrong with Free Willy? A heart warming story about a killer whale... oh... Free WILL. Wait... who's Will?

[@elricthebald]

He's the one everybody always fires at.

[@brunozeigerts6379]

@@elricthebald 'Why did you shoot Private William Chavers?' "Well, the Sarge yelled, 'Fire at Will...'

[@retroboomer3197]

4:31 Man, Celine be looking amazing!

[@misterdeity]

Those are some pretty good legs, I'll admit!

[@Troubleshooter125]

𝐼𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝐺𝑜𝑑...𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟. -- Woody Allen Actually, considering what Richard Dawkins had to say about Yahweh, Woody was being kind!

[@christopherbiomass7155]

Thats not the worst you can say about him. It's possibly the best thing you can say.

[@cullenjohnson0]

Sure the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't play, you can't win. - Lazarus Long

[@utubepunk]

The winning move is not to play. 😏

[@misterdeity]

There are no winners!

[@utubepunk]

@@misterdeity We're all losers in the eyes of god! 🥳

[@aubreyleonae4108]

Me too, id never choose to feel everything as I do. A very painful blessing? Well, use the good things it brings and bear the bad, I guess. Gob knows best . . .I just puked in my mouth. Take care buddy, we've got your back, and mine. . .

[@misterdeity]

Thanks so much. Sorry I took so long thanking you. I've been in a bad way lately - medical condition. Blessings are coming your way.

[@chrisconklin2981]

There is a lot of talk that we are persons at conception. The term ensoulment is used to describe when the soul enlivens the physical body, this is called ensoulment. I have always wondered about the process. As there are thousands of sperm and only one egg? Is there a cloud of souls hovering around or just one soul dispatched for the mission? Are souls "Creatio ex nihilo" or is there a place in heaven called "Camp Soul" where soul are trained for their mission? Are souls assigned randomly? It is also a fact that a goodly number of fertilized eggs fail to begin the gestation process. Are those "lost souls" given a second chance? If an adoration takes place is that soul recycled? Do we have a right to know where and how we were given a soul?

[@ChrisRBower]

Judas, Hitler, Dahmer and Celine😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@campfireaddict6417]

Me too, especially while the world population has doubled in the last few years, there must be this superdome of a place where souls patiently wait their assignments, but this kind of thinking can drive you to drink. Meanwhile, I'm headed for the liquor store. Cheers!

[@realhumanist71]

*Spoiler alert * I bet you didn't think you'd see and hear Trump on WOTM! I sure didn't. But don't let the presence of the orange guy dissuade you; for once he said something right, just about the wrong thing. Thanks for your videos, MD!

[@itsROMPERS...]

How did they find out so much about your brain? The most they could tell me is "you're isn't working right, maybe these will help". They didn't.

[@jobaecker9752]

Speaking of making bad decisions, I made quite a few of them many decades ago. Then I made them breakfast. ;)

[@katherineg9396]

All I can say is, when you're right, you're right. Seeing a Trump clip on YOUR channel? LMAO. You might consider taking Celine off your snark list. There are so many other candidates.

[@andrewanastasovski1609]

It's strange that people talk about an omniscient God, and are afraid of the Devil at the same time. That never made any sense to me.

[@0nlyThis]

An Infinite Being can be no Other which it can choose to be, or not to be. An. Infinite Being can “have” no Free Will.

[@JiveDadson]

So God is the rigger. Whoa.

[@littlebitofhope1489]

I'm not new here.

[@misterdeity]

Okay.

[@bananaslug.1951]

Thanks!

[@bananaslug.1951]

My genes said to thank you so thank you!

[@misterdeity]

Hitch bless you!!!

[@mollygriswold7979]

Jacob Collier is amazing!

[@misterdeity]

Absolutely!!! He’s the closest thing to evidence for a God. His knowledge and many talents blow me away!

[@Mr.PeabodyTheSkeptic]

If I can't get the answer for what a god's divine plan is for me then subsequently change it, I don't have freewill and a use for this god. I'm just subject to it's whims. I'm a slave.

[@knarf_on_a_bike]

So what you're saying is that you can't really thank me for this. Because I'm not giving it of my free will because, you know, I don't have free will. You have to thank the All-powerful Creator for this. M'kay. . . 😉

[@misterdeity]

Thanks so much! Blessings are headed your way!

[@utubepunk]

Has there ever been a Seth Andrews & Mr. Deity collab / crossover? Would be the funniest, snarky-iest anti-Christian video ever made. 😄

[@misterdeity]

I think I did an interview on his show years ago.

[@ralphspiegl]

hi

[@misterdeity]

Hi!

[@DenisLoubet]

The god's omniscience constitutes a list of all its _own_ thoughts and actions, and since the god is eternal and unchanging, so is the list. This means the list is uncreated, just like the god. Which means the god is not the author of the list. The god is a robot, executing a list of instructions from an unknown source.

[@jerryhayes9497]

Comment for the rigged KZbin algorithm

[@pesilaratnayake162]

1:17 is it height or heighth? Why not bolth? ;)

[@HarryNicNicholas]

it's height and it's because i'm english.

[@williamwilson6499]

Why the default to “He” when a god is mentioned? That’s one way to know that someone’s god is bogus…it’s referred to as He.

[@fyimediaworld]

Everyone's god is bogus. All gods are bogus.

[@oscargr_]

When William Craig starts to "analyse the cause of the universe" at the end of his pet peeve the Kalam... -Timeless - Spaceless - Enormously powerful - Personal The personal ( an unembodied mind) is the least convincing characteristic that just doesn't follow. But it's very hard *not* to think of god as a person (or even three) if you grew up a believer. To me, now, it's the most obvious clue that god is created in our image, rather than the other way around.

[@GrandMaitre-zm3yf]

misterdeity, Dan Mcmillan is a smart bible scholar, so how is it possible that he is a Morman?

[@misterdeity]

Yeah, I love Dan McClellan’s work. I even reference him in another of this month’s videos. It’s puzzling to me as well.

[@GrandMaitre-zm3yf]

@@misterdeity, Dan is my goto for alol things biblical.

[@francissreckofabian01]

Celine? That was funny.

[@misterdeity]

That’s the oldest Mr. Deity related joke that continues to live on. Connecting Celine with evil occurs in the very first Mr. Deity episode - shot more than 17 years ago.

[@lisaboban]

🎉

[@LordSlag]

Great video. Upvote. Stick to what you're correct on; good idea.

[@misterdeity]

As far as I know, I'm correct on everything. Isn't that true for everyone? If I thought I was incorrect on something, I'd change my mind, making me once again correct on everything.

[@LordSlag]

@@misterdeity This tracks with how well you take correction. 🤣🤣

[@darrennew8211]

@@misterdeity Sort of like how a listener always interprets you to mean what the listener thought you intended to say, regardless of how reasonable that is in the light of the conversation.

[@misterdeity]

@@LordSlag Right?!!! I was a devoted Mormon for years, and then by looking at the evidence, I completely abandoned my belief in the religion - even when it meant tremendous turmoil for me personally. Then I did the same with my conservative beliefs about politics. Same thing with free will, etc… I appreciate you acknowledging my stunning track record in this regard!

[@LordSlag]

@@misterdeity Now if you could only do the same for your misandrist views, but, we both know you're not ready for that yet.

[@di-li]

Не скажу, что это неправильно. Но кто скажет, что Бог не может быть просто злым? Почему нет?

[@misterdeity]

That certainly seems to be the case - based on the evidence of this world.

[@williamwilson6499]

Evil is a human construct. Just like god.

[@zach2980]

I’m a 511 guy myself. 😬

[@misterdeity]

Not sure what that means. But I'm a 420 guy.

[@zach2980]

@@misterdeity 😂😂, you mentioned Levi’s 501, I prefer 511. That may date me ;).

[@civilsavant6072]

Wow, you're really getting down to the meat and potatoes, now. Since "there isn't" a god aware of/doing the rigging, yet the system is indeed rigged, who do you suggest is responsible and how do you suggest we un-rig it? Also, your voice. Quit it. You have a great voice and the thousands of random people from all over the world who regularly watch every video you post enjoy listening to you.

[@misterdeity]

Thanks. I don't really have any ideas about the unrigging. Though, to some extent (policy wise), I think the northern Europeans have the right idea. Just take care of everyone, giving them a baseline of security and opportunity. And I have always hated my voice. Though I do think it worked perfectly for Mr. Deity, seeing as it completely goes against type. Don't think my opinion will change, but I appreciate your kind words.

[@civilsavant6072]

@@misterdeity I have suggestions on fixing the rigged system, but youtube and google are obedient companies that filter/censure subjects like that. Such discussions can't take place here, where everybody is. The prude version is basically this: quantify democracy, and realize that riot, rebellion, and revolution is an essential function of democracy, and obedience is an anti-democratic doctrine that only benefits those who want to exploit us. Expose obedience doctrine for the insidious lie that it is, expose to the people that they have to instead decide to think and act democratically, and do those necessary things the obedience drones obsessively filter out of public conversation. Regarding your voice, look. I'll get down to some meat and potatoes for you, too. I want you to know this about your overall image, what it means to at least me, and probably more of your audience. Your vocal pitch is some amount higher than what you hear from most men. For myself, I was raised in an intensely gender-centric environment where boys were expected to be manly, including mastering that deep macho-macho pitch. Because of growing up that way, people like me go the rest our lives with insecurity about if our voice is an 'appropriate' pitch. IT SUCKS. But then I see you and hear your voice, you are relaxed and confident and speak with pride and you don't give a f about that macho stuff. Instead, you focus on presenting yourself as gentle and civilized and preferring the battlefield of intellect over savagery, which makes so much more sense to me. It's how I wish I could have been more like, and it shows me that I can do the same thing and if anybody doesn't like it they can f off. If I had to guess, I might say your own critical opinion of your voice could be a result of some similar insecurity society has given you, too. You, and me, we are not the problem, the people who make us feel that way are. Your voice is a force of healing, please stop hating it.

[@georgekatkins]

25,000 or 2500 years ago?

[@misterdeity]

Did I mess something up?