Meed
boy named crow
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He presented no arguments here at all, he replied with his usual snark. I enjoy his snark, I have a sick and twisted sense of humor, but that is just me.
He misrepresented Squeegee's posts with his snark, however.
10 minutes of the beginning of a 90 minute video is not enough of the video to determine whether he has reasoned and supported arguments there.
If you can't get past your difficulty with the way he presents things then you probably won't get anything from the video.
You can either watch the thing and see if he has anything of value to say or not.
Look, part of the problems we all seem to have is in making judgments based on one or two comments people make. We dismiss people quickly and determine that we don't have to bother listening to those individuals again. This can be useful in day to day life when we have lots of draws on our attention and little time to spare, however it means we fail to give people a second chance. It means we put people in little boxes and don't bother to see if maybe they do have valuable things to say. It causes rifts and misunderstandings and narrows our view of the world. It creates cliques and factions. It reinforces our own biases. We are all guilty of this.
I like to come to the JREF to remind myself to listen to others, especially if I don't agree with them, especially if they have a different world view. It doesn't eliminate my biases, but it reminds me that I have them. Sometimes I do learn from these other individuals, even if it is just that they are human like me.
Now, this is all a bit of a derail from Mykeru's video, however we are in a thread about Atheism+/FTB and I would hate to see us go the direction they have.
This post comes off as very strange. You encouraged people to watch a long video and some of us (myself included) didn't care for it so we stopped watching. I don't see the issue.
