"We are part of this universe. We are in this universe. But perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us." - Neil Degrasse Tyson
This is the most specifically vague nature obsessed self-worship religion to ever be contrived. Y’all watching an animated cartoon and swooning as if it hasn’t already been said 2000 years ago that “from dust you came, and into dust you will return”.
Yes, and it also supported slavery, said women were 3rd class citizens, that children mocking people should be attacked by bears, that men birthed women, that genocide was okay and that women can be possessed as the spoils of war. And that all of this occurred just 2K years ago. @@Bozo_Weirdo
@@Bozo_WeirdoSpecifically vague? You mean like a god that is beyond space and time? What's wrong with being nature-obsessed? What could be more worthy of obsession than existence? If it's self-worship where are the temples to ourselves? What are the self-obeisance rituals? What is the difference between self-worship and self-respect? If it's a religion then what is the dogma? The video explains our current, falsifiable understanding of the universe, and nothing is claimed to be an incontrovertible fact. An animated cartoon, like Veggie Tales? Are animated cartoons incapable of relaying truths in meaningful ways? Genesis 3:19 in your barbaric old tome is specifically referring to dust from the ground, not stardust. It hits different, is less accurate, and less profound than this video.
I'm watching it even more closely this time, trying to figure out what the fixed issue is/was, just outta curiousity. It's a perfect excuse to view this excellent, beautiful video over (and over) again. Thanks to the whole production team for this!
Great work. However, there needs to be one correction. The singularity did not explode at the Big Bang event. There was nothing for the singularity to explode into. Rather, spacetime itself initiated. I think of it as the singularity went from a resolution of 1 unit to 2, 4, 8…..infinite number of units. I don’t want religious apologists to quote mine this video and claim that Seth Andrews supports their misconception of what the Big Bang event was.
This video scratches that transcendent spirituality itch many of us crave, that feeling of transformative awe, without resorting to woo woo. Outstanding job. We need more of this.
“Without resorting to woo woo” huh? Cue the soft inspirational twinkling music, an emphatic deep measured voice, and go gather this stillness from the past present and future if your “one of the few that can experience it” as “the universe experiences itself”. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator”
@@Bozo_Weirdo Facts describe the way the world IS. Values describe the way the world arguably OUGHT to be. All I see here is some art someone put together describing some of their personal "oughts" regarding what our observational science informs us that the Universe "is". You would like to find fault in the presentation because it appeals to one's emotions regarding these facts about the Universe, but "woo woo" as I see it is when someone appeals to our emotional side to get us to consider things that are NOT established facts about our Universe: Chakras, Karma, Souls, Reiki energy, clairvoyance, spiritual mediums, et cetera. I'm confident that this is the distinction the O.P. sought to make before you went around insisting to a group of non-believers that your religion is the only place they should look for fulfillment. There are many religions you don't belong to. Imagine your counterpart from another faith addressing you about how you're believing a lie by not being part of theirs instead of yours, and how...not particularly compelling or interesting that will seem upfront...
"We are made of star stuff." It is an amazing, wondrous and humbling story. And yet it also tells us that we are part of something beyond ourselves. It may not give us purpose, but we can give ourselves purpose. I love the way you have stated this, and I completely agree.
@@user-br6px6ok9x That is essentially the Atheist belief; yes. Specifically, the ‘universe observing itself for a short while’. I don’t see the point of your rhetoric that further insults atheism. If you’re going to be intellectually dishonest, don’t accidentally reinforce my point.
This was great Seth! I’m very fortunate to live (and have lived) close to some very dark-sky areas and use to LOVE looking up at the stars, especially on a new moon night. It’s partially why I left Mormonism and put religious beliefs behind me. Sadly, I’m slowly losing my eyesight and every year I see less and less of the stars because as a diabetic, my hedonistic ice cream eating is catching up with me….they are literally fading from my sight. BUT! I have found that looking down has been just as numinous to me! Geology blows my mind! Whether it’s the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon in Utah, the fjords in Norway, or the volcanic rock used to create Nan Mondal in Micronesia, the process of creating these is just a beautiful thing to me. So yes! Look up! Consider what happened in stars to create the materials of life. But also consider the fact that we are the summation of geological shenanigans also! Life IS short and we need to stop and take a breath. Cheers!
Props to you for escaping Mormonism, but also “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator”
@@Bozo_WeirdoDo you know what really helped me get out of Mormonism? It’s a bit of ride to get there, but stick with me….Grades 5-8 I attended a Seventh Day Adventist school and grades 9-10 I attended a Roman Catholic school run by Jesuits because we had moved out of the United States and those were the only schools that taught in English. Plus, we lived from California to North Dakota and even lived in a small town with a Methodist college so I’ve spent years in different places. I have had friends and acquaintances that were Presbyterian, Assembly of God, Baptist, sooooo many Lutherans, Sunni Muslim, Buddhists of all sorts, a Hindi family, and so much more that I can NOT list them all here! I’ve read the King James Version Bible twice, the ESV once, big parts of the NIV and those are just the Bible’s. I have the Quran, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the iChing, and so many religious books within arms reach as I type this out right now. I’ve took several world religions classes at my university, including a very interesting one on the economics of religion… …so I am not trying to troll or be cynical, but I always chuckle when someone puts down the Mormons while propping up their very specific belief without backing it up. So Mormonism is clearly made up. What makes your “creator” more believable and more “true” than my Presbyterian friend or my Lutheran friend or my Sunni friend or Methodist friend??? I genuinely want to know because I have met more varieties of believers than most people, talked with them about their religion because I love this stuff and I have yetto find one more credible than the others. Just people asserting they are in the know and everyone else is wrong.
@@thelostone6981 That makes a whole lot of sense. You were given a drastically bizarre worldview in your youth, and when you realized the blatant shortcomings and failures of it with the help of other religions, you became disillusioned and apathetic to the point where you now confess you can only trust and believe in yourself and nature. You should listen to “The Story of You” on the thinking Atheist to realize your too have a religion seeking after quasi-spiritual stillness as you interact with the past, present, and future of the universe and worship yourself. Maybe you can experience some catharsis and have a chuckle at yourself. Maybe you’ll become self aware and feel ashamed. Maybe, most likely, you’ll deny and get defensive and try to cope.
I love this. Like many people, I've often wondered *"Where did I come from?",* *"What's happening to me?",* *"Where am I going to go when I no longer exist?",* but more importantly, *"What can I do while I'm here to help society?"*
I'm going to answer all of your questions with the true answers 1.God created you. 2.God is watching(as always),trying to guide you to the true path. 3.Depends how you lived.If you lived a good God honoring life then you will go to heaven but if you lived bad and supported satan or you were against God then hell. 4.Live like a children of God,belive in him,pray to him,honor him and help other people with finding the true path and helping them normally like brothers/sisters.
Thanks for this, to remind us although we appear insignificant in this universe, we exisit in it. We are products of organisms that have adapted, survived and thrived.
Hey I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
Yeah, us theists know. Somehow, while y’all literally stargaze and imagine yourselves collecting stillness to be one with the universe, you criticize us for believing something that has significantly more meaning. There are studies that show that atheists are more likely to believe in superstition and colloquially spiritual concepts, such as fortune, luck, astrology, karma and so on.
@@Bozo_WeirdoThere are studies that show ancient mythology were narratives produced by ancient authors. Finding wonder in what we may honestly concluded is true doesn’t make an atheist’s life somehow less. A real God knows the facts of life and is worthy of fact tethered truth. What’s wrong with acknowledging reality …we simply can’t know about invisible, self aware eternal beings as fact based conclusions of reality. We can reasonably know that we are the stuff of stars … that’s pretty wonderful in and of itself.
@@cipherklosenuf9242 It precludes the idea that what you acknowledge as true might not actually be worth much of anything or actually work in terms of the betterment of mankind. There’s some people that believe in communism. On paper, communism is amazing. In practice, believing you’re made of the expired remains of things that were never alive to begin with is just as philosophically profound as analyzing the genetics humans share with a banana
@@Bozo_Weirdo Hi Bozo, thanks for responding. “It precludes the idea that what you acknowledge as true might not actually be worth much of anything or actually work in terms of the betterment of mankind. There’s some people that believe in communism. On paper, communism is amazing.” We agree on betterment …very well. And we agree that totalitarianism oppression is pretty bad …communism…fascism or theocratic dictatorship. It’s best if leaders are accountable to election results and the rule of law. Agreed? In Japanese folk belief they have a toilet god.🚽 Being a little obsessive about cleaning toilets remains a cultural norm and it’s associated with good fortune.🤑 (Which goes way back to using toilet waste as fertilizer) So, even if one has no evidence of a toilet god or what such a deity might actually do …still, let’s face it… maintaining clean toilets has personal and social benefits. I’m sure many Japanese people today don’t really believe in any deity but they carry on cleaning the toilets a lot…and that’s good for reasons of hygiene. So, Maybe there is a role for public piety associated with the best and the betterment of society. What religious beliefs and rituals do you consider most necessary to promote the general welfare? Personally, I acknowledge a prayer ritual before a meal can be nice. A quiet…maybe holding hands ..a few good words gathering our thoughts … or just a moment of silent gratitude. 🙏🏼 This doesn’t necessarily require belief in any real invisible being but it does require reiterating a social norm. What are your thoughts?
Jenica I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
Wow! WoW! Wow!!!! Thank you, Seth 🙏👏👏👏👌 The most amazing video I’ve ever watched giving light to the reality of my origins, my life, my ‘ME’ 🤗 I think I’ll have to watch it regularly….It will help me remember how tragic it is to waste our life and time in meaningless, pointless and trivial matters.
Hey I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
Like stargazing and imagining yourself to be one of the few that can feel and see stillness and be one with the universe? Don’t say atheism isn’t a religion ever again.
We are a group of ex-muslims/atheists who challenge the fundamentals of Islam but mostly taking a philosophical bend to it and citing scriptures in support of our arguments only if needed.
Wow what a coincidence, my schedule book of this year cover that I bought is a picture of universe! It’s simply a picture of space with stars shining! I will memo Tyson’s excellent statement in it! Thank you😊with a beautiful title, Story of You.
AWESOME! This video is so beautiful and fulfilling to me. Just think, we all are able to experience this universe through nature's grand gift of life, given to each and one of us.
This video made me wanna quit my job and just embark on a great journey across the world, to tick the checkboxes in my bucket list… and I’m only halfway through
This was great, Seth - thanks! A lesson in non-duality. If people understood that we were as connected and a part of each other as all the other atoms in Universe, perhaps we'd argue and fight just a little bit less.
‘It’s All for the Glory of God’ Why does a God of Wrath deserve any Glory at All. It’s seems to me the last thing He would deserve. A never ending Glory-Hole maybe! 😜
Some of the atoms that used to form us have already traveled far away. Every single building block of our body has already been replaced. What makes us, us in the commonly understood sense is the continuity of our existence, but there is a deeper layer to it - we are the universe looking back at itself.
Just as great the second time. I don't remember what I wrote under the first version, but just pretend I've posted it again and you thought it was the wittiest thing ever. 😊
Crystal I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
If you can truly imagine that stargazing gets you a stillness that few get to feel that connects you with the universe, seeing the past, present, and future of yourself, you probably aren’t as non-religious as you’re proud to say you are. You’re watching cartoon and swooning in worship.
Alison I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
@@EvelynLogan-od7zc - hmmmm. I would need more info on what you're suggesting. What kind of art project? Why a mural of me? What client? What "credits" are you referencing?
@@alisonjones8861 I was thinking about using this your picture from your profile for the art piece if that’s fine by you? And you'll be getting paid for it
We are more than the sum of our parts. We have needs that must be satisfied or we suffer. We suffer for no good reason. Life is a burden, not a gift. Use contraception.
Life is a burden under capitalism. Under an economic system which prioritizes well-being, sustainability, community, and autonomy instead of ego, property, and profits; we could have a world which is a gift to live in again.
@@TreeHairedGingerAle I think you missed the part where I said we have needs that must be satisfied or we suffer. Life has been and always will be a burden.
There's only one hiccup. It may be if there is an infinite multiverse that there are infinite versions of unique people. But until that is proven, this statement about how unique each person is stands as *"mostly" factual.
The Bible stories of the origin and the afterlife fall flat compared to how things ACTUALLY are. "Behave or else a bearded zombie won't save you and then you won't be able to praise his bearded dad for all eternity". No, thanks!
“Our common humanity includes cultures founded on theism with supernatural beliefs remaining intuitively significant to millions of people. What are your thoughts? “ “Cursed be the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; From dust you are and to dust you will return.” Genesus 3: 17, 18 19 (this rings true to me) (This is opinion. I am not an expert. Sometimes I will assert as if my point is true just to simplify the writing.) I think people were probably better off before civilization. Just like animals in a zoo are less robust than the ones in the wilderness, people have been made weaker by civilization. Civilization has taken away our independence. I doubt our strongest athletes and fighters would have much of a chance if they ever had to go hand to hand in a scrap with one raised and conditioned to surviving in the wilds. At some point in our past, we turned to agriculture. As agriculture and our reliance on it grew it became necessary for a division of labor and a hierarchy. Not only that but the crops needed to be protected so the first soldiers were born. The leaders were Priests and Priestesses. Probably because they were a little smarter than the rest and they saw how easily people could be manipulated. I think they got power by claiming to speak for all powerful and immortal gods. What may have convinced the naive is that the Priestly class mapped the motion of the stars and could predict things like eclipses and other planetary movement. I think this last statement is pure speculation, and an oversimplification, but it does have explanatory power and it isn't hard to see where it might go. (from here on out when I used the abbreviation 'PIG', I mean: Pagan, Idol worshiping or Goddess worshiping culture. A good book on this subject is, When God Was A Women, by Merlin Stone. Ms Stone is a genius, feminist and I think atheist.”) These early PIG cultures built the wonders of the world and taught the world to read and write. The Egyptians were amazing. They built the Temple of Karnak for the express purpose of training scribes and Priests/Preistesses for administering to the empire. This all relied on agriculture. Agriculture is science. One unfortunate aspect of the advent of agriculture is communicable diseases and famines. The only reason for famines is crop failure. So science brought the world famines. The worst thing that agriculture did was create alcoholic beverages. It may be that the only reason people went to agriculture is because they liked to get drunk and they needed copious amounts of grain, fruit and potatoes in order to do that. Making alcoholic spirits is chemistry/science. So, I blame science for creating the worst of all human scourges. Elitism, caused by religion because of the need for the organization, and agriculture making for drunken madness and self destruction, has continued to grow until this day. Now look at the world! We are weak, dependent, cancer ridden, alcohol and substance abuse ridden, neurtotic beings. Because of science; because of religion. In closing I wanted to add that the beleiver organizes, conquers and builds. For better or worse, and I think mostly worse. Atheists seem to have sat on the sidelines of history contributing nothing. Atheism lacks any ability to form an effective political force. Respectfully Submitted
I’ve always said it was a stretch to say everything came from nothing too. But you continue to insist that this isn’t a religious belief, even as you ooh and aah over a cartoon that encourages you to stargaze and feel see the ‘stillness’.
@@Bozo_Weirdo so you just made a major fallacy. I didn't say the universe came from nothing. But you must think that about your God. Because obviously he came from nothing.
@@blixx8931 You don’t have to. The atheism which you believe in says that everything was once condensed into nothingness. Nope, God always is, always has been. Atheism can’t conceive the same because nature that atheism relies on doesn’t support it. Fallacies have names. It’s nonsense to just say “fallacy” when you think you disagree with something. The fallacy that atheists most often enact is called “affirming the disjunct”. Implying that “since science is true, religion must be false”. I think religion is the reason we have science, and that God created a universe that makes sense scientifically. Science is true and my religion is true.
@@Bozo_Weirdo so wrong. Your fallacy is special pleading. Sorry not all atheists believe in the big bang. But for you to say the universe wasn't always there but God was, is an assertion that you can't prove. And don't think I can't see what u see. I was a christian all my life. It's all bullshit. There is no God. You'll learn one day that you are your own God. Your conscience is God. Not the evil blood thirty petty malevolent invisible diety from the Bible.
“Philosophy begins in wonder “ …Plato. Plato would most likely not prefer ancient mythology … (or even ancient philosophical speculation on the nature of nature)… over the best of reliable contemporary scientific insight.
@@cipherklosenuf9242 Science is a tool. As such it is limited in scope and application. Science is overrated and people never really needed it. I also think science has hurt humanity more that it has helped it. People also have intuition, which I think is more important than intellect and reason in terms of us being happy and healthy. Atheism kills wonder. I think atheism cripples the imagination and intuition. Most bright, talented and memorable people are believers. I think Plato knew this.
@@trollemctrollersen “Science has hurt humanity more than helping.” Very well…so science has helped …but at a cost which you suggest is too much. One may consider the same question for religion. ‘Religion has hurt more than it has helped. Both are cultural tools, I think we agree on that. Science can and should do good and avoid doing harm…not always the case..certainly. I think we can agree on that. And science has remarkable potential to do much more good or harm depending on the aggregate outcomes of human choices. So, though We may have difficulty determining how good or how bad the outcomes, we can agree that, for example, a battery is a product of science and technology. One knows what a battery is and what it does and can determine ways to assess its performance. So, What are outcomes in your life that you feel result from your supernatural beliefs? How does one determine that these outcomes may only be explained as the result of a supernatural influence?
@@cipherklosenuf9242 I think that Plato gives people a lot to think about. The man's contribution was massive and complex and still fascinates people all over the world even after 2400 years.
👋🏼Hi there, Seth! Enjoyed this presentation much. However, most of it is nothing more than belief, approximation and complex invention of the “Expert Scholar” Human mind… Not much different than Religion itself. I’m a Deist, and these evolutionist Human-mind convolutions cannot convince me otherwise. Very nicely presented, though…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
...and here's my response from the first upload: I prefer Euclidean steady-state. Upon scrutiny, I find the inferences of Big Bang (and much of post-classical physics) overinflated to the point of religiosity, of science fiction. Scientists seem to commonly, radically undervalue Occam's Razor today, treating it as a flexible heuristic, while I think it's theorization which should be flexible to conform to Occam's Razor. Consider: when you ignore parsimony, you can make literally any theory fit any evidence. I contend that doing what you can to minimize inference beyond current evidence has a long-established record of out-doing all other methods we have in keeping theories as easy to work with as possible and in needing the least course correction as evidence accumulates over time. Consider: we only switched from geocentrism to heliocentrism because better telescopes gave us observations improved enough for the evidence to hint a realization to us that orbits could be elliptical, not circular, and thereby heliocentrism went from needing more epicycles than geocentrism to needing less as such (none in fact). The math of geocentrism still works perfectly well, it's just that heliocentrism became simpler.
"We are part of this universe. We are in this universe. But perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us." - Neil Degrasse Tyson
Beautifully accurate quote 💛
Or, "We are OF the universe."
This is the most specifically vague nature obsessed self-worship religion to ever be contrived. Y’all watching an animated cartoon and swooning as if it hasn’t already been said 2000 years ago that “from dust you came, and into dust you will return”.
Yes, and it also supported slavery, said women were 3rd class citizens, that children mocking people should be attacked by bears, that men birthed women, that genocide was okay and that women can be possessed as the spoils of war. And that all of this occurred just 2K years ago. @@Bozo_Weirdo
@@Bozo_WeirdoSpecifically vague? You mean like a god that is beyond space and time?
What's wrong with being nature-obsessed? What could be more worthy of obsession than existence?
If it's self-worship where are the temples to ourselves? What are the self-obeisance rituals? What is the difference between self-worship and self-respect?
If it's a religion then what is the dogma? The video explains our current, falsifiable understanding of the universe, and nothing is claimed to be an incontrovertible fact.
An animated cartoon, like Veggie Tales? Are animated cartoons incapable of relaying truths in meaningful ways?
Genesis 3:19 in your barbaric old tome is specifically referring to dust from the ground, not stardust. It hits different, is less accurate, and less profound than this video.
Video re-uploaded to fix an issue.
Omnipresent Greetingz 😎👍
Worth another watch! 💎
I was wondering why I still enjoyed it
I'm watching it even more closely this time, trying to figure out what the fixed issue is/was, just outta curiousity. It's a perfect excuse to view this excellent, beautiful video over (and over) again. Thanks to the whole production team for this!
Great work. However, there needs to be one correction. The singularity did not explode at the Big Bang event. There was nothing for the singularity to explode into. Rather, spacetime itself initiated. I think of it as the singularity went from a resolution of 1 unit to 2, 4, 8…..infinite number of units.
I don’t want religious apologists to quote mine this video and claim that Seth Andrews supports their misconception of what the Big Bang event was.
This video scratches that transcendent spirituality itch many of us crave, that feeling of transformative awe, without resorting to woo woo. Outstanding job. We need more of this.
“Without resorting to woo woo” huh? Cue the soft inspirational twinkling music, an emphatic deep measured voice, and go gather this stillness from the past present and future if your “one of the few that can experience it” as “the universe experiences itself”.
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“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator”
David
@@Bozo_Weirdo
Facts describe the way the world IS. Values describe the way the world arguably OUGHT to be.
All I see here is some art someone put together describing some of their personal "oughts" regarding what our observational science informs us that the Universe "is".
You would like to find fault in the presentation because it appeals to one's emotions regarding these facts about the Universe, but "woo woo" as I see it is when someone appeals to our emotional side to get us to consider things that are NOT established facts about our Universe: Chakras, Karma, Souls, Reiki energy, clairvoyance, spiritual mediums, et cetera. I'm confident that this is the distinction the O.P. sought to make before you went around insisting to a group of non-believers that your religion is the only place they should look for fulfillment.
There are many religions you don't belong to. Imagine your counterpart from another faith addressing you about how you're believing a lie by not being part of theirs instead of yours, and how...not particularly compelling or interesting that will seem upfront...
This is so beautiful, poetic and true!
This reminds me of Carl Sagan's "If you want to make an Apple pie, you must first make the Universe."
…and then goes on to say there’s no one who made the universe, even though someone makes an apple pie in it.
How ‘bout dem apples?
Aww, Seth...Why would anyone need more Woo than that ?!
Love it!!
"We are made of star stuff." It is an amazing, wondrous and humbling story. And yet it also tells us that we are part of something beyond ourselves. It may not give us purpose, but we can give ourselves purpose. I love the way you have stated this, and I completely agree.
What is that something you’re part of? It’s a vaguely nature-obsessed religion of self-worship and idealism called atheism.
That ‘something’ is called a religion that worships nature and the self.
@@Bozo_Weirdo so you're admitting this thing called God is really just Nature?
@@user-br6px6ok9x That is essentially the Atheist belief; yes. Specifically, the ‘universe observing itself for a short while’.
I don’t see the point of your rhetoric that further insults atheism. If you’re going to be intellectually dishonest, don’t accidentally reinforce my point.
This was great Seth!
I’m very fortunate to live (and have lived) close to some very dark-sky areas and use to LOVE looking up at the stars, especially on a new moon night. It’s partially why I left Mormonism and put religious beliefs behind me. Sadly, I’m slowly losing my eyesight and every year I see less and less of the stars because as a diabetic, my hedonistic ice cream eating is catching up with me….they are literally fading from my sight.
BUT! I have found that looking down has been just as numinous to me! Geology blows my mind! Whether it’s the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon in Utah, the fjords in Norway, or the volcanic rock used to create Nan Mondal in Micronesia, the process of creating these is just a beautiful thing to me. So yes! Look up! Consider what happened in stars to create the materials of life. But also consider the fact that we are the summation of geological shenanigans also! Life IS short and we need to stop and take a breath.
Cheers!
Well said!
Props to you for escaping Mormonism, but also “They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator”
@@DrgnLdyLizzie2001Thanks!
@@Bozo_WeirdoDo you know what really helped me get out of Mormonism? It’s a bit of ride to get there, but stick with me….Grades 5-8 I attended a Seventh Day Adventist school and grades 9-10 I attended a Roman Catholic school run by Jesuits because we had moved out of the United States and those were the only schools that taught in English. Plus, we lived from California to North Dakota and even lived in a small town with a Methodist college so I’ve spent years in different places. I have had friends and acquaintances that were Presbyterian, Assembly of God, Baptist, sooooo many Lutherans, Sunni Muslim, Buddhists of all sorts, a Hindi family, and so much more that I can NOT list them all here! I’ve read the King James Version Bible twice, the ESV once, big parts of the NIV and those are just the Bible’s. I have the Quran, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the iChing, and so many religious books within arms reach as I type this out right now. I’ve took several world religions classes at my university, including a very interesting one on the economics of religion…
…so I am not trying to troll or be cynical, but I always chuckle when someone puts down the Mormons while propping up their very specific belief without backing it up. So Mormonism is clearly made up. What makes your “creator” more believable and more “true” than my Presbyterian friend or my Lutheran friend or my Sunni friend or Methodist friend??? I genuinely want to know because I have met more varieties of believers than most people, talked with them about their religion because I love this stuff and I have yetto find one more credible than the others. Just people asserting they are in the know and everyone else is wrong.
@@thelostone6981 That makes a whole lot of sense. You were given a drastically bizarre worldview in your youth, and when you realized the blatant shortcomings and failures of it with the help of other religions, you became disillusioned and apathetic to the point where you now confess you can only trust and believe in yourself and nature.
You should listen to “The Story of You” on the thinking Atheist to realize your too have a religion seeking after quasi-spiritual stillness as you interact with the past, present, and future of the universe and worship yourself. Maybe you can experience some catharsis and have a chuckle at yourself. Maybe you’ll become self aware and feel ashamed. Maybe, most likely, you’ll deny and get defensive and try to cope.
Thank you for this. You have a way of explaining that is neither threatening nor condescending
This is false,you were createn by God.Resist satan✝️
What’s the point of being non-threatening if it gently guides you away from salvation?
@@Bozo_Weirdo That's it my brother✝️☦️🗿
I love Seth’s voice. It’s great perfect for things like this.
A fantastic and important video. Thank you.
Excellent
I love this. Like many people, I've often wondered *"Where did I come from?",* *"What's happening to me?",* *"Where am I going to go when I no longer exist?",* but more importantly, *"What can I do while I'm here to help society?"*
I'm going to answer all of your questions with the true answers
1.God created you.
2.God is watching(as always),trying to guide you to the true path.
3.Depends how you lived.If you lived a good God honoring life then you will go to heaven but if you lived bad and supported satan or you were against God then hell.
4.Live like a children of God,belive in him,pray to him,honor him and help other people with finding the true path and helping them normally like brothers/sisters.
- Beautiful and moving
Thanks for this, to remind us although we appear insignificant in this universe, we exisit in it. We are products of organisms that have adapted, survived and thrived.
Wonderful
Great video! Thanks for letting us share!
Fascinating. Well done, Seth. Thank you.
Thank you Seth. 🏜🕺🏻🐕🏖
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Outstanding! Great work!
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Thank you, Seth! We love you!
Excellent ❤👍🏿
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Absolutely Amazing!
Nice work.
When I say I'm a spiritual atheist this is what I'm referring to
Hey I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
Yeah, us theists know. Somehow, while y’all literally stargaze and imagine yourselves collecting stillness to be one with the universe, you criticize us for believing something that has significantly more meaning.
There are studies that show that atheists are more likely to believe in superstition and colloquially spiritual concepts, such as fortune, luck, astrology, karma and so on.
@@Bozo_WeirdoThere are studies that show ancient mythology were narratives produced by ancient authors. Finding wonder in what we may honestly concluded is true doesn’t make an atheist’s life somehow less.
A real God knows the facts of life and is worthy of fact tethered truth.
What’s wrong with acknowledging reality …we simply can’t know about invisible, self aware eternal beings as fact based conclusions of reality.
We can reasonably know that we are the stuff of stars …
that’s pretty wonderful in and of itself.
@@cipherklosenuf9242 It precludes the idea that what you acknowledge as true might not actually be worth much of anything or actually work in terms of the betterment of mankind.
There’s some people that believe in communism.
On paper, communism is amazing.
In practice, believing you’re made of the expired remains of things that were never alive to begin with is just as philosophically profound as analyzing the genetics humans share with a banana
@@Bozo_Weirdo Hi Bozo, thanks for responding.
“It precludes the idea that what you acknowledge as true might not actually be worth much of anything or actually work in terms of the betterment of mankind. There’s some people that believe in communism. On paper, communism is amazing.”
We agree on betterment …very well.
And we agree that totalitarianism oppression is pretty bad …communism…fascism or theocratic dictatorship.
It’s best if leaders are accountable to election results and the rule of law. Agreed?
In Japanese folk belief they have a toilet god.🚽
Being a little obsessive about cleaning toilets remains a cultural norm
and it’s associated with good fortune.🤑
(Which goes way back to using toilet waste as fertilizer)
So, even if one has no evidence of a toilet god or what such a deity might actually do
…still, let’s face it…
maintaining clean toilets has personal and social benefits.
I’m sure many Japanese people today don’t really believe in any deity
but they carry on cleaning the toilets a lot…and that’s good
for reasons of hygiene.
So, Maybe there is a role for public piety associated with the best and the betterment of society.
What religious beliefs and rituals do you consider most necessary to promote the general welfare?
Personally, I acknowledge a prayer ritual before a meal can be nice.
A quiet…maybe holding hands ..a few good words gathering our thoughts …
or just a moment of silent gratitude. 🙏🏼
This doesn’t necessarily require belief in any real invisible being
but it does require reiterating a social norm.
What are your thoughts?
This is beautiful and truly puts things into perspective. ❤️
Jenica I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
One of the most beautifully articulated explanations of our marvelous existence that have ever heard! Thank you so much! ❤❤❤
I could listen to the narrators voice all day. 😮
Thanks, that was beautiful!!!
Beautifully and stunningly produced and executed. Thank you so much...
Wow! WoW! Wow!!!! Thank you, Seth 🙏👏👏👏👌 The most amazing video I’ve ever watched giving light to the reality of my origins, my life, my ‘ME’ 🤗 I think I’ll have to watch it regularly….It will help me remember how tragic it is to waste our life and time in meaningless, pointless and trivial matters.
Hey I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
Like stargazing and imagining yourself to be one of the few that can feel and see stillness and be one with the universe?
Don’t say atheism isn’t a religion ever again.
@@Bozo_Weirdo Atheism is not a religion
We are a group of ex-muslims/atheists who challenge the fundamentals of Islam but mostly taking a philosophical bend to it and citing scriptures in support of our arguments only if needed.
Beautiful. Thank you.
Wow what a coincidence, my schedule book of this year cover that I bought is a picture of universe! It’s simply a picture of space with stars shining! I will memo Tyson’s excellent statement in it! Thank you😊with a beautiful title, Story of You.
Thank You. Incredible Video.
Joe
amazing
AWESOME! This video is so beautiful and fulfilling to me.
Just think, we all are able to experience this universe through nature's grand gift of life, given to each and one of us.
Fantastic Seth!! You captured the awe and wonder that is to live, beautifully.
This video made me wanna quit my job and just embark on a great journey across the world, to tick the checkboxes in my bucket list… and I’m only halfway through
Halfway through your bucket list or your life?
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This was great, Seth - thanks! A lesson in non-duality. If people understood that we were as connected and a part of each other as all the other atoms in Universe, perhaps we'd argue and fight just a little bit less.
Michael
Hey, the big bang wasn't an explosion, it was more like an everywhere stretch, as Forrest says.
Toby
This was fantastic, Seth! :)
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Beautifully done and said, Seth. Carl would have been proud.
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‘It’s All for the Glory of God’ Why does a God of Wrath deserve any Glory at All. It’s seems to me the last thing He would deserve. A never ending Glory-Hole maybe! 😜
Thank you for what you do Seth. It’s an education whenever I listen to you. Keep it up.
Peace and reason ✌️
When I became an atheist, I realized just how complex, fascinating, and beautiful the universe, and everything in it, is.
Because you started worshipping it.
@@Bozo_Weirdo 😂
That was awesome, Seth! VERY AWESOME!
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Some of the atoms that used to form us have already traveled far away. Every single building block of our body has already been replaced. What makes us, us in the commonly understood sense is the continuity of our existence, but there is a deeper layer to it - we are the universe looking back at itself.
Ah yes, FEEL IT; SEE IT!
Then remind yourself and any critical theist that Atheism is not a religion because of its definition.
Fantastic movie. Loved it.
Thank you, Seth, for posting this video!!
Breathtakingly beautiful
You get it Seth! Thanks for sharing it!
This was excellent, thank you very much!
Kool stuff Seth! Now, just gotta get those theists to watch it and learn a thing or two!
The atoms in us are basically as eternal as the cosmos we live in.
Spectacular!!
Excellent!! Very well done!
Thanks! This is beautiful.
⬆️ put in the atheist collection plate after the nice video-sermon!
Wow. I love it
Forget Jesus, STARS died so that you may live! - Lawrence M Krauss.
(Quoted from memory, my emphasis)
Love it!
Thanks, still love the voice.
Very nice!
Scott
“Atom”
By Lawrence Kraus
A hypothetical journey of an atom from beginning to end.
Thank you seth. Thank you.
We are made of srardust💪💪💪⚡⚡⚡✨✨✨
Charles
Superb. Thank you Seth
Wonderfully put
Just as great the second time.
I don't remember what I wrote under the first version, but just pretend I've posted it again and you thought it was the wittiest thing ever. 😊
Love Seth's voice
Crystal I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
So much more beautiful than (a never proven, I don't so..) god!
If you can truly imagine that stargazing gets you a stillness that few get to feel that connects you with the universe, seeing the past, present, and future of yourself, you probably aren’t as non-religious as you’re proud to say you are.
You’re watching cartoon and swooning in worship.
was the error big enough to lose the previous views? But it is a great inspirational video.
Sometimes, I just have to stop what I'm doing at the Mealworm farm and look up.
It's Amazing
Making up for the lost view and comment. Doesn't feel like a burden though.
Simon
This is quality stuff.
Beautiful!
Alison I really like your profile picture and if you let me, I would make such an amazing mural out of it! If you don’t mind one of your post could be my inspiring muse for an art project i’m working on for a client. You will totally get paid for it as well as a bonus also get credits.
@@EvelynLogan-od7zc - hmmmm. I would need more info on what you're suggesting. What kind of art project? Why a mural of me? What client? What "credits" are you referencing?
@@alisonjones8861 I was thinking about using this your picture from your profile for the art piece if that’s fine by you?
And you'll be getting paid for it
@@alisonjones8861 I think this is some kind of scammer. Avoid at all costs
@tobywindgassen8427 - that was my initial thought. As a naturally skeptical person, that thought immediately popped into my head. Thank you!!!
The vast size of the observable universe is a total mind f*ck. 😮
Great job, Seth
Made me cry
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@@EvelynLogan-od7zc hi
@@roelofbekelaar874 were you from? howdy from the states?what social media you got?🤨
@@EvelynLogan-od7zc I am Dutch. Facebook and Instagram.
We are more than the sum of our parts. We have needs that must be satisfied or we suffer. We suffer for no good reason. Life is a burden, not a gift. Use contraception.
Life is a burden under capitalism.
Under an economic system which prioritizes well-being, sustainability, community, and autonomy instead of ego, property, and profits; we could have a world which is a gift to live in again.
Terry
@@TreeHairedGingerAle I think you missed the part where I said we have needs that must be satisfied or we suffer. Life has been and always will be a burden.
@@EvelynLogan-od7zc What?
Universe aka U N I☀️🌙⭐
There's only one hiccup. It may be if there is an infinite multiverse that there are infinite versions of unique people. But until that is proven, this statement about how unique each person is stands as *"mostly" factual.
Right, and theists are the fanciful ones. The things y’all say in your ‘safe spaces’ are golden.
Commenting for the algorithm
"Water ... prevents dehydration" 😆
We may be Star stuff, but we are also dinosaur pee, don’t get cocky. ✌️😁
I'm sticking w IDK how all living came about. No big bang for me but i'll say Seth does have that convincing voice
He forgot the begats. Any story of the universe needs begats.
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Holey Eternal Omnipresent Greetingz cuzinz 🎉
The Bible stories of the origin and the afterlife fall flat compared to how things ACTUALLY are.
"Behave or else a bearded zombie won't save you and then you won't be able to praise his bearded dad for all eternity".
No, thanks!
“Our common humanity includes cultures founded on theism with supernatural beliefs remaining intuitively significant to millions of people. What are your thoughts? “
“Cursed be the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken;
From dust you are and to dust you will return.”
Genesus 3: 17, 18 19
(this rings true to me)
(This is opinion. I am not an expert. Sometimes I will assert as if my point is true just to simplify the writing.)
I think people were probably better off before civilization. Just like animals in a zoo are less robust than the ones in the wilderness, people have been made weaker by civilization. Civilization has taken away our independence. I doubt our strongest athletes and fighters would have much of a chance if they ever had to go hand to hand in a scrap with one raised and conditioned to surviving in the wilds.
At some point in our past, we turned to agriculture. As agriculture and our reliance on it grew it became necessary for a division of labor and a hierarchy. Not only that but the crops needed to be protected so the first soldiers were born.
The leaders were Priests and Priestesses. Probably because they were a little smarter than the rest and they saw how easily people could be manipulated. I think they got power by claiming to speak for all powerful and immortal gods.
What may have convinced the naive is that the Priestly class mapped the motion of the stars and could predict things like eclipses and other planetary movement. I think this last statement is pure speculation, and an oversimplification, but it does have explanatory power and it isn't hard to see where it might go.
(from here on out when I used the abbreviation 'PIG', I mean: Pagan, Idol worshiping or Goddess worshiping culture. A good book on this subject is, When God Was A Women, by Merlin Stone. Ms Stone is a genius, feminist and I think atheist.”)
These early PIG cultures built the wonders of the world and taught the world to read and write. The Egyptians were amazing. They built the Temple of Karnak for the express purpose of training scribes and Priests/Preistesses for administering to the empire.
This all relied on agriculture. Agriculture is science. One unfortunate aspect of the advent of agriculture is communicable diseases and famines. The only reason for famines is crop failure. So science brought the world famines.
The worst thing that agriculture did was create alcoholic beverages. It may be that the only reason people went to agriculture is because they liked to get drunk and they needed copious amounts of grain, fruit and potatoes in order to do that.
Making alcoholic spirits is chemistry/science. So, I blame science for creating the worst of all human scourges.
Elitism, caused by religion because of the need for the organization, and agriculture making for drunken madness and self destruction, has continued to grow until this day. Now look at the world! We are weak, dependent, cancer ridden, alcohol and substance abuse ridden, neurtotic beings. Because of science; because of religion.
In closing I wanted to add that the beleiver organizes, conquers and builds. For better or worse, and I think mostly worse. Atheists seem to have sat on the sidelines of history contributing nothing. Atheism lacks any ability to form an effective political force.
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Feel it, See itbreathe it😜💩✈️🛩✈️🛩
The big name wasn't really an explosion.. More like a stretch
I’ve always said it was a stretch to say everything came from nothing too. But you continue to insist that this isn’t a religious belief, even as you ooh and aah over a cartoon that encourages you to stargaze and feel see the ‘stillness’.
@@Bozo_Weirdo so you just made a major fallacy. I didn't say the universe came from nothing. But you must think that about your God. Because obviously he came from nothing.
@@blixx8931 You don’t have to. The atheism which you believe in says that everything was once condensed into nothingness.
Nope, God always is, always has been.
Atheism can’t conceive the same because nature that atheism relies on doesn’t support it.
Fallacies have names. It’s nonsense to just say “fallacy” when you think you disagree with something.
The fallacy that atheists most often enact is called “affirming the disjunct”.
Implying that “since science is true, religion must be false”.
I think religion is the reason we have science, and that God created a universe that makes sense scientifically. Science is true and my religion is true.
@@Bozo_Weirdo so wrong. Your fallacy is special pleading. Sorry not all atheists believe in the big bang. But for you to say the universe wasn't always there but God was, is an assertion that you can't prove. And don't think I can't see what u see. I was a christian all my life. It's all bullshit. There is no God. You'll learn one day that you are your own God. Your conscience is God. Not the evil blood thirty petty malevolent invisible diety from the Bible.
"If you are intimidated by the cosmological perspective, you may have started your day with an unjustifiably large ego."
Neill deGrasse Tyson
"Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of understanding." Plato
“Philosophy begins in wonder “ …Plato.
Plato would most likely not prefer ancient mythology …
(or even ancient philosophical speculation on the nature of nature)…
over the best of reliable contemporary scientific insight.
@@cipherklosenuf9242 Science is a tool. As such it is limited in scope and application. Science is overrated and people never really needed it. I also think science has hurt humanity more that it has helped it.
People also have intuition, which I think is more important than intellect and reason in terms of us being happy and healthy.
Atheism kills wonder. I think atheism cripples the imagination and intuition. Most bright, talented and memorable people are believers. I think Plato knew this.
@@trollemctrollersen “Science has hurt humanity more than helping.”
Very well…so science has helped …but at a cost which you suggest is too much.
One may consider the same question for religion.
‘Religion has hurt more than it has helped.
Both are cultural tools, I think we agree on that.
Science can and should do good and avoid doing harm…not always the case..certainly.
I think we can agree on that.
And science has remarkable potential to do much more good or harm
depending on the aggregate outcomes of human choices.
So, though We may have difficulty determining how good or how bad the outcomes,
we can agree that, for example, a battery is a product of science and technology.
One knows what a battery is and what it does and can determine ways to assess its performance.
So, What are outcomes in your life that you feel result from your supernatural beliefs?
How does one determine that these outcomes may only be explained
as the result of a supernatural influence?
@@cipherklosenuf9242 I think that Plato gives people a lot to think about. The man's contribution was massive and complex and still fascinates people all over the world even after 2400 years.
Mostly the Bible has re-enforced the idea to believe in myself, and follow my heart, and this philosophy has made me a happy man.
You clearly had a good time making this video, and sometimes that's all that matters.
Can’t get into the spiritual aspect it’s been hijacked by religious people, so I just don’t need to use that word
You only live once so cherish and make the most of your life. Reading Ayn Rand was the best and sweetest decision I've ever made. :)
👋🏼Hi there, Seth! Enjoyed this presentation much. However, most of it is nothing more than belief, approximation and complex invention of the “Expert Scholar” Human mind… Not much different than Religion itself. I’m a Deist, and these evolutionist Human-mind convolutions cannot convince me otherwise. Very nicely presented, though…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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My story and everyones story starts from God creating the humans and the earth.
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Actually I believe the universe does consciously care about you and me. And you'll likely re-experience many things during your life review.
I found it y’all. Here is the atheist / agnostic that believes.
Really wasn’t that hard at all.
Like #666, y'all~ LoL!!!
Bobby
...and here's my response from the first upload:
I prefer Euclidean steady-state. Upon scrutiny, I find the inferences of Big Bang (and much of post-classical physics) overinflated to the point of religiosity, of science fiction. Scientists seem to commonly, radically undervalue Occam's Razor today, treating it as a flexible heuristic, while I think it's theorization which should be flexible to conform to Occam's Razor. Consider: when you ignore parsimony, you can make literally any theory fit any evidence. I contend that doing what you can to minimize inference beyond current evidence has a long-established record of out-doing all other methods we have in keeping theories as easy to work with as possible and in needing the least course correction as evidence accumulates over time. Consider: we only switched from geocentrism to heliocentrism because better telescopes gave us observations improved enough for the evidence to hint a realization to us that orbits could be elliptical, not circular, and thereby heliocentrism went from needing more epicycles than geocentrism to needing less as such (none in fact). The math of geocentrism still works perfectly well, it's just that heliocentrism became simpler.