21/07/2023
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A personal pick of three great historical figures and why you should love them. Vlog format. Figures are Alfred the Great, Gaius Julius Caesar and Socrates.*...
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14/07/2023
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In this vlog video I explore my thoughts around how fear is often the driving force behind belief in God and associated religions.***Specifically, without th...
07/07/2023
Vlog video on why we don't need God to explain Morality, why we all exist and to give meaning to our lives.Vlog video format.
19/05/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpqgNsDU8iY
If we live in a deterministic universe, with no free will, how does the concept of an all-good and just God make any sense?Another short talk on a contradict...
06/05/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1gUc7EXE1I
Vlog video post on the coronation, uploaded coronation day.Just a few thoughts on the coronation, taking place on the day of recording. Going to push back ag...
01/03/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnc80gWs5Uw
My thoughts on this old zinger: "You can't prove God doesn't exist."
12/02/2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWqM6Qu4TFE
Another opinion podcast from Clarky. This time, are we seriously over-thinking the origins and justification for morality? Here's my thoughts on why we have ...
29/11/2022
My latest rant on the God question:
Welcome to my vlog, today focusing on the problem of many Gods. Another reason why I don't believe in God's existence. Which God would that be? ...
23/10/2022
Today's question: what makes government legit?At some point I'm going to make an entry on my stance on anarchism; not the ins and outs of it in and of itself...
25/08/2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ZcTBR0Tcg
I'm back on the free will debate, though today I run through why it doesn't actually matter.In the video: I assume the arguments against free will are valid;...
12/06/2021
Why should we obey the state? This is a question that is often just dismissed, but is actually very difficult to answer.
06/06/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWLKheS6ID4
In this talk I discuss why Socrates was wrong in the Platonic dialogue Crito.In 399 BC, arguably the father of Western philosophy Socrates was put on trial o...
05/06/2021
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The eighteenth century Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) in his "Treatise of Human Nature" raised the Is-Ought Problem, otherwise known now as Hume...
02/06/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T7KG7bn6Dw&
In this short blog video, I discuss why we don't need government. This is part of a larger series of short videos on the subject. ...
30/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGpBV-78XnU
In this vlog entry, I explain why free will is so important to the vast majority of people.***Links:We May Have No Free Will But It Doesn't Matter: https://w...
29/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjSCOOew69A
This is a vlog response to CosmicSkeptic's video "Why Free Will Doesn't Exist," which I have linked below. I explain how I disagree with both Alex O'Connor's...
28/05/2021
National Defence in Anarchy:
https://youtu.be/xeCZL3eOR0M
Please enjoy my short audiobook "Fallout: National Defence in Anarchy," for free on this channel as well as available in PDF (linked below).If you would like...
26/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPzLVzUzF3Y&
The Free Will VS Determinism debate has raged on for centuries, yet despite strong cases being made for determinism and even experiments supporting it, such ...
23/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaXKye3EF1c
In this shorter video, I summarize my argument that having no free will does not particularly matter in living a happy and fulfilled life.For a more detailed...
22/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AueQ4EThVY&
Welcome to my video blog. Today, I talk about the concept of infinity and immortality and exactly why you really should not want it.***Links:Age of the Unive...
19/05/2021
For those who have considered the subject deeply, or perhaps have read Sam Harris' book "Free Will" you may feel defeated or even nihilistic, as if we have n...
16/05/2021
Welcome! Today in my blog series I consider why I think eternal oblivion or the complete cessation of the self, consciousness and everything that makes you a...
15/05/2021
Another look at the God question, this time examining the omnipotence paradox in a different way. Are there some things you and I can do (that God can't)? If...
09/05/2021
100% proof that God not only does not exist, but that it logically cannot exist, using universally accepted definitions of God's traits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaqcArJOxFA
Technically NOT a click-bait title, as it really is possible to prove that the Abrahamic God not only does not (but logically cannot) exist.This is not diffi...
08/05/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXgIYB0Y_Xw
Following on from my first video on my argument for the universe's necessary existence, here are some possible objections to my argument and answers to them....
05/05/2021
In response to traditional cosmological arguments for God's existence, I developed this argument on how it makes more sense to consider the universe itself as necessary, rather than arguing God created it as an un-caused cause or that it came from nothing.
The Universe itself cannot not have existed, though the states of matter and energy within the system are indeed in constant flux and "contingent." While it is therefore true that all "things" within it are contingent (that is, could not have existed), the universe itself is necessary.
Syllogistic form:
Premise 0: Any explanation must be consistent with our senses, observations, and logic if it is valid.
Premise 1: Anything that exists does so necessarily by the fact of its existence or as a derivative from some necessary existence.
Premise 2: The universe exists.
Premise 3: The universe has always existed.
Conclusion: Therefore the universe necessarily exists.
04/05/2021
In response to traditional cosmological arguments for God's existence, I developed this argument on how it makes more sense to consider the universe itself as necessary, rather than arguing God created it as an un-caused cause or that it came from nothing.
The Universe itself cannot not have existed, though the states of matter and energy within the system are indeed in constant flux and "contingent." While it is therefore true that all "things" within it are contingent (that is, could not have existed), the universe itself is necessary.
Syllogistic form:
Premise 0: Any explanation must be consistent with our senses, observations, and logic if it is valid.
Premise 1: Anything that exists does so necessarily by the fact of its existence or as a derivative from some necessary existence.
Premise 2: The universe exists.
Premise 3: The universe has always existed.
Conclusion: Therefore the universe necessarily exists.
YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/tP7m8VTqv5A
In response to traditional cosmological arguments for God's existence, I developed this argument on how it makes more sense to consider the universe itself a...
03/05/2021
My argument for the universe's necessary existence. The universe was not "created." The universe had no beginning, it has always existed as a cyclical system of contingent (and temporary states of matter and energy). There is no need for God or to say the universe began from nothing.
The most likely explanation and that which fits the scientific evidence and what we know about the universe is that the universe exists necessarily.
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