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Debunking video “Albert Einstein” (hoax, tentu saja) yang berdebat tentang agama dengan gurunya.
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Suit up! One of the most heard sentences in the serie, Barney says it everytime to Ted when they go out. Suit up! What does it mean for us? Make sure you look good! Everybody says that looks aren’t everything, but they are defitnitely something. On what do you judge someone when you see him for the first time? Of course, on his looks, because you don’t know anything else about him. Make sure you look good to make a great first impression. Wear a clean and nice shirt, shave and brush your teeth!
Confidence. Barney is someone with very much confidence in himself. He doesn’t even doubt to talk to a girl. He believes in himself and he believes that whatever he does, it will turn out to be a success. Of course, this doesn’t work out all the time, but you will accomplish more with confidence than without!
Never hold back. Barney made a video resume. (Click, I can recommend this) He had singers who sung ‘Barney Stinson, that guy is awesome, awesome, awesooooome!’ You don’t do that when you are holding back. Make everything extravagant. You have probably heard that pick up line (and you agree with most of us that it is cliché and bad) ‘Did it hurt when you fell out of heaven?’ Barney made it the BEST pick up line. How? See here. He just pulled out everything he got. Got a few actors and made a complete show around it. Just don’t hold back. Again, this doesn’t mean instant successs, but it does mean more success!
Have skills. Barney speakes Japanese, know magic tricks and he is MVP in a laser tag championship.
Be mysterious. Barney’s home is really, really awesome. He got a TV as big as the wall. He has a storm trooper in his living room, guys, do I need to say more? But how did he get the money? Nobody knows and he isn’t going to tell. When someone asks he says: ‘Oh, please.’ So he is mysterious and thereby interesting. Don’t tell everything about you all the time, keep things for yourself and be mysterious.
“The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever.
God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness.
Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind.”
Why are atheists so hated and feared?
Because, with all the religions fighting over which one is right, “none of the above” is a most damaging concept.
Our mere existence is a huge blow to their ego. The fact that a lot of us are fairly proficient at making compelling arguments just makes things worse.
Because people naturally trust. We trust other’s opinions, as much as or more than our own. When our beliefs are validated, we feel more confident that we are right. When others challenge our beliefs, we feel that confidence shaking.
What makes it especially dangerous to shake a religious person’s belief, is that his belief protects him / her from death itself. Practically all religions promise immortality, in some way, shape, or form. Threatening that which protects you from death is felt as almost the same as threatening death itself.
And not just regular death. But immortal death. And not only death, but losing your qualification for eternal life by rejecting a (supposedly) loving persona, who was perfectly willing to protect you from death, if only you loved and Him and remained loyal. A wholly preventable death. A useless death.
By threatening to kill the True Believer’s belief, you are inviting them to die, and destroying that which ultimately makes them feel worthy of life and love.
It’s brutal. No wonder they hate.
The fact that we exist at all makes them confront their own doubts, and that’s very uncomfortable. It’s much easier to vilify us, accuse us of undermining them and discount us.
source: reddit.org