Real Time with Bill Maher Pts 1-5 & New Rules

Run time: 10:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGozMurLB4Q   Posted on YouTube: May 15, 2010 By YouTube Member: TullycastProduction Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 15, 2010 By DU Member: tomm2thumbs Views on DU: 4386

 

For as long as they are there at least!

Part one is above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGozMurLB4Q

Part two is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSzwyfIfQQ8

Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCeuneaZa3Y

Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjlRnlHWAQ

Part five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjlRnlHWAQ

New Rules: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6PuUElj4cc

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on edit - added links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32iD8Y52mQU

In case the other New Rules vanishes, this is a fallback link

thanks for pointing it out below in post 5 - just pushing it up closer to the OP for folks to see

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSP5X9dl6jw


(sorry about that)

Bill Maher is one of my favorites, but this was not his best show. The woman was just annoying. And Issa? Please. Couldn't Maher ask a more interesting congressman?

I'm still trying to figure out what the hell she was talking about. Atheist my ass. She sounded like she was on Fox.

though i do not think all who believe are delusional, i do think that religion is the cause of a lot of death and misery for a lot of people.

I contend that if you stop religion, deny religion, obliterate religion, the people who are fooled by religion (and that is not all religious people, but some) will simply be fooled by some other entity because people will still associate well after any abolition of religion. And, wherever they associate, there will be leaders with power that can be bought.

People should not be placed under social pressure to believe something. Instead, people should be encouraged to examine their beliefs. I am not an atheist. I enjoy a strong spiritual life although I don't believe in a specific myth about creation or God, but I respect the rights of others to be atheist or religious as their consciences dictate. It is a personal matter. The important thing is to question blind beliefs, to try to differentiate myth from real experience.

This woman has the maturity of a giggly college sophomore sorority girl. I'm shocked that Maher had her on the show.

Hear! Hear! :thumbsup:

Atheism IS a matter of stopping religion where agnosticism is less so.

Atheism IS NOT an effort to achieve balance, it is decidedly one-sided, touting a lack of belief in theism that would be a complete lack.

Christians are admonished in the Bible to examine their beliefs. Many don't. Those are personal problems.

People are constantly put under social pressure to believe things. They shouldn't be? Are you living in some fantasy spin-off world from a long lost Star Trek episode?

On that woman, I don't care if she giggles, it's a giggly show, and a good show, giggly or not. She did try to show some smug superiority that may have fooled some listeners, but to me it made her look shallow.

She's done her research and I bet she had some good things to say. Bill went a little over the top cutting her time and pushing his own belief system. His show. His audience sycophants ate up his pushiness.

Bill's show is right for cable although I wish he was back on rabbit-ear TV.

Hope your Saturday night was special JD.

I do not feel that they want to deprive me of my spiritual life.

I do feel threatened by people who fanatically believe in their own specific explanations about life, God, the universe, creation and the spiritual life.

That is because I have my own spiritual life, my own path. So do atheists. Try as they may, all atheists will never embrace a single belief system. They will never memorize some creed or sing hymns to the fact that they think there is no God. It's religious fanatics who work themselves into hypnotic states through mysterious and sometimes very intimidating rituals. And, mind you, even most religious people are not fanatics.

I have my own mysterious rituals. They aren't very intimidating. I don't have to memorize anything. My spiritual life is my own, personal to me. I alone am responsible for it. I do not feel that atheists interfere in my spiritual life in any way.

When fanatical Christians insist on embarrassing the President because he follows his obligation to enforce the Constitution's prohibition of the establishment of religion, then they are interfering not just with my spiritual life but with the spiritual lives of all like me, including atheists, who follow their own systems of belief or doubt.

So, I do not feel threatened by atheists. But I do feel threatened by people who try to push me into pretending to believe whatever it is that they believe.

Atheists may argue about religion. They may even be obnoxious when they argue about religion. But they don't threaten people who disagree with them with visions of an afterlife in Hell. People who have to use threats of eternal damnation to persuade others to join their churches are a problem as far as I am concerned. They are control freaks.

Atheism is not a controlling belief system. It doesn't make any threats or promises. Some atheists ridicule believers. But then, if your beliefs are really your own, if you know why you believe what you do, the ridicule just passes you by. It doesn't bother you.

I'm not threatened by atheists either, but I find my politics is threatened, and that I don't like.

It's not that they don't mean well although I do think that CIA tactics would do well to fund atheists in order to exacerbate the religious right hold on their followers' voting patterns -- and I'd bet they do.

You don't think they memorize rituals. Try saying that atheism means believing there is no god. Yikes. No, they'll scream with fanaticism that would make Billy Graham blush: it's a lack of belief. Sheesh.

Have a good week.

Always entertaining....and I'm thrilled we can get these out of country.

thanks for correcting that - I don't know where my brain was :)

of the knee-jerk reaction equating being for the separation of church and state with being completely anti-religion (for example, talking about the National Day of Prayer).

and there is obviously a missing section.

And I also want to say how much I appreciate this. I "lost" HBO and miss me some Maher.

Interesting that even though he had loony conservatives on the panel, he can hold his own.

He has people he genuinely disagrees with on his show, and respects their views while disagreeing. He and Rachel Maddow are about the only two people on TV I can think of who do this.

without letting the righties get away with shit (like the atheist saying the media left is trying to destroy Christianity. She ended up sounding like she didn't even know what she believed.

When I was young, we thought you could be rich if you were willing to sell your soul to go to work for some corporation. Now you can doit by going to work for the republicans.

Even if you're a woman...as long as you're pretty.

Live in Alabama, and absolutely loved the making fun of the ads.

Tim James made his first ad about speaking only English. Really? That's all you care about. It's such a hard place to live, idiots everywhere, and sadly, they seem proud of it.

They're too expensive to fight for any other reason, but the real reason never sells, so religion, nationalism and emotive symbolism are used to recruit spear carriers. The only exception is for mercenaries, who are far more honest about why they fight than are priest, politicians, businessmen and the poor.

You nailed it there! :thumbsup:

his thought. He kept talking over everybody and the discussion didn't really go anywhere. When the guy tried to talk about positive religious change in his community, Bill rudely says..."we're not talking about that." So I get it, Bill only wants to debate the negative side of religion so he can bash it. Not anything positive where he might not be able to forge his anti-religious message.

on their X-Boxes once a month.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

- Bill!!!!!

I have to remember this..........and country forward not back.

Thank you.

for the links. I don't always agree with Bill but I like how he's always challenging people's beliefs (not just religion).

It was a fantasy response to the presidential debate question do you believe that the Bible is true? "There is much truth in the holy books but if you don't think that the holy books have not, are not, nor will be used by individuals to further their own political agendas and thirst for power over people.... then you are naive."