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Oxford professor John Lennox eloquently arguing in front of the Oxford Union Society for the existence of God and the reality of the Savior in 2012: "And here we reach what for me is the chief evidence, not only for the existence, but the nature of God. It is Jesus Christ. He it was who not only taught the Golden Rule, but embodied it—fed the hungry, healed the sick and suffering, and welcomed society's outcasts, brought utter respect to the marginalized and ashamed, and He's brought forgiveness and peace to multi-millions around the world. He's able to do this, of course, because though He was a man, He uniquely never was only a man, but God become human. The central evidence for this startling claim is, of course, His historical resurrection from the dead that launched Christianity in the world. This is, of course, ladies and gentlemen, a crunch issue. If Jesus rose from the dead, death is not the end and atheism is false. If Jesus did not rise from the dead, Christianity is false. And I remember at Cambridge as a student listening to the brilliant Norman Anderson, a legal expert going through forensically the evidence from his legal perspective as a brilliant lawyer, and he said at the end of it, 'The empty tomb then of Jesus forms a veritable rock on which all rationalistic theories of the Resurrection dash themselves in vain.'"

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Sam Harris on why consciousness is more certain than the universe — and why free will is a different problem entirely Pulling out a clip from my conversation with Sam Harris (Making Sense Podcast) where he draws an asymmetry I think is worth sitting with. His claim: consciousness is the one thing in the universe that can't be an illusion — even more certain than physics. We could be brains in vats, in the matrix, on an alien supercomputer. None of it changes the fact that something seems to be happening. That seeming IS consciousness. Free will? Different story. Sam argues it's not just illusory but incoherent — provably so, regardless of how you tune determinism vs quantum indeterminism. He agrees with Sapolsky on the conclusion but adds a unique contribution on the experience of free will itself. Curious what the community thinks. Does the consciousness-as-bedrock argument hold under closer inspection, or is it just Descartes in new clothing?

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This footage shows Dr. Sharafuddeen Gbadebo Rāji making a recap of his lecture to his Hausa audience present at the lecture. The lecture was delivered in Yoruba so he decided to summarize the lecture in Hausa. Fun fact: He grew up in Jos and was an Imām for the Hausa and Yoruba communities. The Hausas loved him so much they started laying claim to him as one of theirs. He speaks Hausa impeccably that no one would mistake him for a Yoruba man but the 'Gbadebo' in his name is there for a reason. This is despite Jos being one of the most volatile states in Nigeria and famous for religious and tribal crisis. He still holds classes for Hausas to teach them religious knowledge till date. Hausa communities still invite him for lectures even off the shores of Nigeria. Dumbing things down for the Yoruba supremacists.

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28,620 views • 5 months ago

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Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, PR of Pakistan to the UN

62,717 views • 1 month ago

This is a podcast all about time: depending on how you look at it, that's either unnerving or exhilarating. Professor Simon Saunders — Emeritus Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and one of the most celebrated philosophers of physics alive — goes deep on what time actually is, why special relativity demands a block universe, and what any of this has to do with the Many Worlds Interpretation. Why doesn't space inherit the paradoxes of time? What's really missing from the block universe picture (and is it the same thing missing from quantum probability?) Saunders argues that Bell inequality violations aren't evidence against locality but evidence for Many Worlds, presents a novel derivation of the Born rule from a single physical postulate, and sketches a quantum version of Leibniz's monadology as a possible path through the mind-body problem. I hope you enjoy.
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This is a podcast all about time: depending on how you look at it, that's either unnerving or exhilarating. Professor Simon Saunders — Emeritus Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and one of the most celebrated philosophers of physics alive — goes deep on what time actually is, why special relativity demands a block universe, and what any of this has to do with the Many Worlds Interpretation. Why doesn't space inherit the paradoxes of time? What's really missing from the block universe picture (and is it the same thing missing from quantum probability?) Saunders argues that Bell inequality violations aren't evidence against locality but evidence for Many Worlds, presents a novel derivation of the Born rule from a single physical postulate, and sketches a quantum version of Leibniz's monadology as a possible path through the mind-body problem. I hope you enjoy.

Curt Jaimungal

12,323 views • 1 month ago

An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it. This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme. Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium. Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over. Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent. A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for. Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing. The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.
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An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it. This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme. Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium. Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over. Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent. A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for. Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing. The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.

xanax

3,239,485 views • 10 days ago

What if the self you keep trying to serve isn't actually you at all? In this lecture, the final stop of a 60 city tour, Jordan Peterson begins with an unlikely admission from the world's most famous atheist and follows it into the two shortest, densest paragraphs in the Bible: the story of two brothers and the offerings they make. From there he traces a single thread through the whole architecture of a human life, why the child who insists on his own way ends up with no friends, why a marriage cannot survive on getting what you want, and how a thousand quiet hours of resentment turn an ordinary person into someone capable of the unthinkable. What he uncovers is not a rule about religion but a question your own conscience has been asking you all along, one that decides whether the world opens up in front of you or closes in. The answer has nothing to do with belief in the usual sense, and everything to do with what you're willing to give up. This lecture was filmed on June 25, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico.
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What if the self you keep trying to serve isn't actually you at all? In this lecture, the final stop of a 60 city tour, Jordan Peterson begins with an unlikely admission from the world's most famous atheist and follows it into the two shortest, densest paragraphs in the Bible: the story of two brothers and the offerings they make. From there he traces a single thread through the whole architecture of a human life, why the child who insists on his own way ends up with no friends, why a marriage cannot survive on getting what you want, and how a thousand quiet hours of resentment turn an ordinary person into someone capable of the unthinkable. What he uncovers is not a rule about religion but a question your own conscience has been asking you all along, one that decides whether the world opens up in front of you or closes in. The answer has nothing to do with belief in the usual sense, and everything to do with what you're willing to give up. This lecture was filmed on June 25, 2024, in Mexico City, Mexico.

Dr Jordan B Peterson

211,163 views • 3 days ago

Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: "The universe itself doesn't know what happens next. it only knows the odds. I won a Nobel proving reality runs on probability, not certainty, which means the casino isn't cheating you. it's just closer to how nature works than you are." this free lecture from 1964 is a Nobel laureate explaining that certainty is not something the universe offers, and it has been public for sixty years. at the board it's simple. Feynman showed that at the deepest level nature does not decide what will happen, only the probability of what might. Fire a single electron at two slits and no one alive can tell you where it lands, only the odds of each spot. This drove Einstein to say God does not play dice. Feynman and the experiments proved him wrong. Reality is a probability machine, all the way down. That's the whole thing, minus the mysticism. Which means the casino is not an exception to how the world works. It is a scale model of it. Nobody gets certainty, not the gambler, not the trader, not the universe. Same point as my article above: the house wins not because it knows the outcome, but because it prices the odds while you chase a sure thing that does not exist anywhere in nature. the physics is free and it has been settled for a century. what nobody can sell you is the discipline to give up the craving for certainty and act on probabilities instead. That surrender is the whole edge, and it is the hardest thing a human mind ever does.
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Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: "The universe itself doesn't know what happens next. it only knows the odds. I won a Nobel proving reality runs on probability, not certainty, which means the casino isn't cheating you. it's just closer to how nature works than you are." this free lecture from 1964 is a Nobel laureate explaining that certainty is not something the universe offers, and it has been public for sixty years. at the board it's simple. Feynman showed that at the deepest level nature does not decide what will happen, only the probability of what might. Fire a single electron at two slits and no one alive can tell you where it lands, only the odds of each spot. This drove Einstein to say God does not play dice. Feynman and the experiments proved him wrong. Reality is a probability machine, all the way down. That's the whole thing, minus the mysticism. Which means the casino is not an exception to how the world works. It is a scale model of it. Nobody gets certainty, not the gambler, not the trader, not the universe. Same point as my article above: the house wins not because it knows the outcome, but because it prices the odds while you chase a sure thing that does not exist anywhere in nature. the physics is free and it has been settled for a century. what nobody can sell you is the discipline to give up the craving for certainty and act on probabilities instead. That surrender is the whole edge, and it is the hardest thing a human mind ever does.

Voltex

10,783 views • 13 days ago

Do you know why God once allowed Samuel, who had already died, to actually be summoned up by a witch? This is not just an ordinary, eerie story, but a judgment in the Bible so chilling it sends a shiver down your spine. Because Samuel was never an ordinary man. He was one of the most weighty prophets in Israel. From childhood, he heard the voice of God. He spent his whole life proclaiming God's Word and almost none of it ever fell to the ground. He anointed Saul and he also anointed David. In that generation, he was almost the very mouthpiece of God's will. But the most unsettling part is not who Samuel was while he was alive. It is that after his death, he appeared again in the night at Endor. By then, Saul was already nearing his end. The Philistine army was closing in and fear swallowed him like a rising tide. He sought an answer from God, but God no longer responded. No dreams, no prophet, no direction at all.
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Do you know why God once allowed Samuel, who had already died, to actually be summoned up by a witch? This is not just an ordinary, eerie story, but a judgment in the Bible so chilling it sends a shiver down your spine. Because Samuel was never an ordinary man. He was one of the most weighty prophets in Israel. From childhood, he heard the voice of God. He spent his whole life proclaiming God's Word and almost none of it ever fell to the ground. He anointed Saul and he also anointed David. In that generation, he was almost the very mouthpiece of God's will. But the most unsettling part is not who Samuel was while he was alive. It is that after his death, he appeared again in the night at Endor. By then, Saul was already nearing his end. The Philistine army was closing in and fear swallowed him like a rising tide. He sought an answer from God, but God no longer responded. No dreams, no prophet, no direction at all.

NancyH

118,418 views • 4 months ago