So do I just cut the benzos in half for the calmer apes?

Same haircut, same car, bring benzos. Got it

My takeaway was that having a chimpanzee as a pet is fine and so is giving them benzos but what you should really avoid doing is giving them a Tickle Me Elmo doll.

AA started as a Christian group and they’ve since dropped that association because nobody likes getting preached to

What’s interesting is that no scientific approach with drugs etc has reached the level of success as these programs.

Uh…what do you think sociologists do for a living? Psychologists? Though if you mean there’s no drug that can be administered to cure someone, that’s because addiction is first and foremost a social issue. People don’t relapse because of the chemical addiction, they do it because they feel hopeless. It’s a lot closer to homelessness than cancer

I’m snoozing on a lot of these but there’s one point I feel needs addressing: most recovery programs no longer teach the “higher power” thing the way you think. The higher power refers to powers outside of your control, not a supreme being. Source: best friend is an atheist who is heavily involved with AA (recovery and then working for them). I know a couple dozen people from there now and all of them are atheists/agnostic

That was a really rough watch. Most of these aren’t arguments that atheists make…they’re invented stances because the narrator thought of a zinger. Some are real (and argued against poorly) but the majority are just strawman

science only deals with the physical

So the video creator doesn’t know anything about science. How unsurprising.

Medically documented cases of demonic possession

No there’s not lmao

“It makes a lot more sense for that first cause to be a personal god who caused things for a reason rather than some random impersonal force”

Why does that make more sense? No justification, just “it makes a lot more sense”?

“We deserve it”

To quote the narrator, that’s not the gotcha you think it is. The all-powerful God made us capable of evil so we can prove our love for him by not being evil. Cool guy!

[Comparing evil to physical substances]

Evil is largely defined by the actions of the individual. Intent matters but the road to hell was paved in good intentions, after all. God unfortunately meets the definition by knowingly giving kids cancer and creating evil humans.

Why did God let evil exist at all? Because he’s glorified in defeating it

So…he invented a problem in order to get praised for solving it? What is he, a middle manager?

[loving your wife is brain chemicals and your wife is real]

People fall in love with stuff that’s not real all the time so what point is this trying to make?

[Drug trips and near death experiences feel different]

An acid trip feels different than a mushroom trip. Hmmm it’s almost like the specific chemicals matter…

[Faith is trust]

My mans can’t even Google a definition. Those two words are not interchangeable

1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.

Why do you want to worship a deity at all? I mean no offense but it sounds a lot more like you’re picking your character in a show. The teachings of any religion is way more important than what invisible being they call their god