Now this is TV (er, Internet video) worth watching.....
Interesting to see more madness 
wheeeee 1000 and 1 ways humans make total asses of themselves and more! you know this sort of show would be tolerable if it weren't for the INCESSANT "ohhhh isn't this just WONDERFUL everybody? isn't this latest particular obscene delusion just so BEAUTIFUL everyone??!" no it isn't, it's fucking retarded, fuck off with your condescending false enamormant.
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So Blake, that makes virtually all people on this earth retarded? Isn't that a retarded thought in itself. Religion is a human narrative. It can be decisive. It can be backward. It can be holding people back. But it can also bring unity and hope, especially in small communities. I don't think religion in essence is either beautiful or fucking retarded. But it's here because people need a narrative. Blake, I'm sure my and your narratives are pretty much the same. Science is probably a big part of our narratives, and no, I don't think science is 'just a narrative' I'm in no way a postmodernist. The scientific method is far more superior than religion. Yet, it doesn't help simplifying religion by naming it fucking retarded. It's just too simple.
It would be great if Pete, our guide on this tour, had read a lot of Joseph Campbell before he started this documentary.
That way he could use the program to connect culture, mythology, religion ("faith"), and psychology.
He could focus on questions such as "What role does a religious narrative (aka mythology) play for the culture/community" and "what role does it play for the individual?"
Just the same I find the video is a great look into the human condition.
"that makes virtually all people on this earth retarded?"
did you actually just ask that question? lol. YES
I find this quite hard to enjoy... it's seems rather sad to me really. So little information and knowledge has permitted the world.
Cool show never the less.
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VB: I know. We both have internet and all the information at our fingertips. Roughly 6.6 billion - 1.5 billion = 5.1 billion people have no internet access. Can you blame them for not knowing all we know? And even if they suddenly had all the information, what would they do with it? I acquired all I know now in a specific cultural context over 39 years of my life. This documentary doesn't make me sad. It makes me admire human creativity. That same creativity we have used to develop the scientific method. Of course, there is no John From, but it makes a hell of a great story! I just hope these people have access to modern medicine... In time, information will spread out.. Good information, like science, and more crazy ideas. How and why information spreads has a lot to do with economics and politics. As an atheist I find myself in the strange position that I do admire the creative narrative of religions. Unless people have access to information, like Kent Hovind. Now, that's a sad case..
What's to admire, Peter?
Storing corpses in buildings for decades, treating them as if they were alive, spending massive amounts of resources (hence the need to save over decades) for the funeral in which the family are required to build a village (literally) just for the festivities and knock it all down again.
I don't admire that, sorry. I'm not going to be an asshole about it and be derogatory, but my belief is:
1. They should just bury the dead. Corpses? Not nice.
2. They should spend their resources on building - and leave the buildings up as shelter or as communal buildings. They should work on their economy and culture, their health services and their education.
Neither 1 nor 2 negate the ability for them to lose their individual "cultures".
Likewise the group that "smoke babies". Yeah. Sick. Oh yeah, bad me. It's "Beeeeeaaautiful".
And as for getting nekkid with witches? LOL, that bit was hillarious. He's going to have a lot of explaining to do when he gets back to England and meets his colleagues :P
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