Comments on: Russell's Teapot = the crazy watering can?

Russell's Teapot = the crazy watering can?

MrBCID — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:22:33 -0800

How "just another homework assignment" (slyt) can (maybe even without the creator's knowledge) easily explain an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) "Russell's Teapot" (wiki)

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:30:40 -0800

That video is fantastically done.

By: poe

poe — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:34:53 -0800

"Brilliant! True Iconoclasm. Now do it again with a penis." Somehow captures the essence of the most brilliant youtube comments, and also why they should be avoided. I love the video. Even when I think an idea and a song are completely played out, they come together in new ways.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:35:39 -0800

That is pretty good, all right.

By: 0xFCAF

0xFCAF — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:05:25 -0800

But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. Nearly the entire internet disproves the inference of this sentence.

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:49:13 -0800

Shot in Jesusalem. Excellent!

By: painquale

painquale — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:15:38 -0800

That was excellent!

By: Arthur Phillips Jones Jr

Arthur Phillips Jones Jr — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:19:40 -0800

This is REALLY good. If it used an original soundtrack it would have been absolutely perfect. Fuck it. Great stuff thanks for sharing.

By: GeckoDundee

GeckoDundee — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:50:05 -0800

I don't get the Russell connection, except maybe at the end. Isn't this asking "what if everyone had the same unverifiable supernatural beliefs?" rather than offering the suggestion that having unverifiable beliefs shifts the onus of proof? It does look a bit like a teapot I suppose, and I don't read Hebrew, so perhaps I'm missing something? Very well done video though.

By: Hartham's Hugging Robots

Hartham's Hugging Robots — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 02:11:51 -0800

Man that video is extremely well made. A student project? You heard Vania's name here first...

By: Decani

Decani — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:51:45 -0800

Yeah, I saw this a few day's back and at first I thought it was going to run with a Russell connection but... it doesn't, really, does it? The way I read it is simply: believing in and worshipping silly things is not a good idea, and it's being nicely cheeky by saying that the silly thing might as well be a jug as a god. Anyway, it reminded me of this old video about the relative efficacy of praying to a jug of milk.

By: Decani

Decani — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:53:55 -0800

Well shit. Seems I linked to a Christer's "debunking" of the jug of milk video (and typically pisspoor it is, too). How irritating. Anyway, the first bit was the bit I was referring to.

By: memebake

memebake — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:24:46 -0800

Would have been pretty good with a Flying Spaghetti Monster too. But maybe would have lost some of its gravitas in that case.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:39:39 -0800

I approve of this video.

By: oonh

oonh — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:49:02 -0800

It irks me (for geekish reasons) that they didn't use the Utah teapot.

By: Obscure Reference

Obscure Reference — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:22:54 -0800

Interesting to watch his earlier video: My Watering Can

By: pwnguin

pwnguin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:27:34 -0800

Man, I was really hoping that teapot had some topological gimmick. Like, what appears to be the handle is actually the spout and vice versa. I mean, that would gather some worshipers worthy of the Russell name.

By: mhum

mhum — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:53:20 -0800

Nobody asked, but the answer is: it's an IKEA PS VÅLLÖ watering can.