Gamers Divorced From Reality? 654
nd01 writes "According to Gamepolitics.com, Bill OReilly has a few choice words for gamers and computer geeks in general. The well-known conservative pundit has harsh words for iPod owners, gamers, the PS3, and all of us 'disconnected from reality' by modern technological contrivances."
From the article: "Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don't deal with reality — ever. So they don't know what day it is; they don't know temperature it is; they don't know what their neighbor looks like. They don't know anything... because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they've created their own reality..."
Re:Pot? Kettle? - Logical Fallacies 101 (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Pot? Kettle? (Score:3, Informative)
Heed Bill's Warning! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hey I know what day it is! (Score:1, Informative)
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Re:Hypocracy? (Score:3, Informative)
Just curious.
Jesus also had his desciples carry swords. Why? At one point he tells them to sell their cloak and buy a sword.
Bear in mind, the Jews couldn't exactly vote out Roman tax collectors. For more, see;
Regarding welfare and taxes [2wgroup.com] (not my blog)
you may draw your own conclusions from the feeding of the 5,000.
Re:Hypocracy? (Score:3, Informative)
Not that I care what Jesus said, there's next to no historical evidence for his existence so what he said is of no consequence.
I figured that was your stance. (Assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that you were the OP.) But in history we have to use certain standards. If you take someone, who had as many first hand witnesses claiming to have seen him as Jesus did, and say that there isn't enough evidence to prove his existance, you erase quite a few other historical characters as well. Alexander the Great didn't have much first hand evidence to reccomend his existance. How do you know that his conquests weren't the result of several people, and attributed to a single man? Most historical figures were royalty. Whether or not you believe Jesus was a miracle worker or no, there are less than a handful of peasants in the ancient world who have more evidence for their existance than Jesus does. The evidence for his existance is about as strong as any figure, especially any peasant, in the ancient world.
Re:In O'Reilley's Reality... (Score:2, Informative)
Of course while the CIA was negligent in the lead up to war, we seem to have skipped over the whole issue (as a nation) of the manipulation of intelligence and recycling of discredited intelligence by the administration itself (in the Office of Special Plans in particular.)
As far as the shut up issue. Rent and watch the documentary "Outfoxed." There is a hilarious bit where they show him saying "I've never said 'shut up' on the air." Then they procede to show him saying and yelling it dozens of times.
I still say he is a blowhard and his opinion on youth culture (or online culture) carries no weight.
Re:Hypocracy? (Score:3, Informative)
(emphasis added)source [livius.org], source [isidore-of-seville.com]
Alexander the Great didn't have much first hand evidence to reccomend his existance.
It's a bit silly to discuss history when you haven't a clue.
You're hardly in a place to lecture people on having a clue about history since you seem to know very little either about ancient Greek historiography or Greco-Roman historiography around the destruction of the second temple.
Most historians, even those who are atheists, believe that Jesus existed as an historical figure.
This is like saying the world is flat or that the moon is a liberal myth.
No, this is like saying that there are enough primary sources regarding Jesus that if you disqualify his existance based on a lack of first hand (not contemporaneous, but first hand) sources that you'd have to disqualify quite a few other historical figures as well.
Including Alexander the Great.