My Summer vacations are going to start on 13th April and this time we have got almost 4 months vacations so I want to use my this free time to increase my knowledge. And that's why I need your suggestions. please suggest me some good logical, scientific books, authors, articles, essays, YouTube channels So I can enjoy my vacations
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1. Go to every church in your town. Make a special trip to a different Church every Sunday, or Saturday. Be polite and ask questions. When you hear something that seems to make sense, post it in the forum and see what happens.
2. I listen to a lot of books on tape. You can find them shared in p2p sites as well as on YouTube. There are also some really good YouTube lectures by Bart Erhman, Sam Harris, Matt Dillahaunty, Aron Rah, and the Late Mr. Christopher Hitchens.
3. And don't forget the Debates. There are hundreds of excellent debates between Atheists and Theists on line. William Lane Craig is leading the Christians currently with his Cosmological argument which is completely bogus. He wins debates that are scored as he is a fast talker and slams the atheists (who are generally publishers or academics without debate experience) with so many fallacies that they do not respond to all of them, He has a real shotgun approach when it comes to debating Atheists that is interesting to watch and think about how you would respond. Wolphe is an excellent theist debater and worth watching. He is kind, intelligent and slippery as an eel. There is a good debate on line between him and Hitchens.
4. If you have not done so, watch the show, "The Atheist Experience." If you can stomach their oft times liberal agenda, no show out there has the idea of Atheism so clearly identified and consistently used in an appropriate way.
I liked your suggestions but no. 1 is not possible here. I am from India and Christians are minorities in India and there is no church at my town :))
There is a wealth of information on the internet. Just last night I sat in by a"lecture" by a legitimate and respected physicist who described the physics of Stephen Hawking. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/239179386
Fermilab put out interesting videos on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgvajuvSpF4
I also closely follow the construction and science of ITER . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2CBJIp2j8&t=108s
It's darn cool, they just capped the bioshield.
And for many incredibly interesting talks on varied viewpoints, "TEDx Talks" is one of the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlmwLyeWv5M
You wish to live track international shipping? https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-7.9/centery:-16.1/zoom:3
You wish to live track air traffic? https://planefinder.net/flight
You wish to track objects in orbit? https://www.space-track.org
You wish to track weather? http://www.intellicast.com/
I have a folder in my bookmarks "Science and Understanding"
And this one https://fas.org/ just WOW. There is so much information in there it still boggles my mind.
watch in youtube: The Atheist Experience
watch all their episodes..
you'll be enlightened...
thanks everyone for suggestions it looks like I have lots of material for vacations :)
RANJEET,
"please suggest me some good logical, scientific books, authors, articles, essays, YouTube channels So I can enjoy my vacations"
What do you really want to learn? Is it general information, religious information, financial, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, political, aeronautical?
Generally you can't go wrong if you learn how to manage money and do public speaking. You can form a club and practice job interviewing. There are lots of sites with job interview questions. Rotate among the group playing the interviewer and the interviewee. It's a very practical skill you need to learn and to stay proficient at.
In your group identify the smartest person in each subject and have him tutor the others. Rotate among the group. Someone may know something about cars. Another person may know something about how to make a fire with sticks. Another person may know how to calculate the distance to the moon. Get comfortable sharing your knowledge. Life is a lifelong learning experience. Learn new things every day.
I like to learn everything no specifications but here on this forum I'm expecting suggestions related to philosophy, logics, science, religions. :)
I just watched a series of videos by thunderf00t titled "Why do people laugh at Creationists"
Most are sever years old, but they are a good watch. Some had me laughing hard. Some are quite depressing due to subject matter. But I enjoyed them all.
David gave a damn good list in his post. Many of those are also in my bookmark folder titled "Science and Enlightenment"
Funny how our bookmark folders are so similar... What is it they say about great minds?
rmfr
http://www.thebookoflife.org/
it looks awesome thanks Sapporo. :)
I am a member of several atheist fora. Some of them are very good, others not so much. You could use a Google search for "Atheist Forum", and click on some of the links you find. Then just take a look at some of their threads, for the topics which interest you. If any seem to be specially appealing, you could become a member and ask questions and / or contribute. I belong to :-
AFA forums . . . . . . . . http://www.atheistfoundation.org.au/forums/
Atheist forums . . . . . . https://atheistforums.org/
Atheist Nexus . . . . . . . http://www.atheistnexus.org/forum
Ratioal Skepiticism . . . . http://www.rationalskepticism.org/
TalkFreeThought . . . . . http://talkfreethought.org/forum.php?
Thinking Ahteist Forum http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum
That gives me plenty of scope to find topics of interest, and to do some learning, (and maybe some teaching !)
I found these using the Google search "Atheist forums in India" :-
http://nirmukta.com/nirmukta-regional-groups/
http://indianatheists.org/
http://indianatheists.org/faq/
But perhaps you know of these already.
Exploring the fora available across the world would give you loads to do in your vacation time, Ranjeet.
Plus, there are often links within the fora, which members post, to further interesting and informative stuff.
I would also suggest going to have a browse around http://www.talkorigins.org/
which discusses evolution and debunks creationism.
Someone mentioned watching The Atheist Experience, (put out by the Atheist Community of Austin Texas). I do so on YouTube, and there is a lot to check out there. There a many years worth of the show to look at. I believe they also have a blog, to which you can post if you wish
Take your time, and good luck, Ranjeet,
Mu.
@Ranjeet
A couple of issues of Penthouse Magazine and/or Penthouse Forum. Something to help "cleanse the palate" of your brain between large doses of all the heavy intellectual stuff. *Big Grin*