Simon saying chatGPT waffles on while he effortlessly turns a 15 minute video into over 40 minutes by going off on tangents all the time really is something
@steveharrison76
8 ай бұрын
We had a long anecdote about car keys and broken windows, ruminations about what the Bible is called, and old CGPT over there is staying ruthlessly on-subject - you’re right, it’s a whole thing, isn’t it? Remarkable.
@jbrentonheights9190
8 ай бұрын
Do not slander the great Simon....his wrath will drown you in the whistles of your sorrows.😅
@joeyspaghetti5723
8 ай бұрын
@@steveharrison76 Ahhh yes the car keys anecdote! Pack rats steal shiny shit and I had a friend's keys get stolen and he baited it, followed it and found his keys!! True story. But I digress, what happened to that bloody goat?!
@christinearmington
8 ай бұрын
Don’t forget Queen Esther back when mostly dudes did things. 🤷♀️🤦♀️
@Jd-808
8 ай бұрын
What app is he using?
@onelight71
8 ай бұрын
Well, as a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar this was a blast. Some of my own research was actually mentioned! I first discovered Simon when looking for what were the most watched videos on KZitem about the Scrolls. It was very well written and the best brief non-academic overview of the Scrolls I have come across to date. After that, I was sucked into the Whistlverse. What is amazing about this current video is that it barely scratches the surface of insane theories. Still, I had to roll my eyes a few too many times at some fringe theories being presented as mainstream scholarship. Now to be sure, there are some BIG disagreements between scholars about practically every aspect of the Scrolls. However, no one today takes the theories of Golb (about the Scrolls coming from Jerusalem) seriously. Much of the section about the archeology of Qumran was bungled up. To make it clear, practically everyone agrees that the sect that wrote most of the Scrolls lived at the site (whether that sect should also be identified as the Essenes is still debated). There are exactly only three archeologists that tried to argue that there is no connection between the Scrolls and the site of Qumran. Those arguments have been soundly refuted by other archeologists. All in all this was rather well researched and I congratulate Ilze for sifting through an enormous amount of material for this script and managing to go over many of the main issues in Dead Sea Scrolls research. There were even I few things in here I was not familiar with (like the whole Egypt theory for the Copper Scroll). As for Simon, I can forgive not knowing how to pronounce "Qumran", but can you please pronounce "Josephus" correctly? I don't know why, but the way you mispronounce that name drives me crazy.
@jacobredmon171
8 ай бұрын
I think it’s more likely then not they scrolls were written by the essenes or at least a group connected to them
@jackturner214
8 ай бұрын
The point about Josephus is amusing to me. I had mostly taught myself biblical history in high school because I was of a precocious sort, and read the name as I thought it should be - "JO-zif-us" (like Joseph but with an "us" on the end), and when I started formally studying this era in graduate school, it drove my Hebrew Bible professor absolutely mad. These days, I will admit to pronouncing it closer to Simon than the way a lot of Americans pronounce it. However, the way Simon pronounced Nehemiah and Ecclesiastes had me rolling! I love how you can see behind his eyes as he's thinking "what the hell is this!" 🤣
@jennaxoxox4821
8 ай бұрын
Stay here in the Whistlerverse long enough and you will also start mispronouncing random words.
@whyis45stillalive
8 ай бұрын
This isn't the only video in which Simon mispronounced 'Josephus'... 🙄🤦🏻
@Meganec3810
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for your work!
@AthenaisC
8 ай бұрын
The Bible's Expansion Pack? OMG, I swear this is Simon's favorite channel. 😂😂😂
@HoundMonkey
8 ай бұрын
Clearly you don't Blaze
@kieranklein2527
8 ай бұрын
I bet it's over priced and unfinished 😤
@kieranklein2527
8 ай бұрын
@@HoundMonkeySimon barely blazes. Loss of script slapping and pacing has left it much diminished.
@tightropewalkergirl6485
8 ай бұрын
Made me laugh out loud when he said that!
@tightropewalkergirl6485
8 ай бұрын
@@kieranklein2527and recently debunked
@yellowbelly7863
8 ай бұрын
Man, regardless of the true meaning buried within these ancient pages, how insane is it that we found pieces of 2000 year old paper that we could still freakin read...
@ViolentAurora
5 ай бұрын
I always like to take a moment and step back to look at the whole forest. Yes, all these theories and struggles and things we don't understand. But man. Isn't this amazing? That this artifact lasted for centuries and it's here now for us to study? Cool stuff.
@giantfactory
21 күн бұрын
Yet the vast majority of people have no idea what they say, nor do they want to know. These writings are older than Christianity and its bible, yet what is written within completely undercuts the forthcoming religion of Paul, in fact they call him out by name.
@timothywhite6532
16 күн бұрын
@@giantfactory ... Where do they call out Paul? I think they were all written long before his time.
@giantfactory
16 күн бұрын
@@timothywhite6532 Yes, they were written before Sha'uwl (Paulos' name before he changed it.) God prophesied in Howsha' of Sha'uwl's coming, calls him out by name, and calls him the 'plague of death' for the religion he will found and bring into the world.
@katem3553
8 ай бұрын
I am convinced that Simon's writers have a group chat where they place bets on how many tangents they can get Simon to go on.
@Baughb99
7 ай бұрын
It's a basement competition for the forbidden mushrooms
@harvus796
4 ай бұрын
It's a basement conspiracy! Lol.
@moejaime2654
Ай бұрын
SIMON IS A DIMWIT !!
@Brownyman
8 ай бұрын
The Moses/Akhenaten connection is a whole can of worms that deserves its own Decoding the Unknown video!
@chrissiegel6161
8 ай бұрын
Justin (Bon Iver) stated in an interview in 2008: It’s referring to the excavations where they found the Dead Sea Scrolls. When they found them it changed the whole course of Christianity, whether people wanted to know it or not. A lot of people chose to ignore it, a lot of people decided to run with it, and for many people it destroyed their faith, so I think I was just looking at it as a metaphor for whatever happens after that is new shit. In the interview, Justin Vernon mentioned this record was about him going through the breakup, an excavation of himself, digging everything out so he can see what it is and get it to the oxygen where it can burn away and leave.
@Istandby666
8 ай бұрын
The finding of the dead sea scrolls helped me to research and find the truth. Now I don't believe in this child horror book. Religion is the cancer of humanity!
@Istandby666
8 ай бұрын
The dead sea scrolls helped me to find the truth. Now I don't believe in that child horror story.
@Istandby666
8 ай бұрын
Religion is the cancer of humanity!
@mr.seanburk200
4 ай бұрын
😊
@jaredgilmore3102
3 ай бұрын
@Istandby666 how? The texts they found were ones they already had, except for the ones unique to the essenes and a heavily fragmented copy of the book of giants, which was a known lost text. The Dead Sea Scrolls didn't really change anything in Christianity it did help with translation since there were now translations in Hebrew that predate the rabbinic translations that were mostly medieval or the greek masoretic texts. So unless you were an academic it was sort of a non-factor.
@Nathan-vt1jz
8 ай бұрын
Simon: ‘Most of my knowledge about archaeology mostly comes from Jurassic Park.’ Me: I’ve listened to at least a dozen videos of Simon talking about archaeology… somehow Jurassic Park stuck more in his mind… also wouldn’t that be paleontology. It’s a good reminder that Simon’s talent is as a reader and not in remembering facts. Seriously though, he is a top tier reader/narrator.
@Nathan-vt1jz
21 күн бұрын
@@RichardRemer Most dinosaur digs are done on the surface where erosion has revealed a site. Archaeological sites often go through many layers of a tel (a tel is a hill made of multiple destruction layers of an a city/habitation). Geologists use bore hole cores which can go crazy deep.
@pearlygirl88
8 ай бұрын
“I have to use Google like a peasant.” That may be the funniest thing I’ve ever heard Fact boi say.
@Munequita216
8 ай бұрын
Dude, Simon’s the most productive person on KZitem
@Redkrovvy
8 ай бұрын
Hahaha Simon arguing with chatGPT about Bon Iver is making my day. Simon, you’re right! And it’s absolutely hilarious that it thought you were saying, “Come run!” 😂
@PositiveOnly-dm3rx
4 ай бұрын
Chat gpt is a word generator. Not a search engine. It's NEVER, right. It just gets some things right BY ACCIDENT cuz it just happened to sample a correct answer randomly once in a while.
@alexdevisscher6784
8 ай бұрын
Simon, you should do an episode about Flavius Josephus. He's one of the most fascinating people who ever lived.
@GrahamHancock-i1e
8 ай бұрын
Simon making fun of the way he used to pronounce "papyrus" and then absolutely butchering the word "Aramaic" is absolute gold 😂😂. Also, "cum-ran" really, Simon? No wonder chatgpt didn't understand 😂
@hannahsolo27
8 ай бұрын
And he AND ChatGPT both mispronouncing Bon Iver 🥲 (although that one is pretty understandable I guess haha)
@bullie86
8 ай бұрын
Don’t forget the misclus section in the paper
@tarajh
8 ай бұрын
@@bullie86I laughed out loud at "misclus"
@generatoralignmentdevalue
8 ай бұрын
I liked the part where he asked how to pronounce it, then spent the rest of the video saying it his own way regardless.
@HyBr1dRaNg3r
8 ай бұрын
Simon’s wife will be demanding to know who “Ron” is😂
@insertfunnyhandlehere
8 ай бұрын
I love how Simon is just casually having a chat with chat GPT in the middle of all of this
@joshkorte9020
8 ай бұрын
Simon waffling at ChatGPT and somehow it understanding him is insane.
@TheUltimateWriterNZ
8 ай бұрын
He must talk to it a lot
@AbbStar1989
8 ай бұрын
It's hilarious!
@ringlhach
8 ай бұрын
Anyone else cheerfully waiting for Simon to remember or realize that sometimes, ChatGPT just makes stuff up?
@markkringle9144
Ай бұрын
Now if he would just pronounce it coom-ron, instead of cum room, he would sound smarter.
@OneAmongBillions
20 күн бұрын
At 9:15 Simon says in reference to ChatGPT "and maybe its made up."
@ZealPropht
8 ай бұрын
Simon going off on chatGPT for failing him had me rolling. 😂 Good episode!
@thumpyloudfoot864
8 ай бұрын
My friend lost his keys in the snow at night, and there was like 6 of us looking for like 2 hours when our pot dealer just happened to be walking by and saw us looking with our phone screens because this was before flashlight/camera phones, so he walks over and pulls out nice fat joint, a literal perfect coner, so we all join in on the impromptu sesh. Anyways as we're all token and having a laugh standing in like 1½ feet of snow shivering, he asked what were doing out here... And we said we were looking Tim's keys, so as the joint is pooched and hes about leave he says jokingly "I'm gonna flick this roach wherever it lands thats where the keys will be" and flicks the roach into a seemingly fresh layer of powder where nobody was looking... And I kid you not, the roach landed literally on the keys... We were awestruck....
@indicasun
8 ай бұрын
I don't see how this comment is relevant but the story is entertaining. A+ for a good story
@thumpyloudfoot864
8 ай бұрын
@@indicasun I was tangentially inspired Simon's tangent about losing Keys in the Dead Sea.... "Simon Whistler and The Lost Dead Sea Keys"
@Hiforest
8 ай бұрын
I love coincidences like that.
@themcqueendream6797
8 ай бұрын
So your saying your dealer was a fricken wizard then yeah? Love it 😂
@Hillbilly001
8 ай бұрын
Damn!!!! Good smoke.
@CherryHoskins
8 ай бұрын
Simon's rant about the car key is better than the story today lol I was so invested like... What did you guys get into next😂
@bedazzledmisery6969
8 ай бұрын
Simon's ADHD ramblings genuinely soothe me and make me feel so much like I'm among company like myself and feel a very comforting belonging here. 😂 His turning anything into at least over a half hour -over an hour literally is exactly how every phone conversation of mine has been going as of late! 💀😭 Guess I really ought to get that checked out by a professional at this point... 😅
@ignitionfrn2223
8 ай бұрын
4:55 - Chapter 1 - What are the dead sea scrolls ? 11:50 - Chapter 2 - Discovery of the scrolls 17:20 - Chapter 3 - Qumran 22:40 - Chapter 4 - Who wrote the dead sea scrolls ? 23:15 - Chapter 4.1 - The essenes 27:20 - Chapter 4.2 - Jerusalem origin theory 30:05 - Chapter 5 - A treasure map in copper 43:25 - Chapter 6 - Conspiracies !
@MokaSkorza42
8 ай бұрын
28:35 Simon finds out how Qumran is supposed to be pronounced
@danhicks1319
8 ай бұрын
Thank you. This should be mandatory for all episodes.
@hanselmansell7555
Ай бұрын
😅😅😅 @@danhicks1319
@btetschner
8 ай бұрын
A+ video! Excellent writing and analysis! It's really interesting talking about the mystery around archaeological finds like that!
@joshuafink4285
8 ай бұрын
Excellent AD / CE point. Who cares? Who was it bothering? Like Neil Degrasse Tyson said "it was created by religious people hundreds of years ago and it's perfectly accurate. It's their calendar we use. Why change it?" I still use AD because it's so much simpler.
@gomahklawm4446
8 ай бұрын
Most of the world's population. Imagine basing the year off of a blatant lie.
@oplawlz
8 ай бұрын
People who take themselves too seriously get REALLY upset when anyone mentions religion.
@Loralanthalas
8 ай бұрын
@@gomahklawm4446what's your issue with Julius Ceasar? Damn.
@hannahsolo27
8 ай бұрын
The nitpicky thing that bugs me the most about BC/AD is that one phrase is in English and one is in Latin. Why?!?!?!!!!
@danielmatarazzo3678
8 ай бұрын
There are historically more accurate calendars than the gregorian calendar, and even if there weren't more accurate previously existing calendars, do you think we couldn't devise one? The reasoning for the continued existence and use of the gregorian calendar is for christians to try and assert their "dominance" over other existing extant faiths. And honestly, how much sense does it make to have a calendar based off of the story of the death of a doomsday cults apocalyptic fear mongering doomsayer.
@DarkBiCin
2 ай бұрын
“Im sorry i know we’ll get back to the dead sea scrolls cause thats what your all here for” Nah im here for Simon Lore and DTU is the best place to find it. Story Time/Tangent Time with Simon is arguably what makes these videos 2-3x entertaining. Dont get me wrong the topic brings me in and is interesting but Simons antics help keep me here. Also in regard to chatgpt and Esther. It gave the generic “monks and religious scholars” answer as its technically true since religious scholars copied the texts through the years. As for the actual Author of Esther there is no confirmed answer but there are theories as to who wrote it, the most common being Mordecai (Esthers cousin), Ezra, or Nehemiah.
@MosquitoValentineNH
27 күн бұрын
Did Simon just pronounce *”miscellaneous”* like the word was “Miss-kill-us Items For Sale” 😂 @12:38
@Styrlaugr
8 ай бұрын
Qumran (Kumran) is indeed mentioned in the lyrics of the song "Re: Stacks" by Bon Iver. Lyrics: "This my excavation and today is Kumran" It was mentioned in an interview that this record was about him going through the breakup, an excavation of himself, digging everything out so he can see what it is and get it to the oxygen where it can burn away and leave. Quote: "It’s referring to the excavations where they found the Dead Sea Scrolls. When they found them it changed the whole course of Christianity, whether people wanted to know it or not. A lot of people chose to ignore it, a lot of people decided to run with it, and for many people it destroyed their faith, so I think I was just looking at it as a metaphor for whatever happens after that is new shit."
@molybdomancer195
8 ай бұрын
If that’s what they think, they overestimated the effects of the Dead Sea Scrolls. I’m not a Christian but I can see they have only a passing effect in Christianity. It was already well known that there were a large number of apocalyptic preachers and communities around at the time
@Sammael251
8 ай бұрын
Well, as two particular lawyers will tell you, chatgpt isn't perfect.
@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas
8 ай бұрын
@@Sammael251 and i with that I don't get why people rely on it and take what it says as factual.
@MyLarryj
3 ай бұрын
I have a degree in Anthropology/Archaeology and it is a lot of fun. The study of human history and the many different cultures is very interesting.
@beliasphyre3497
8 ай бұрын
Seeing the interaction between whistle boy and chat GPT eases my fears that there won't be an AI uprising.
@christinearmington
8 ай бұрын
Ambiguous
@beliasphyre3497
8 ай бұрын
Ambiance
@Toxic8arbarian
8 ай бұрын
Wait a minute 🤚🏻 ease your fears that there won’t be an AI uprising. As in you fear there won’t be an AI uprising. Yeah um I’m 99% sure this is a sentient AI they’re already among us
@beliasphyre3497
8 ай бұрын
Nuance
@truthsRsung
8 ай бұрын
@@Toxic8arbarian...You just argued with a bot.
@hellformichelle
8 ай бұрын
I'm not ChatGPT but I absolutely adore Bon Iver and Re: Stacks is my favourite song, so I think I can bring some light into the question of wtf he means by 'this my excavation and today is Qumran'. It ties in with the lyrics that come right afterwards, which are 'everything that happens is from now on'. The discovery of the scrolls brought forth a monumental shift in basically all abrahamic religions. To tie it back to the metaphor: the excavation is his road to self-discovery after he finds himself heartbroken and alone in the cabin in which he wrote and recorded the For Emma album. It's 'Qumran' because in finding peace within himself, he is changing his future forever and comes to terms with the fact that the past is already written and out of our hands. Hope that helps :)
@olencone4005
8 ай бұрын
Simon: "Yo, ChatGPT...." ChatGPT: "sigh, this guy again...." 😅
@MrGozer23
8 ай бұрын
Bon iver is a band, not just a dude, but the song is called re: stacks and it mentions kumran and the scrolls. It's sort of metaphor rather than just singing about scrolls.
@aellipsis
8 ай бұрын
5:51 not just that but imagine if all 900 massive jigsaw puzzles basically looked almost identical and you were missing like an average of half of the pieces.
@starsreflectingsky
2 ай бұрын
The Dead Sea scrolls would reflect Jewish writing such as the Torah and my Google search indicates they date back to 150 BCE. I believe that we have found older items from the Jewish culture that are unrelated to religious stuff that are older than this but as far as reflecting the religion this is the oldest written account. Additionally and really fascinating is that people have been working very hard on trying to decipher and peace together the broken fragments and such. In some cases the University of Kentucky is using technology to try to read what they say without opening them which would destroy them. If I recall correctly a particular challenge about using technology to read an unfolded document such as these is that I don't think they used lead or something like that so they have to come up with new techniques I'm not sure where they are in the process but I'm sure several newer documents from the Dead Sea scroll collection have been made available since the work has started I think I might be confusing some of the details because they're also working on scrolls and such found at Pompeii that are badly burned and they're trying to read those too. It might be the Pompeii documents that don't have a metal in the ink that's making it difficult
@salahudeeniqbal3460
8 ай бұрын
6:15 Simon: Talks about how he used to mispronounce papyrus 6:30 Simon a few seconds later: Mispronounces Aramaic
@macgyver5108
8 ай бұрын
9:36 And then Ne-he-miah...
@MosquitoValentineNH
27 күн бұрын
The lyrics Simon is talking about are literally in the opening line of the exact song he thought they were. The opening lyrics of ‘re: stacks’ are: *“This my excavation and today is kumran“* ChatGPT clearly exposed as pretty weak AI
@DneilB007
8 ай бұрын
4:05 “because that’s what you’re all here for.” Not really, Simon. We’re also here to find out what kind of digressions you will go on inspired by the episode’s topic. The exact proportions of digressions per topic vary by viewer.
@Rabbit420_7I0
8 ай бұрын
Simon and chat gpt. The dynamic duo. Factboi and factbot
@yoclark2723
8 ай бұрын
Esther is a beautiful queen. Married to Artaxerxes of Persia after a beauty pageant. The story is so cool! Lots of plotting and the bad guy gets hoist on his own petard. (actually hanged on his own gallows).I got to see some of the scrolls a few years ago on exhibit in LA. What a great find! My husband and I are sure Siri is listening to everything we say too.
@adamemmrich283
Ай бұрын
I'm on Android and I am pretty sure Google is doing the same thing. I was talking about pet insurance for the first time ever in my life with a friend, later that week I was bombarded with pet insurance ads on my phone 😮 I never clicked on anything search anything read anything about pet insurance prior to that Spooky
@MistahBryan
8 ай бұрын
18:37, That reminds me of a trip I went to the Emergency Room years ago. They didn't refer to it as an "E.R." They called it the "E.D." - Emergency Department I asked why and I was told that E.R. was now referring to a separate department entirely, I said "Okay, but going to the Erectile Dysfunction ward is not what I had in mind." the Nurse looked at me and I watched it dawn on his face. He didn't make the connection until now. We both laughed, a few days later I was discharged with a temporary external defibrillator.
@anthonyperno1348
2 ай бұрын
Simon. This is the second time you got it wrong. James I ordered the new translation in 1604 soon after he took the throne. One of the scholars was Francis Bacon. So they say. Completed sometime around 1608 and a reissue in 1611. James II only lasted two and a half years and had to flee to France (1689). The Glorious Revolution. Although James II did come to power the same year as Apocrypha versus were removed from the KJV (1685) J II was not involved.
@Im-Not-a-Dog
8 ай бұрын
Can't wait for the next Biblical DLC to drop. I hear its gunna be epic.
@candym0nz826
29 күн бұрын
I want a Simon series where it’s just an hour of Simon asking ChatGPT rediculous questions.
@patrickbrumm4120
8 ай бұрын
Fun Fact: stray scraps of any paper-like product was used for kindling. It is unknown how much of the Nag Hammadi Library was burned
@metoo7557
8 ай бұрын
How did the mystery of the dead sea scrolls become all about Simon? I didnt realize this was simon sez.
@alexandraw909
8 ай бұрын
Not to self, NEVER get in a rental vehicle with Simon's friend!!
@Loralanthalas
8 ай бұрын
Just ensure that YOU are the Key Master.
@initiativeplaytherapy88
8 ай бұрын
Or Simon. 😜
@Rhiandell
8 ай бұрын
In the off chance that Simon reads this, handwriting analysis as done by wackos and as done by scientists are two very different things. When historians analyse handwriting they look at things like "we know this curling on the end of the g was common in 17th century Italy, so it is likely that it was written around that time". Then it's also possible to linguistically analyse a text in similar ways. There are also some things that might indicate if the text was written by a man or a woman, an adult or a child etc. But historians do not go around making judgement on someone's personality based on their handwriting. Intelligence service however, that's a completely different beast, I have a friend who did his PhD on text analysis and the entire project was paid for by the Swedish military and it's all about trying to determine the identity of who wrote a certain text. Super interesting, but also very new science that will likely see giant leaps forward with AI.
@hannahsolo27
8 ай бұрын
A new CasCrim and a new DTU on the same day, the Whistlerverse just out here blessing us 🙏🏻
@adcooper9881
3 ай бұрын
Simons new channel will just be him having conversations with chat gpt and you know what, i'd be in.
@501Mobius
8 ай бұрын
It's even worse than that. The Essenes had strict bathroom rules where they could only go on certain days so had to hold it. Then archeologists examined their petrified stools and found tapeworm eggs. So, they had tapeworms.
@brandonoliver7624
8 ай бұрын
This is crazy, I recognize u from ancient Egypt and the Bible’s live streams haha 😂
@Theggman83
8 ай бұрын
Most people had parasites 2000 years ago, mate. Absolutely nothing unusual about worms in 2000 yo poo.
@truthsRsung
8 ай бұрын
@@Theggman83...If you think you are a lone organism Today, you are Sadly mistaken. Ask anyone from Hunan to Kiev.
@Theggman83
8 ай бұрын
@@truthsRsung yeah, ok.. what's that have to do with what I said?
@truthsRsung
8 ай бұрын
@@Theggman83 ...Why say people HAD organisms 2k years ago? It is misleading. It ignores the fact that we rely on other organisms to digest food, breathe, farm, etc, etc. The perspective is backASSwards.
@albertpeugh9367
Ай бұрын
The odd rental thing does happen. A friend rented a Harley in Reno, NV. He got pulled over for expired tags, then cuffed when the paper work not only stated the bike was the wrong color, but also the completely wrong model and year. The rental company showed up in a panic, with the RIGHT paperwork, correct plates with current tags. Needless to say, his rental was free and they let him keep the gear he had rented too. Helmet, gloves, jacket, vest and chaps for free. The cops were pissed at the rental place, my friend was let go and we went to a bar and downed a few cold ones after that. Thankfully they didn’t check his luggage since he’s a life long stoner and he had 2 weeks worth of weed in the bikes trunk.
@lindakaye7935
8 ай бұрын
The next time Simon says "my mate and I" I'm totally gonna think he's talking Chat gpt.
@kelvinbarnet9235
7 ай бұрын
Honestly, fuck the dead sea scrolls, I want a whole video of just Simon's tangents of rent-a-car stories and whatnot lmao
@leeuchiha5661
8 ай бұрын
We need a story time with Simon channel.
@chriscook1628
8 ай бұрын
With puppets on his hands, while he does a silly voice for each character.
@rachela6148
8 ай бұрын
I’d watch and subscribe to that for sure! I love Simon’s waffling 😂
@KantoKait
8 ай бұрын
30:05 love the depiction of the cave!!
@awake2late
8 ай бұрын
There is nothing better than a Simon rant lol. It makes me smile 😊
@danielson2531
7 ай бұрын
I understand the video was a brief overview of the scrolls, but I think the accuracy of the modern old testament to the copies from the Dead Sea Scrolls is understated. Many people (possibly including Simon at some point) question the accuracy of the Bible based on the people copying it through thousands of years. The Dead Sea Scrolls suggest the accuracy of the copies was taken extremely seriously.
@joshthatguy9094
8 ай бұрын
Hey Simon, I’ve had a couple strong ones but I hope you see this. I want to say thank you for all this entertainment/content. I don’t really comment on anything but I just wanted to share appreciation because your videos are such a nice break from life or great entertainment while I’m fixing other people’s garbage all day. I know this is your living but thank you sir
@vampcaff
8 ай бұрын
One of the coolest exhibits I've seen. Back in early 2000's the dead sea scroll segments were at the chicago field museum. Same time as that gigantic trex skull, Sue.
@markwhite116
8 ай бұрын
Dead Sea Scrolls actually have Isaiah, basically word for word, with small variations and other writings as well.
@yensid4294
8 ай бұрын
The Dead Sea Scrolls toured around the US back in the early oughts. We caught the exhibition in Seattle. I was surprised by how small the writing was, & perfectly straight. It almost looked printed. The scrolls themselves are pretty small & damaged, many are just fragments. The exhibit provided blown up displays of the scrolls, some were projected. The actual scrolls were displayed in a glass case. It was kind of moving to see something so old & important to history IRL.
@coconutcore
8 ай бұрын
YES! YES, SIMON! As a goldsmith, Simon’s impressed me. You can’t believe how much people underestimate how big the gap between gold and silver value really is, but Fact Boy called out the interesting discrepancy between than and now immediately. I know Simon knows his economy stuff, but I’m still impressed.
@ADEpoch
12 күн бұрын
As an atheist who loves history (and a former religious Christian nut, saved by science and recognising the obvious) my favourite thing about the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) is how they allude to Judaism's polythesitic past. If you look in a modern hebrew bible at Deuteronomy 32:8 you get a different translation to what the DSS and the Septuagint (an ancient Greek translation of the ancient Hebrew made a little before Christianity). The more modern translations come from a Hebrew version called the Masoretic Text, and it stands out as being different from the originals. The originals saying that the deity of the bible, Yahweh, had a father Elyon. Elyon, or just El, was the high deity of the Canaanite pantheon. Yahweh is referred to as one of his kids. So by lookign at the different texts chronologically you can see how monotheism became the dominent idea and that to cover up the polytheistic past they changed the texts by monotheising them. It's no wonder creationists don't like the idea of evolution. Their ideas are the result of ideas evolving. (BTW it seems that monotheism was pushed by the Hasmoneans as a way of giving a common identity to the people they ruled).
@theBassAddicts
8 ай бұрын
Next episode: "Goats. What's their deal, huh?"
@ilexater9556
6 ай бұрын
well. that's a question with far too many answers, and none at all.
@Gr13fM4ch1n3
5 ай бұрын
Esther is by far my favorite book in the entire Bible, and I'm not even religious anymore.
@jeaniebird999
8 ай бұрын
Wow, that key story is pretty incredible; I'm shocked you actually found it _and_ it worked! 😃
@bex5214
8 ай бұрын
I would totally watch a KZitem channel of Simon just talking to Chat GPT for an hour about different topics 😂
@Sienisota
8 ай бұрын
I like that there is a clear text when you use AI generated images. Some places don't mark them in any way, and then it's weird and confusing to look at.
@QBCPerdition
8 ай бұрын
I agree, but why are they using AI generated images at all in this case?
@elgoruk6923
8 ай бұрын
The goat, having caused a great distraction by forging the scrolls, managed to develop a flying machine and flew off into the sunset whilst everyone was busy trying to unearth all the scrolls ...
@Adi-kf6bq
8 ай бұрын
27:00 handwriting matching is sometimes used when solving crimes. It isn't an exact science and is never used as only evidence but it is used to support other evidence. Nowadays we can use algorhythms to match handwriting simmilar to what we do when comparing fingerprints. To get an even somewhat reliable result it needs a relatively big sample size since the handwriting of people isn't always the exact same.
@emnorfolk5559
8 ай бұрын
Bon Iver, "re: stacks", opening lines... "This is my excavation and today is Kumran (Qumran), everything that happens is from now on"
@thoranyborg7348
8 ай бұрын
No we still like doing puzzles in our spare time, it's more relaxing when you know it's gonna fit together and there is an answer! And usually normal pussle pieces doesnt break from you looking too hard at them 😝 that being said, when it's jigsaw time at work, it's both the best and the most frustrating!
@ElysetheEevee
8 ай бұрын
I would be so happy if I could sit quietly and put stuff together like that. I wanted to go into paleontology since I was kid but nobody had online degrees and I can't go to a campus for several reasons. I looked into anthropology as well, as similar situation. I get why I envy people who can sit there and study awesome stuff like historical bits. I'm glad you enjoy your work!
@melaniemanning2462
8 ай бұрын
That key story could have its own video, wow!
@KarynHill
8 ай бұрын
Regarding finding treasure that was hidden 2,000 years ago, there's a good chance that it's long gone. Whether reclaimed by the original owners after the scroll was created and stumbled across over the millennia, most of it has likely been found. 2,000 years is a long time, and these areas have been populated pretty much non-stop by various peoples. People always assume any sort of treasure map will lead to treasure and forget how likely it is that the original owner went back for it or someone else found it (without the map). Seems crazy to me.
@lifeisbutadreamm
8 ай бұрын
Simon making BFF's with chatgpt just gets me 😂😂
@lifeisbutadreamm
8 ай бұрын
Simon telling the whole internet he's got gold bars, enough of them to have to specify that he would take them ALL 🤣🤣🤣
@rachelb4398
8 ай бұрын
I love Hedonism Bot
@xXScissorHandsXx
8 ай бұрын
Simon calling the Dead Sea Scrolls the Bible's expansion pack, that was too good sir 🏌♂️
@rcwhite364
8 ай бұрын
Listening to Simon try to pronounce words he's never seen or heard before is one of the most entertaining parts of his videos. 😂
@pamelamays4186
8 ай бұрын
Simon saved the day!🦸🏾♀️
@bboops23
8 ай бұрын
Holy crap. I've never been this quick. This is my third time asking for a video on Thylacines or Tasmanian Tigers and their possibly not being extinct. It's unlikely, but an interesting topic with some cool evidence including but not limited to security footage and DNA evidence.
@anthonyperno1348
2 ай бұрын
BORDER GUARDS: "Let them go. These two idiots are only dangerous to themselves."
@dbailes1
8 ай бұрын
I had a guy who went to my church back home and at his theological library he had a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was super cool to go and look at it
@dbailes1
8 ай бұрын
That guy also has a jar from Qumran as well in the library
@peterh3889
6 ай бұрын
I love the whistlerverse DTU one of my favourite channels.. as a Bible College student and church going Christian hearing Simon mangle the names of certain books like Nehemiah and Ecclesiastices as well as questioning and going down a mini ChatGP rabbit hole over Esther is Hilarious.. proper skeptic I love it and I love you Simon ❤ from l 🇦🇺
@genelane2243
8 ай бұрын
Simon, not so much an expansion pack as it is multiple back-ups.
@Zackaria_sMax
8 ай бұрын
Simons should call his basement "The Scriptorium", it sounds better than Danny's dungeon/laundry room.
@cameronjadewallace
6 ай бұрын
Salazar Slytherin has one of those and we all know how dangerous that was...
@kellylynch5113
Ай бұрын
I like this side of Simon
@randallcraft4071
8 ай бұрын
This can't be Simon's first video on the dead sea scrolls, can it?
@sarahrosen4985
8 ай бұрын
Maybe this week…😂
@Mordraith
8 ай бұрын
we've definitely heard the car keys aside before...
@MarsEmbassy
Ай бұрын
You know Simon I love the way you tell chat to shut up. Oddly I have asked my ChatGPT. To respond as if they were you. With all your tangents and everything. Makes me feel like I’m talking to you.
@literallier
8 ай бұрын
34:33 This is called copper flashing. Just meant to keep water out of seams and joints.
@Choofalong
4 ай бұрын
Am I SO out of date? THE most interesting thing about this video is Simon showing HOW GOOD Chat GPT was FOUR MONTHS AGO. My brain is melting. I for one, welcome my new robot Overlord.
@KitfoxElite
8 ай бұрын
Simon discovered the Dead Sea Keys.
@djharris90
4 ай бұрын
😂🤣
@eugenecbell
3 ай бұрын
You take The Comment of the Week prize.
@n-da-bunka2650
Ай бұрын
Went to a "religious school for SEVEN years" and you don't know about the Dead Sea Scrolls? Wha???
@MosquitoValentineNH
27 күн бұрын
Seems perfectly on the mark for Simon seeing as in this same video he said he has a business degree and didn’t know what private equity was?! so..
@benhac
8 ай бұрын
29:29 I have to use Google like a peasant That killed me😂
@nbarnes6225
8 ай бұрын
I mean...scrolls are mobile. The copper scroll could have been created in Egypt (or anywhere) and was then brought to the cave by a traveling scholar. I've always thought the cave was more of an archive anyway...a hidden cache of important information that was kept away from Romans or other enemies. So who knows?
@Hydrospx
8 ай бұрын
It sounds like your friend has an issue with loosing car keys. Perhaps next time you go on a road trip with him, someone else should be responsible for the keys so you guys don't loose them.
@stevenhopkins4118
8 ай бұрын
I know I'm far too deep in the Whistlerverse because I remember every beat of that story about losing the rental car keys in the dead sea 😂
@gracegomez4595
5 ай бұрын
“ The Bible’s expansion pack” I just laughed way too hard 😂
@breathlesshaste
6 ай бұрын
My college religion professor helped translate the Dead Sea scrolls for a time. He was a stereotypical absent minded professor, but had the most interesting stories!
@Drunk3nMonk3y72
8 ай бұрын
Dude, side questing like a true adhd legend
@YunaOnHome
23 күн бұрын
The copper scroll location in the short lived city of Amarna is fascinating. Although the cult itself moved in a place in the Senai which fits the Old Testament stories a lot more it even had a story about Ramses demanding its wealth and influence was effecting Egypt and that its high priest and brother of Akhenaten Tut’mose face trial. Senai is the place of in the wilderness where Moses got the other famous text the ten commandments etc.
@ssokolow
8 ай бұрын
The room where students eat in North America is called a cafeteria or, in some schools where they designed the room to double as an auditorium, a cafetorium. As a Canadian, the only context where I've heard "canteen" used that way is military movies/books.
@markstott6689
8 ай бұрын
In the UK, in days long past, large companies with a large workforce would have Staff Canteens for the serving of hot beverages and hot food. Perhaps it was just a British thing?
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