Comments on: Tim Minchin’s Storm the Animated Movie http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/ The official Derren Brown Blog Mon, 07 May 2012 09:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Mark http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-86369 Mark Thu, 05 May 2011 20:42:20 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-86369 Liked the film, the use of language, the use of characters, the insight into one of a myriad of perspectives one could take on oberving and interacting with the world. Not particularly interested in whether or not any of the views expressed were open to debate. A really good, thoroughly enjoyable piece. Well Done! Liked the film, the use of language, the use of characters, the insight into one of a myriad of perspectives one could take on oberving and interacting with the world. Not particularly interested in whether or not any of the views expressed were open to debate. A really good, thoroughly enjoyable piece. Well Done!

]]> By: Fester60613 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85419 Fester60613 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:24:27 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85419 I really enjoyed this little film... thanks for posting. @ Tino - no one who has been severely depressed will refute the efficacy of drug therapy. I'm sorry you're surrounded by people who have no empathy for you. Perhaps you can find the resources to get out of that and into a more positive and supporting situation? Good luck to you. @Rob - accupuncture does work sometimes. It cured my years-long sinus problem in 12 minutes. Really! @Alan & Berber: there are no unassailable standards - neither good nor bad. Name someone evil and there exists or has existed someone worse. Name someone good and there exists or has existed someone better. It is one of the truths of human beings: we express the entire range of our potential for good and for evil. We always have and we probably always will. I really enjoyed this little film… thanks for posting.
@ Tino – no one who has been severely depressed will refute the efficacy of drug therapy. I’m sorry you’re surrounded by people who have no empathy for you. Perhaps you can find the resources to get out of that and into a more positive and supporting situation? Good luck to you.
@Rob – accupuncture does work sometimes. It cured my years-long sinus problem in 12 minutes. Really!
@Alan & Berber: there are no unassailable standards – neither good nor bad. Name someone evil and there exists or has existed someone worse. Name someone good and there exists or has existed someone better. It is one of the truths of human beings: we express the entire range of our potential for good and for evil. We always have and we probably always will.

]]> By: Berber Anna http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85191 Berber Anna Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:21:10 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85191 Alan, how is science an unassailable standard? Science is a method -- posit a theory, then try to disprove it. If you can't, it may hold water. That's how the doctor you refer to found the connection between helicobacter pylori and stomach ulcers: By applying the scientific method. He theorised that swallowing infected material would cause ulcers, so he did so. Had he not developed an ulcer, his theory would have been void. But he did, and that was the first step into finding the cause of stomach ulcers. Quantum physics isn't magic, it's physics. It just doesn't answer to former ideas of how the universe works, so new theories were made and old ones adapted. That's what science is. That's what it does. Magic is the belief in ritual over observation and understanding. Alan, how is science an unassailable standard? Science is a method — posit a theory, then try to disprove it. If you can’t, it may hold water. That’s how the doctor you refer to found the connection between helicobacter pylori and stomach ulcers: By applying the scientific method. He theorised that swallowing infected material would cause ulcers, so he did so. Had he not developed an ulcer, his theory would have been void. But he did, and that was the first step into finding the cause of stomach ulcers.
Quantum physics isn’t magic, it’s physics. It just doesn’t answer to former ideas of how the universe works, so new theories were made and old ones adapted. That’s what science is. That’s what it does. Magic is the belief in ritual over observation and understanding.

]]> By: alan http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85190 alan Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:35:13 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85190 Tim Minchin’s $#*! Storm? Isn’t quantum physics magic enough for you mate? Since it appears to operate in a way completely contrary to the accepted human understand of how reality must be. If we set science or anything else up as an unassailable standard, we get situations. Like the one with the two Australian doctors, and the rejected, but real, cure for stomach ulcers. Tim Minchin’s $#*! Storm?
Isn’t quantum physics magic enough for you mate? Since it appears to operate in a way completely contrary to the accepted human understand of how reality must be. If we set science or anything else up as an unassailable standard, we get situations. Like the one with the two Australian doctors, and the rejected, but real, cure for stomach ulcers.

]]> By: unmevsworld http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85086 unmevsworld Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:22:02 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85086 Nicholas: I had not heard of the 100 people project. I'm glad you put that little plug in there, even if it was a little OT. I look forward to sharing this with my children and wider family. Nicholas:
I had not heard of the 100 people project. I’m glad you put that little plug in there, even if it was a little OT. I look forward to sharing this with my children and wider family.

]]> By: Catharine http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85045 Catharine Sun, 10 Apr 2011 13:38:33 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85045 Ok, that's not really a "beat poem," she said pedantically, but AWESOME. Ok, that’s not really a “beat poem,” she said pedantically, but AWESOME.

]]> By: Rob http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85043 Rob Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:37:13 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85043 @Tony Marrese Small correction...acupuncture doesn't work (any better than a placebo). http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=3029 @Tony Marrese

Small correction…acupuncture doesn’t work (any better than a placebo).

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=3029

]]> By: Steve Broome http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85031 Steve Broome Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:18:24 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85031 Great stuff, was this done in Toon Boom? Flash? Great stuff, was this done in Toon Boom? Flash?

]]> By: seachicken http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85027 seachicken Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:11:57 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85027 This is amazing and hilariously true. the amount of people who don't or are too ignorant believe in a ever changing science and history is unbelievable. i am willing to believe in any other reasoning to life and whatever else, should there be proper evidence, but there is none so science gives us as humans to get some form of truth to the world and its beings and has real evidence of worth. This is amazing and hilariously true. the amount of people who don’t or are too ignorant believe in a ever changing science and history is unbelievable. i am willing to believe in any other reasoning to life and whatever else, should there be proper evidence, but there is none so science gives us as humans to get some form of truth to the world and its beings and has real evidence of worth.

]]> By: Tino http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2011/04/tim-minchins-storm-animated-movie/#comment-85025 Tino Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:05:54 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=16086#comment-85025 This is great!! I am on my way up after a depressive episode. I have lived with ppl and in an environment for quite some while where ppl keep telling me medication is wrong and that it is just a process i need to go through, or that source or spirit or some shit is trying to tell me something. They wont even take an asprin if they have a headache because they view the headache as something that has significance and needs to be worked through emotionally... or you could take an asprin. I laughed my ass off for the first time in weeks listening to this. Nice one!!! This is great!! I am on my way up after a depressive episode. I have lived with ppl and in an environment for quite some while where ppl keep telling me medication is wrong and that it is just a process i need to go through, or that source or spirit or some shit is trying to tell me something. They wont even take an asprin if they have a headache because they view the headache as something that has significance and needs to be worked through emotionally… or you could take an asprin. I laughed my ass off for the first time in weeks listening to this. Nice one!!!

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