@@andyc9902 I’d say he’s more of a right-winger, but he doesn’t seem too hard right. He admits himself to be a “moderate right libertarian” as we’ve seen in this video.
“high quality” i like this dudes content, but everything he’s ever made on this channel is pretty low quality and low effort editing wise. no offense to him, i think it’s part of the charm of the channel
@AileDiablo The "humans are not animals" - thing is not necessarily an IMO false idea of man but a false idea of animals which traditionally are seen as kind of robots which they aren't which everyone knows who ever had a domestic animal. What even _is_ an animal? We must find a definition which includes so vastly different life forms altogether from single-celled plasmodia and sponges up to Bonobos, and we find animals to be heterotrophic eukaryotes without cell walls. This holds for us humans.
@@KingKurokage Yeah, but the editing isn’t his strong point Honestly, it’s more the arguments he makes that i personally find interesting And you are right about the charm part lol
@@jensphiliphohmann1876 I think emotions (especially base emotions) and "instincts" are the same thing and that all mammals share much if not all of them. For instance, that Bear is angry. It's "instinct" is to protect it's territory (maybe cubs nearby) and that is kicked into gear/driven by anger and fear of losing something precious (cubs/life). Yes, your dog loves you. It just can't conceptualize what "love" is the way we do.
2:29 Is science a worthwhile basis for society? 9:45 Are markets always good? 14:08 How much of an effect does genetics had on history? 20:28 Is there something real behind the spirit world? 26:38 Do we have any idea what we are doing? 32:29 Do stakeholders have to be in charge of the government? 40:54 Are modern religions what their prophets preached?
That or boil religious philosophies down to their core value/s I don't know enough about other faiths but aside from the redemption part, Love they neighbor as you would love yourself. That's about as core as Christianity gets.
@@CausticSpace In my experience, as a Christian who grew up with a lot of Christian friends and also Muslims and more, almost all of them were nice or at least not rude. Furthermore, if they are disrespectful, they are not following God's words (the bible) or whatever their religion is. The Bible says that everyone must love one another the way they love themselves. Therefore, please do not blame the religion, but rather the individual.
I love that you use the present progressive tense …”I’m still looking for truth” … Quickest way to stop trusting someone is when they think they’ve fully found truth and have stopped the lifelong process of discovering what is truly real
That right there is why I'm still Christian even after my childhood faith fell apart after high school, but not a fundamentalist. I grew up a fundamentalist, feeling that I had all the answers or at least that all the answers were within easy reach inside the safe boundaries of my particular religious tradition. Lo and behold, real life smacked me in the face for my ignorance and arrogance. I learned first and foremost that if you've never doubted something even once, you don't really believe it; you just assume it, and real life hasn't seriously challenged that assumption yet. Truth, reality, whatever this is, it's extremely complex and vast. That is why holy books rarely spell out the answers. I've seen atheist RUclipsrs point this out against the Bible as if it were God's responsibility to give humans all the answers in black and white from the get-go. Is that really what anyone wants?
Like I've always said, I'd rather be right than be thought to be right. Even if I lose a debate due to being incorrect or lack of knowledge, I still consider it a win for me. I get the correct information and can use it going forward. There really isn't even an ego loss as "I get the correct information and get to use it going forward." That's a win for me. Who cares about dumb pride.
@@MissingTrailsalso to add on to your point I don’t think God could give us the answers because we wouldn’t be able to comprehend it, it would be like us trying to teach an ant language
Timestamps (it's only 7, not 8 as the title says) 2:29 Is science a worthwhile basis for society? 9:45 Are markets always good? 14:08 How much of an effect does genetics had on history? 20:28 Is there something real behind the spirit world? 26:38 Do we have any idea what we are doing? 32:29 Do stakeholders have to be in charge of the government? 40:54 Are modern religions what their prophets preached?
I just found your channel and have binged half a dozen videos . It’s rare to find a content creator who aligns with my views in so many issues . I thought I was alone out here
I have a reflex like desire to discuss topics like these with those around me. Before the "mostly peaceful protests", Orangeman, and the Coof I had a politically diverse social group that would complement me for my courage to broach difficult topics in a nuanced and respectful manner. I was shocked that some of the very people that were the most vocal about respecting me for my heterodox opinions turned on me and demanded that others around them ostracize me from our shared social groups. Since than a few of them have apologized, and even admitted I was right to question the popular narrative, but I will never forget how quickly seemingly rational people will turn into a hateful mob, given the right external social pressures.
Their Narrative is utter Quackery, it could never stand up to intelligent debate.. They quickly resort to Hate speech and Name calling.. If it weren't for Censorship of the Truth, Their Narrative wouldn't fly.. Phoney Science, Phoney Solutions, Phoney News, Phoney People on Social Media, Phoney Congress, Phoney Biden...
So... You support? You called the Don Orange Man, but used words that Democrats were using to describe the Church Burnings and the Chinese Bashing, n Nights of Terror in the Streets that was applauded by Our Roosting Chicken and "Ignore the Border" Kamala.. I hope You are not taking about Pelosi and Her backwards Minions trying to Set Up "the Orangeman" again" Wasting the Courts time, and throwing away Millions of Taxpayer dollars, to Try and fool the Public .. Evil Lies and Conspiracy in the Media, is a Sign of End Times! Yes There are Two Sides! Be firmly attached to the Side that You Choose, and Make it Plain for All to see, lest You be Known for the Treachery and Deceit of Others.. Trump Rallies are the most Peaceful and Patriotic Gatherings on the Planet, Even if You are a Democrat You are Welcome, and You will not be accosted, Where a lone Patriot in a Maga Hat, can't drive down the Street without being Attacked! There is no Politician on the Planet, That could Stand Up to the Scrutiny and Investigation They have Put on Trump, Not a One! They tried 3 times to Kill Him! He's Still 100% Innocent of Any and All Charges! They Edit His words, and Mock Him for what He says! (Everything that Trump has Predicted has become Truth) Everything that They have said about Him, has been found to be Lies! 7 Years of Hateful Investigation Yielded Nothing! They made it All up.. Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer and the King of the Rhinos Mitch McConnell, are the One's that need to be Investigated for Their Crime's against Humanity! They Hate TRUMP because He Promised to Drain the Swamp! They are doing Evil Things to Conceal Evil Ways .. They Will have Us All in Dresses as Men, If We don't put a Stop to This Madness! You are What You Think, What You Think may or may not be a bunch of Hateful Crap! First, Consider the Source, like on the Playground, when a bunch of Kids are attacking a single Kid, it's not the Kid by Himself, but They will Demonize Him or Her, with Lies, to Justify Their Actions! I don't know about You, but for Me, I don't want Anyone in My Government, that would have to Tell Lies, to Justify Their Actions!
If I was on your production team, eugenics, the tie between eugenics, population control and authoritarianism, sterilization and the history of abortion and child "sacrifice" aka infanticide would be on deck. Keep it up.
@@zachofthebattery2864 Likely both, all of these behaviours are in the same wheel house, as is genocide. If you're genocidal then you're definitely for elective non medical abortion in some, if not most cases. Slavery is also from the same place in the psyche.
@@S.J.L I could see that I just like using the fake word "fetacide" because I think we could all agree it is somewhat different in technicality (if not morality ) from its other vile kin
But how is it even possible to use science in order to find our goals? I agree on the first part though, namely that we must use science to achieve them.
@@tomorrowneverdies567 what of all the misery brought by nazi germany that claimed its racist views were based on darvinism? what about the "trust the science" the far left is pushing these days? or the post feminist logic stating that science proves the patriarchy and so we must overthrow them? of course, none of those goals were ever found due to science, but that is how it is presented all the time!
Newton’s theories were so groundbreaking in large part because while describing the laws of motion in mathematical terms he simultaneously was admitting publicly that he still was utterly baffled by how gravity and other “occult forces” he was describing actually worked, and he was really pretty dismayed by how much the theory left unexplained. But that’s how science actually progresses. You explain what you can explain and admit openly that the rest is still up to further inquiry
Its not even cus california is "genetically inferior" or anything either lmfao. Its literally cus California is such an utter shithole, that these people are basically just malnourished to the point it appears statistically.
The problem is that average IQ only matters so much. Much more important is the number of people with IQ above ~115. California probably leads the nation in that. Unfortunately really smart people pursuing really bad ideas because they think it's the morally correct thing to do is still really bad.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 Not really. Dont let ANY of these leftists fool you. The small subsection of smart people in California, are insanely centrists and DESPISE progressives. The guys beyond a standard deviation, are almost always insanely conservative. Thats why the whole term "midwit" is so popular with these people. Its to shit on bugmen like Adam Connover. The only people that act smart and educated, are braindead sociology/communications majors that have to cope with the fact reading some random books dont make u some intellectual.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872liberals can’t have a high iq. Their idea of science is men can be women. So that renders their intelligence null and void . Pelosi, newsom, Feinstein ? No choice but to believe they are midwits at best.
Well LA is their cathedral’s capital, or SF, or NYC. Who knows. Either way, it’s pretty telling that the academics are the dumbest people. There’s an old fable about the tiger and donkey that go before an old wise lion. That donkey is every bit as much as the democrat donkey.
I’m a Philo student working on a critique of scientism rn. Getting in your historical head about these issues is really helpful to see an other way the same dots can be connected. So for my part I just wanna express gratitude for the broad swath of topics you are taking on. Even if your a little to critical of western philo sometimes ha.
I think that he confuses too much what people turned philosophy into with what the philosophers said but seeing his approach to politics religion and morality he probably doesn’t see a difference
"This video is probably going to offend every part of the political, religious, and philosophic spectrums." Absolutely fantastic. I'm so on board! Let's do this!
I honestly wasn't offended by anything. I disagreed on one or two specifics, just based on personal experience, but all the reasoning and data was well founded.
@@r3dp9 Absolutely. Same here. That's why I love his work and videos. It's a refreshing departure from the loaded modern media perspective. The past two videos have been my favorites.
The start of the video: "This video is probably going to offend every part of the political, religious, and philosophic spectrums." The rest of the video: "Actually just @#$% leftists. Leftists are wrong about everything. Rightists are right because we're RATIONAL (= religious)."
Earthquakes are so random that cannot be predicted yet. What dogs feel are the P waves, the ones that humans dont feel and the first ones travelling and compressing the soil after the rupture. I came from a highly seismic country (Chile) and every time a strong motion would occur, my dogs start to act weird. They can hear it before us, but they cannot predict quakes. Excellent video as always
Going along with that, I wonder if there are forces that we currently cannot or do not measure, that equate with some kinds of spiritualism. Maybe there are things that evade our attempts to quantify, and yet can be felt on some level.
When you were talking about how to education system is screwed up it’s so true, it’s not about actually learning and retaining information long term it’s just about passing and getting a good score. I’ve learned more on my on time doing my own research than the current education system could have ever taught me. I hope it changes cause the amount of I uninformed and ignorant people in my generation honestly kinda scares me about what the future will look like.
I'm a teacher and it drives me crazy that I have to strike a balance between stuff that my students actually should learn and stuff that will help them pass the tests. I have no say in the composition of the tests, so I do have to teach some bullshit, and I'm honest about that fact with them. That's the best I can do as just a cog in the machine.
@@bryanlane7208 I wish teachers were afforded more education agency. Thanks for doing the most with limited resources, some of my teachers followed all the rules just for the sake of following them :(
Learning is really about understanding a problem and being able to develop a solution. Being able to determine why something is, while not having all of the info.
Interestingly in the early Christian church they held a council that determined that God's teachings could be separated into into moral and doctrinal prescriptions. Basically things that were moral commandments would always be held true but things like the ban on eating pork were temporary and were prescriptions made to help people during that current age. For instance pork can carry a ton of diseases if improperly handled.
Pork is also very similar to humans, so similar that you can switch a piece of skin with a pig and it will grow as if your own and in that way pig meat also functions the same as cannibalism in the human body where less effort and is needed to digest it and use it as energy or store it as fat which causes a lot of the bad things from the pig to get a hold on our body faster just like in cannibalism
Fun fact: When God commands the Israelites to not wear/use clothing with mixed materials, it was because when you mix linen with wool, you get an incredibly insulating material that would cause you to sweat profusely during the day. In the end, each commandment in the bible is for a persons benefit.
Also, tribes around Israel worshipped certain animals, like shellfish and pigs, so this was also a way to differentiate the Israelites from their neighbors.
@@C61-y9s "Pigs at the Gate: Hittite Pig Sacrifice in Its Eastern Mediterranean Context" By Billie Jean Collins shows that pigs were involved in local practices, currently looking for shellfish stuff, but at the very least Middle Eastern communities with access to water would have had a shellfish celebrations/holidays which would have obviously been pagan in nature. If you're asking about why differentiation was important, you can look at every ancient Israel ritual law and separation from the surrounding communities makes sense as an underpinning. This is not even to say that the writers of the law knew that was the purpose, however considering the fact that God was the one who directly gave these laws down he most likely had multiple purposes in mind for each of them. Circumcision is another one. Like, it would have seemed like a ritual to have everyone wash their hands before eating and not pooping near your water or food supply, but it's ritual turns out to have saved many lives due to its medical significance.
Well, I have had some strange experiences with the Spirit World. When stationed in Germany back in 1978-1979, I had experiences with some people who read Tarot cards and accurately predicted some future events in my life that I found unbelievable. They came to fruition almost against my will. I have had three 'Shared Death Experiences', first with my fathers death. He was expected to not die for a few more years at least but the morning he died He dreamt he came to me in my dream and told me that the spirit world was exactly as a described to him, based on Christian tradition as opposed to his New Age perspective. I had had lucid dreams since a kid (but not since my third heart attack back in Dec 2019, for some unknown reason) and this was also lucid, but it was very troubling to me, so much so that I woke up and sat on the side of the bed and wondered what had happened. An hour later my uncle called me with the bad news that my father had died an hour earlier, when I dreamt about my father being dead. About a month later, my local priest was in my dream, begging me to come and help him. Again, I was deeply disturbed by how real it seemed, and I woke up and sat thinking about it. In both cases, with my father and this priest (Father Wells of Germantown MD) my wife also woke up and urged me to go back to sleep as we both had to get up early to go to work in the morning. She had asked me to drop off something at the pet store nearby and so I drove there on my way to work and saw yellow tape all around the rectory. I found out on the radio that Father Wells had been murdered. The final experience in this regard was with my brother. I was having repeated dreams of me dying from a pain in my chest. It did not feel like the descriptions of a heart attack, but that was what I took it as, maybe some kind of heart related problem despite the pain being in the right side of my chest, and got a doctors appointment. This went on for about a week, and again I told my wife about it. I even posted on Facebook that I was having these dreams. After a week or so, I was called to tell me my brother died of a pulmonary embolism in his right lung. For over a week he had refused to go to a doctor despite his bluish skin and poor energy. I could go on, but the human conscious mind is easily demonstrated by our ability to shift our mental focus from one sensation to another, to a memory, or emotion, or pleasant idea, etc. This ability to focus is the best demonstration of our spirit, our Self that we truly are.
@@ethanwhitney6168 Thaks. I used to have lucid dreams all the time, but after my 3rd heart attack in 2020, I stopped having them for some reason and cannot return to having them. The mindscape is stranger than fiction.
@@richardcheek2432 is it possible that something about the third heart attack was different than the first two? And if so, could the part that was different have affected your soul in some way?
@@comparatorclock I suppose anything is possible, but I am leaning more toward a different set of pain killers being the culprit. I am trying to regain this Lucid dreaming ability by normal processes commonly used. I had them from childhood from things my Dad told be involving dream 'items'. in my case Felix the Cat's Bag of Tricks. I have been able to recall my dreams more readily and with more clarity the past few weeks, so their seems to be progress. But my soul is on God's Hands and I am comfortable with that.
@@richardcheek2432 Hi Richard. Lucid dreaming is not something that you should "try" to achieve. You appear to be, at least previously, Roman Catholic. If you remain the same, you should pause before moving any further in this goal and discuss with your priest. I should add that I am Orthodox, not Roman Catholic, but I imagine that considering the differences are not large between the two faiths or the same in many areas, that Roman Catholicism has similarly extremely cautious or either outright negative things to say about what you are attempting to do. Again, I suggest pausing and learning more before doing anything further. God be with you.
"The only thing you can do is look for people honest and humble telling you that they don't have answers but they are willing to strive together to look for them" --Whaifalthist I am adding this to my very long list of quotes, this is essential.
I think these two videos are the greatest videos I have seen in a long time. Thank you for reaffirming that I am not crazy and my belief structure is actually coherent.
The best analogy I can find for the human experience is being a small speck of amino acid inside a cell inside a human body that is somehow conscious of itself as an individual but completely unaware of its nature, purpose, or position in cell. Vaguely aware that there may be something outside the cell, but with very little chance of ever truly understanding the cell around it let alone one layer above. As a person, we are as a god to the little speck of protein making up a link in the chain of a DNA strand yet in our own way just as unaware of what we are, why we are, and what we are a part of.
My understanding of your comment is as such : One is aware of oneself but not entirely sure of where oneself is in, in the imperceptible totality of the bigger picture.
All I can say is keep doing what you are doing, keep reading, keep looking for answers, you come across as an extremely open minded person and I think you have some real potential of growing your channel and starting some extremely valuable conversations. I truly believe that part of being smart is realizing how little you know, and only wanting more.
Einstein’s universe is not chaotic, it’s quite the contrary. We have discovered an incredibly complex and ordered structure down to the most minute detail.
The primary issue with markets is not that it doesn't ultimately result in the best solutions, it's that those solutions take time and market swings create wild instability while transitioning. That instability is generally mass hardship and death. To address this weakness you must find a way to smooth those transitions for people without effecting the market solution or the government being overthrown.
"We are all entangled, one with another." As an historian and probably Sci Fi fan I suspect you'd like "Galileo's Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson. He tackles that idea of us all being connected with each other in a historical, Science Fiction novel. He won an award for his research into the famous astronomer and used his storytelling to make one hell of a novel.
_Metamodernism_ and _Agnotology_ aim to build a better collective consciousness in which each of us makes more ethical choices. Could be some Solarpunk future. Do check those out for some optimism!
“Science is a limitation and it’s powerful because it’s a limitation.” Goes to show what we can do if we all hold the same set of beliefs, even they aren’t true or when they aren’t wholly true.
Totally agree about archetypes. We're born with certain ideas in our head. For example, we know what a snake or a tiger are and to be afraid of them, even a feral child without human contact would understand that, I think. We have instinct like any other animal.
I've have listened to your channel for several months. In that time, I have become increasingly more impressed with your critical thinking analysis, presentation and conclusions. I am a 70 years young, New Yorker. I mention this to give you an idea of how much "analysis" I've slogged through. You are a joy to listen to. I don't always agree with you but, even when I don't, you give me food for thought. I was very surprised when you disclosed your age. I thought that you were in your 30's. How else could you have become so intellectually "seasoned." I predict that you will make a significant positive impact on the world. Am recovering from major knee surgery. If you give my old bones a couple of minutes, I will become a patron. Very few channels deserve any of my limited funds. You are the exception. Thanks for all the enlightenment.
You genuinely represent my political and socioeconomic views in a way that’s easy for me to digest and comprehend in a more complex way. Thank you whatifalthist.
Holy shit I was just halfway through your other one. You are a blessing and one of the only reasons I still have RUclips. Gives me faith the digital world has at least a. Few positives like the ability to consume your content. It’s impossible in university to be presented with some of the research you defense. It’s excellent academic quality sourcing as well. Thank you for your work
Behind every myth is a metaphor. Mythology makes sense when not taken literally. Many sciences are understood through analogy because it basically only exists in math. Schrodinger's cat is not that different from mythology, if you think about it.
bablon is a great example of this actually when you look at it the novel frankenstein and the story of babel share a similar story of man's aspirations going farther than should healthily be and a cataclysmic and tragic collaspe happens because of it.
This is about the best and most interesting vid I've yet seen. It reinforces something that I learned very young in my religious training: every human being is subject to basic human weakness, whether it's ignorance or a hundred other vices or failings.
Quick comment on Galileo's experiment of dropping things from the Tower of Pisa. We've had sailing ships since ancient times. Meaning that those who built and used them had an understanding that air is a fluid with mass that can impose a force upon any object it flows past, just as water moves stones in a streambed. This is why dust rises into the air when the wind blows while inch sized rocks, made of the same stuff, do not. Aristotle based his supposition about the relative speeds by which objects of different weights fall upon this observation. Which is science. What Galileo could have done is have two spheres of material made that were exactly, or as close to exactly as was reasonably possible, 1 inch in diameter. One made of steel and one made of glass. The force of drag imposed by the air would be the same. The downward force of weight due to gravity would be different, proven by using a simple balance scale. The steel ball would land first, proving Aristotle right. However, the difference in speed of fall would be much smaller than the difference in weight. Such an experiment would have proven Aristotle partially wrong, but not totally wrong.
I'm big fan of your channel and agree with almost all of your points. But I would like to point to one error in this video. The issue is that you said that "Einstein's universe is completely chaotic irrational place", this is not correct. Using Einstein's equations we can get rational and ordered explanation of universe not chaotic and irrational one. Second issue is that you said in next sentence that Einstein's and Newtonian physics are "two entirely different rules for different parts of universe" this is also incorrect. Newtonian physics is special case of Einstein's physics, in other words if you use Einstein's equations for objects with velocity much smaller then speed of light you get Newton's equations. So it is not that Einstein's physics can not be applied on earth for low velocity objects it is that when you do the relativistic effects become negligible and you end up with Newton's equations. But I get your point of error to use scientific principles to build world view, just your example is not so good. Maybe better one would be to take quantum and relativistic physics. Both are correct when applied on correct scale but are not deriving one from another and are inconsistent one with each other.
Yes Quantum theory and EInstein are more at odds than Newton and Einstein although string theory is attempting to bridge that gap and eventually give us a theory of everything.
This is part of a wider trend where he misrepresents something to push his narrative he does the same with American ethnicities or the British empire or basically all of his geopolitical predictions (cough cough neo Ottoman Empire cough cough)
@@luisandrade2254 i fw neoottomans, n them cunts built different, who knows. but i think his bigger prediction is a return to history, which is probable
You earned my subscription with this one. In the last few years I have learned a lot about the importance of religion on society and I have a low tolerance when people just brush it off. Having said that you were fair and seemingly attempting an unbiased perspective. Scientism in our world continue to gives “science” a hall pass in our world since Darwin and sometimes I wonder if we are truly better off for it. Thanks for the video!
I think we are coming to the end of Technocracy, because we are starting to see the limits of Sciencism. I think the next paradigm will have a greater emphasis on Common Sense.
11:05 my dad studied economics in university and he made the argument that immigration is good on a per capita basis despite the fact that our counties gdp per capita has been falling and we bring in around 1% of our population in immigrants every year
I think the reason for 18th century Myanmar being literate is for the same reason as for Protestant northern Europe just with Theravada Buddhism instead.
This is a fantastic video. A gem among gems. So glad I found your channel. Also, your dad seems like a boss! Hearing the anecdotes with him helps piece together how you turned out like you did, haha in a good way ofc
20:28 I was sceptical at first but you made great points in comparing it to electricity and the similarity of psychedelic experiences by people of completely different backgrounds. This video was great, please keep up the great work. You are my one of my favourite channel and im always surprised by how much i learn each video
There are two main "types" of magic spells. The law of sympathy and the law of contagion. As you mentioned the modern concept of sympathetic magic would be entangled particles, I would suggest that the modern version of contagious magic would be social media. Sorry if I sound too weird, but ancient religions and ritual theory is my hobby........along with Philosophy. Another great video!
@@samueltv9428 Well the idea of contagious magic is that two things can share some property by contact... so like "if I touch the relic of this dead saint, his power might heal me" is a type of contagious magical thinking. So I guess the equivalent notion in regards to social media is like "I have many virtuous and beautiful people in my network, therefore I am more virtuous and beautiful"... something like that.
There is a landmark where I live that is a very steep ridge that is kind of like a natural rampart. It was always associated with natives, and we never knew why as kids. We used to swim and hang out there in the summer. Just recently I found out that it was the place where most of the women and children from a huge area were sent as a last resort defense as the Seneca came through the land to kill everyone. It definitely made me see the place in a new light.
While you're talking about dreams and the spirit world I feel like I can talk about the strangest dream I've ever had. This happened like five or six years ago. I had a dream where the setting really didn't matter, at the time and looking back at it now it appeared as a pure white, I was dressed in this way too. In this dream I sat down and had a conversation with someone who looked very similar to me, but he had long hair and he was a bit more stocky in build like one of my uncles. We talked about my life, how it was going, how the family was doing, who he was, how life would have been different, and his immense love for my family. Through this experience I discovered that I had an older brother that was lost in some way. I sat down with both of my parents individually, they have been divorced for a long time so this wasn't hard to do and they didnt talk very much then. I asked them both about this and what happened and they both looked stunned. This is not something that has been discussed in my family very much, even when I approach my aunts and uncles with this story they looked suprised that I know. Aparently my paternal grandmother had similar experiences to this and wrote a book about it. I plan on editing that book one day and releasing it.
also when you’re talking about genetics - i remember reading a study a while ago on the genetics of italian immigrants in argentina and they found that this immigrant community had a significantly higher rate of mania and bipolar disorder than either the average italian or the average argentinian - a million things to explain this but one hypothesis goes that people who experience mania or bipolar disorder might be more likely to do something risky and impulsive like leave the country your family had lived in for centuries and go live on the other side of an ocean
People high in the trait openness are more likely to migrate to far away places. Same with religious individuals who believe that God will protect them no matter where they go and are more likely to stay united as strong communities in foreign lands, helping their chances of survival. RUclipsr Prof. Edward Dutton does a good job explaining the role of genetics when it pertains to these kinds of things
Some people are just a combination of personality traits such as extroversion and neuroticism rather than an actual personality disorder. The neuroticism bleeds deep into my family tree, and most of my relatives moved to the US from Mexico. I'm severely introverted though, so even with high neuroticism, I live in the same town since after my birth. I have no interest in travel to faraway lands.
I would not describe Einstein's universe as a "completely chaotic place". Relativity is an elegant system of laws that can produce very accurate predictions. And it isn't as if Newton just applies to earth and Einstein to the rest of the universe--both offer insights to both realms, both are useful for making predictions.
yeah it's a bit of a dishonest take. Einstein didn't disprove newton, quantum physics didn't disprove Einstein; they just dove deeper and discovered new observations. he's portraying scientific knowledge as dogmatic but it's the complete opposite, science corrects itself with every discovery
Yes, it's mostly the opposite of what was stated. Newtonian physics applies through most of the universe until you get to certain edge cases of stuff that's really big or really small.
Not really contributing much to the conversation with this one but I just wanted to state that after watching your videos I respect your views and facts based arguments it's a relief to see a channel that is able to open up minds with factual statistics for political, social and philosophical thoughts. Long story short your channel and videos have helped me grow my mental ability to look past things at face level and encourage more critical thinking it's helped me grow my knowledge in more ways then one
He meant Greek mystics in the Anatolian Peninsula. The Greek philosophers taught that the earth revolved around the sun, something akin to atom theory, and other such things, that they kinda sussed out using math, without having any way to actually see these things.
I love these taboo topics videos since they provide things for me to consider that I hadn't necessarily thought about before, it's okay if you don't agree with every point made as long as it gets you thinking, keep up the good work! :)
That's the thing, though. Whatifalthist never really claims to be right about everything. It's just a guy expressing himself and trying to open up difficult conversations. Seeing a bunch of people "debunking" him with the spirit of "he doesn't know what he's talking about, but I do" is just very off putting to me. Now, if those people made their videos under the frame of wanting to add their voices to a conversation, then that would be really cool. That's the sad thing, though. Very few people humbly express themselves without assuming that they're the reasonable ones, and that everyone who disagrees with them are the heretics.
I love the fact that someone has the courage and intellectual humility to bring up these topics. In part 4, I think that the author falls into the trap he himself describes, specifically - assuming that monetary policy shortfalls are lack of ability to manage the situation despite having people’s interest in mind. There is a strong case to be made, although it may sound conspiratorial to some degree, that such decisions are made anticipating a good part of outcomes and accepting them as part of serving the self-interested goals of the implementers
Libertarianism only works in theory or practice under a single legal system because you have to enforce the basic laws of a free market in order to have an actually free market. You can not have slavery, forced labour, theft, extortion, etc. in the market. This is hard enough to police in one nation but impossible globally. The reasoned solution is national libertarianism with some regulations to protect children, international cooperation with similar players and penalties for corporations who engage in anti free market and anti human liberty behavior.
If I am not mistaken, wouldn’t a Libertarian system be easier to enforce because there are less regulations to enforce? Libertarians don’t want a totally free market, they just want minimal state. So some regulation will be there regardless.
@@theJellyjoker For real, I find myself using the Socratic method a lot with ideologues. Just asking questions until their ideology unravels. I think the common sense view of this channel, that the real world is complicated and cannot be explained by a tight, internally consistent ideology, is true. The most idealistic are pretty scary sometimes. And I would know. My great journey of life was to learn to not judge people so harshly and give people the benefit of the doubt. And I'm still on that journey.
I'm so happy I found a channel that really interests me everything you talk about interest to me and I never thought I would find a channel like that! Thank you brother to be 22 or 23 years old you are very intellectually mature
Good job in summarizing such complicated topics in such short chapters! I agree that our world is much more complicated than we can handle. Let's just try to keep open minds.
As an Orthodox Christian when I heard you speak about the Catholic Church at 43:25 I immediately assumed the editing happened after 1054. It took me more than a minute to understand you meant us too😂😂
considering he said he was raised quaker (very protestant Christian) im not surprised as a protestant myself we often see anyone who considers the pope to have any real power or influence at all to be all catholic even if its not true lol
Having spent the last 9+ years working as a legislative aid in Wisconsin government, I found the section on stakeholders and leadership incompetence interesting. I'd love to chat for 10 minutes to give more details, but it always surprises me how sometimes only one or two virtuous/wrong/corrupt people can get their desired policy done because the Legislature functions with its own medium-sized group dynamics, with incentives and norms, reacting to human flaws on a group of people who disproportionately seek approval. I honestly don't know how much more or less successful I'd be getting what I believe to be good policy implemented if I was convincing the star chamber rather than elected people.
not even finished and so far this is my favorite video youve made. I love that you cover spiritualism, psychedelics, and dreams. materialists and nihilists love to shit on these things and it is so refreshing to hear a good faith take on these things!
I love this channel, seeing someone in my generation excel like this through his own ideas and beliefs at such a young age. Thanks for the inspiration!
To me declining birth rates and global fertility stagnation is the biggest crisis mankind can face in our quest to be an interstellar civilisation. I feel the realities of that topic is another very taboo topic. I wonder if you will manage to address or cover that sometime? Because it is heavily intertwined with history and a number of other sensitive topics.
Modern solutions to such an incredible dangerous issue is migration Which in the short term doesn't solve much But in the long term it delays it to some degree
@@maddogbasil Delays it not long though. Latin America and most of the tropical world have not much above replacement level birthrates now. We maybe have 10-15 more years of migration before the reservoir of unoccupied young people dry up. Then unless millennials in America start having kids, we're in for the same fate most of the rest of the world is already facing, albeit 40 years later.
Umm… just print babies with consent from two people… let them live their lives, put the babe in school, occasionally visit them, parent them as you wish, relinquish them as necessary … really depends on a bunch of things
Nope, the biggest crisis with that regard is the ecological collapse that we are causing, and an eventual depletion of resources before we manage to economically tap the resources from the space. Plus, there are other physical factors and fundamental limits that make the interstellar travel extremely difficult, if not impossible for manned flight
I truly believe that the bible is a perfect example of "the misticism of life" From how it's able to touch upon some of the biggest questions of life and maintaining consistency throughout the housands of years it was being written all the way to it's thematic symbolism It's honestly underrated by everyone (including christians)
Thank you for addressing the teachings of Jesus, as a person who was raised Southern Baptist, and is still heavily involved in my church, blessedly our church without the political chest beating and we’re currently under a bit of a reorganization. Old pastor retired, new pastor moved in and we’re seeing a realignment with more teaching based on the commands of Christ and it’s been an extremely positive growth in spiritual understanding for many of those within the church. I hope to see more church’s move this way in the coming years as people tire of this wrong view of Christ’s teaching
This work is so masterful. I appreciate your candor, objectivity, thoughtfulness, and honesty. I think very many intelligent and curious people are starved for content like this; one that doesn't have a message to push or an agenda to fill. While plenty of these ideas are new to me, I also recognize and affirm many others. The fact that the universe is larger than can be assessed by even the very brilliant is potent and meaningful lesson in regard to finding peace and joy in life. Keep up the excellent work and keep that magnificent brain cooking! 🌟
Love the work, just to clarify one small detail I noticed is that Cu Chulainn doesn't mean "king of hounds" (as cool as that sounds) but rather "hound of Culain", long story short he killed a noble's guard dog due to a misunderstanding and the guy was devastated, so in exchange he agreed to raise a new guard dog for him and to personally guard him until the dog was old enough to take his place.
you've learned so much for just being 21, kudos. I am 45 and i can say that America was already lost when i was born into it. that said, i remember when the trade deals wree made and nafta etc went thru, and i specifically remember serious protesters warning everyone about what the results would be. And it made sense then and they were clear, but no one cared, or was smart enough to understand. Now we're in the bed we made, and people act like no one saw it coming. My advice, get yourself elected. academics is a rabbithole of comfortable inaction. just my 2 cents.
that segment about democracy was eye opening. It makes me think about the current state of my country Iraq which doesnt have a government for almost a year now because no party can achieve a majority vote and now there are borderline riots across the country because the people are so frustrated with the corruption and lack of leadership. Everyone who has tried to salvage the country since the war couldn't change anything because they didnt have enough power to do so and everyone has a different vision for moving forward. It makes me think that a dictatorship would be better for the country so that there wouldnt be a constant power struggle that keeps the country stagnant.
Correction. Your looking at the Varna system ( Caste is portuguese word) backwards. It's the Jathi ( Clan or Tribes) that are pockets of social groups based off geography that contribute to the class groups. The Lineage of people were restricted to their surroundings. Creating these pockets of settlements. The Varna system is from the Manusmirti. Which doesn't mention untouchables at all. That's why today even though they're indians who convert to christianity or islam and they still identify as there Jathi ( Clan which is often tied to a certain social class). Mostly in rural communities. Dalit christians and muslims.
When you said “next video soon” I definitely did not expect literally the same day lol
yeah, 2 videos in a day is pretty wizard.
"Soon" in RUclips language means a week+
10-hour different in posting
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this is pretty wild
I like Whatifalthist. Even if I don’t agree with everything he says, he seems to have interesting takes, and he’s not afraid to get controversial.
Same.
Same here too...
Yeah he's pretty centrist
@@andyc9902 I’d say he’s more of a right-winger, but he doesn’t seem too hard right. He admits himself to be a “moderate right libertarian” as we’ve seen in this video.
Well said
Two 45 minute long, high quality videos within 12 hours of each other. To call me impressed would be an understatement.
“high quality”
i like this dudes content, but everything he’s ever made on this channel is pretty low quality and low effort editing wise.
no offense to him, i think it’s part of the charm of the channel
@AileDiablo
The "humans are not animals" - thing is not necessarily an IMO false idea of man but a false idea of animals which traditionally are seen as kind of robots which they aren't which everyone knows who ever had a domestic animal.
What even _is_ an animal? We must find a definition which includes so vastly different life forms altogether from single-celled plasmodia and sponges up to Bonobos, and we find animals to be heterotrophic eukaryotes without cell walls. This holds for us humans.
@AileDiablo
I don't downplay humans, I lift up other living beings from being considered kinda "machines".
@@KingKurokage Yeah, but the editing isn’t his strong point
Honestly, it’s more the arguments he makes that i personally find interesting
And you are right about the charm part lol
@@jensphiliphohmann1876 I think emotions (especially base emotions) and "instincts" are the same thing and that all mammals share much if not all of them. For instance, that Bear is angry. It's "instinct" is to protect it's territory (maybe cubs nearby) and that is kicked into gear/driven by anger and fear of losing something precious (cubs/life). Yes, your dog loves you. It just can't conceptualize what "love" is the way we do.
"Babel makes learning languages easy"
As a Christian this is funny lol
Hahaahaha
Well, the tower of babbel created languages
It can’t offend molecules
@@honeycomblord9384 ye it caused God to confuse the language of the people
I like the idea of using irony when building a business.
2:29 Is science a worthwhile basis for society?
9:45 Are markets always good?
14:08 How much of an effect does genetics had
on history?
20:28 Is there something real behind the spirit
world?
26:38 Do we have any idea what we are doing?
32:29 Do stakeholders have to be in charge of the
government?
40:54 Are modern religions what their prophets
preached?
*I copied and pasted this for my use, I am not the originator of this*
These aren't taboo, they're just absolutely retarded.
God's work.😮
“12 mistakes not to make as a religion or ideology” looks like a good vid idea
Yes, Whatifalthist should go for it
That or boil religious philosophies down to their core value/s
I don't know enough about other faiths but aside from the redemption part, Love they neighbor as you would love yourself. That's about as core as Christianity gets.
The lack of social mobility is certainly one of the biggest ones
@@mpetersen6 But but but, where I grew up every religious person was a bad person! So that means religion is bad! Now please upvote me.
@@CausticSpace In my experience, as a Christian who grew up with a lot of Christian friends and also Muslims and more, almost all of them were nice or at least not rude. Furthermore, if they are disrespectful, they are not following God's words (the bible) or whatever their religion is. The Bible says that everyone must love one another the way they love themselves. Therefore, please do not blame the religion, but rather the individual.
I love that you use the present progressive tense …”I’m still looking for truth”
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Quickest way to stop trusting someone is when they think they’ve fully found truth and have stopped the lifelong process of discovering what is truly real
Pop a water baloon
That right there is why I'm still Christian even after my childhood faith fell apart after high school, but not a fundamentalist. I grew up a fundamentalist, feeling that I had all the answers or at least that all the answers were within easy reach inside the safe boundaries of my particular religious tradition. Lo and behold, real life smacked me in the face for my ignorance and arrogance. I learned first and foremost that if you've never doubted something even once, you don't really believe it; you just assume it, and real life hasn't seriously challenged that assumption yet. Truth, reality, whatever this is, it's extremely complex and vast. That is why holy books rarely spell out the answers. I've seen atheist RUclipsrs point this out against the Bible as if it were God's responsibility to give humans all the answers in black and white from the get-go. Is that really what anyone wants?
Like I've always said, I'd rather be right than be thought to be right. Even if I lose a debate due to being incorrect or lack of knowledge, I still consider it a win for me. I get the correct information and can use it going forward. There really isn't even an ego loss as "I get the correct information and get to use it going forward." That's a win for me. Who cares about dumb pride.
@@MissingTrailsalso to add on to your point I don’t think God could give us the answers because we wouldn’t be able to comprehend it, it would be like us trying to teach an ant language
Timestamps (it's only 7, not 8 as the title says)
2:29 Is science a worthwhile basis for society?
9:45 Are markets always good?
14:08 How much of an effect does genetics had on history?
20:28 Is there something real behind the spirit world?
26:38 Do we have any idea what we are doing?
32:29 Do stakeholders have to be in charge of the government?
40:54 Are modern religions what their prophets preached?
You again,
thank you
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Where does he talk about Fascism?
Thank you. Saving time is saving life
pin this !
I just found your channel and have binged half a dozen videos . It’s rare to find a content creator who aligns with my views in so many issues . I thought I was alone out here
it's a great channel!
I have a reflex like desire to discuss topics like these with those around me. Before the "mostly peaceful protests", Orangeman, and the Coof I had a politically diverse social group that would complement me for my courage to broach difficult topics in a nuanced and respectful manner. I was shocked that some of the very people that were the most vocal about respecting me for my heterodox opinions turned on me and demanded that others around them ostracize me from our shared social groups. Since than a few of them have apologized, and even admitted I was right to question the popular narrative, but I will never forget how quickly seemingly rational people will turn into a hateful mob, given the right external social pressures.
Their Narrative is utter Quackery, it could never stand up to intelligent debate..
They quickly resort to Hate speech and Name calling..
If it weren't for Censorship of the Truth, Their Narrative wouldn't fly..
Phoney Science, Phoney Solutions, Phoney News,
Phoney People on Social Media,
Phoney Congress,
Phoney Biden...
Same, it hurts
So...
You support?
You called the Don Orange Man, but used words that Democrats were using to describe the Church Burnings and the Chinese Bashing, n Nights of Terror in the Streets that was applauded by Our Roosting Chicken and "Ignore the Border" Kamala..
I hope You are not taking about Pelosi and Her backwards Minions trying to Set Up "the Orangeman" again" Wasting the Courts time, and throwing away Millions of Taxpayer dollars, to Try and fool the Public ..
Evil Lies and Conspiracy in the Media, is a Sign of End Times!
Yes There are Two Sides!
Be firmly attached to the Side that You Choose, and Make it Plain for All to see, lest You be Known for the Treachery and Deceit of Others..
Trump Rallies are the most Peaceful and Patriotic Gatherings on the Planet, Even if You are a Democrat You are Welcome, and You will not be accosted, Where a lone Patriot in a Maga Hat, can't drive down the Street without being Attacked!
There is no Politician on the Planet, That could Stand Up to the Scrutiny and Investigation They have Put on Trump, Not a One! They tried 3 times to Kill Him!
He's Still 100% Innocent of Any and All Charges!
They Edit His words, and Mock Him for what He says! (Everything that Trump has Predicted has become Truth)
Everything that They have said about Him, has been found to be Lies!
7 Years of Hateful Investigation Yielded Nothing! They made it All up.. Obama, Clinton, Pelosi, Schumer and the King of the Rhinos Mitch McConnell, are the One's that need to be Investigated for Their Crime's against Humanity!
They Hate TRUMP because He Promised to Drain the Swamp!
They are doing Evil Things to Conceal Evil Ways ..
They Will have Us All in Dresses as Men, If We don't put a Stop to This Madness!
You are What You Think,
What You Think may or may not be a bunch of Hateful Crap!
First, Consider the Source, like on the Playground, when a bunch of Kids are attacking a single Kid, it's not the Kid by Himself, but They will Demonize Him or Her, with Lies, to Justify Their Actions!
I don't know about You, but for Me, I don't want Anyone in My Government, that would have to Tell Lies, to Justify Their Actions!
Makes you want to lean to the right of Ghengis Khan.
@@callithasmed8468Negative, Genghis was not down with Freedom of Speech.
If I was on your production team, eugenics, the tie between eugenics, population control and authoritarianism, sterilization and the history of abortion and child "sacrifice" aka infanticide would be on deck. Keep it up.
All great ideas.
umm wouldn't it technically be fetacide though
@@WhatifAltHist the demographic issues and possible water wars are probably some of the few stuff that truly keeps me up at night
@@zachofthebattery2864 Likely both, all of these behaviours are in the same wheel house, as is genocide. If you're genocidal then you're definitely for elective non medical abortion in some, if not most cases. Slavery is also from the same place in the psyche.
@@S.J.L I could see that I just like using the fake word "fetacide" because I think we could all agree it is somewhat different in technicality (if not morality ) from its other vile kin
science is a tool. we should use it to achieve the desired goals of religion and philosophy. we should never use science to find goals.
You have to be careful of confirmation bias but I like where you're coming from. At best, science tells us how not why.
But how is it even possible to use science in order to find our goals? I agree on the first part though, namely that we must use science to achieve them.
@@tomorrowneverdies567 you don't. you have your goals and then claim that you found them using science... sadly this seems to work these days.
@@steffenaltmeier6602 I know you don't. But I don't believe anyone claimed to have found their goals with the help of science ever in history..
@@tomorrowneverdies567 what of all the misery brought by nazi germany that claimed its racist views were based on darvinism? what about the "trust the science" the far left is pushing these days? or the post feminist logic stating that science proves the patriarchy and so we must overthrow them? of course, none of those goals were ever found due to science, but that is how it is presented all the time!
Saturdays are slow days at work. Im so excited to listen to these for a few hours during my shift. Thanks for the double drop, amazing work im sure!
You work on Saturday?
Gotta be able to read the stuff he scribbles down, though
ha, same situation here
Newton’s theories were so groundbreaking in large part because while describing the laws of motion in mathematical terms he simultaneously was admitting publicly that he still was utterly baffled by how gravity and other “occult forces” he was describing actually worked, and he was really pretty dismayed by how much the theory left unexplained. But that’s how science actually progresses. You explain what you can explain and admit openly that the rest is still up to further inquiry
That's the beauty of science, which is unlike sciencism and religions which believe in their own respective dogmas as infallible.
@@abellyold4859Newton was very religious.
@@porkerpete7722 Yes, he was. But unlike religious fanatics , he was not religious to the point of being dogmatic. He was more like a gnostic.
@@porkerpete7722more like occultist. Dude studied alchemy, he was beyond religious dogmas
I just gotta say, as a Texan, seeing the chart at 15:19 rank California's IQ as one of the lowest in the country gave me a good laugh
Its not even cus california is "genetically inferior" or anything either lmfao.
Its literally cus California is such an utter shithole, that these people are basically just malnourished to the point it appears statistically.
The problem is that average IQ only matters so much. Much more important is the number of people with IQ above ~115. California probably leads the nation in that. Unfortunately really smart people pursuing really bad ideas because they think it's the morally correct thing to do is still really bad.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 Not really.
Dont let ANY of these leftists fool you.
The small subsection of smart people in California, are insanely centrists and DESPISE progressives.
The guys beyond a standard deviation, are almost always insanely conservative. Thats why the whole term "midwit" is so popular with these people. Its to shit on bugmen like Adam Connover.
The only people that act smart and educated, are braindead sociology/communications majors that have to cope with the fact reading some random books dont make u some intellectual.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872liberals can’t have a high iq. Their idea of science is men can be women. So that renders their intelligence null and void . Pelosi, newsom, Feinstein ? No choice but to believe they are midwits at best.
Well LA is their cathedral’s capital, or SF, or NYC. Who knows. Either way, it’s pretty telling that the academics are the dumbest people. There’s an old fable about the tiger and donkey that go before an old wise lion. That donkey is every bit as much as the democrat donkey.
I’m a Philo student working on a critique of scientism rn. Getting in your historical head about these issues is really helpful to see an other way the same dots can be connected. So for my part I just wanna express gratitude for the broad swath of topics you are taking on. Even if your a little to critical of western philo sometimes ha.
I think that he confuses too much what people turned philosophy into with what the philosophers said but seeing his approach to politics religion and morality he probably doesn’t see a difference
@@luisandrade2254 yeah. With all due respect to rudyard, he seems to have read a lot more about philosophers then he has their work itself.
@@luisandrade2254 I get this interpretation. Intent is far less important than result. Marx being the best example of this.
"This video is probably going to offend every part of the political, religious, and philosophic spectrums."
Absolutely fantastic. I'm so on board! Let's do this!
I honestly wasn't offended by anything. I disagreed on one or two specifics, just based on personal experience, but all the reasoning and data was well founded.
@@r3dp9 Absolutely. Same here. That's why I love his work and videos. It's a refreshing departure from the loaded modern media perspective. The past two videos have been my favorites.
This is bravery
@@ikenosis8160 he is brave
The start of the video:
"This video is probably going to offend every part of the political, religious, and philosophic spectrums."
The rest of the video:
"Actually just @#$% leftists. Leftists are wrong about everything. Rightists are right because we're RATIONAL (= religious)."
I love how he isn't afraid to call out everyone and our probelms.
That last part where you say that God belongs to all of us and not only to the inhabitants of the Syrian desert literally gave me chills...
Whatifalthist Creator….. You are something very very special. Thank you so much for all of your hard work and generosity in sharing your process.
Earthquakes are so random that cannot be predicted yet. What dogs feel are the P waves, the ones that humans dont feel and the first ones travelling and compressing the soil after the rupture.
I came from a highly seismic country (Chile) and every time a strong motion would occur, my dogs start to act weird. They can hear it before us, but they cannot predict quakes.
Excellent video as always
Going along with that, I wonder if there are forces that we currently cannot or do not measure, that equate with some kinds of spiritualism. Maybe there are things that evade our attempts to quantify, and yet can be felt on some level.
@@thotslayer9914 physics not metaphysics
@@thotslayer9914 how the world functions is physics why the world functions is metaphysics which is where idealism comes into play
There actually is promising research on predicting them using tidal forces.
I always watch the animals. It can aid with survival.
When you were talking about how to education system is screwed up it’s so true, it’s not about actually learning and retaining information long term it’s just about passing and getting a good score. I’ve learned more on my on time doing my own research than the current education system could have ever taught me. I hope it changes cause the amount of I uninformed and ignorant people in my generation honestly kinda scares me about what the future will look like.
I'm a teacher and it drives me crazy that I have to strike a balance between stuff that my students actually should learn and stuff that will help them pass the tests. I have no say in the composition of the tests, so I do have to teach some bullshit, and I'm honest about that fact with them. That's the best I can do as just a cog in the machine.
@@bryanlane7208 I wish teachers were afforded more education agency. Thanks for doing the most with limited resources, some of my teachers followed all the rules just for the sake of following them :(
there is no better way really.
Same here for me. I've learned more in the past 3 years, and obtained more important knowledge than in 12 years of school.
Learning is really about understanding a problem and being able to develop a solution.
Being able to determine why something is, while not having all of the info.
Interestingly in the early Christian church they held a council that determined that God's teachings could be separated into into moral and doctrinal prescriptions. Basically things that were moral commandments would always be held true but things like the ban on eating pork were temporary and were prescriptions made to help people during that current age. For instance pork can carry a ton of diseases if improperly handled.
Pork is also very similar to humans, so similar that you can switch a piece of skin with a pig and it will grow as if your own and in that way pig meat also functions the same as cannibalism in the human body where less effort and is needed to digest it and use it as energy or store it as fat which causes a lot of the bad things from the pig to get a hold on our body faster just like in cannibalism
Fun fact: When God commands the Israelites to not wear/use clothing with mixed materials, it was because when you mix linen with wool, you get an incredibly insulating material that would cause you to sweat profusely during the day. In the end, each commandment in the bible is for a persons benefit.
Also, tribes around Israel worshipped certain animals, like shellfish and pigs, so this was also a way to differentiate the Israelites from their neighbors.
@@SeanWinters Do you have evidence to back this up?
@@C61-y9s "Pigs at the Gate: Hittite Pig Sacrifice in Its Eastern Mediterranean Context" By Billie Jean Collins shows that pigs were involved in local practices, currently looking for shellfish stuff, but at the very least Middle Eastern communities with access to water would have had a shellfish celebrations/holidays which would have obviously been pagan in nature.
If you're asking about why differentiation was important, you can look at every ancient Israel ritual law and separation from the surrounding communities makes sense as an underpinning. This is not even to say that the writers of the law knew that was the purpose, however considering the fact that God was the one who directly gave these laws down he most likely had multiple purposes in mind for each of them. Circumcision is another one.
Like, it would have seemed like a ritual to have everyone wash their hands before eating and not pooping near your water or food supply, but it's ritual turns out to have saved many lives due to its medical significance.
Well, I have had some strange experiences with the Spirit World.
When stationed in Germany back in 1978-1979, I had experiences with some people who read Tarot cards and accurately predicted some future events in my life that I found unbelievable. They came to fruition almost against my will.
I have had three 'Shared Death Experiences', first with my fathers death. He was expected to not die for a few more years at least but the morning he died He dreamt he came to me in my dream and told me that the spirit world was exactly as a described to him, based on Christian tradition as opposed to his New Age perspective. I had had lucid dreams since a kid (but not since my third heart attack back in Dec 2019, for some unknown reason) and this was also lucid, but it was very troubling to me, so much so that I woke up and sat on the side of the bed and wondered what had happened. An hour later my uncle called me with the bad news that my father had died an hour earlier, when I dreamt about my father being dead.
About a month later, my local priest was in my dream, begging me to come and help him. Again, I was deeply disturbed by how real it seemed, and I woke up and sat thinking about it. In both cases, with my father and this priest (Father Wells of Germantown MD) my wife also woke up and urged me to go back to sleep as we both had to get up early to go to work in the morning. She had asked me to drop off something at the pet store nearby and so I drove there on my way to work and saw yellow tape all around the rectory. I found out on the radio that Father Wells had been murdered.
The final experience in this regard was with my brother. I was having repeated dreams of me dying from a pain in my chest. It did not feel like the descriptions of a heart attack, but that was what I took it as, maybe some kind of heart related problem despite the pain being in the right side of my chest, and got a doctors appointment. This went on for about a week, and again I told my wife about it. I even posted on Facebook that I was having these dreams. After a week or so, I was called to tell me my brother died of a pulmonary embolism in his right lung. For over a week he had refused to go to a doctor despite his bluish skin and poor energy.
I could go on, but the human conscious mind is easily demonstrated by our ability to shift our mental focus from one sensation to another, to a memory, or emotion, or pleasant idea, etc. This ability to focus is the best demonstration of our spirit, our Self that we truly are.
Pretty amazing, thanks for sharing. Very rarely I have dreams of certain images or feelings that show themselves in real life months later.
@@ethanwhitney6168 Thaks. I used to have lucid dreams all the time, but after my 3rd heart attack in 2020, I stopped having them for some reason and cannot return to having them. The mindscape is stranger than fiction.
@@richardcheek2432 is it possible that something about the third heart attack was different than the first two? And if so, could the part that was different have affected your soul in some way?
@@comparatorclock I suppose anything is possible, but I am leaning more toward a different set of pain killers being the culprit.
I am trying to regain this Lucid dreaming ability by normal processes commonly used. I had them from childhood from things my Dad told be involving dream 'items'. in my case Felix the Cat's Bag of Tricks.
I have been able to recall my dreams more readily and with more clarity the past few weeks, so their seems to be progress.
But my soul is on God's Hands and I am comfortable with that.
@@richardcheek2432 Hi Richard. Lucid dreaming is not something that you should "try" to achieve. You appear to be, at least previously, Roman Catholic. If you remain the same, you should pause before moving any further in this goal and discuss with your priest. I should add that I am Orthodox, not Roman Catholic, but I imagine that considering the differences are not large between the two faiths or the same in many areas, that Roman Catholicism has similarly extremely cautious or either outright negative things to say about what you are attempting to do.
Again, I suggest pausing and learning more before doing anything further.
God be with you.
"The only thing you can do is look for people honest and humble telling you that they don't have answers but they are willing to strive together to look for them" --Whaifalthist I am adding this to my very long list of quotes, this is essential.
THIS is what we need in this age of restricted dialogue
Over an hour of content in ONE DAY? Cherish this, It won't happen again.
One must clarify streams do not count for this metric.
@@DM-mi4je Yep
I think these two videos are the greatest videos I have seen in a long time. Thank you for reaffirming that I am not crazy and my belief structure is actually coherent.
The best analogy I can find for the human experience is being a small speck of amino acid inside a cell inside a human body that is somehow conscious of itself as an individual but completely unaware of its nature, purpose, or position in cell. Vaguely aware that there may be something outside the cell, but with very little chance of ever truly understanding the cell around it let alone one layer above. As a person, we are as a god to the little speck of protein making up a link in the chain of a DNA strand yet in our own way just as unaware of what we are, why we are, and what we are a part of.
Good Lord that is an incredibly intelligent analogy my hat off to you.
My understanding of your comment is as such : One is aware of oneself but not entirely sure of where oneself is in, in the imperceptible totality of the bigger picture.
All I can say is keep doing what you are doing, keep reading, keep looking for answers, you come across as an extremely open minded person and I think you have some real potential of growing your channel and starting some extremely valuable conversations. I truly believe that part of being smart is realizing how little you know, and only wanting more.
Two whatifalthist videos in one day? Best day ever
Yes
Bro Ong
Well i am truly overjoyed that you released 2 45 min videos in the same day. So Thank you keep up the great work
Einstein’s universe is not chaotic, it’s quite the contrary. We have discovered an incredibly complex and ordered structure down to the most minute detail.
That’s why Einstein believed in a Spinozan God that reveals Himself in the lawful harmony and perfection of the universe
The primary issue with markets is not that it doesn't ultimately result in the best solutions, it's that those solutions take time and market swings create wild instability while transitioning. That instability is generally mass hardship and death. To address this weakness you must find a way to smooth those transitions for people without effecting the market solution or the government being overthrown.
"We are all entangled, one with another." As an historian and probably Sci Fi fan I suspect you'd like "Galileo's Dream" by Kim Stanley Robinson. He tackles that idea of us all being connected with each other in a historical, Science Fiction novel. He won an award for his research into the famous astronomer and used his storytelling to make one hell of a novel.
_Metamodernism_ and _Agnotology_ aim to build a better collective consciousness in which each of us makes more ethical choices. Could be some Solarpunk future. Do check those out for some optimism!
@@jose.montojah what is metamodernism?
“Science is a limitation and it’s powerful because it’s a limitation.” Goes to show what we can do if we all hold the same set of beliefs, even they aren’t true or when they aren’t wholly true.
Well said
Unbelievably well done. Whatifalthist is the GOAT
Totally agree about archetypes. We're born with certain ideas in our head. For example, we know what a snake or a tiger are and to be afraid of them, even a feral child without human contact would understand that, I think. We have instinct like any other animal.
I've have listened to your channel for several months. In that time, I have become increasingly more impressed with your critical thinking analysis, presentation and conclusions. I am a 70 years young, New Yorker. I mention this to give you an idea of how much
"analysis" I've slogged through. You are a joy to listen to. I don't always agree with you but,
even when I don't, you give me food for thought. I was very surprised when you disclosed your
age. I thought that you were in your 30's. How else could you have
become so intellectually "seasoned." I predict that you will
make a significant positive impact on the world. Am recovering from major knee surgery. If you give my old bones a couple of minutes, I will become a patron. Very few channels deserve any of my limited funds. You are the exception. Thanks for all the enlightenment.
You genuinely represent my political and socioeconomic views in a way that’s easy for me to digest and comprehend in a more complex way. Thank you whatifalthist.
Holy shit I was just halfway through your other one. You are a blessing and one of the only reasons I still have RUclips. Gives me faith the digital world has at least a. Few positives like the ability to consume your content. It’s impossible in university to be presented with some of the research you defense. It’s excellent academic quality sourcing as well. Thank you for your work
Behind every myth is a metaphor. Mythology makes sense when not taken literally.
Many sciences are understood through analogy because it basically only exists in math. Schrodinger's cat is not that different from mythology, if you think about it.
bablon is a great example of this
actually when you look at it the novel frankenstein and the story of babel share a similar story of man's aspirations going farther than should healthily be and a cataclysmic and tragic collaspe happens because of it.
@@sovietunion7643 ñ
This is about the best and most interesting vid I've yet seen. It reinforces something that I learned very young in my religious training: every human being is subject to basic human weakness, whether it's ignorance or a hundred other vices or failings.
Galileo did not disprove “Aristotelian logic”; he disproved elements of the Aristotelian physics.
Subtle but important differences that Rudy sometimes misses
Quick comment on Galileo's experiment of dropping things from the Tower of Pisa. We've had sailing ships since ancient times. Meaning that those who built and used them had an understanding that air is a fluid with mass that can impose a force upon any object it flows past, just as water moves stones in a streambed. This is why dust rises into the air when the wind blows while inch sized rocks, made of the same stuff, do not. Aristotle based his supposition about the relative speeds by which objects of different weights fall upon this observation. Which is science.
What Galileo could have done is have two spheres of material made that were exactly, or as close to exactly as was reasonably possible, 1 inch in diameter. One made of steel and one made of glass. The force of drag imposed by the air would be the same. The downward force of weight due to gravity would be different, proven by using a simple balance scale. The steel ball would land first, proving Aristotle right. However, the difference in speed of fall would be much smaller than the difference in weight.
Such an experiment would have proven Aristotle partially wrong, but not totally wrong.
Whatifalthist on an any% every controversial topic speedrun today
“Einstein’s universe, which is a completely irrational chaotic place.” Wow, you weren’t kidding when you said you knew nothing about science.
Yeah that would be the domain of quantum physics
I'm big fan of your channel and agree with almost all of your points. But I would like to point to one error in this video. The issue is that you said that "Einstein's universe is completely chaotic irrational place", this is not correct. Using Einstein's equations we can get rational and ordered explanation of universe not chaotic and irrational one. Second issue is that you said in next sentence that Einstein's and Newtonian physics are "two entirely different rules for different parts of universe" this is also incorrect. Newtonian physics is special case of Einstein's physics, in other words if you use Einstein's equations for objects with velocity much smaller then speed of light you get Newton's equations. So it is not that Einstein's physics can not be applied on earth for low velocity objects it is that when you do the relativistic effects become negligible and you end up with Newton's equations. But I get your point of error to use scientific principles to build world view, just your example is not so good. Maybe better one would be to take quantum and relativistic physics. Both are correct when applied on correct scale but are not deriving one from another and are inconsistent one with each other.
Yes Quantum theory and EInstein are more at odds than Newton and Einstein although string theory is attempting to bridge that gap and eventually give us a theory of everything.
i think what he was getting at is shit far goofier than expected
This is part of a wider trend where he misrepresents something to push his narrative he does the same with American ethnicities or the British empire or basically all of his geopolitical predictions (cough cough neo Ottoman Empire cough cough)
@@BOOTBOSS1 string theory is utter bullshit though
@@luisandrade2254 i fw neoottomans, n them cunts built different, who knows. but i think his bigger prediction is a return to history, which is probable
You earned my subscription with this one. In the last few years I have learned a lot about the importance of religion on society and I have a low tolerance when people just brush it off. Having said that you were fair and seemingly attempting an unbiased perspective. Scientism in our world continue to gives “science” a hall pass in our world since Darwin and sometimes I wonder if we are truly better off for it. Thanks for the video!
I think we are coming to the end of Technocracy, because we are starting to see the limits of Sciencism. I think the next paradigm will have a greater emphasis on Common Sense.
11:05 my dad studied economics in university and he made the argument that immigration is good on a per capita basis despite the fact that our counties gdp per capita has been falling and we bring in around 1% of our population in immigrants every year
I think the reason for 18th century Myanmar being literate is for the same reason as for Protestant northern Europe just with Theravada Buddhism instead.
That vaush debate was garbage but the quality of actual content this man produces is amazing.
You know it’s gonna be good when he drops a 46 minute video
I love whatifalthist because he’s one of the only RUclipsrs I don’t have to speed up
This is a fantastic video. A gem among gems. So glad I found your channel.
Also, your dad seems like a boss! Hearing the anecdotes with him helps piece together how you turned out like you did, haha in a good way ofc
20:28 I was sceptical at first but you made great points in comparing it to electricity and the similarity of psychedelic experiences by people of completely different backgrounds. This video was great, please keep up the great work. You are my one of my favourite channel and im always surprised by how much i learn each video
wouldn't the similarity of the experiences just prove that we all have very similar brains and the same chemistry is going on every single time?
There are two main "types" of magic spells. The law of sympathy and the law of contagion. As you mentioned the modern concept of sympathetic magic would be entangled particles, I would suggest that the modern version of contagious magic would be social media. Sorry if I sound too weird, but ancient religions and ritual theory is my hobby........along with Philosophy. Another great video!
Cool could you explain more.
@@samueltv9428 tiktok has stolen my friends souls
What
@@samueltv9428 Well the idea of contagious magic is that two things can share some property by contact... so like "if I touch the relic of this dead saint, his power might heal me" is a type of contagious magical thinking. So I guess the equivalent notion in regards to social media is like "I have many virtuous and beautiful people in my network, therefore I am more virtuous and beautiful"... something like that.
OK where can I learn more.
I really like how yesterday I had an argument about your channel and now you're uploading lol
Your channel and the study you have put in is such a gem!
There is a landmark where I live that is a very steep ridge that is kind of like a natural rampart. It was always associated with natives, and we never knew why as kids. We used to swim and hang out there in the summer. Just recently I found out that it was the place where most of the women and children from a huge area were sent as a last resort defense as the Seneca came through the land to kill everyone. It definitely made me see the place in a new light.
While you're talking about dreams and the spirit world I feel like I can talk about the strangest dream I've ever had.
This happened like five or six years ago. I had a dream where the setting really didn't matter, at the time and looking back at it now it appeared as a pure white, I was dressed in this way too.
In this dream I sat down and had a conversation with someone who looked very similar to me, but he had long hair and he was a bit more stocky in build like one of my uncles. We talked about my life, how it was going, how the family was doing, who he was, how life would have been different, and his immense love for my family.
Through this experience I discovered that I had an older brother that was lost in some way.
I sat down with both of my parents individually, they have been divorced for a long time so this wasn't hard to do and they didnt talk very much then. I asked them both about this and what happened and they both looked stunned. This is not something that has been discussed in my family very much, even when I approach my aunts and uncles with this story they looked suprised that I know.
Aparently my paternal grandmother had similar experiences to this and wrote a book about it. I plan on editing that book one day and releasing it.
also when you’re talking about genetics - i remember reading a study a while ago on the genetics of italian immigrants in argentina and they found that this immigrant community had a significantly higher rate of mania and bipolar disorder than either the average italian or the average argentinian - a million things to explain this but one hypothesis goes that people who experience mania or bipolar disorder might be more likely to do something risky and impulsive like leave the country your family had lived in for centuries and go live on the other side of an ocean
omg the part at 17:15 -ish talking about genetics of risk taking
as an argentinian i confirm we are all maniatic, yet cowards
People high in the trait openness are more likely to migrate to far away places. Same with religious individuals who believe that God will protect them no matter where they go and are more likely to stay united as strong communities in foreign lands, helping their chances of survival. RUclipsr Prof. Edward Dutton does a good job explaining the role of genetics when it pertains to these kinds of things
This is literally my families exact story damn
Some people are just a combination of personality traits such as extroversion and neuroticism rather than an actual personality disorder. The neuroticism bleeds deep into my family tree, and most of my relatives moved to the US from Mexico. I'm severely introverted though, so even with high neuroticism, I live in the same town since after my birth. I have no interest in travel to faraway lands.
I would not describe Einstein's universe as a "completely chaotic place". Relativity is an elegant system of laws that can produce very accurate predictions. And it isn't as if Newton just applies to earth and Einstein to the rest of the universe--both offer insights to both realms, both are useful for making predictions.
yeah it's a bit of a dishonest take. Einstein didn't disprove newton, quantum physics didn't disprove Einstein; they just dove deeper and discovered new observations. he's portraying scientific knowledge as dogmatic but it's the complete opposite, science corrects itself with every discovery
nikola tesla was right about einstein
Yes, it's mostly the opposite of what was stated. Newtonian physics applies through most of the universe until you get to certain edge cases of stuff that's really big or really small.
@@jarenagra2804 It's not the science that's dogmatic, it's Academia.
Not really contributing much to the conversation with this one but I just wanted to state that after watching your videos I respect your views and facts based arguments it's a relief to see a channel that is able to open up minds with factual statistics for political, social and philosophical thoughts. Long story short your channel and videos have helped me grow my mental ability to look past things at face level and encourage more critical thinking it's helped me grow my knowledge in more ways then one
This was a really well done video. Definitely setting ur place as one of the best historical and philosophical RUclipss out right now.
Imagine being so stuffed full of History you drop a line about Turkish mystics preempting modern physics, a an afterthought.... TELL ME MORE!!!
He meant Greek mystics in the Anatolian Peninsula. The Greek philosophers taught that the earth revolved around the sun, something akin to atom theory, and other such things, that they kinda sussed out using math, without having any way to actually see these things.
I love these taboo topics videos since they provide things for me to consider that I hadn't necessarily thought about before, it's okay if you don't agree with every point made as long as it gets you thinking, keep up the good work! :)
100%.
if the woke get a control over everything, interesting original provoking content like this will be ultra ultra rare.
down with the woke.
A cottage industry has literally sprung up on youtube based around debunking whatifalthist videos - thats surely a sign that you are making an impact
That's the thing, though. Whatifalthist never really claims to be right about everything. It's just a guy expressing himself and trying to open up difficult conversations.
Seeing a bunch of people "debunking" him with the spirit of "he doesn't know what he's talking about, but I do" is just very off putting to me.
Now, if those people made their videos under the frame of wanting to add their voices to a conversation, then that would be really cool.
That's the sad thing, though. Very few people humbly express themselves without assuming that they're the reasonable ones, and that everyone who disagrees with them are the heretics.
@@hebercluff1665Arrogance is such a poison in modern discourse.
Thank you especially for 40:54 onward, Whatifalthist. I'm so glad to hear those ideas coming from someone else.
I love the fact that someone has the courage and intellectual humility to bring up these topics. In part 4, I think that the author falls into the trap he himself describes, specifically - assuming that monetary policy shortfalls are lack of ability to manage the situation despite having people’s interest in mind. There is a strong case to be made, although it may sound conspiratorial to some degree, that such decisions are made anticipating a good part of outcomes and accepting them as part of serving the self-interested goals of the implementers
Libertarianism only works in theory or practice under a single legal system because you have to enforce the basic laws of a free market in order to have an actually free market. You can not have slavery, forced labour, theft, extortion, etc. in the market. This is hard enough to police in one nation but impossible globally. The reasoned solution is national libertarianism with some regulations to protect children, international cooperation with similar players and penalties for corporations who engage in anti free market and anti human liberty behavior.
If I am not mistaken, wouldn’t a Libertarian system be easier to enforce because there are less regulations to enforce? Libertarians don’t want a totally free market, they just want minimal state. So some regulation will be there regardless.
The reasoned solution is to not have liberalism
@@StetoGuy Less regulation, more chaos, more chaos leads to more regulation.
@@thepagecollective more chaos can only lead to more regulations if some strong entity breaks the power vacuum
@@hc256 I don't think that's practical on a national-international security POV but would love to hear the argument in that regard.
I feel like the premise that the truth is always somewhere in the middle of left and right wings is not a very logical assumption.
I agree compromise bias is one of the least recognized forms of bias
Completely agree on the economic one. Man if only more people would understand that.
I’m astonished how well put together these are and how wise you are at 21
For a kid, at least relative to me, you sure have interesting and thought provoking content!
Thanks!
Fresh brains facilitates fresh views 😂
My god he posted two 45 minute videos on the same day. Amazing
Bill: Socrates - "The only true wisdom consists of knowing you know nothing".
Ted: That's us, dude.
Jesus > Socrates
@@ExpiditionWild why not both?
@@theJellyjoker For real, I find myself using the Socratic method a lot with ideologues. Just asking questions until their ideology unravels. I think the common sense view of this channel, that the real world is complicated and cannot be explained by a tight, internally consistent ideology, is true. The most idealistic are pretty scary sometimes. And I would know. My great journey of life was to learn to not judge people so harshly and give people the benefit of the doubt. And I'm still on that journey.
With all the pausing I need to parse through this video and the last, I feel like today WIAH gave us a straight up documentary.
I'm so happy I found a channel that really interests me everything you talk about interest to me and I never thought I would find a channel like that! Thank you brother to be 22 or 23 years old you are very intellectually mature
Good job in summarizing such complicated topics in such short chapters! I agree that our world is much more complicated than we can handle. Let's just try to keep open minds.
"How civilization thrived on stimulants" -> I would love this!
As an Orthodox Christian when I heard you speak about the Catholic Church at 43:25 I immediately assumed the editing happened after 1054. It took me more than a minute to understand you meant us too😂😂
considering he said he was raised quaker (very protestant Christian) im not surprised
as a protestant myself we often see anyone who considers the pope to have any real power or influence at all to be all catholic even if its not true lol
@@sovietunion7643 the Pope has not had any power in orthodoxy for 1000 years
@@NoName-xc6cg well of course, but generally speaking they will care more about what the pope has to say that protestants do
@@sovietunion7643 as an orthodox Christian you are expected to either hate the Pope or not cate about him
The Christian church was already corrupted in the first few centuries. The Bible that we see today is what the ruling class wanted people to know.
Having spent the last 9+ years working as a legislative aid in Wisconsin government, I found the section on stakeholders and leadership incompetence interesting. I'd love to chat for 10 minutes to give more details, but it always surprises me how sometimes only one or two virtuous/wrong/corrupt people can get their desired policy done because the Legislature functions with its own medium-sized group dynamics, with incentives and norms, reacting to human flaws on a group of people who disproportionately seek approval.
I honestly don't know how much more or less successful I'd be getting what I believe to be good policy implemented if I was convincing the star chamber rather than elected people.
Cesar Millan observes that humans are the only species that will allow unstable members to lead the pack. Spooky.
Ahhh, a fellow Pennsylvanian! I salute you good sir.
Thanks for these vids, I really enjoy the conversation you're trying to start here.
not even finished and so far this is my favorite video youve made. I love that you cover spiritualism, psychedelics, and dreams. materialists and nihilists love to shit on these things and it is so refreshing to hear a good faith take on these things!
I love this channel, seeing someone in my generation excel like this through his own ideas and beliefs at such a young age. Thanks for the inspiration!
Just find it interesting how he skews more and more towards open support for strongman leadership, just because he lives in a failed society.
To me declining birth rates and global fertility stagnation is the biggest crisis mankind can face in our quest to be an interstellar civilisation. I feel the realities of that topic is another very taboo topic.
I wonder if you will manage to address or cover that sometime? Because it is heavily intertwined with history and a number of other sensitive topics.
Modern solutions to such an incredible dangerous issue is migration
Which in the short term doesn't solve much
But in the long term it delays it to some degree
who cares lmao we werent made to fuck around in space, life on earth is temporary, cope with that
@@maddogbasil Delays it not long though. Latin America and most of the tropical world have not much above replacement level birthrates now. We maybe have 10-15 more years of migration before the reservoir of unoccupied young people dry up. Then unless millennials in America start having kids, we're in for the same fate most of the rest of the world is already facing, albeit 40 years later.
Umm… just print babies with consent from two people… let them live their lives, put the babe in school, occasionally visit them, parent them as you wish, relinquish them as necessary … really depends on a bunch of things
Nope, the biggest crisis with that regard is the ecological collapse that we are causing, and an eventual depletion of resources before we manage to economically tap the resources from the space. Plus, there are other physical factors and fundamental limits that make the interstellar travel extremely difficult, if not impossible for manned flight
I truly believe that the bible is a perfect example of "the misticism of life"
From how it's able to touch upon some of the biggest questions of life and maintaining consistency throughout the housands of years it was being written all the way to it's thematic symbolism
It's honestly underrated by everyone (including christians)
It's impressive that books wrote literally more than a thousand years ago is still very mainstream and relatable to us today
You mean mysticism, not "mistisism"
And mysticism is not what you are suggesting it is
Man has clearly never read any hindu or Buddhist texts. Abrahamic morality seems naive in front of them. And in a sense, they are.
It’s literally the most popular religion on Earth, but yes, as a piece of literature it is underrated.
You gotta admire the massive balls of the corporations who sponsor this series of videos.
Incredible video, you never fail to disappoint
Thank you for addressing the teachings of Jesus, as a person who was raised Southern Baptist, and is still heavily involved in my church, blessedly our church without the political chest beating and we’re currently under a bit of a reorganization. Old pastor retired, new pastor moved in and we’re seeing a realignment with more teaching based on the commands of Christ and it’s been an extremely positive growth in spiritual understanding for many of those within the church. I hope to see more church’s move this way in the coming years as people tire of this wrong view of Christ’s teaching
This work is so masterful. I appreciate your candor, objectivity, thoughtfulness, and honesty. I think very many intelligent and curious people are starved for content like this; one that doesn't have a message to push or an agenda to fill. While plenty of these ideas are new to me, I also recognize and affirm many others. The fact that the universe is larger than can be assessed by even the very brilliant is potent and meaningful lesson in regard to finding peace and joy in life. Keep up the excellent work and keep that magnificent brain cooking!
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Love the work, just to clarify one small detail I noticed is that Cu Chulainn doesn't mean "king of hounds" (as cool as that sounds) but rather "hound of Culain", long story short he killed a noble's guard dog due to a misunderstanding and the guy was devastated, so in exchange he agreed to raise a new guard dog for him and to personally guard him until the dog was old enough to take his place.
I also don't think he ever had a child (that did survive).
There's that and Cuchulainn killed his own son on the battlefield. I think Rudyard is confusing Cuchulainn with Connobar, the king who he served.
Dude I love your videos. It's amazing the topics you cover.
Dude you’re awesome, thank you for your hard work!
Having just finished the previous episode and seeing this, sure, I'll go again. :)
This man is certainly on that powder mentioned in the first one.
Markot forces.
you've learned so much for just being 21, kudos. I am 45 and i can say that America was already lost when i was born into it. that said, i remember when the trade deals wree made and nafta etc went thru, and i specifically remember serious protesters warning everyone about what the results would be. And it made sense then and they were clear, but no one cared, or was smart enough to understand. Now we're in the bed we made, and people act like no one saw it coming.
My advice, get yourself elected. academics is a rabbithole of comfortable inaction. just my 2 cents.
that segment about democracy was eye opening. It makes me think about the current state of my country Iraq which doesnt have a government for almost a year now because no party can achieve a majority vote and now there are borderline riots across the country because the people are so frustrated with the corruption and lack of leadership. Everyone who has tried to salvage the country since the war couldn't change anything because they didnt have enough power to do so and everyone has a different vision for moving forward. It makes me think that a dictatorship would be better for the country so that there wouldnt be a constant power struggle that keeps the country stagnant.
I love your thought experience! A compliment not given lightly, I was taken on a great journey here. Thanks! Greetings from Finland! :)
Correction.
Your looking at the Varna system ( Caste is portuguese word) backwards. It's the Jathi ( Clan or Tribes) that are pockets of social groups based off geography that contribute to the class groups.
The Lineage of people were restricted to their surroundings. Creating these pockets of settlements.
The Varna system is from the Manusmirti. Which doesn't mention untouchables at all.
That's why today even though they're indians who convert to christianity or islam and they still identify as there Jathi ( Clan which is often tied to a certain social class). Mostly in rural communities. Dalit christians and muslims.