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  63. Great episode. Stella is a breath of fresh air. As someone who endured the same drugs used for puberty blockers for a gynecologic medical condition, I feel strongly that any doctor prescribing them to children should be banned from the profession. It is nothing short of cruelty. The side effects are horrific. As someone that has experienced more than 60 surgeries for gynecological cancer (so far) that mimic some of the same procedures being done on these confused children, I am comfortable saying that any doctor willing to do this to/for a child should first be required to have it done on themselves. The result of both of these situations has left me financially devastated and in constant pain. The drugs have horrific side effects. How will these children feel when their teeth and bones start to crumble before they are 45? How about the depression that kicks in when they realize they may never smile again because they can’t find a way to come up with the 60k it costs to fix their mouth and their lifelong medical bills will be sure to make it so that they never get to enjoy a vacation again? How will they feel when they realize that they have done all of this and have sacrificed the opportunity to experience the pleasure of a healthy sexual relationship. How in the world are there physicians willing to steal that from another human being? Not to mention the damage being done to the women’s medical research by allowing them to identify this way, skewing the research and risking funding. I cannot wrap my head around this no matter how hard I try.
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  649. "Toxic masculinity" is a very unfortunate concept. I realised that years ago when I first heard it. From a radical feminist perspective, both masculinity and femininity are toxic. They are the two stereotypical roles in creating and upholding the power difference between men and women, the male supremacy. Men are living with the expectations to be dominant and women to be dominated. Women and men has to be socially created unequal. In order for that to work we have to see women and men as two totally different groups of people. For opression to seem acceptable there has to be a belief that there are groups that differ from each other. That's the one single condition needed for inequality, oppression to be accepted. Just as "race" was created for white people to be able to colonise others, "gender" was created to support male supremacy. This is the basic analyses of gender abolitionists. BUT that doesn't exclude the possibility for some differences between women and men. It just opposes the cultural compulsion to recreate the illusion of women and men being totally different. (Before Beckham suddenly putting his hair together up high at the back of the head, only women could do that. Men with long hair new that they had to gather the hair as low as possible in order to not be perceived as feminine.) And no man can actually know what it is to work with only women or even be in a room with only women in it, since it stops being only women when he enters. And I would argue that it is a myth that women only groups doesn’t work. We see and notice what we expect. And when men gossip and have horrible fights, we call it other things.
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  736. this is so sad. where is American Constitution in all this ? How even the idea that my employer has right to punish me for what I said or wrote (using my constitutional rights to free speech) about things other than my job (my obligations toward my employer) is so developing in USA and other countries ? And my employer can not by my judge in anything besides what I need to do as my job. Thats how it is in my country still. Why is this madness developing? Is it developing becouse of corporate money or mobbing or what? 🤔 IMO globalism wants to destroy constitutions of many countries. I was educated on law and history of law and over 20 years ago it was obvious knowledge that Constitution of a country is above international treatises but in recent few years I've started to notice that the political medias narration has changed and now Constitution is showed as standing below international law. Which IMO is not aceptable becouse of many legal reasons - esp that constitutionalism in a country is smt which developed for centuries and is expresion of their legal culture and historical experience and that constitutionalism is about guaranting of protection of individual rights and freedoms of citizens (not illigal emigration), while international law, lets be real its usualy not about individual person or even small groups or small nations but global powers, global gamers, so its not about protecting of any average Joe, or the local economies. And so IMO thats why constitutions must be above international laws. And thats why I as a citizen m not obliged to listen to any official or government who tells me to do things expressed by the laws of other origins than my country's constitution. So IMO my constitution is above for example WHO laws. If such laws are not compatibile with my country's constitution.
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  833. I find Jordan Peterson a strange character, there is something that is part gut instinct about my feelings about him. When I've heard him speak in certain videos where he's started crying I've always felt there was a performative element and an insincerity about him. I'm willing to concede I could be wrong, it's not like I've met him in person to really get to know him but he to my mind fits the bill of someone who is a grifter, he's all about Jordan Peterson and the cult of Jordan Peterson. He seems to revel in being provocative and there are areas where I find myself in agreement with him but I often find his way of engaging on topics needlessly abrasive. I think he is clearly an intelligent guy and has left many people who try to gotcha him look a bit silly. I've also seen him in some longer form debates just come across intentionally vague and needlessly wordy to leave himself the wiggle room of not being tied to something he's implied when challenged on it. It's probably unfair to blame him for the way his cult like followers defend him and attack people on social media when criticised but it doesn't help. Which is somewhat ironic as he's not entirely wrong on the censorious nature of a certain section of at least slightly left leaning parts of modern culture and as I said whilst I'm skeptical of him and think he spews a lot of word salad and plenty questionable statements he at least sometimes has points worth considering and it's always better have rigorous public debate rather than sacred views that can't be challenged.
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  890. I've recently discovered your channel and I love it. I've been left wing since I was a teenager but feel a bit like the left has left me behind. I got involved in the seventies when left wing politics was lead by the unions and centred in the work places. When I was at university we had to go off campus and join meetings in working men's clubs etc and we were the odd ones out being students. I don't need to tell you what it's like now. I cannot believe I'm hearing supposedly left wing people supporting radical Islam, Russian expansionist aggression and the hijacking of the definition of woman from women themselves. However, this does not excuse the right or make them more attractive. The decimation of public services, the corruption and incompetence, the prioritising of the needs of the hugely wealthy and the deliberate attempts to divide and rule have never changed and are getting worse. I feel moderate conservatives should be feeling just as lost as me. Both left and right have been taken over by cult like insanity but at the end of the day I am less upset by gender insanity than by the destruction of the NHS. Or idiots waving the Palestinian flag over two year olds dying of starvation at least in part because conservatives have slashed social services to the bone. This is a long winded way of saying I can't really listen comfortably to Leo Kearse, who is openly conservative, pulling apart the insanity of the left whilst at the same time promoting the right. It's the pot calling the kettle black. I want the moderate left and the moderate right to regain a sane central ground. I don't want one insanity to be replaced by another. So please, carry on discussing the craziness of left but don't start pushing the right as though they were any better. They're not.
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  1111. Hey Andrew. Glad you have started this channel for keeping an open discussion regarding fringe topics. I loved your shows regarding child sex trafficking and certain extremely abusive cults.. i used to see those videos pop up from some months ago snd wonder why you haven't been delving more into all that.. there are some fantastic human beings you introduced who are doing great work and personalities like you Andrew are credible and capable of presenting such topics to the mainstream in order for them to take interest and listen. I would love for you to cover Jinns (reptilian ET possession - check out a Great book called the Jinn connection by the late Rosemary Ellen Guiley who spent her entire life deep diving into all these non human entities tracing back to her intial interest in vampires which led her to spend decsdes researching and coming up with the most comprehensive data on her fundings which were concluded in her book called The Djinn Connection. I assume that once she starts figuring it out and got very close to the Truth she was "offed" in 2019 under mysterious circumstances. So many people today have got it so wrong confusing ET s and alien races. Whereas Guiley realized that there is a much simpler explanation that is not being as widely made known jn the west as it is in the middle east etc. I also recommend the channel Mysterious middle east ..they do some off the best video content on the rarest of topics. Andrew i would Really love it if you could be the pioneer for discussing mainstream religions, not cults, in a more respectful manner where people can learn about their beliefs and why they believe what they do and what if they'd been born elsewhere..and what motivates them into finding a religion that speaks truth to the minds of those who are curious and guided towards the truth. Also Always fun to listen about stories of Beyonce's snd Jayzee being heavily involved in ritualistic sacrifice and witchcraft in order to secure their positions in music .also rothchilds Rockefellers trilateral commission bilderberg group council of 300 ....are all headings that are seriously in need of rebooting by guys like you on thdse channels snd thet will spread like fire ! Believe me. They have a lot of substance to them but we stay distracted by Meghan and Harry who are more easily digestible and passive news whereas princess Diana being killed in a ritualistic sacrifice is something that is covered extensively in a 2020 research paper from Bangladesh.. if anyone can find it ..its an EYE OPENER AND MAKES ALL THE PIECES ALIGN and makes you see right through the royal family and what it is they sre truly setting the stage for the arrival of a certain "Messiah" one of the entire internet's most fascinating topics id discussion 😊
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  1397. Very good conversation as usual! About the first discussion, on the relevance of atheism discussion vs gender wars and how boring they became, I think that most of the excitement in a discussion is due to the feeling of the other person being wrong, so qualitatively wrong that it is absurd to us how they could think something like that! The feeling that we have to explain to them how wrong they are is the main driver to actually discuss! It is the white-gold / purple-black dress again and again: people not understanding how the other side can be so obviously wrong made the debate burn like wildfire all around the World. But as soon as the first scientific explanation of the phenomenon arrived, we just lost our interest. We understood the other side, and there was no interest anymore to correct them even if we are not convinced at all. I will debate a religious person if my atheism is challenged, but I would never enter in the discussion willingly in RL, nor follow a debate unless it is on a novel topic. Nowadays I mostly understand why most religious groups believe what they believe, and while it is absolutely not convincing to me it is also kind of irrelevant to my life. I think that this is the cycle for most debates, the heat rises when we are unable to understand the other side, irrespectively of how irrelevant the actual fact is. There is more debate today about a tiny phenomena like trans women in sport (something completely irrelevant for 99.99% of the population, but something in which is very easy to think that the other side is crazy) than about much more relevant and wide phenomenons like gay marriage (even the pope - while not OK with them - is not so heated up about those). Every theme has a first moment of maximum confusion, in which the other positions look absurd because we did not consider all the arguments and we likely use different definitions, and it later cools down while we listen to the other side arguments and we understand what they mean with their words.
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  1410. When Harry shared the conversation with Meghan, he explained it was said with humor and laughed along with the others who commented because it was obviously a lighthearted and innocent comment. But Meghan was not about to let that opportunity go to waste. It was not to her benefit to ignore the innocent comment. It was much more convenient for Meghan to take offense and twist the comment into something ugly, something racial, which would fit beautifully with her victim agenda, too. By doing so, she provided for herself and the world, the reason why people didn't like her, as opposed to admitting the only reason people didn't like her was because of her personality and nothing to do with her skin color! It was much more convenient to say they didn't like her because they were racists! It's a much harder pill to swallow to say nothing and let the truth stand on its own; people didn't like her for how she behaved and her obnoxious personality! Wondering about someone’s looks is not racist! It’s innocent curiosity. Unless, of course, you are so feeble and fragile that everything offends you, in which case, “You poor pathetic thing.” Or, as in Megan’s case, she couldn’t fathom that she was unlikeable because of her personality. So she had to convince herself and the world that the reason people didn’t like her was because of her skin color, which is white, by the way! I believe, for this reason, when Harry was asked about the racist RF, he immediately denied it. In fact, he said there were no racists in the RF. He then came up with "unconscious bias," which may have been Meghan's compromise when possibly arguing the matter behind doors. Harry may have argued that point that his family were not racists! But he was too spineless to come out publicly to defend the RF. Meghan would have had none of that. Hence, "unconscious bias" became the excuse, but not after Meghan let it run for years without taking her comment back. It was only when Harry was directly asked on TV that he allowed himself (having the excuse that he was asked directly) to "sort of" take back the comment. Harry is between a rock (RF) and a hard place (Meghan). He wouldn't dare infuriate Meghan by going against her and clearly stating his family was not racist. He did the best he could under the circumstances. Meghan would never forgive him if he had said they were not racists, so "unconscious bias" was the best he could do. When my daughter married a Latino, I wanted my grandson to have his coloring. I guess I’m racist??? Just because you ask a question doesn't mean you're racist. I wondered about the baby's skin color. I'm fascinated with genetics and what we inherit from our biological parents. It is only racism, in my opinion, when there is discrimination, degradation, or deprivation. Meghan was openly welcomed and very well-liked. Meghan was openly welcomed and very well-liked. It was only later when her behavior and obnoxious personality became evident that people stopped liking her. Talking about a person's looks and features, or wondering what they will look like, is not racist and very common in families when one is expecting a child, especially when parents are of different races.
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  1500. Hi Andrew Gold, this is the first time I have encountered your channel and already I am enjoying it, Richard correctly picks up on your reference to the fear thing, some of us have managed to see such emotions as being the product of internal metabolic processes that have no direct connection with external material reality, to put it simply it is fear that provoked attention, when frightened we look for things to be scared of!. Much the same applies to the personal reaction to uncertainty, we live in a culture that promotes knowledge and understanding as vital components for continued existence, nothing could be further from the truth!. Such attributes might be useful in the successful completion of elaborate construction projects but when it comes to the intrinsic value of such efforts there are many unanswered questions. Humans have lived quite happily on this planet along with many other organisms without very much knowledge or understanding about any of the ideas we now think so important. We are still left with the underlying issues as to exactly how and why humans are so tempted to adopt all manner of outrageous delusions, so far the best I can come up with is that it seems it might be simple expedience, it takes but a few seconds to decide to believe what you have been told, it can take many many hours of careful critical consideration to establish any rational foundation for a concept. Human imagination is almost instantaneous!, reason is slow and very tedious. Cheers, Richard.
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  1940. 🐟 06. CONSCIOUSNESS/AWARENESS: Consciousness means “that which knows” or “the state of being aware”, from the Latin prefix “con” (with), the stem “scire” (to know) and the suffix “osus” (characterized by). There is BOTH a localized knowing and a Universal Awareness, as explicated in the following paragraphs. Higher species of animal life have sufficient cognitive ability to KNOW themselves and their environment, at least to a measurable degree. Just where consciousness objectively begins in the animal kingdom is a matter of contention but, judging purely by ethological means, it probably starts with vertebrates (at least the higher-order birds and fishes). Those metazoans which are evolutionarily lower than vertebrates do not possess much, if any, semblance of intellect, necessary for true knowledge, but operate purely by reflexive instincts. For instance, an insect or amphibian does not consciously decide to seek food but does so according to its base instincts, directed by its idiosyncratic genetic code. Even when a cockroach flees from danger, it is not experiencing the same kind of thoughts or feelings a human or other mammal would experience. The brain is merely a conduit or TRANSDUCER of Universal Consciousness (i.e. Brahman), explaining why the more intelligent the animal, the more it can understand its own existence (or at least be aware of more of its environment – just see how amazingly-complex dolphin and whale behaviour can be, compared with other aquatic species), and the reason why it is asserted that a truly enlightened human must possess a far higher level of intelligence than the average person. The processing unit of a supercomputer must be far larger, more complex and more powerful than the processor in a pocket calculator. Therefore, it seems logical to conclude that the scale of discrete (localized) consciousness is dependent on the animal's brain capacity. See Chapter 17 to understand the distinction between enlightenment and mere awakening. Three STATES of awareness are experienced by humans and possibly all other species of mammals: the waking state (“jāgrata”, in Sanskrit), dreaming (“svapna”, in Sanskrit), and deep-sleep (“suṣupti”, in Sanskrit). Beyond these three temporal states is the fourth “state” (“turīya” or “caturīya”, in Sanskrit). That is the unconditioned, eternal “state”, which underlies the other three. The waking state is the LEAST real (that is to say the least permanent, or to put it another way, the farthest from the Necessary Ground of Existence, as explained towards the end of this chapter). The dream state is closer to our eternal nature, whilst dreamless deep-sleep is much more analogous to The Universal Self (“brahman”), as it is imbued with peace. Rather than being an absence of awareness, deep-sleep is an awareness of absence (that is, the absence of phenomenal, sensual experiences). So, in actual fact, the fourth state is not a state, but the Unconditioned Ground of Being, or to put it simply, YOU, the real self/Self, or Existence-Awareness-Peace (“sacchidānanda”, in Sanskrit). Perhaps the main purpose of dreams is so that we can understand that the waking-state is practically indistinguishable to the dream-state, and thereby come to see the ILLUSION of this ephemeral world. Both our waking-state experiences and our dream-state experiences occur solely within the mental faculties (refer to Chapter 04 for an elucidation of this phenomenon). If somebody in one of your dreams were to ask your dream-state character if the dream was real, you (playing the part of that character) would most likely say, “yes, of course this is real!” Similarly, if someone were to ask your waking-state character if this world is real, you would almost undoubtedly respond in kind. An apt analogy for Universal Consciousness is the manner in which electricity powers a variety of appliances and gadgets, according to the use and COMPLEXITY of the said device. Electricity powers a washing machine in a very simple manner, to drive a large spindle for laundering clothes. However, the very same electrical power may be used to operate a computer to manifest an astonishing range of outputs, such as playing audiovisual tracks, communication tasks, and performing extremely advanced mathematical computations, depending on the computer's software and hardware. The more advanced/complex the device, the more complex its manifestation of the same electricity. Using the aforementioned computer analogy: the brain is COMPARATIVELY equivalent to the computer hardware, deoxyribonucleic acid akin to the operating system working in conjunction with the memory, the intellect is equivalent to the processing unit, individuated consciousness is analogous to the software programme, whilst Universal Awareness is likened to the electricity which enlivens the entire computer system. A person who is comatosed has lost any semblance of local consciousness, yet is being kept alive by the presence of Universal Consciousness. The fact that many persons report out-of-body experiences, where consciousness departs from the gross body, may be evidence for the above. So, then, following-on from the assertion made in the third paragraph, one could complain: “That's not fair – why can only a genius be enlightened?” (as defined in Chapter 17). The answer is: first of all, as stated above, every species of animal has its own level of intelligence on a wide-ranging scale. Therefore, a pig or a dog could (if possible) ask: “That's unfair – why can only a human being be enlightened?” Secondly, it is INDEED a fact that life is unfair, because there is no “tit for tat” law of action and reaction, even if many supposedly-great religious preceptors have stated so. They said so because they were preaching to wicked miscreants who refused to quit their evil ways, and needed to be chastized in a forceful manner. It is not possible to speak gentle words to a rabid dog to prevent it from biting you. There is evidence of Consciousness being a universal field, in SAVANT SYNDROME, a condition in which someone with significant mental disabilities demonstrate certain abilities far in excess of the norm, such as superhuman rapid mathematical calculation, mind-reading, blind-seeing, or astounding musical aptitude. Such behaviour suggests that there is a universal field (possibly in holographic form) from which one can access information. Even simple artistic inspiration could be attributed to this phenomenon. The great British singer-songwriter, Sir James Paul McCartney, one day woke with the complete tune of the song, “Yesterday”, in his mind, after hearing it in a dream. American composer, Paul Simon, had a similar experience when the chorus of his sublime masterpiece, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”, simply popped into his head. Cont...
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  2222. The Christian church imagines Gods justice system is like the human justice system, where a judge accuses, condemns and punishes lawbreakers, but this idea is derived from the pagan belief that God wrote laws, man broke his laws, therefore God must punish lawbreakers. This concept declares God a lawbreaker, for one cannot burn his enemies in pain, suffering, agony and torment in hell without being unforgiving, retributive, punitive and lawless like us. And in this scenario Jesus came to save us from Gods punishment by becoming a live innocent human sacrifice, whose blood we offer up to appease Gods wrath, thus changing Gods heart and mind so that he will no longer torture us but instead declare us innocent, saving us from death. But there is another, unpagan, way to interpret scripture, whereby we first believe Gods law is his eternal character, therefore God is law-full, sinless according to the law like Jesus, and incapable of changing nor denying his law-fullness. If we interpret scripture through believing God is exactly like Jesus, we would conclude that Gods justice system is like a Doctors surgery, rather than a courtroom, where the Doctor diagnoses our terminal lawlessness and provides the saving remedy, which is a changed heart and mind, a born again experience where we no longer desire lawlessness but instead love law-fullness. In this interpretation Jesus came to ‘heal’ by showing us the truth about his fathers character and offering the free gift of his spirit to change us within, thus saving us from the sin which is destroying us. Therefore the answer is not to kill terrorists but to heal their hearts and minds in order that they no longer desire to elevate themselves by killing Jews, but begin to love others more than they love themselves. It is about time we brought up the subject of the character of the God we worship and serve because we do not have one true God here, we have many false Gods elevated to a position of adoration.
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  2427. 10:10 What I don't understand about the mentality of such men in that situation, is the same thing I don't get with the ones who raped black slaves. They viewed the person they sexually assaulted as subhuman, not even a person, nothing. And yet...they still...wanted to...have sex with 'that thing'? WHY? Where, in their mind, does that make sense? Of course, the culture itself makes men repressed, but it's not just about sex. The act itself seems to be regarded, in their minds, as the ultimate punishment/insult they could visit upon a person they deem less than human, whose existence is an offense/insult to them. It's bizarre. They think of women as animals, cattle even, they certaily afford them as many rights, and yet...they cannot fight their biological urges and the culture convinces them that they do it out of some moral obligation to met out punishment the way it was ingrained in them. It's no surprise many people of other nations are cautious about who they let in. Never mind illegal immigrants, even the ones who come legally can bring in these abhorent elements of their traditions. A second-generation muslim woman was threatened with rape, by their own cousin, for not covering themselves on the streets of a European country. And that's an example from 10-15 years ago. Who knows how many come to the west, who don't want to assimilate on any level. And yet, they still leave their country and come to the west. Now, why is that? What in the west appeals to them, then? If it's as evil and bad as some anti-western propaganda might tell them, or some self-flagellating anti-western sentiment from 'lefists in the west' say. 19:43 - Maybe we should let gender-ideology take over in those cultures, so violence against women would stop, if no one would be a woman or a man, anymore. (Joking, of course - but could it actually lead to that?) Anyway, it serves to highlight what it can mean to be a woman in certain parts of the world, and both the woke, who are afraid to critize clearly abhorent parts of other cultures, and the women who are priveleged to live in a moderate version of said cultures (in the west), who say they have choice, their claims of freedom are an insult to all the women who do not have it, for who even wearing certain items of clothing is not a choice; to not even mention how they're treated both physically and mentally. And even when they're already in the west or other modern, moderate parts of the world, it can still carry over and hurt them. And guess what modern cultural movement isn't helping when it should, because not only is it constantly concerned about the wrong things, not only is all of its focus always on either meaningless/harmless infractions or exaggerated wrongs, it also draws everyone else's attention to itself, away from things that should matter just as much, if not more.
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  2453. Trans person here. I’m willing to share my thoughts based on my experiences, but I fear being attacked. Yet I’ll persist, hoping this might be a place with more people agreeable to learning. Crossing fingers. Most troubling about this video, to me, is when Mr. Dawkins says, at 2:10, “Probably. I don’t know much about it. I don’t wish to deny that,” when asked whether “aspects of brains” are male and typically female. Brushing off that discussion as though it’s immaterial is utterly disappointing because – put simply – we ARE our brains. Other than our few biological needs: food, water, shelter, and (for some) procreating, who we are as people is defined by how our brains formed and how they function. We are products of our neurobiology. And – very important here – for some few people, the formation of our brains as typically male or female, did not align with the biological formation of our bodies. For a through discussion about it, watch a recent lecture about this from Robert Sapolsky, neuroendocrinology researcher and author, who goes into detail about brain differences and what research is showing regarding brain formations of trans people. It’s a much more nuanced discussion than, “Probably …” Bottom line is, how your brain developed and how it functions because of that development, determines whether you enjoy Harry Potter books, and whether you’re generous and kind, or cold and aloof, and what music ticks your box, and what foods you prefer. Your brain determines nearly everything about you. Understanding that is VITAL to this conversation. I could no more change my transness than you could change your dominant hand, or your sexuality. It’s hard wired. If this is all a matter of semantics, that’s fine. I always describe myself as “gender nonconforming,” because that seems to disarm some hypervigilant folks. But the truth of the matter is, I present as feminine as possible (despite the male physical body I was born into) because that’s the way I find a measure of peace with the never-ending incongruity between what my brain tells me I am, and what my body tells me. It’s a helluva thing – it’s no damn fun at all - and I wish people like Dawkins and Gold in this video would stop discussing it as though this is an ice cream flavor preference, and educate themselves on the neurobiological aspect.
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  2540. Andrew, I must commend you for wading into these waters. I know that it's a bit treacherous to be exploring these issues with the current woke climate. I have always considered myself very progressive and I think all this transgender and non-binary stuff is just complete madness. They're teaching it to our kids in schools. They're confusing kids that otherwise would not be confused. The fact is as a female I had my own experience of gender dysphoria. And this was in the 1970s, it came from the fact that it was and still is a man's world. I was a pretty female that felt too visible in this man's world and I felt like I had to lower my voice in order to speak with a mechanic working on my car. Or be taken for a clueless girl. And I remember thinking that it was easier for men and that it would be so much more convenient to be male. But the fact is now that I'm a grown woman (actually just turned 63,) I can say that the most rewarding part of my life has been marriage and having a child. I had a child late because I had a really interesting and exciting career. But it didn't supersede my experience in becoming a mother. My heart breaks for anybody who jeopardizes their future ability to be fertile and have the experience of becoming a parent taken from them before they even understand its value in the most remote sense. Shocking that your guest was expelled for expressing any belief that wasn't the current accepted narrative. Bless his heart for pushing back. We must address this era of medical abuse, psychological abuse and confusion before it harms too many young people. Thank you.
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  2723. Hello from Mexico, Andrew. Thanks for being a voice against woke culture. This kind of ideology has affected my life in many ways and I feel invisible even when I try to talk about something really serious that happened to me in a cult. A doctor used something against me called "law of mother and father" or the official name of "gender roles" in my country. I tried to talk with feminists and LGBT people but no one hears me, I even by accident stole an important piece of information that dismantles the system the cult uses. I think they don't believe I was assigned the profile or cast of "The Patriarch" as a kid and told my father was agressive when he was always good with me. Things are way worse than I thought. I tried to reach the Trevor Project telling them how it hurts to be assigned the profile of the lamb, the passionate and the indomitable seducer as a minor and they told me everyone has labels they like to use and I shouldn't be ashamed of that, WTF. I was even assigned a place in a fake hyerarchy and no one in the cult found nothing wrong with being told the "Master" is the only profile that has not a skull with any other one, is always the best and everyone should be like it, and obviosuly the leader Fernando casually is that profile and I'm in 9th place. This is horrible, please let me have a chat with you so I can show you proof because I found very interesting things no one in my environment wants to hear. I'm convinced those laws are used all across my country and maybe even connected to the MBTI (They both have 16 personalities each with 8 "laws" in Tanatodinamia or "cognitive functions" in the MBTI), they are the official gender roles and I gave woke people enought opportunities to write this down because it's really important but I keep getting silenced because my real story doesn't align with their fantasy and just assume I'm lying but I can prove it.
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  3088. Yes, I’ve read two copies - an interpretation and a translation of the Quran. Absolutely shocking. And have read a lot now around this issue . People are so ignorant. Why don’t they just read and educate themselves? My line of work is as a yogi and space holder. It’s almost an entry pass into the club to be anti west/anti capitalist/anti Israel/ and often unconsciously hold anti semitic views. I was previously quite intimidated about speaking up but I educated myself out of that. I don’t stand for it any longer so will stand up for Jews and western values and have been called the most ridiculous names- white supremacist/ white privileged etc. It’s like a cult of insanity. I make it subtle but clear where I stand and almost dare people to talk to me about it. I’ve deleted several friends. I’m not Jewish/israeli but I feel very strongly about how wrong the media/propaganda is around Israel and how bad it has been for decades ❤ I don’t think even Jews know what they contribute to the world. I’m married to a Jew and I don’t think it’s realised the subtle but profound impact of having that philosophical influence is in the psyche. There is such an impulse to create and offer to life. This is something very important and is the essence of what being alive is. I thought all Abrahamic religions were cut from the same cloth. They’re not at all. Having no hell in Judaism and having no impulse to convert others/dominate/inculcate makes for a very different psyche. Also I like the approach to scripture- to discuss/disagree/ very democratic. Of course it is still religion and ultimately full of nonsense but there is no requirement to believe and so is ultimately far more humane. Islam is an awful death cult full of domination, incitement to violence towards others (mostly Jews). As far as I can see it adds absolutely no value to life. I feel truly sorry for Muslims to be honest. What a thing to overcome. And we thought Catholicism was bad !
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  3394. I can agree with most of what he's saying. However, what he says about needing to be an expert in everything to give your opinion on things these days, I think that depends on how much you care about learning. Some things are relatively easy to learn about and render the learner capable of giving an informed opinion. Consider a nation that's a tiny island in a sea of enemies that hate them and constantly attack them, and consider that said nation has a very powerful ally who keeps supplying them and allowing them to win the wars that others start by attacking them, and after each conflict is won they annex territory from the aggressor. Consider also that this nation is written in ancient texts as having once existed there and having been wiped out and its people scattered to the winds they came back and bought property to live on from the nation that was in control of that land. It's not exactly a complex history and it's not hard to come to a conclusion that not only should this nation be allowed to exist, but that they should be allowed to exercise that fundamental right that all sentient beings possess to defend themselves. Anyone that comes down on the opposite side of that given the truth of their situation and how they came to be there, they would be wrong. The major problem as I see it is that one side keeps spreading propaganda about that nation and wants to systematically wipe them out. Anyhow, that's just my $0.02 and I am doubtful that it will be anything more than ignored as per usual.
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  3417. There is a big difference between Men and Women in this World, and that is the pay gap, just look at the art industry for an example, Fine Art Galleries and Museums Worldwide have how many men within them? Well, Google says... Why it matters: Female artists' work is a fraction of what's displayed in museums, but that's not due to a lack of women in art. By the numbers: A recent analysis of major U.S. art museums by researchers at Williams College found that just 13% of artists featured in those collections were women. On average, women earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men Worldwide. At the current rate, it is estimated that it will take 257 years to close the global gender pay gap. In 2020, the European Union had the highest gender pay gap in Latvia at 22.3% and the lowest in Luxembourg at 0.7%. So, bring on the Woke's... if they can get the pay gap evened... because there is no more XX or X Y "agenda", and we all got paid the same rate on this Planet for the same job... that would be nice and maybe we could also think about the rubbish/ junk within the Worlds Oceans too! I'm a Ecofeminist Artist and I thinking about these concepts and issues all the time, and that's why I exhibit about various modernity issues and listen too. I have been looking at up- cycling within Contemporary fashion and especially the jewellery area... Now there is an other industry with a pay gap and gender problem... Fashion! Until we have "NO or KNOW/ PAY GAP" there will always be a "Gender Issue" peeps! On this Planet we are NOT all the SAME because of many issues but Karl Jung thought that we were all of one consciousness, so that makes us, all of one mind or is that mind set ... a philosophy statement or a Woke-ism nowadays...😉😊
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  3801. 7:58 Peter] "We don't even know the best reasons for why people would believe the most rudimentary things about the root of the conflict of whom they disagree. We're not even at that stage yet." Some of us are, even if we are neither Jewish, Arab, or Muslim, you just have to listen seriously to the right people, and actually listen to them when they tell you, and I mean people who are steeped in the religions and cultures of the region - they will tell you. The Jews and the Arabs? It is a three thousand years old inheritance feud. It goes something like this. The Hatfields and the McCoys moved into the Big Wide Valley three hundred years ago and have been feuding ever since Great Grandpappy Boyington died over which side of the family inherits Big Wide Valley. Great Grandpappy Boyington's Original Will from three hundred years ago clearly indicates that the Hatfield clan inherits Big Wide Valley through Grandpappy Hatfield, but the McCoys are allowed to continue to live there if they want, but that means they will be renters forever - at least so long as there is a living Hatfield. The problem is that the McCoys are the larger and more populace clan and really, really, really believe they should inherit Big Wide Valley because of that, but so long as one Hatfield lives, even if it only a baby, that Hatfield baby will inherit Big Wide Valley. This puts the McCoys in the position of having to wipe out every single Hatfield down to the last baby in order to finally inherit Big Wide Valley. What complicates the matter is that about a hundred years ago the McCoys produced a New Will which allegedly states that Great Grandpappy Boyington really gave the inheritance of Big Wide Valley to the McCoys through Grandpappy McCoy, and the whole situation has been in court ever since, even though the most recent legal and scientific examination of the New Will indicated that it is likely a hundred year old forgery. So the feud continues. Ok, it's not a exact analogy - so please cut me a little slack - but it does I hope shed some light on why the Jew vs Arab dynamic is so existential. I should add that Big Wide Valley as an inheritance is more than control over a piece of geography on planet Earth it also has a lot to do with who has preeminence before the LORD. The reason Hamas wants to kill ALL JEWS | Rabbi Manis Friedman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEDHRJgpG8Y&t=286s
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  3842. Human Women and Men, at least in the Western world, have equality. Both sexes are able to obtain an education, work in the same fields, earn the same money, based obviously on each person’s specific talents and skills. There is still, and always will be, a huge biological gap between the sexes. Only Men are capable of producing sperm. Only Women are capable of menstruating. Only Women are capable of producing ova. Only Women are capable of getting pregnant. Only Women are capable of giving birth. Only Women are capable of breastfeeding. Jordan Peterson is attacked quite a bit by people who have only watched a short clip, a sound bite, without providing context for his comments. Most people are too lazy to actually read or listen to the entire interview or class lecture. His sense of humor doesn’t always translate well. I don’t agree with his opinions on everything, but the man is quite a brilliant clinical psychologist and educator. Clinical psychologists have stopped trying to help people learn to cope with traumas, to give them tools for navigating life when things are difficult. Instead, the psychologists today are keeping people in their traumas, letting them wallow, to continue to be perpetual victims and not encouraging them to take personal responsibility, to do the work, that will help them be healthier functioning human beings. A psychologist shouldn’t affirm every feeling that a patient has, especially when some of those feelings are self destructive or destructive towards others. We are not seeing psychologists, paying a lot of money, for them to just agree with everything we say. The relationship between psychologists and patients has changed into just another echo chamber. He is not afraid to speak the truth, to provide facts, to give people a different perspective, to force us to look at certain aspects of our own lives, that we each can work on individually, to make our lives better without blaming others for our shortcomings.
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  4025. Andrew, on a personal note as a new sub I don't support the right winged nuts that have facistic leanings and love authoritarian leaders and russia and victor orban or Putin or far left nuts that recently have attacked isreali and jewish victims of hamas. Who behave like uncivilized coullions(fools) tearing down childrens missing posters. They are fatras ( cajun for trash) I do not support anti semantic rhetoric from any side. I am notcing both of these sides doing it. So as long as this guy is in neither camp i will check him out. People don't like that I won't hop on these crazy "sides" but if i wanted to think like that I would just join a cult. Most americans I know are like me. They aren't to either of these extremes. I don't like fear mongering or the extremes we have seen with people cheering on hamas and hating on the jewish kidnapping victims and the other people working in isreal that were kidnapped. I think its important you know many good people do not support hamas and antisemitism rhetoric! Nor do i like these people encouraging a civil war and secessionist type views or christian nationlism. That is not christianity I grew up with. Its so unjesus like and against our constitution. I do think there are some groups that are in US who are causing these protests that are from outside the country trying to sow discord. I do not think the majority of americans support this. The tide is changing because sane educated people like me are not afraid to speak up. Hamas is being supported by iranian government but not by its people and russia is also behind it. The iranian people told their government to stick the palestinian flag up their ass they flew at a huge soccer game. Because they know how corrupt their own government is. They know they are backing hamas. I am letting you know this because like this intelligent guy said the 2 extreme factions are trying to play a game to pit us aganst one another so we aren' t gonna play that game. Shalom ma frere. I am a lousiana real loup garou cadjin/ cajun and we were some of the first people along with our native tribal brothers to be americans. My papa has naive tribal blood. We have many tribes in my state. My language uses choctaw french and spanish, creole and even some african. So we are unique. Not like parisian french or quebecquois. They used to beat us and i was told in school i did not speak french correctly. Lol I said you are in Louisiana and we speak lousiana patois of broken english and lousiana french. So welcome to our world ma cher (sha)! Stay away from far right and far left because they both have crazy distorted thinking. Trust me on that ma frere. ( my brother ) They want to fear monger and sow discord so do not believe them. They are 2 sides to the same coin. And both have hateful ideology. You are british and have not grown up here in USA. I want to keep the US republic a free westernized and civilized constitutional democracy that values civilized behavior and polite conversation and debate. If its not that I change the channel. Just wanted to reassure you its not like they try and make it out here in USA. As long as we do not play their games we will be ok.
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  4087. Oh hilarious! My mom used to chew ice. The harder the ice the better. It drove 3 of 8 of us insane. It was as if her entire head reverberated & the sound amplified! And she KNEW! She chewed her food the same way. It became more pronounced as it became more bothersome. Finally I had to disengage, just didn't acknowledge when she did it. That worked. She stopped making it high drama. My dad taught me how to ignore an asshole being an open asshole. It's a superpower now. Haha My kids consider me 'hyper critical' when I try to raise the hue & cry. Ohhh mom! Can't you ever say anything nice?? So now I always begin with 'true compliment', which is different from being 'nice'so I try to find real qualities I can compliment. Huge diff between 'nice' and "kind". 'Nice' is in the sophisticated philosophical bs spectrum of being deceptive w/the science behind 'civility'. Do a deep dive into the philosophy of 'civility'. It's absol atrocious. It's a master work in gas lighting. We need a more definitive term for gas lighting imo. Anyway sorry for the long comment. I haven't mastered short pithy comments unless a story is warranted. And you seem to enjoy good stories, Andrew! Much love!❤️ Ps: those women who refused to denounce genocide had to be the ultimate pinnacle of why diversity hires & the lie behind equal opportunity employment has destroyed 3-4 generations of men who were refused advancement or even jobs in which they were trained , educated or gifted toward. It's been a moral outrage since 1972. Ok I'm done. Thank you!
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  4139. If someone goes around stating, "identity" + "superior" whatever that individual human is its a red flag, especailly like the peter papoffs and Kenneth Kopelands, we dn't make 1000 nonsense thigns to confuse peoples actual work, so they seed power over toa animalistic kingdom while neglecting their very own and means of a state, itsa mental state of captivity.. and most peopel its not about voting its about trust nad a relation isntead, people give over money to peopel rob steal and ensalve them. Its not hate someone because of their identity, its... Behaviour, their account to waht they say and actions. Superior is where superior is... obviosuly this charade of pretenders has been aweful for most humans and tragic... abused form og trust form narcissism that palgues people. YOu can investigate artists etc, taht bcome famous or before. Great balls of fire.. Sick humans but not all are like that, genuine passion to create... its jsut ... money can be a poor substitute for aparetn and enable thigns that you aren o logner held accoutnible whihc would be self destructive to the conscience, but you ahve ot keep in mind it owuld be odne from a outside position of that is engineering a perosn. If you contorl the entire economy. and the moeny suppyl. you look like your living humbly, but are predator ready to accuse the person you control all aspects aroudn htem, money home etc... adn in relaity, here, teh good, and human core is abused, and its engineered that way ot state tehy are wiced, but really anaylze this messed up psychology. We can look at the camerons and other groups and narcissism, while they plunder they deny legit humans work, because its not for them to have those positios ntheir father had, because the system is about robbing the house and hten giving it away, and contorling every part adn then killing off thorugh attrition of lawful upright people. The new world christian order has been ongoign for centuries hteir body count is massive, and infectious nonsense takes over, and its far form the rule of law and puts peopel ina state of ocnfusion, IE gnosis chrsitians the jew,s the .. chrsitians ahve a tonne of denomatinatiosn that killed each other before jesus... tehir messianc figure.. their father is a liar and etc... jesus pretty much scolded the jews and scolded the christians.. So stating your part of a cult means you didn't get the message of what it is to simpyl be a good person... good isn't giving.. when you feed your crops... if you over feed they die.. etc. but hten its aposition of slaver,y if you destroy al lthigns and oeprate confusion you destroy things... and most of those things are taken over.. I look at my life.. regardless fo where I apply. it is abudanntly clear. I am not to be accepted anywhere unless its udner hte boot of the most heinous humans it seems, full of lacking kwoledge of hetir actiosn ,scu has takign neuro toxins.. its hte celebreation of nonsense, whislt the worship of like new yokr Cuomo and hte lgeion of endless females that eventaully if they ahve a cell have kids, then neglected al lteh core values and males that buitl hte system joiing in a legion or brigade of nonsense.. its pretty hard ot do anyhting ina systme with out its mark, tis harder when psychologists and or peopel are accusing you of crimes you didn't commit and htus generate you to go crazy. that is an abominable act to another perosn. WE cna follow writers and other groups influencing society and parading police and creating a nosnense systme, while the 100's of cults... for whoever god, seek to kill peopel over phoenetics, rather hten dicern oh shit that person is alread ya good person.. and discuss behaviour , they create what hte cathars do social ostracization china nad many tribal systems do this, this isn't modern, and seeking to heal a person and discussing thing rationally... the virus is like "freedom" rather then converse... so the mind rebels towards a false system of freedom that is mortal decay, death and aboslute and suffering.. whereas the prior is uplifting and healing.. British columbia has complained about doctors forever, but denies me educaiton and funds and allwos hte funding of BLM and other groups and other groups also targeted my father for not drinking alcohal its a very abusive system in this land and they the writers nad oterh groups give all sorts of cruel malice in their teeth for words ot justify their lawless nature unto others ot furhter compound their arrgoance and cruelty unto others. LIke wimp, etc, thus enocuraging a relatively safe existence into a more diabolical or dangerous one, as they build empires on human flesh muc hakin to the lawless nature of china, piling their own pepel in teh wall of china... its like at some point you walk away form teh said madness and cruelty... it doesn't change.. its still goes on today... Regardless of your miltiary history or actually giving a fuck... lol Jews hated... Most people hate useless identities.... because it doesn't allow us to classify. Like Doctor __ of _ etc.... gives meaning... if you african, american ,european... white, black its a useless identity for hte most part in how we operate... Howeve,r governor is typicalyl some trained in governoring, thus principles of law and order adn civil works and mangement. The question is when a person or group neglects of moves and then denies peopel works and their simple for a skae and hten for whatever raosn out of a inner bent rage, controls the governoring positon to vioalte the law of the land, it creates backlash because it is epxlotiive rather then upholding of law.. rather hte ngoing out.. it becomes worse. when theft and arroganceis invoeld it creates more problems. IE canada.. migration or the ocmmon welath... while asia controls the ecoomic imports an the factories are destroyed in teh west, we are subjugated ot inferior, laws or qualities... their quality is face, not real since its stolen and each act is na act of war.. teh quesiton is do you retaliate against these gnerational vioaltions of the law and community? What is peace.. when antoher system jsut over runs you... there is ficitonal and other means... the arrgoance of some of the financial criminal groups and targeting of whoever they like is not really a lawful system. One has ot wonder then at the value and the changes in crime to their typical crime systems, which is weird, like acid attacks ot knife attacsk ot bombs ahve a cultural system of strangeness ot financial support crimes.. (buck stops here - michael ignatieff).. Reflection of ones life and the denial of it.. yo ugo to a city of millions and you feel alone... denied works and life, unfavored by the medaited nonsense... while peopel laugh and play while the works are not done. GO to a small town, over run with migration and peopel yellign racism suddenly and the women castrating the males in the region not to act, atleast some had a head, IE the girl from england and vicotm services an hte emxican crime form te hdemacgraphics again the land owners caliming chrsitian and then seekign the poorest peopel with no scope of law and then exploiting them and apying htem little and or housing them for free and feeding them and then paying them marginal... whereas local person gets neitehr good pay or those things affilaited.. SO what we ahve is a externtial national system of epxloitive nature. On top of that we can advanced any of these systemsbecasue its all private and no logner national... so its a individual tribal thign tha trelies on a market of nonsense, adnthat market is over consumed by cirminals... So... hatred... I don't htink I know this emotions because peopel say its a strong emotion, like I get angry, but tahts not hate apparently... So... I use the dry wall analogy.. Nothing is evil.. its a good quality or a poor quality.... using money and denying peopel life and or communtyi nad or learning to particapte is a suffering scam of psyhoctic civlisation or group of humans that utlize every mean to cause suffering from their iamgination to others with no evidentry proof of any criems jsut simply as is and the. Its bizarre system for sure... most of these polices certainly don't help the inflational nonsense... the nwe have the same q of other nations that act liek war tribes and create every angle of nonsense against other groups... its not very prodcutive.. and hten we have people talking about war... as an evil.. war is now and is happening in teh past... if you don't kill ILlogical nonsense when it grows or stop it.. then it goes about destroying in every form... of others... deny peopel educaiton... tehy go to whatever is left to feel something which is foten madness for females, liek witch craft nonsense. IN BC< there is an entire engineering core to rob people, but education itself is denied, and we have closed collective markets.. so regardles of pagan or whatever cult is on this planet.. I don't care for your identities... The truth is OVER this world... and in it.. and around it.. but certainly not in the imaginations of many that create cults like theme overlays... Themeing is good for an aaspect of style... but often doesn't really have a meanign since hteonly meaning is in the data to construct a concrete pillar.. etc. IE the formula. the shape is irelevant unless you choose ot make it have afunctional relevance to its incorpation wit ht surrounding reality.... that the ntakes applciation of information ... So.. identity of something in most cases only matters when it carries a meaning that has afuncitonal and operation sense... but meh... peopel relaly don't care.
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  4618. Btw just a fun little thought about evolution pf language faculty, Noam has said something like the structure that generates infinite possible ideas has to evolve very dramatically and rapidly, i think that is sort of right but not quite, i think the base capacities come from the structures that allow mamals and birds and a few other species to flok or to be social creatures, to communicate with each other and play, and all you really need to go from that to being able to understand thousands of words is s gradual even of rapid change to a richer version of that, to be able to view things and processes the same way you can have a relationship with another member of your pack so to speak. And then the vocal chords and externalisation faculty in the brain to evolve rapidly once the advantage of this kind of communion takes hold. Take dogs, some dogs can understand a wast number of individual words to at least some degree of detail, like the difference between sentences about one toy vs another. What is interesting about dogs is that we domesticated them for complex cooperation, while some other animals we domesticated somewhat more passively, horses might aøso be interesting. But it would ve really interesting to look at the difference in capacity to understand words and sentences between dogs and wolves, that might gain us some insight into the pre-verbal development of language capacity, ofc primates like gorilla's are also interesting, they also have some primative language Capacity, birds as well in a very different way, but i think wolves and dogs are very interesting because they essentially coexist wild And domesticated, if there is a large difference in capacity it might have interesting implications for our preverbal evolution of language capacity :).
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  4619. Now lets imagine there is a god, and there is sort of a version of this kind of afterlife only with unbounded design so to speak, for surely a god would be able to make all of it somehow make sense. Then i think misery and unfairness in life would have some other side of the coin ultimately, for each victim as well as lessons within life, but in that case it would also have to be hidden for us here in this life or we get into trouble like people believing that suffering is illusion and treating people horribly is as good as anything else, the only way for us to know this life matters and our fellow creatures should be treated well is to say it is not meaningless and easily replaceable, so no matter what is actually true about an afterlife i think it is necessary to take the good seriously in this life as if the possibility of something after is not possible, even if it was garuanteed. Ofc this has nothing to do with god, it has only to do with what we value and how we live, and what may come after we shall face or not face whether we like it or not :) the wonder at the end of the world is open, it is not necessary to choose to believe or disbelieve in some spesific account of what comes after the fading away of sensation, it is there or you won't know, so when you are there in the end don't feel compelled to deny or submit yourself to a desire to believe, wonder is enough, without prejudice, like a small child waiting to fall asleep wondering what dreams might interdict before waking.
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  4620. There probably is methods that allow faster than øight travel and communication, the second following from the first pretty much, so there is always the possibility. But i think life is quite fragile andnit might very well be that civilizations that are advanced enough to contact us are thinking that is is best not to give the orangutangs guns until they become peaceful and grown up so to speak. Ultimately life that is Darwinian needs sustainance and pursuit of their instincts to be content, we have desires of knowledge and social standing and so on, like other animals a desire for fun, friendship and love, but also darker things, and i think at the point where you have to power to do whatever you want pretty much, what remains is just having a good time and pursing knowledge, exploring and so on, i don't think just dominion over nature is particularly interesting at that point, and so they would probably see us as interesting but ultimately very childish and brute, and so would either watch over us ornleavenus completely to ourselves until we grow up. I don't think they would view us ornour planet as resources like in the movies, if we where a lot more advanced we could just mine the moon and get whatever we needed from fusion energy or the moon. We wouldn't even need to look for sources of anything that is inhabited at all, there is plenty of resources out there on dead rocks for anything you could even want to do. If you think about it evennour level of automation is sufficient to automatically mine the moon, build spacecraft and increase our supply of any particular element by any factor we wanted, as long asnit isn't something non rare ofc. I suspect that advanced civilizations eventually figure out how to use their moon for energy and materials for their scientific and industrial endeavours and then they simply curate their biosphere and develop into space with ever more elaborate projects.
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  4651. I feel like religious people get stuck in some kinf of religious feedback loop where they are constantly reinforcing the idea of god on themselves, maybe not every religious person, maybe just the ones that think there is an all seeing all knowing god that knows that you think, so they are terrified of not believing and have to constantly reinforce their belief on themselves and done dare even question in it their heads? Maybe I am wrong. I was just thinking of when I stopped smoking years ago using hypnosis, its the longest Ive ever quit smoking in my life but I was constantly telling myself that I didn't need to smoke while a part of my brain was thinking I really just want a ciggarette lol I was always pretty crazy anytime I did stop smoking. I stopped for 18 months the first time using hypnosis then started again for a couple of months, went back and got hypnosis again, it worked for a month or so, went back again once or twice one time to a different hypnotherapist but it just didn't work anymore and I got sick of the constant in my head debates with myself about not doing it and just decided Im never quitting again lol I just feel like that whole thought process of arguing with yourself almost with two opposing voices and even sometimes mentally stopping yourself from thinking a certain way even though that doesn't work is similar to how hypnosis works on you psychologically & wondered if it was similar to what a lot of people think in their heads about religion, some even to the point of being so scared to even think something cause they think "god" is listening.! Apologies for typos and if I re[eated myself , done it in a hurry and will fix later, was busy rolling myself a "cugarette but the above brain fart happened and I had to strike while the iron was still hot.
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  4712. I've come to disagree with Richard Dawkins on the question of "I would not want to believe a falsehood". Thing is, I think it's quite easy to have a statement that is 100% true and yet devastating to believe. For example, there is a great natural catastrophe, and you're caught in it. Most likely, you're going to die, and it's going to be very painful, and the chances of you making it out rather than some other person is very slim. But the survivors of that are the ones that believed that they could make it out, and didn't just lie down and take it. Imagine people rationally think that situation through and think... okay, well, I think I'd rather take poison than be trapped under rubble for three weeks and slowly rot away, and that reduces my personal suffering. In that moment, I think having this crazy belief that you can survive is the most beneficial thing you can have. The thing about religion is that from an evolutionary standpoint, it HAD to be a positive trait, because consistently the civilizations that were religious survived, and when times got tough, people got more religious, not less. Truth does not necessarily make for good evolutionary strategy. I can't bring myself to believe in the literal truth of Gods and miracles and prophets and afterlives, but that doesn't stop me from being religious in the sense of believing that there is great value in the morals following religion. We still don't understand NEARLY enough about humans to really comprehend what we're messing with when we change everything about our environment in less than 100 years.
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  4744. I hold (among many others) Richard Dawkins in very high regards, and I do so even though I firmly disagree with his stance on what it means to be male or female, and I do intend to devote the bulk of this comment to that issue. But first I'd like to say that it's a true statement that even the smartest people are not experts on all things. And when speaking about what it means to be male or female, Richard is simply treading into areas that he doesn't understand. If I'm sad about this, it's only that Richard has demonstrated an open enough mind to understand many non intuitive things in his field, yet he immediately reverts to a closed position when it comes to something he's never really studied. There is a cautionary tale in this that I truly hope folks take away. Regarding the main topic, let's get the easy stuff sorted first. Are there some people out there that say things they don't really mean for their own ends? Yep, there sure are. Are there people out there that say things because they are genuinely confused and in the end, they're just trying to figure things out? Yep there sure are. But I submit to you that these types of people when it comes to gender identity do not represent the majority of people who claim a gender that they were not born with the customary parts. And Richard's statements on this issue is painting with a planet sized brush. Consider for a moment Siamese twins. Or people who are born with part of a non viable sibling sticking out of them, or any number of genetic abnormalities. Next consider that hermaphroditism is a real genetic condition that happens. We KNOW these conditions are real in genetic terms. So let's jump a gap here and consider an otherwise genetic man or woman that claims to be the opposite sex. Here things are more nuanced and less blatantly obvious. But consider, that people who suffer chronic depression don't choose to be that way. People who suffer from bi polar don't choose to be bi polar. Is it sincerely that hard to see that someone born genetically one gender feels at the core of there being that they are the opposite gender? Nobody who truly experiences this chooses to do so. For the majority of people who experience these things, it's not a choice to be gay or trans. Any more than people choose to be depressed or bi polar. You can't tell some to choose to be something they have no choice in. If you truly feel like you were born in the wrong body, you can't choose to feel differently. We know hermaphrodites exists. Why is it so difficult to think that in the process of creating new life, that wiring in the brain gets muddled with. Do you honestly believe that someone would choose to go through what many Trans people go through because??????? Because why? I submit that people like Richard Dawkins has no clue what it's like to be Trans. What it means for a Trans person to be trans. Because virtually nobody would choose to have to navigate those waters if they didn't have to. We are into an area where we are talking about how the brain works. And how the brain works is something that even the experts don't fully understand. Richard Dawkins is not a Brain expert. I had an uncle who stroked out during an operation and although he lived, he was genuinely a different person on the other side. I mean a truly genuinely different person. The man I knew as my uncle effectively died on the table, and the person that emerged was very different. It was like this person shared memories with my uncle, but was otherwise a whole new person. And not in a good way either. Something happened in the Grey matter that fundamentally changed the character of the person I once knew. I'm sorry, but it almost seems obvious to me that the way a person's brain is wired is what it is, and we have very little say in how the Grey matter is wired. For the most part, if a person says they are different from their body, then I say in the Grey matter, that's their reality. And we have no right to tell them their reality doesn't exist. Any more the we can constructively deny the reality of people suffering from depression or bi polar. Or we can deny the reality of what my uncle experienced.
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  4793. I LOVE this woman! Jeez, she articulates so well the many, many things I would like to have in my goody bag when confronted by idiot loser people who will argue that black is white and white is black. I really wish I had her depth, and recall. I mostly know what I think, generally, but I am not always equipped to debate eg what this whole hour of talk is about. I know I am an evidence-base/d man, a man of science. And relevant here - I stayed at home with the kids, did the part-time work as they grew older, cooked most of the food, even grew half of it. I baked bread - I still do, and I'm 66 now - and cleaned the house, did the laundry, kept the garden fairly tidy. Many people commented on my 'feminine side', my gentleness when and where required. BUT, I also maintained the car, and fixed many others' cars too, was a carpenter for many years (which means I still am btw) and knocked walls down and fitted beams and converted lofts. At about 37 I became a yoga teacher, and spent the second half of my working life as a full time teacher of the subject. So am I a man or a woman? I do believe, no, KNOW I am a fully indentured man. I never identified as a woman, or as feminine even. I was a muscly, tall, heavily bearded - at least until age said otherwise - but flexible (no yoga pun intended) male, who has always loved, sexually, only women. In the 70s and 80s so many people liked to trot out these numbers: between 5 and 10% of men are gay, and probably more. That is to say, that there were far more gay men, or rather, men who would otherwise be gay were it not for social mores and conventions of the time, than even a topside number of 10%. Even then I felt things were getting dangerously close to - at least some - people suggesting that everybody actually had a bit in them that wanted to be the sex they were not born as. And that I, as a straight man could actually be gay. I thought, why? Why, for all that was and is sane, would I think I was also gay when I was and am solely attracted to women?! Apologies for digressions and the ramblings of a man glad to have been born into my generation. I really have seen it all, and heard it all, and after decades of trying to be part of the hard work of making social and sexual politics reach an even, or at least more even until a true level playing field can be created, it saddens me to see so much sheer sh--e being touted by - and I will use it here as shorthand, sorry - the woke, new, latest 'belief' (and it's '***' because belief has nothing to do with science and facts) that a man can be a woman, and often just by saying so. That is true bullshit, and I can never agree to this. No one can call me old fashioned, but it is infuriating to be called so just because, er, nature, evolution etc. Belief means nothing without facts, evidence is not evidence without facts, fact is not fact without evidence, the two are the same, there is no world where one can exist without the other. End of ramble, more ranty than I wanted, but there, t'is done.
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  4825. Reasons why (so-called) "gender affirming care" is objectively NOT "MEDICINE". 1) By definition, "medicine" MUST be evidence-based; The entire concept of sex-independent "gender' has exactly ZERO basis in empirical evidence; A fact that believers in sex-independent "gender" (inconsistently, when convenient) ADMIT; Doncha know that "gender is just a social construct"? "Medicine" treats real-world, evidnce-based, physiological issues. Medicine DOESN'T alter healthy bodies, with no evidence-based issues, SOLELY justified by "mere social constructs", for the purpose of enforcing stereotypes... (2) "Medicine", by definition, necessarily aims to IMPROVE real-world, functional, physiological health. It starts off with a patient suffering from some real-world, evidence-based, physiological issue (typically an injury, diseease, deformation, etc), then uses aims to IMPROVE physiological health and the function of the body, with the ultimate goal of RETURNING (or maintaining) the patient to their normal, natural, healthy state (or as close as possible).. But "g.a.c" is virtually THE INVERSE of this; With "g.a.c", you START OFF with a patient in their normal, natural state, with no evidence-based indication of ANY physical problem, at all... Then you aim to ONLY HARM the physical function of the body, often amputating 100% healthy, functional body-parts (typically breast or testes), with ZERO empirical, evidnce-based justification, trying to create a NON-FUNCTIONAL, SUPERFICIAL ILLUSION of the patient being the sex that they AREN'T, with the goal of PREVENTING the patient from returning to their natural, normal, healthy state... (3) The most foundational, defining principle in all of medicine is "first do no harm"; Violate the Hippocratic Oath, and IT DOESN'T MATTER if you have the whitest white coat, and the shinyest stethoscope, and you carefully measure the most precise doses of real, potentially useful drugs, using the most advanced medical instruments, administered by REAL, QUALIFIED doctors, from the most prestigious universities on earth... ....REGARDLESS of having all the above, if you're knowingly doing functional, physiological harm with that REAL, LEGITIMATE medical gear/knowledge, in pursuit of a goal like, say, torturing someone to extract a confession... or performing some magical, religious ritual... or creating the illusion of "a medical procedure" for whatever reason, then you're objectively NOT doing "medicine"... Even though it may SEEM like "performing medicine", to an obsever... And in the exact same way, even if you have ALL the trappings of "doing medicine", but you're ONLY doing real-world harm to the physical function of the body, in pursuit of creating the illusion of the patient being the other sex, motivated by belief in an evidence-free "mere social construct", and a pseudo-religious faith that IMITATING THE STEREOTYPES of a woman/man, somehow makes you BECOME "a woman/man", you are ALSO not doing "medicine"... Because you've violated "first do harm"... (4) "Medicine" works via KNOWN, PHYSIOLOGICAL, NATURALISTIC mechanisms, based in EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE. Sometimes there may be relatively small gaps in our knowledge of those mechanisms- But even then, it's only done when there's reasonable expectation of a conventional, naturalistic mechanism, that we just don't fully understand yet. Medicine DOES NOT rely on faith-based belief, mechanisms related to concepts that have no basis in empirical evidence, where that presumed "mechanism" is functionally LITERAL "MAGIC"... For eg, 100% evidence-free, unfalsiable, faith-based, concepts like "the soul" have no place in medicine, because "the soul" relies on functional "magic" to work. Same with "chakras", or "spiritual vibes", or "sin", or "body thetans", or "chi force"... Or sex-independent "GENDER", which is EXACTLY as evidence-free, unfalsifiable, and faith-based, and which relies on a PERFECTLY IDENTICAL standard of evidence as all the above; A standard that has/requires ZERO empirical evidence, where "but it FEEELS true, to me" is the SOLE criteria for """truth""". Lets just call a spade a aade; The mechanism which allows a 100% physiologically-typical male to be "REALLY a woman", in whatever mystical sense, is LITERAL MAGIC... The mechanism that makes it somehow NOT "harm" to amputate the healthy breasts of a teen girl (ROUTINELY done at age 15, and sometimes as young as 13, ALWAYS with no evidence-based justification) too young to give valid, legal consent to rent a goddam carpet shampooer, is LITERAL "MAGIC"... The mechanism that makes a man instantly CEASE being a member of the sex who commits 98% of sex crimes (despite the EVIDENCE-BASED data saying mtf's commit sex crimes at a HIGHER rate than the male average), and become no threat to women/girls at all, the nano-second he speaks the magical "I identify as a woman", is LITERAL "MAGIC"... Any ONE of the above 4 reasons ALONE, would be enough to disqualify "G.A.C" from being "medicine"... Sadly, because of a combination of ideological capture, apathy, fear of a supporter-base notorious for vicious, relentless bullying for ANY hint of dissent, and absence of adequate safeguarding, we found out that you CAN install a totally evidence-free pseudo-sceince in the medical establishment, if you're determined enough...
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  4945. First thing's first: I don't think "cancelling" a joke is the issue. Cancelling the comedian who told the joke is. Second, I'll take a heretical stance on this, which seems apropos for this channel: I do think that freedom of speech is important. I also think it's very much misunderstood. The phrase "freedom of speech" usually means freedom to express what you want and not be afraid of government/official consequences - that's very important, as far as I'm concerned. However, it's also expanded in the minds of many to include the idea that you should be able to say anything you want without any consequences at all from any quarter, including employers or individuals or society at large. This is emphatically not true. You should be able to legally say whatever you want (with certain exceptions like the "crowded theater" thing or inciting to riot, for examples) without fear of government reprisal or oppression, but you really can't expect no social consequences. You are free to say what you want, but others should be legally free to disassociate from you if they don't like what you said - including employers, unless they are government entities. Both freedom of speech and freedom of association are based on the First Amendment to the Constitution in the US. Just because you have freedom doesn't mean you are free from social consequences. Having said that, I despise the instances where the government has used proxies to oppress free speech in an effort to circumvent legal protections. I think THIS is the real issue. There are innumerable examples of the bureaucratized executive branch of the contemporary government of the US having done this and it is clearly and explicitly constitutionally illegal and also abhorrent.
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  5015. I think a joke needs to be funny first and foremost. And new. If I hear the same old "joke" for 40 years, it stops being funny. Like: "Take my wife: PLEASE". I'm sure that was funny 70 years ago, but that joke isn't funny anymore. I grew up with edgy humor, and I heard all of these jokes so many times, and I'm bored with it all. I also don't find comedians whinging about "kids these days" and "cancel culture" to be very funny or entertaining either, and I don't care to be lectured or brow beaten by a rich comedian (my critique of Chapelle upon his initial return, long before the trans jokes). Society changes, and jokes do too. Humor from the 50's didn't really fly in the 80's, and humor from the 80's doesn't work today. People are allowed to tell the same old jokes (and they are telling these old jokes, hence the conversation about it), but no one should expect all audiences to appreciate them. If the government is arresting people for jokes (ie Lenny Bruce), I'd understand the uproar, but it seems as if some audiences don't like the jokes, and we aren't here to make comedians feel good: it's the other way around. Instead of a rotten tomato getting thrown on stage, they throw out a tweet (or an X or whatever it's called now). So: yes, people should be and are still allowed to tell bad jokes that aren't funny, and audiences are allowed to not like them and complain about it. It seems to me that the problem here is: audiences now have a platform with social media, but a mean tweet is nicer than getting hit with a rotten tomato on stage (and the audience member who threw it would be arrested for assault).
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  5176. Thanks for standing up for women. A seriously uncomfortable thing that nobody seems to want to talk about is that there IS a significant group of predators who are exploiting new rules. I don't care what they call themselves, but there are a disturbing number of straight men who get off on wearing women's underthings and then exposing themselves to women. It's not new, and it's not harmless. They get off on the fact that the person they're showing themselves to did not consent to seeing it, didn't consent to being a part of their fetish. It's a sort of non physical violence. If you don't believe me, go look at reviews for women's underwear now at online stores. There's a lot of reviews and even pictures from men using it as a sort of forum for exposing themselves. I don't care who wears what underwear, that's not the point. It especially worries me that we teach kids that alllllll of this is just perfectly normal. So now your 12 year old daughter changing at the YMCA is now with some 42 year old dude flashing himself at her and she's just supposed to think "oh yeah, that's normal"? I know, not all trans people are that way. I dare say that none of those creeps are really trans, no matter what they think they are. But there's no way to determine who's doing what. I get it. I feel bad for legitimate trans women who fear being with cis men. And I'm happy to share spaces with anybody like Debbie lacks the main weapon by which men usually commit sexual violence. But maybe instead of a campaign to put men in women's changing rooms, there should be a campaign to not be violent to trans people anywhere by anyone. And I'm all for more family changing/rest rooms, they seem to be everywhere now. There's a really long awkward age where you might not want to let a kid go in by themselves, but they're too old to go into the opposite gender anymore. And they're good for disabled people who need help from their partner. And a safe space for somebody who doesn't quite fit in either room and just needs to be alone. In order for that to be a reasonable solution, we need to keep ladies rooms truly safe. A woman and her daughter of any age shouldn't need to take up one of those limited spaces simply because she's worried her kid will see a weiner in what should be the ladies room. In a weird way, I think the more liberal we try to be, the more prudish we become. We will quietly more frequently be changing in toilet stalls rather than the communal locker room areas, but not really admit why. And thereby subtly teach ourselves and our daughters that are bodies are so vulnerable and shameful that the only safe place for us is right next to a filthy toilet bowl! But thats probably the least of worries for this generation. Hormones and mutilation and 100 different genders, and no clear delineation between gender and sexuality.... not being allowed to actually have a gender preference anymore. The weird way in which this all makes it easier for predators... It wouldn't surprise me if this generation just becomes very asexual, turned off to an extent we haven't seen before. It's all such a bland aesthetic.
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  5257. Outside the Muslim world, there are very few who agree with Hamas, even among Palestine supporters. Within the Muslim world, there's the unfortunate fact that Islamic theology is very clear that the end times will involve a war, in which all Jews will be killed. Then again, Christian extremists, especially the most fanatical supporters of Israel, believe the same thing. They want the Jews in Israel, because it's a precondition for the extermination of the Jews. Meanwhile, Jewish extremists want to drive out all Palestinians and rebuild the temple, because that's required in their eschatology. While few Palestine supporters agree with Hamas, there are some who believe that desperate extremism like this is unavoidable, when you brutally oppress a large population for an extended period of time, and are therefore reticent to condemn Hamas supporters as individuals. Most Palestine supporters agree with me, and I think people should be able to tell the difference between good and evil, even when they're suffering; I have no problem condemning Hamas as a terrorist organization. However, that obligates me to condemn Israel at least 16 times stronger; Palestinian casualties during the last 23 years are 16 times higher, and Hamas actually has a lower rate of civilian casualties in their attacks than Israel does. They're also not known to have deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances based on what later turns out to be utterly uneducated guesswork. This is one of the things media are up against, when it comes to calling Hamas a terrorist organization; they will then have to call Israel a terrorist state that's >16 times more blood drenched than Hamas. That's not an issue for me. I have no problem condemning Israel as a terrorist state. Unfortunately, as "the only democracy in the Middle East", the Israeli government represents the Israelis in a way that Hamas doesn't represent the Palestinians. The people of Israel has deliberately and knowingly elected a terrorist government, over and over again, and they've done so without being in a particularly desperate situation. Since it's true, I have no issue saying it, but it saddens me to know it. Obviously, admitting to this is completely out of the question for major media outlets. I also doubt that Israel's supporters would be very pleased, if the media condemned Hamas, and then proceeded to be consistent when speaking of Israel. If I supported Israel, I'd be very careful about what I wished for, in this regard.
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  5359. No one in my family or around were interested and I know no one of my age of those days who ever liked my favorite music- Baroque symphonioes when I was around from as far back as I can even remember. Not the Vivaldi's seasons, those are too modern for me, but actual typical Baroque. And i love it my whole life only now I am not afraid to talk about and when little I did not know where to get to listen to it :-D As for the Jews, the problem probably is exactly that separation: I am different than everyone else because I am a Jew. People who support and protect Jews and did even in all those worst days risking their own lives just to save a Jew, were and usually are those who do not care if a person is this or that, to such people, this is a person, a living being, and whoever they are they are the same and needs to be protected the same way everyone else does. Those who were and are attacking, are those who look for any differences to single someone out and Jews usually class themselves openly as different and even often as more special because of the religion, and I think in most of attack cases there are this that makes Jews easy targets. It is sad, but what I have noticed seems to be mainly this. Obviously, unkind governments and other 'representatives' of certain type of people also amplifies the problem. As for Zionists, it is just a crazy word people are using without any idea usually what does it even mean. Yes, it is a bit more extreme religion of certain type of Jews but it do not automatically make person better or worse as a human being. Education and open discussions about things are so very much needed. I wish people could put their feelings aside and discuss more to sort out the problems, I think it would lessen racism and especially intercultural misunderstandings as in most of the cases that I ever witnessed because usually conflict is over someone's attitude or habits rather than actual skin color and at times even Nation. I think people dislike Israel because it amplifies things more than needed. For example, holocaust singled out not only Jews and no one dares to talk about it. What about Gypsies? They do not play victim card the way Jews do (yes, for a reason, but I think that creates problem- if you cry too much many gets bored of it and gets irritated even). Also, Jews seems to try to make it seem as they were main sufferers of death camps under Nazis but even that is not true, all the surviving witnesses explained that Jews were minority in these camps, very small percentage, and they were not that much differently treated than any other groups- there were many groups and all of them had different signs to wear, not only numbers... I thik, twisting the truth and playing victim card brings more people to be more hostiile as well? At least, that seems to be the case in those situations I have studied? (I try to work to keep peace among people and reduce hatred so I look for the deepest possible roots of the problem at hand). When it comes to American 'black' societies unability to get over the trauma of slavery, I think maybe a book by Nikolay Ostrovsky from Soviet Union could be helpful? It is nopt about slavery and not about different races although a bit yes, only no one cared about classing as races only different looks those days in those places, but it talks about the class struggles between those helpless ones and those powerful abusers. It is easyt to say, every or at least most of the countries went over very similar things so American Blacks are not any special, but if they feel separate case then they need help to deal with that problem and start healing as everyone else had to start healing these traumas. I hope if this book could be translated it could relate to any abused case and maybe it could help to grow strong and hopefully finally recover instead of hoiling back and not moving forwards? Personal pain is still a pain even if no one else can see the reason to feel that pein, but it needs to be helped with and I thought that author could maybe relate and inspire?
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  5410.  @andrewgoldheretics  Andrew. I grew up in Manchester in the 60s and 70s. May be purely anecdotal but I went to school with a lot of Jewish people, lived in an area where there were a lot of Jewish people and my GP was Jewish. This was good for me as that excellent Jewish sense of humour was ingrained into me from a very early age and I still have it to this day. I like you did a degree in English but at the time Mrs Thatcher was in power and was dismantling the economy so no jobs for me. As it happened I met a nurse and thought that might be worth a try and here I am 40 years later living in Adelaide having worked in a female dominated profession for the entirety of my professional career. And yes I did marry a nurse, had kids and gave them the gift of my sense of humour. Back in the day I was 6ft plus by the time I was 12 and that marked me out for some bullying because I was different. However as we know bullies will back down when they get a smack in the face. It was a different time back then. You literally had to fight to survive but I don't really know what's worse. Today with all this social media and the fact that you cannot turn if off and all the cowards behind screens bullying people. I got smacked in the face a few times and it hurts but at least it is over and you can walk away but these days all it takes is to turn on that device and your critics are there in your face. Anyway Andrew I never meant to have a go at you. I always listen to your content and I enjoy it so please keep up the good work.
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  5583. I think this is a fair and honest secular way of processing this age old conflict in the very heart of the Biblical center of civilization. A coincidence? If the story talks about a duck, and then you see it quack like a duck, and then you see it waddle like a duck, is that a coincidence to how the story correlates to reality. He quoted something Hitchens stated , which is interesting , since you have two who happened to have been brothers , with equal educational backgrounds but far reaching different perspectives. The struggle in all of life is clearly answered by the words, "Love one another, treat others as you would want to be treated in return". This happens to be an absolute Truth powered by the humble nature we often ignore. Nobody can deny it's power over decisions that promote self centered pride and how in Psalms it says; "fall before the pride!". We can use all the big words and try real hard to disect our observations on societal woes, but to not come to the conclusion of what is an absolute Truth. The Christ is the Truth, Light, the life. How someone can ignore the Wisdom necessary to make knowledge of any useful function is kidding themselves. Jesus is the Son of the Living God. Faith is confidence in an absolute solution to the known evil in this world. How can we not assimilate the conflicts between generations of skirmishes between all of mankinds history, doesn't resemble the story of Caan killing his brother Able. What emotions were harbored in doing so that doesn't resemble all of our inner relationships as a whole? Yet the only solution that possibly will work, is to Love God and follow the Christ as it refers to how we treat one another. We are our brother's keeper .
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  5647.  @andrewgoldheretics  I still have 20min left but before I forget what I wanted to write, I'll just do it now 😂 Firstly that guy with the parking tickets honestly is so German & I agree you nailed the German accent. Secondly it's not as painful as I thought, because while you say things many people would consider controversial, I think your conversation is extremely respectful, has fair points and is actually humble- when looking beyond the aspect that both of you say stuff that is like a reason for public stone ... throwing against head? (They did it in the life of brian - iconic scene btw) and listening to what you actually say it's obvious for me at least that you are trying to be empathic and trying to understand. So yeah... Also it made me realize that I used to be "woke" as teenager, tho I didn't knew the word, I actually believed I was morally above others and can play moral police - only recently I realized "uno momento, that's so hypocritical and actually makes me a du*b person. When I'm honest to myself everything I think I feel is subjective, influenced by my own emotions and experiences- it's not more valuable than anyone else's inner life's. Also being smart doesn't give me the right to disregard others ability to make decisions for themselves, only cause I feel that mine are the "more efficient" ones." So I've been actually trying to actively work against my urge to put myself on a pedestal, cause I don't wanna be that person. I constantly want to question myself, my own imperfections and also be honest to myself when I f**ked up.
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