Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "Hegel’s ideobabble is the basis of Marxism and Fascism" video.

  1.  @EdiTheDon  As I recall, it was even worse than that. I remember reading somewhere that even if you brought your own sacrifice (many people were herders at the time), the priest examining the sacrifice would find some form of blemish on it, making it unfit to sacrifice, then offer you a "temple certified" animal instead. This explains why Christ also drove out the ritual animals as well.
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  2. I look at the existence of God through the lens of physics. If one looks at explanations of the universe through concepts like string theory, then our reality is basically a four-dimensional space (length, width, depth and time, perhaps) existing within a much larger reality of multiple dimensions. God is a multi-dimensional being who exists outside of our reality, and perhaps on a higher plane than all the dimensions that make up the multiverse. In other words, God exists outside of time, and indeed time has no meaning to God. God exists outside of physical reality, and is omnipotent because He can make changes to any and all dimensions. This also means God is omnipresent, because He can be present in any dimension at any time and place of His choosing, and influence it as He desires. Also, being omnipotent and existing outside of time does present an issue for God, in that He can see ALL outcomes of decisions that are made by us humans. Every time we come to a point where we make a decision, there is a fork in the road. Every choice leads to other choices, creating a life path that is like a growing tree, or perhaps better described as a root system. We can only see what is in front of us, but God sees the entire root system. On top of that, He can see how our individual root system of potential choices interacts with all the others that we make contact with throughout our lives. This is why God does not usually interfere with our lives or with history, because He knows how one small change can ripple throughout the system. It also takes away one of the greatest gifts God has given us, freedom of choice. If we are to receive the gift of eternal life, we need to show we are deserving of it through how we interact with others. After all, if one is a paranoid murdering psychopath, would one ever find happiness in a kingdom where kindness and mercy are the order of the day? And wouldn't those stains on the soul become the sources of the fire that destroys the soul in the light of God Himself?
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  3. 9:11 Regarding this really stupid circular argument about God, all I can say is, "My head hurts!" Obviously Hegel never got the memo that God made man because He wanted to, not because He needs man to reflect Himself so He can exist. I can see a version of the Anthropic Principle here, where it is proposed that the Universe created intelligent beings so it could be observed and therefore exist. This is almost as bad as the circular argument about "all Cretans being liars, and I am a Cretan so I am lying to you". I better stop now, because not only does my head hurt, but I have put a sizeable dent in a brick wall.
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  4.  @johnburns4017  No, the responders are correct. If you spread all your resources out evenly, there is no money available for large projects. You may be able to support subsistence farming or a hunter-gatherer society, but that is it. Think of an economy as a pond. If you have no inflow or outflow, the pond stagnates, infills and ceases to exist. That is socialism in any form. For any body of water to thrive, you need water flowing in from a source from a higher elevation to add fresh oxygenated water to the system, and an outflow so that deoxygenated water will leave. That is capitalism. By the way, I am a believer in SOCIAL PROGRAMS, programs designed to assist those in need (often using private individuals or companies who are paid from public funds), but I don't believe in SOCIALISM.
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