Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Rich Roll" channel.

  1. Is there anything worse than Islam in the religion department?
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  2. I like Sam. Sam is definitely a good man, with a lot of good things to say that we should be listening to. But, I like facts and ideas better than I like any people. We have to be facts seekers, and oddly that should be a religion with human beings that we always go with the truth whereever it might lead.
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  3. i don't think people have lost critical thinking, it is mostly that our media hides it from us - on purpose. We cannot figure out the why and the who and the how of it because we need a media for that to work
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  4. Question: There are many of us who agree that right now the biggest local threat to the USA is the Republican Party. They are tearing the country apart by pushing their economic dominance into the government and buying it and then changing it in ways that most Americans do not understand or do not see. How likely is it that the Worldwide Jihad movement is influencing or taking over the Republican party through means of bribery or worse?
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  5. I'm interested in veganism and have read about it, and moved towards more plant-based foods in my life. The problem I think is that most vegans are motivated by feelings - and there is good and bad to that. If a way that you are eating makes you feel better, that is a compelling reason to continue eating that way and looking for markers in your individual experience to explain that and sort it out to make it better. The problem is that sometimes feelings lead us astray, like the proverbial lucky T-shirt of a person playing a sport. What we feel can sometimes turn out to be magical thinking, and certain magical thoughts can be common to people, moving into all areas of life. I think there are lots of various questions to answer about how we eat, and we don't really have a lot of data on it, and people often lie as well. In the end we are all experiments in our own lives, and uncontrolled experiments at that. I feel that processed foods are a big problem. Junk foods are another. Pesticides and herbicides are another. The way animal products are made is another. GMO foods is another. In general stay away from processed foods, junk foods, addictive foods ... all the stuff that people design with technology to manipulate people. Eat as natural as possible - and that is hard to do these days because we have gotten ourselves dependent on this toxic addictive food system full of chemicals, and then lies about it in the media, and we see everyone eating it, but we do not really see the disease and death from it. Today everything is sort of half together with lies. From food, to politics, we are lied to for the profit and power of others that we never see. We are just seen as marks from other people in our society that should be our fellow citizens, but our system really has us all at war with each other - and we think that is normal.
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  6.  @henrywalton5967  My only addendum to that would be that so far there is a complete inverse success relationship to people and societies that are "feelings oriented", because there are good feelings and bad feelings and all the mix in between. We know that the expectations of all animals in the natural world is they are prey to sickness, predation and death. One way to look at it is that there are farm existences that for an animal, in the animals universe of understanding are better than what nature offers. It's not that different for people - we are predated up by the system on the aristocrats of our work as well. We have to devote more time to society today than human being hunter gatherers back them. What human society has access to tools, logic, or a political system that can mediate these perceptions and decide for everyone what reality should be? There are just some "inconvenient facts" like that all human societies have some kind of religion, a non-science based theory of reality, but I don't know of any that are vegetarian by choice. That could indicate to some that evolution favors humans that eat meat - which might be uncomfortable to consider,
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  7. I think things like religion are actual things by virtue of them being treated like actual things. There is a, maybe, a religious space in all our brains, and we don't know exactly what is it, but badmouthing religion and blaming every bad thing in history on it is retrograde & stupid. There is a thing where humans focus on fantasies to do some particular end in a vision. Usually if they can co-opt people to work with them there is a positive vision at least at the start, or a lie. We need to socialize and educate people to look past the games that our incompetence in social engineering has limited us to, and look long term with an eye towards creating an ever-changing, ever-growing, ever-expanding vision of the past, present and future and our places in it - together.  That is art, or a kind of art.
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  8. Everyone is using the word sanguine lately.
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