Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. That's what men , who came along later and saw the power in this world of claiming so, said. Great hook. Give our Church money, and all your sins are forgiven. What a great hook! Especially the everlasting life part! Maybe Jesus was just trying to teach us a better way of treating one another. Maybe God is just our reaching for our better selves, and if someone finds a path to treating people around them better because of something attributed to the Buddha, then maybe that's God working through Budddha. According to canon, God has used less likely humans to teach us.
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  2. This is a topic I've picked around, informally, for years. I can SEE the rejection of God by some, alongside the seemingly irrational BELIEF in God, by others. Those who 'rationally reject God' rarely ask themselves what FUNCTION that irrational belief serves, let alone come up with a healthy society that can persist over generations. We KNOW that religions persist, and are an organizing principle for much (most?) of what's GOOD about society and makes it sustainable. Peterson's trying to help us avoid the nihilism that crops up when you reject permanence in response to your own impermanence. Traditions can be very silly things, indeed, but without them, do we start over as hunter-gatherers every new generation?
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  3. The pervasiveness of DIE proves how poorly our academic "leaders" understand history. It's hard to say how it will play out in a nation with traditions of liberty and self-determination. The Russians went from one form of dictatorship to another, without respite. The insane, inane, socialist dictatorship lasted 70 years. The one building in the USA will probably serve only to make the USA a poorer, dirtier place, and crumble of its own weight and absurdity much more quickly, but the damage done will be enormous.
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  4. All the issues I want to discuss/debate are highly nuanced. The length limitations on tweets kept me from ever engaging. If you're making a nuanced argument, you've got to discuss opposing principles, in detail. You can't do that on twitter. And if you try it on any Big Tech platform, you'll be taken down, because you're sure to offend a delusional socialist.
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  5. The minute the so-called left started demanding - and getting - huge transfers of wealth written into law, they ceased being liberals and rode the demagogue train to control of the establishment. But liberals deny the inextricability of authority from responsibility. They insist that nanny government and liberty are not diametrically opposed. What's worse is that many who call themselves "liberal" DO see that without responsibility there is no authority, but they think it's OK for the state to dictate to those whom it supports. That's not liberal. It's reactionary, seeking a return to lord and serf, because deep down, they hold their fellow human beings in contempt, and think they NEED to be lorded over, because they're just not as good or as smart as a liberal. Roughly half of the "conservatives" I know are dogmatists steeped in tradition. The other hand are thoughtful liberals who were pushed into a coalition with the regressive right, because the classical liberals want LIMITED government, and resist most of the efforts to expand the welfare state and the public-health establishment on the federal level.
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  6. I always theorized that you take out of a hallucinogenic experience what you take into it, whether you know you're packing baggage or not. I always felt like it tore down the walls between conscious and sub-conscious. Whatever ends of worms there are buried in your mind can be seen and dealt with. Those worms can also give you a "bad trip." I think the standard wormy bits revolve around existential angst. We can bury thoughts of death MOST of the time, but it's always percolating under the surface, which is why there were so many stories of "Jesus freaks" in LSD circles. They can't hide from the abyss when these drugs bare their subconscious. I had a bad trip of my own, but somehow realized at some point that I was projecting my own fears on the world around me in that state. I'd beware using them around the "wrong people," and determining who the right people are can be problematic. I wrestled with my own demons at what started out as parties, many a time. Some people were toxic, some were vulnerable, some were contemplative. Nobody really knew what they were doing, and some had "bad trips." IMO, nobody set out to mess with somebody's head, but a lot of that took place. Under the influence, I could read a room like nobody's business. I KNEW things about people I had never met. iMO, it was because my subconscious picks up on clues that my conscious mind doesn't. Ordinarily, I'd just get a feeling about somebody, but not be able to put my finger on why, even though that feeling eventually proved to be correct.
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  7.  @amyh3873  You're the pearl clutcher. Someone doesn't conform with your ideology/religion. Deal with it. When child abuse is an inescapable conclusion of your reasoning, maybe you should re-examine your beliefs.
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  8. I feel so bad for these confused young people, and I'm horrified by the adults who are so eager to do them harm.
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  9. This says more about the governing body than it says about you, other than that you're one of few who are brave enough to stand up to authoritarian misrule.
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  10. Twitter is partisan left and left-right-uni-party establishment trash. I've had a number of trauma surgeries on both knees and both elbows. You're never quite the same. You always lose some sensation and often some flexibility. I find the so-called "gender-affirming" surgery on children to be abhorrent. The science of its benefits is weak to nonexistent. Let them develop as close to the way God made them as possible, and let them decide AFTER they've matured in mind and body. Truly pathological dysphoria doesn't necessitate radical medical interventions, especially not before puberty, or any time before they are legally an adult. I'm not a purist on this. There are some odd medical conditions out there. A boy entering puberty at age 8 or 9 might benefit from some puberty blockers. I don't know. Intersex is a 1 in 60,000 mutation. The old-fashioned way of dealing with it was to pick a gender and do the surgery. Pretty barbaric. Arielle Scarcella had an intersex guest on, who was a born female, but with a really big clitoris. They sewed her shut and "made" her a boy. Left to her own devices, she would've just been a woman with a very large clitoris. She was miserable and bullied growing up, but probably would've been fine as a girl. She liked and still likes boys. But she can't have a normal relationship with one.
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  11. Kytsche: I like your take. Mine's a little different on what's driving things, and why Europe is in such a state. I don't think they took their cue from US on the direction they decided to take. I think they're ahead of us on the path to meltdown, but not tbecause they're somehow trying to please our elites. Still, good historical perspective on the untoward military presence and continued footing-of-the-bill for security matters by the U.S. As you surely know, our presence in Europe was because we were the only thing standing between the Soviets and the English Channel on the continent at the end of WW II! And from then on, there was ALWAYS some urgency necessitating our continued presence. I think European countries haven't been paying their own security bills for decades, and that probably livened their step on the redistributionist, nanny government road. And there's nothing wrong with government-run schools, unless you don't like what the government thinks ought to be taught. And there's nothing wrong with helping the poor, with government help, unless it creates a permanent underclass who will always vote for the continuation and expansion of those programs out of their own self interest. Throw enough guilty white people on top of that pile and you've got a big-government coalition, world without end. Unless Atlas shrugs before things get too far down the road, and things come to blows.
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  12. There's my 1:30 a.m. response to your 2:00 a.m. drivel. My drivel, however, is much better than your drivel. So I win. Pleasure hearing from you and openin' up a little.
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  13. You can't deny natural selection and the genetic aspects of human behavior.
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  14. Micro-aggression is a bigger deal than concentration camps.
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  15. Yes. Audio.
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  16.  @damnationforsaken9430  : Both the principles and principals are twisted.
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  17. It's not just common sense. It's the latest research on evolutionary biology, which tends to run in direct opposition to postmodernist ideology. It's scholarship and science versus pseudo-scholarship. To KNOW that it's pseudo-scholarship, look no farther than Sokal, but if you MUST go farther, please see Helen Pluckrose.
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  18. No! I'M crazier! Bow down to ME!
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  19. The interview that Dr. Haim refused was intimidation. Also, any misstatement of fact that you made, whether intentional or not, would be a way to pressure him with the threat of being prosecuted for lying to a federal agent.
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  20. You want to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.
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  21. I think it's a mind virus that needs to run its course before there's herd immunity. And it WILL peter out, because it's absolutely unsustainable. But they're not going to stop pulling levers until after the levers simply stop working. The global financial system is forcing more and more people and nations to submit to authoritarian rule or live outside it. I think we're at a tipping point, where a critical mass of people and nations are finding ways to live outside it. The more brutally the USA wields the petro-dollar, the less effective the petro-dollar becomes. "We won't let you engage in trade with us." "India and China it shall be." I think once the dominoes start falling, it won't take long before the bankrupt USA and West, in general, will sound like the knight in "The Holy Grail." 'Tis but a flesh wound!
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  22. Yes, they're blinded to anything but a collectivist philosophy. But the driving force behind the dissonance between traditional media and mainstream society is that the traditional media are becoming more and more sensational to win the views of a small and dwindling viewership for a failed paradigm. We're witnessing the death throes of what once were network GIANTS, who are now MIDGETS, fighting over a very small segment of dumbasses who still watch their drek.
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  23. It's very difficult to tell how much good was actually done by such things as Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. Those acts aren't passed without a critical mass within the larger society that support it. And with that critical mass comes all the social and market forces for greener products and services. I'm not sure we accomplished as much with legislation as taking that same money and beefing up our tort system, so that it's easier for individuals to sue big corporations. By the time the government steps in and pretends to lead, the society's already changing things, organically. With laws and regs, you could still be doing a great deal of harm with your paper plant's SO2 emissions, even though the EPA says you meet the government's standard for SO2 emissions, even though everybody downwind of that paper plant has to breathe that nasty-smelling stuff. If not for the EPA, it's even conceivable that social pressure would've pushed paper plants to switch to a chlorite (ClO3) process that's actually CHEAPER and pollutes less, because society's own organic means of self-improvement wouldn't be as atrophied as our dependence on government to protect us from everything hadn't atrophied those built-in mechanisms. People would be more aware and more active if they couldn't kid themselves that Uncle Sam will make everything OK for us. If government weren't running interference, the sulfite process might already be abandoned. Its ONLY advantage is that your pretty white toilet paper doesn't turn yellow after 2 months on the shelf. I think people would be OK with yellowish or beige toilet paper if they knew that the white stuff meant more pollution. It'd be a great way to virtue signal when you have people over for a party! But the government says it's OK for your whole town to smell like monkey butt.
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  24. Meh. Colleges and universities aren't going away, but I do expect some die-back. They are, at root, all about survival, and surviving/navigating the insanity coming down from government is what put 'em in this ridiculous pickle. RIGHT down the line, college administrators will always seek to protect their gravy train, cover their asses, and expand their domains. Rolling over for wacked-out social justice warriors is more about cowardice and survival than anything else, with a few wacked-out-administrator exceptions. When enrollments drop in Berkeley, but most of all, when ENDOWMENTS drop, they'll come to Jesus, so to speak.
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  25. How do you know these so-called gender-affirming treatments (hormones and surgeries) truly help these young people? Because our ideology teaches that gender is a social construct.
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  26. Postmodernism is the systematic de-construction of everything that is free-market capitalism and Western Civilization. Peterson explained it very neatly by saying the postmodernists rose because after word of the Soviet Gulag got out, you couldn't explicitly promote socialism and be taken seriously. So, instead of promoting socialism, directly, they began attacking everything NOT socialism, until by process of elimination, socialism started looking like a (the only) viable alternative. They've been at it so long and been so successful, that people are now openly socialist and they don't get laughed (or cursed) off the damn stage like they would have 30 or 40 years ago.
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  27. The ruling elites are in it for the ruling elites. Everything the government does for you, today, is something else it will do FOR you in the future. In the USA, it's not as blatantly government-run media, because the big networks and print outlets are nominally private businesses. But they take their marching orders from elites in state and federal government, which is functionally identical to the CBC in Canada, but more insidious, because it doesn't have the obvious trappings of a federal agency.
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  28. What is being done to children by this ideology is criminal, and would immediately be known as such in any other time.
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  29.  Hamish Mctavish  Reading, in general, and writing, are far superior for self-improvement than passive listening or video watching.
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