Comments by "André de Lacerda Santos" (@andredelacerdasantos4439) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

  1. That is not what I see. What I see is society splitting into people who are driven by fear and want to be ruled over, and people who are driven by their hate of the ones who want to be ruled over.
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  2. Thet's me, alright. But trauma can get pretty bad from sources other than mommy and daddy as well.
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  3. What I think this quote is trying to say is that the real feeling of health, or vital energy, comes not from being overtly conscious and aware, but from doing an activity that makes you lose yourself in the moment, unaware of the proccess of recreation.
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  4. That was so lame!! iT TakES eveRYtHing to StanD ALoNe!! Give me a break
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  5. I'm starting to think otherwise. I began seeing some truly shady stuff from this channel, ever since they tried to frame Nietzsche's catatonic mania as something desirable. I think they haven't been very sane either.
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  6. No, schools exist so that the system has enough people qualified to do the work that is needed to make sure the status quo stays in place.
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  7.  @ShobeirSheida  Im afraid if we did that, we would just fall under the spell of collectivism. Any kind of organization will become corrupted after a certain scope. I have spent my time in quarentine composing a piano sonata representing our dellusional, sick times and writing a myth (AKA the fight with the dragon) with myself as the protagonist in search of a rapid psychological transformation. Maybe if we had a place where artists from all over the world could share their creations on these relevent subjects? Does anyone know of such a place on the internet?
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  8. For anybody interested in the topic of insanity, I would highly suggest listening to Beethoven's 29th piano sonata, especially considering Nietzsche was very fond of Beethoven and played the piano.
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  9.  @Sol-ui2if  I find that ignoring political and social trends helps me maintaining my mental health and stay connected to my inner spiritual being, even if everyone around me constantly remind me of how ignorant I am and how that is to my own detriment.
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  10.  @JorshusPrime  Beethoven's Eroica symphony is in fact left leaning because it further supported the ideas of the French Revolution. Beethoven even destroyed the dedication to Napoleon from the score after he learned he crowned himself emperor under the influence of Talleyrand, meaning he supported only the people's rights, and not a tyrant. Beethoven himself always sided with the left all his life, and he was indeed a very polical man. He even created his 9th symphony with a coral and lyrics, because people kept telling him how easy it was to publish his music because it didn't contain any words to topple tyrants. If you read the poem he used in the symphony, that was written by Schiller, you will see it also contains a message of brotherhood among humanity and vouching for the union of the people, something you will rarely find in a work of art that is right leaned. If you go to a concert that plays a piece composed by him, you will see that the culture is of the same nature of the garbage music you refer to, with the greatest difference being that in a classical music concert, the mass sees itself as highly sophisticated, even if they are still cattle. In general, the classical music culture does not support the creativity of the youth either, since the practice of improvisation is completely absent in almost all classically trained musicians, even though it was universally practiced and thaught until the ninteenth century.
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  11. Yes we are. In fact, our current situation looks very similar to Jungs situation 100 years ago when he conceived his ideias of mass psychosis
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  12. True! But we must have an inner compass so as to not allow actual conspiracy theories to take control of our minds. When the big lie becomes the norm, differrentiating a conspiracy theory from the so called "truth" becomes increasingly difficult to do, and since there is little to no way of confirming one's theory, (and I bring to your attention the word theory) it will appear to others that we are overtaken by conspiratory thoughts. In these times, it is better to keep thoughts that could be seen as conspiratory to ourselves, maybe not even sharing them with closed ones, depending on who they are, and to focus our efforts on not allowing such kinds of thoughts to really take control of our minds and to destroy our mental faculties from within. The ideal would be to spend effort to analyse what is happening, what should be the consequence, and why is it happening while remaining inwardly detached from the the situation as well as the ideas we have about why things are taking the place that they are.
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  13.  @TheDandyMann  Some of the people in prison are not there because they made wrong choices and had their freedom taken from them because of that, some of them are there because they acted on the freedom they could see for themselves, that was being suppressed by their governments, that threatened its sustainment and they locked them up because of that threat, like the band described in the video.
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  14.  @mikedonnarumma5337  Some do, but yeah.
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  15. The very idea that society is split into two is what keeps it separated in the first place. Everybody is driven by love and yerns to be free. The way I see it, there has really only one way in which society is split into two: the sociopaths and the rest of us. The problem with modern society is that we allowed the sociopaths to have waaay more power than they should have, even though we are in the majority. I'm looking at you, zucs.
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  16. But where would we meet each other to work/discuss?
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  17. Worship Beethoven! The greatest hero to ever set foot on this planet
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  18. I had this dream where a building was colapsing and everybody was escaping, but a friend of mine and I went to investigate the cause and we found a tree, in a room, bursting through the floor and a thousand purple dead snakes were coming out of it like vines.
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  19. Good point! The fact is that they instill fear in the minds of the masses because they themselves fear that we can break free.
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  20. He will never answer this comment, I guarantee it.
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  21. I think Jung would have considered this, since he, too, was almost caught on the nazi wave.
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  22. What you said could easely be applied to music that is supposed to be "good", like say, classical music, where people go to a concert to hear Beethoven's radical, left leaning Eroica Symphony, all the while wearing the most fancy and expansive clothes, sitting for an hour straight without making a sound, without even clapping between each movement, and being ostracized if they even attempt to cough. This example may seem irrelevant because classical music isn't so "popular", but to the people who have a subscription to their local philarmonic and go to concerts every month, it is popular and they use that activity to ensure their place on the crowd and to shun anyone who deviates from the behavioral norm, even if those strict norms were not in place when the pieces they are listening to were first performed. The argument here is that whether the music is good or not does not matter, the problem is that a rulling class pushes a political agenda onto the people, ruining the original message of the piece.
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  23.  @younewser  Agreed! Started to see a pattern behind these videos, and it isn't what it's saying it really is.
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  24. Don't bother, guys, he never answers comments
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  25. I was just thinking about that Rick and Morty episode about the heists, that the computer realised, after a million contrivances, that the perfect heist was one that was never written and explodes
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  26.  @michaelfried3123  Well, I'd say cats do
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  27.  @Adrikei  I've been really thinking about the whole schooling business for all my life, considering I'm a teacher, and lately I've been struggling with accepting the conclusion that schools don't really contribute positively, all things considered, in the student's quality of life. Maybe it's not good even for me.
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  28.  @Mr.Jasaw13  Pornography has been the most difficult to let go
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  29. For anybody looking to better understand what psychosis is and how it comes about, I highly recommend listening to Beethovens Hammerklavier
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  30. Except the "bureaucrat" is just an algorith that deletes content with pre selected trigger words and it doesn't experience boredom or any conflicting emotions.
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  31. are you ok?
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  32. Stay strong, brother! Children are naturaly curious and will pay attention to you if you focus your attention on them. Something which might help would be getting a dog. You would have another sentient being around that depended on you and that could help you practice for when she is with you. If you choose your dog wisely, it could get along very well with your daughter (If exposed to in a young age, chidren will, generally, love animals.) When she is over, you could play with them both together and that would break the ice, so to speak.
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  33. I am yet to meet a human that isn't neurotic.
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  34. They will show us a new way out we could never think of. Have faith in them
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  35. Yes, and then we go to the comments section and search for comments that reaffirms the opinions we already had in the first place. Not only that, we post comments in the hope that we'll get recognition and likes.
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  36. I dislike the school of life strongly.
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  37. What is an ideology anyway?
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  38. I've been thinking in words for as long as I can remember. I was never a good visualizer. One day I realized I was a slave to my words and I wanted to break free. Since then, I've made a lot of effort to get rid of the words that keep me captive, but I still can't imagine vivid images with my mind's eye. Instead I've substituted many of the words with tones of music. Not everybody has the pre disposition to use the same tools, some of us think predominately through images, some through sounds.
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  39. I'm also a classical composer! I would be delighted to check some of your compositions.
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  40. I loved your composition! Listening to it soothed my soul. I was having a rough week and listening to your music made me cry (in a good way), thank you! I became a fan the momment the music began, do you have more? This is my Sonata Neurotica I've been trying to post it, but I can't. You can find it by searching (note flight public scores), on the first result, then searching for (sonata neurotica[in Public Scores]) from there. The first movement is Sonata no.1 in C major op.2. Best to hear it on a PC.
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  41. OH NO, society
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  42.  @hab0272  Very interesting! It's also interesting how the observations you made are very much applicable to Academy of Ideas and how they design their videos.
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  43. Careful not to trigger them in a vulnerable momment.
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  44. Perhaps the video depresses you because it was intended to make you mad/depressed because that creates more engagement.
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  45. First time I ever saw AoI reply to a comment.
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  46.  @JorshusPrime  Yes, the music itself does support creativity, the obstacle begins when it is treated, by some rulling class, as some kind of grand fact or truth that must not be messed with and that it is superior to other kinds of music. Regardless of your background in music, the only way to expand your potential as a musician or a listener lies in detaching yourself from the dominant culture surrounding said genre. That is because, as the video elaborates, the big lie permeates every facet of the dominant culture.
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  47. Yes!
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  48. Joy! A spark of fire from heaven, Daughter from Elysium, Drunk with fire we dare to enter, Holy One, inside your shrine. Your magic power binds together, What we by custom wrench apart, All men will emerge as brothers, Where you rest your gentle wings. If you've mastered that great challenge: Giving friendship to a friend, If you've earned a steadfast woman, Celebrate your joy with us! Join if in the whole wide world there's Just one soul to call your own! He who's failed must steal away, shedding tears as he departs. All creation drinks with pleasure, Drinks at Mother Nature's breast; All the just, and all the evil, Follow down her rosy path. Kisses she bestowed, and grape wine, Friendship true, proved e'en in death; Every worm knows nature's pleasure, Every cherub meets his God. Gladly, like the planets flying True to heaven's mighty plan, Brothers, run your course now, Happy as a knight in victory. Be embracéd, all you millions, Share this kiss with all the world! Way above the stars, brothers, There must live a loving father. Do you kneel down low, you millions? Do you see your maker, world? Search for Him above the stars, Above the stars he must be living! Schiller's Ode To Joy, 1808
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  49.  @Barklord  He has not addressed the issue you stated directly, but, to me, it seems he talks about it just as often as Hitler or Stalin, if not more. To me, it seems he is merely trying to avoid the censorship algorithm, which, if you think about it, is a miracle that it hasn't gotten to him yet, given the radical and anti propaganda nature of his content.
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  50. Hell yeah, kirby
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  51. Maybe he means the mainstream culture and cultural trends. Depending on where you live, your culture could be life promoting, but that would be an exception other than the rule, at least currently.
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  52. Yes! Ironic isn't it? That you don't yet see the harm our friend is doing
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  53. I find it very annoying how he keeps shrouding himself in mystery like this, as if he was just a desembodied voice, which he isn't. He doesn't even aknowledge any of the comments on his videos.
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  54. May I ask why, of all the details in this dream, the identity of my friend was what caught your attention? What do you think it could mean? In the dream, he was too afraid to climb the stairs anymore and didn't enter the room with me, but I convinced him to climb again and he saw the door leading to it, but the dead snakes had already filled the room and they were falling out of the last step, inanimate, like a flood.
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  55. It really shouldn't, though. The only thing comparable to reading an entire book would be reading an entire book.
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  56. Could you go in a bit more detail about what this course is about? I am also weary of Peterson, I think he has been too much on the spotlight and he is not in control of his words.
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  57. maybe, but this video has been available for years on his website
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  58. I've been thinking about a place to get together and create something, I don't know. The design of these videos are such that it intends to alienate the viewers from themselves and the creator (there is no Discord channel, or any other place where AoI viewers could join forces, and the creators NEVER answers comments. I don't even know their name or their credentials.)
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  59. This was previously an exclusive membership video which he made available now to get people to subscribe to his website. The series is already complete and the subsequent videos won't be on youtube. Sorry to destroy your hopes, but personally, I think it was a duck move on his part
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  60. Not all of it. The free spirits will always bring us back on track since they fail to limit the content of their consciousness through any means other than sublimation. Maybe there will be some kind of event that will be a pivot point in history with major repercussions, but humanity itself will live on.
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  61. I think this content hase become more harmful with the years. I started to notice it in his video about Nietzsche going mad, as if going mad was some kind of ultimate extasy and a desirable state.
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  62. Agreed!
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  63. They will never respond! I don't understand why no one is talking about how we have no idea who the creators of this channel are, appart from the rumor that they are canadian brothers, and how the never, EVER responds to any of the comments. Seems like AoI has become the very thing it supposedly speaks against
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  64. Even if you fear for your son's well being, be careful not to gaslight him.
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  65. The culture you are referring to is not a trend currently, but has been countless times before, and ours will come back to that eventually. It will just take some time, as we are still going down as a society, and not up.
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  66. I have a few friends who create awesome electronic music on synthesizers, and they are really fun. They just look waaay more complicated than my uniformely distributed piano keybord that I love so much. Any instrument or genre requires years, even decades of practice to become a master, even the dismal corporate music or the C rap you refer to.
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  67. The answer, once again, lies in moderation. That and the friends we made along the way.
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  68.  @thegroove2000  Teacher here! The school system definitely is =(
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  69. So touching
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  70. Every artwork was created by emulating some other artwork. The first artwork that was emulated was Nature herself. This is particularly true in music. While it is unethical to steal entire lyrics or melodies, it is considered an honor to make callbacks to great works of art of the past. The book "The Sorrows of Young Werter" By Goethe has an entire section where the protagonis reads a classic book and it ammounts to many pages.
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  71. Btw, it's in bad taste to attack an opponet's argument by agressively point out that his spelling is incorect.
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  72. You'll only know if you pay him
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  73. OMG THE CRINGE!!! I dieded
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  74. Oh Yeeeaaaah!! s2
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  75. I will cease my financial support, that's for sure! The content has become not only political, but conspiratory as well
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  76. @RN Kim Interesring, I did not know that.
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  77. If things keep getting this tense, soon I will be the one making the one man dionysian festival, crashing at the piano naked, collapsing on the street at the sight of a beaten horse and signing Dionysius at the end of my emails.
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  78.  @OurFreeSociety  WHOAH, slow down
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  79.  @ry4nr4mirez49  ouch
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  80. I took my time to read that =)
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  81. @Hab027 That is a general rule of humans, as ignorence is exponentially more prevalent than malevolence, but how have they kept peace for so long? (As in not blow up the planet with nukes) We all learn about the cold war in school and how the shared fear of nuclear liquidation kept countries from blowing each other up, but how has it been kept at bay ever since? BTW, I'm no geopolitical expert. We also see the spontaneous emergence of trends, but that will occur naturally everywhere.
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  82. Carl Jung's active imagination mathod was what saved me. It made a MASSIVE ammount of unconscious information conscious and rekindled the flame of the inner god within me. You could give it a try.
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  83. Yeah, I think Nietzche's brain exploded after he made these predictions in the 19th century
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  84. ​ @martinrea8548  For me, it's music.
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  85. Why is it such a political term, though?
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  86. If we are able to just NOT blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, we'll be fine. Everyone is terrified of nuclear winter because Carl Sagan made a pretty big deal out of it in the past, but further research showed that it would not be as bad as we thought. When Krakatoa blew up in 1883, it was colder for a year, but not much more than that.
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  87. I had this dream where it came out in the news that a hammer had fallen from the sky in the head of some important political figure, but the authorities were denying that it had happened. Then, when I was taking a walk in the city's streets, I looked up to the sky and saw Jupiter, as huge as the moon, with a ring floating around it. The moon passed in front of it, creating a partial eclipse, and the clouds around flashed with a dark blue aura. It was a very similar image as that of the painting in 9:22. Does anyone have something to contribute to the interpretation of this image?
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  88. "You must never give into despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength." Iroh
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  89. Thinking trumpism is deserving of the title of AGE is very self obssesive
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  90. To everybody who replied to my comment about the people who want to be ruled over and the ones driven by their hate of them: Perhaps I have misused the word hate and frustration would be a better word, but love certainly wouldn't be an accurate substitution. In my country, we are being governed by a dictator wanna be (Bolsonaro) and lots of people support and applaud him. In social media, most of what you see is a false dichotomy playing out with his supporters swallowing and spreading fake news, and in the comments, people offending one another, to no constructive avail. It is true that a reasonable debate is not possible with almost all of Bolsonaro's supporters, and that is extremely frustating, but the ensuing hate words thrown at them from "the other side" don't help either. In fact, this civil war of ideas, if you may call it that, plays in favor of the dictator, and is even orchestrated by him. In any case, love isn't what is in the air in Brasil.
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  91. nope
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  92. Elon Musk is definitely the most dangerous of them, since he is the one who has the most approval from the masses.
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  93.  @jodisherland5335  Please pay attention to your dreams. Like, your actual dreams, while you sleep. They can help you get back on track, but only if you remember them, think about them while you are awake and try to consciously interpret them. Make sure to tell close acquaintesses about them and ask for what they think it could mean (especially your therapist).
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  94. That sounds awesome!! I'm a classically trained composer myself.
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  95. This!
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  96. Have you ever considered rejecting Jesus? What would happen if you did (consider it)? I think you will never know how twisted an idea can be until you have exerciced rejecting it.
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  97. They have a website of their own. If the youtube channel goes down, they will still be able to put out content.
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  98. Hahahahahahaha
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  99. I think this video has shown the great potential and style of this channel except for the duration of the video and the ending with the sun analogy.
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  100. I've seen cat videos that were better than this
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  101. I`m ready.
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  102. so a leap as small as it gets? txs for the advice
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  103. Let's not get caught in words in on themselves. These receptors are named after drugs, but that is for a historical and cultural reason, not a biological and evolutionary one.
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  104.  @academyofideas  OMFG, is that REALLY the first time ever you have responded to a comment?? Gotta make sumore of that cash, am I right?
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  105. It's really not. This video will get hundreds of thousands of views and this ammount of engagement is very good for youtube. Capitalism works so that almost everything works as fuel for its maintenance. I've had plenty of anti-capitalism lectures in college, if that was actually detrimental to capitalism, lots of people would start disappearing, which happened in the past, but the system found a way of turning those kinds of resistence movements into its favor.
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  106. Are you circumcised? Why are you so against it? I'm not circumcised, but I have considered doing it.
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  107. My condolences, man. My foreskin doesn't pull back all the way when my penis is erect, which is why I thought about doing it, but I won't. Thanks for your wisdom.
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  108. I find it very distressing that he never, EVER respond to any of the comments.
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  109. Guys, just wear a mask. Depending on the mask, it can actually prevent lives from being lost. Actually, don't wear them anymore, since the pandemic is slowing down. I guess the time for wearing maks has already passed. You can walk freely on the streets and when you need to enter a store, you put your mask on. When you leave, you take it off, it's no big deal. The whole "I need to show everyone I'm not a sheep" is clearly some kind of psychological compensation. If you're no sheep, you don't need to prove others you're not a sheep. To paraphrase Robert Greene, "Think as you like, but speak like others". It's wise to do so, it saves you from engaging in pointless battles that drain your energy. You are always safe with your private thoughts, even if you wear a mask just to save your peace of mind. Ok, you could argue that that would be cowerdice and that it would infringe on your individuality, and sure, that would be reasonable, but a wise man picks his battles carefully. He doesnt run away from them, but simply doesn't engage if he sees his peace of mind is not worth the effort. Japan already had a strong mask culture for when they were sick and it was no big deal for them. Please, if you're having symptoms, stay at home until you are better and if you absolutely have to go out, just a wear a mask until you're better.
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  110. Interesting, thanks for the info
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  111. 4:05 WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS?????? Seriously, what is the name of this painting?
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  112. Seems to be very deliberate
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  113.  @AG-io5wr  Maybe that will change in the upcoming years
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  114.  @academyofideas  Could you pin this comment?
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  115. What does 'based' mean?
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  116. Well, I've seen many, many paintings that were very similar to my dream images in these videos, and that made me understand myself better, so maybe you're right.
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  117. Wake up people, this channel isn't interested in the development of free minds, but in creating content that maximazes engagement and views.
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  118. Nope, I waited until the video was over to comment. But I guess it's literally impossible to prove that. Are you not open to having your beliefs challenged? Because being open to that would make you a free thinker, instead of attacking someone you have absolutely no knowladge of.
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  119. I think he was more behind his own time in a way
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  120. This is one of my favorites!
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  121. Yes, talk about a fake narrative to make a point. Makes you wonder about that band that supposedly single-handedly "freed" the country that he loves to talk about.
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  122. Could someone explain?
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  123. @Northwest River couldn't have put it better myself
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  124.  @aminabdullah350  How does one live with no government at all?
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  125.  @thenew4559  I think the valid criticism he made was that Academy of ideas leaves out important parts of arguments to favor their ideology, all the while acting as if they were Philosopher Kings in a mad, mad society and will lead it to a freer world, which is a dangerous idea. They have clearly departed from their philosophical content and have started to delve into conspiracies about a supposed Brave New World. Not to mention their deliberate choice of never revealing their identity and completely ignoring every criticism, not even responding to any comment at all, as if they were so above the crowd as to never even mingle with them.
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  126. A childhood friend. We're very close since we were babies. It seemed like the cause for the building's collapse was a group of children, of wich one, the smallest, was a ghost.
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  127. Thank you for your insights, japanese person who I can't call out because our languages don't use the same characters.
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  128. Hello, Academy of Ideas, I have a question for you. I've read somewhere about the possibility of his sister frauding some of these letters. As someone with absolutely no knowledge of nor having spent time investigating this subject, I can't formulate an opinion of it. Have you ever come across this in any of your investigations?
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  129. IMHO, your disscourse shows that you have been subjected to mind washing that legitimizes the excuse of further censorship that serves no other real purpose than to protect the interests of corporations (like discussed in the video). While what you said about the harms of misinformation and hate speech is true and real, that is precisely the excuse they use to censor the flow of information, but of course, the real reason being to protect polititians and corporations. Although I could offer you my opinion, I have no suggestions to fix this real problem.
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  130. There should definitely be regulation on the use of social media, the same way there is\should be regulation on the distribution and advertisement of consummable goods such as tobaco and sugar, but corporations will still use such regulations to protect the interests of their funders, the same way the Sugar Research Foundation made biased research about the factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease, namely promoting the idea that the consumption of saturated fats are the main cause, and not sugar. Youtube has done that very recently: removing the dislike count with the excuse that it was to protect small cotent creators. What will come next? The removal of the comments section to stop the spread of misinformation? How will we even talk about potential damage being caused by some content creator? What will be done about it? IMHO, regulation should come first on what corporations and news media are allowed to advertise and how they do it. There have been MAJOR advencements in behavioural psychology in the last few decades and that knowledge has been used to almost everyone's detriment. Our school systems, at least in my country, have been stuck with research conducted in the 60's - 80's but the media platforms we use are all very much up to date.
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  131. I think it's a problem that needs to be addressed more urgently, but what do I know
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  132. Thank you!
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  133. Finally!
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  134. Reminder that the French Revolution happened
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  135. A lot of rich people were decapitated during the French Revolution which demonstrates that the people will revolt and take charge if they understand that they have the power.
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  136.  @rawfoodphilosophy7061  I want out of the city!!! How does one do that?
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  137. IS THIS THE REAL LIFE??
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  138. Fuck the king
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  139. The content has definitely been more conspiratory than philosophical lately. I've also noticed he started to press on subscriptions to his website more overtly.
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  140. I find that latching onto actual heroes like artists or historical figures such as Beethoven or Lincoln makes it all easier. They can fill the gaps that this godless society leaves on us, but I believe that they must be dead for it to have the same effect.
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  141. I hope they won't be able to shut down their website.
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  142. Carl Rogers said that there is only a reality in relation to someone's subjective experience.
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  143. Very well observed. Perhaps this channel is only interested in spreading panic and negativity through rough over simplifications in an effort to maximize views?
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  144. God is dead and we have killed him.
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  145. The way I did it, was I started reading his Red Book. I wasn't even planning on writing anything, I simply sat down and started typing one day while reading it. The objective is to allow scenarios to show themselves without judgement and you will simply navigate those scenarios with an active mindset. My therapist calls my journey a dream. In many ways it is like a waking dream.
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  146. This ingrained utilitarianism is the cause of much, much of the turmoil in modern men.
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  147. I don't think neurosis has that much to do with your vocation. Take Beethoven, for example. Although he followed a career in music because his father commanded it, it was ideed his life's task, and he never deviated from it. I can't think of someone who was more neurotic than him.
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  148.  @momentoftruth7594  Excuse me, but the fewer humans there are on this planet, the better. There has never been so many of us before. We are an infestation in this planet. There's literally not enough planet for all the humans if we keep increasing in numbers. Imagine if all the babies that were aborted were alive today? And if they already had children of their own? Rapid Climate Change would be even worse.
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  149. I felt so too
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  150. Acusing and offending people will never have a constructive impact on them. If you want to actually affect a person's opinion, you shouldn't insult their intelligence.
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  151. Stay strong, brother, focus on a craft
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  152. Well, part of the reason we're so unhappy all the time is because we are constantly reminded that we shouldn't be.
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  153. How did it make you feel?
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  154. Thank you do much for your thoughtful response. I loved reading these answers, I'm so glad I asked you
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  155. bro what
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  156. Beethoven was the greatest hero of all time.
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  157. Thats really cool! I've been composing a piano sonata titled "Neurotica" with the same purpose.
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  158. I don't agree that there is very little to be afraid of. We didn't transcend nature, we are still very much immersed in it. Most of our fears these days come from within as a product of human nature, which we endelessly underestimate. Rapid Climate Change and nuclear annihilation are very real, very possible outcomes. We have been forced to deal with these threats for decades now. Just because they are used as fuel for the fear mongering doesn't mean that it's not real. There is a plethora of scientific material that supports that RCG is real and that should be our reference going forward. We should be afraid of RCG because it is almost certainly real, but that is precisely what we need to effect change. Fear isn't a problem in itself, only its excess. "How can a man he brave when he is afraid? _ That's the only time a man can be brave." Ned Stark
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  159. Surely there must be many, many paintings that could fit the tone of the video and the art direction was a choice?
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  160. Really??
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  161. I read that if you keep trying to rephrase some comment thay keeps being deleted, Youtube will delete the comment, but will show it to you, and only you, so you are fooled into thinking you finally avoided the censorship and can stop trying.
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  162. Or as stated in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special: "It's not paranoia if it's true". You can definitely be too paranoid, though. I've lived with somone who is a paranoid schizophrenic and let me tell you, it's not pretty, healthy or true.
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  163. I find that AoI is exactly the kind of thing it speaks against
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  164. It's his brother
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  165. Yes, and they will flourish until they eat from the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil. After that, their downfall will be set up.
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  166. I think so too, but I also think that is wishful thinking.
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  167.  @codycook1587  I was a supporter, but he wasn't uploading anything new for the members. In fact, he was doing the opposite: making membership videos available for YouTube. Now I'm not a supporter anymore.
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