Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

  1. The only thing that changes a person's mind is his EXPERIENCE.
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  2. The public good is best served by liberty!
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  3. So what if the speaker is a dem!? Same difference: nothing will get done. And that's the best anybody could hope for! We're better off the less they do.
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  4. Resentment: "bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly". This "emotional value" seems to pivot, then, around one's conception of "fairness". What if the apparent unfairness of life is an illusion; what if life IS actually fair?! It can be if a wider perspective is adopted. The whole idea of life's fairness takes on different dimensions when one's current life is just one of many he'll experience. And, perhaps, each life's "harvest" is measured in terms of "character"...
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  5. Your statement that Jesus never professed to be perfect, Dave, was false.
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  6. ACTIONS of cultural disparagement result from the CONCEPT of racism. Disparagement of culture denotes the racist perspective in action.
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  7. It seems, then, that the lighter the skin pigmentation, the higher the IQ. And the closer to the equator, the darker the skin. A possible rationale: the survival requirements imposed by a tropical environment are very different from those imposed by extreme northern environments. Interpositions are critical to survival in the north: heavy clothing, thicker homes, and longer-term planning especially...in a word, "technology". It's a matter of practice-makes-perfect: you get pretty good at something you practice for thousands of years. Tropical peoples have a more direct relationship with their environment because it is inherently relatively friendly; so, you're not going to freeze to death, for example. The different senses of immediacy make for different developmental pressures.
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  8. "It's been in the works for months" to be accomplished on TRUMP'S SCHEDULE!? 😂
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  9. Cain inflects like a con-man...can't believe a word he says...they're trying to bolster the fading "radicalization" boogie man...
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  10. What's Nancy doing with her right arm! Wallpapering? hahaha...all that pointless gesticulation was for the purpose of "staying on track", a metronome of a sort: "on the beat, spit out a word". Otherwise, she'd be like Biden, trailing off into a doze. Nancy knows you can't fall asleep while your dancing...
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  11. "The hero myth" perspective trivializes the adventure of the human spirit! But it's an integral piece of the academic analyst's toolkit, the "scientific" approach...but to what? Understanding? How does that help! When what we're really talking about is the apperception of reality! Calculated analysis doesn't really figure into the immediate experience of that reality, though it may prefigure aspects of the experience. But such programming is seldom well-calculated...
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  12. Jordan talks a lot of "meaning", but the importance of meaning to him seems to be in the need for "meaning" evaluations in the process of interpretation and translation of human values--in other words, "abstraction". He's an academic, and that's what academics DO. I'd like to see him use more of the lexicon of intra-psychic operations, terms people can associate with very familiarly. People don't "balance order and chaos"; they "compare"--they JUDGE VALUE! Value judgement is the currency of intra-psychic operations.
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  13. They paid to be insulted! That's perverse! They deserve each other!
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  14. HA! Jordan's a noodler! Welcome to the club!
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  15. Admiration = Love. You want to admire yourself as much as you admire some other people. What is hopeless is the state of never admiring yourself. What is depraved is the state of never admiring anyone else!
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  16. Chaos and Order are not of the same sort. What Jordan is calling, "chaos", is actually negative order. Chaos is something really quite different...
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  17. Is the post office held legally liable for the delivery of contraband?
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  18. "Conscience"? It's been my experience that you get "warnings", of escalating severity, of trouble you're headed for. For example, first your car starts a little hard; then, it seems to lack power, too. Finally, it stalls for the last time while standing in traffic. You had warnings that your fuel pump was failing; had you taken action after the warnings you would have avoided the final trouble. "Conscience" is like that...warnings. But, it's not Jiminy Cricket. It's an automatic function of the habit nature to summarize danger signal information; "conscience" is the appearance, or presentation, of this information. Like a memo from a low level supervisor to his immediate superior...
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  19. Fauci expects you to believe the science as he states it. That "authority" is all he's got, since the science is not in evidence. Government needs you to respect it's authority--persuasion is too inefficient! "Just do what we tell you to do, without question! People will die because of the delay caused by your questions!" That's only a possibility, even IF they're telling the truth. The world is getting a crash course in propaganda, and a significant segment of the population is not up for it!
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  20. Mental hygiene! Guard the gates of perception. Deal with the "death" issue once and for all! Just DECIDE!
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  21. What's the nature of his "pain"? I must have missed that part...
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  22. It looked like Lemon took a little time to "get it", before laughing. But, I think his laughter was faked to distract from his dimwittedness in not getting the joke promptly.
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  23. Musk doesn't care about using cannabis. But Stelter wouldn't know anything if he didn't make it up! Smear is all they got...
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  24. "If you have memories you can't let go..."...Why should you let go of memories? Because..."painful"? Why? Every "painful" memory sensitizes the awareness of reality...and offers a warning when you're about to make the same beloved mistake, yet, again! It may be fun to pretend, but it's foolish, as well...that's kinda why it's fun!
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  25. So, Jack admits to "shadowbanning", just on a different basis than political. Huh? hahaha
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  26. Joe Biden is a serial plagiarist! That's besides being a liar. I understand there's a degree of intersection there...😏...But plagiarism is a sort of theft, passing another's work off as your own when honesty would dictate proper attribution of the quoted material to its genuine author. "There's no honor among thieves." And a man without honor is dangerously despicable.
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  27. The US and virtually all the rest of the world's nations publicly agree that Taiwan is part of China, mainland China! The US says it does not support Taiwan independence! WTF! So WTH is going on! Oh, it's a little game of pretend? I see...is it fun? And why are full-grown adults playing pretend games! At the risk of blood and treasure, no less! The insanity is blinding!
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  28. Intelligence transforms terror into wonder. Wonder carries spirit to its source. Love.
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  29. Very interesting...but I think there's a more basic angle to take on this IQ variation: regardless of race/ethnicity, this human IQ range is rather large, indicating a great disparity amongst people regarding IQ. This disparity affects EVERYONE! Stefan says we'll always have disagreements. But disagreement between two high-IQ people looks very different from disagreement between two low-IQ people precisely BECAUSE of the IQ DISPARITY!
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  30. A recent study determined that creating melody generates new brain cells! So, go ahead and noodle that random melody!
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