Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "The Why Files" channel.

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  3. It's always interesting how these kinds of people come out with claims about their special thing, which is going to magically bring peace to the planet, end poverty, and leave everyone holding hands singing under a rainbow. It's a cute story but the reality is, that isn't our species. No amount of technology/wealth/abundance/knowledge/adherence to your spiritualism is EVER going to change that reality. Humans are social animals in competition. We work together as a group to benefit ourselves as individuals. Things like wealth, hierarchy, war,, are hard coded biological responses. Not to mention, all this apparent abundance is supposed to come from a magic powder called mana that is extracted from...other animals. So we'd be destroying the natural world around us for that to happen at scale for the world. There are plenty of stories like Tim's, where they make these claims about peace and abundance and wonder. But it's all Barnum statements. Of course, those lower down the hierarchy want to hear about some magic that's going to make them equal. Even more so these days with all the equality of outcome, woke nonsense. But it isn't real. It isn't practical. It's just fantasy. Listen if the knights templer had such knowledge and information, why would they be fundamentally hierarchical power structures? If Tim really is one of them, why would he be a grand master instead of everyone being equal with equal input. If it's true why would they need to wait at all if it's going to pull apart the power structures anyway? It's nonsense for the masses. Is the rest of his story true? It doesn't seem it but if he's willing to show evidence I'm willing to investigate that evidence. But the idea of some magic outcome where humans stop doing human behaviour is out and out bunk.
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  12. The 500K population number isn't arbitrary. It's the maximum population size our species has ever naturally achieved. Whilst the scientifically theoretical global maximum is 1 billion globally, natural factors have always kept our population to below 500K prior to the industrial revolution. That's what the industrial revolution really did, it allowed population growth beyond natural limits. Eugenics is NOT a war crime nor was it something the Nazis cooked up. Eugenics was openly discussed both in academia and the general population, and practiced widely across the developed world at the turn of the 20th century. Most Nordic countries have only stopped practicing eugenics within the last decade. One only as late as 2021. It's only because the Nazis used it too that it became a dirty word amongst allied nations. If you talk to the average man on the street about the goals and concepts of eugenics without actually using that word 9 out of 10 people fully support and agree with them. The government already regulates some reproductive rights. For example, when you imprison someone for life are you not stopping them from reproducing? When you engage in court ordered chemical castration of pedophiles, are you not preventing them from reproducing? One could argue that yankville still engages in a form of eugenics or at least the government gets involved in preventing some people from reproducing. Perhaps you'll say, "but those are bad people" to which I'd respond that it means you're clearly open to the idea then but what we're really talking about is where we draw the line in the sand. One could argue abortion is in this same general area, and what is really wrong with euthenia? That line in the sand is moving.. What about people seriously disabled from birth? Should they be a burden on society and have no quality of life? Much of the stuff said at the end of this episode is straight false.
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  27. The ancient alien people and the book of enoch always make me laugh the most. Of all the conclusions to jump to if one were to take Enoch literally, aliens would be pretty low on that list. It seems pretty clear from the evidence that we're discussing works of fiction, and to take them seriously would be the equivalent of taking a superman comic with as much seriousness. But if we put all that aside for a moment, just for the sake of argument, one might say the most likely scenario if not some supernatural magic being is not at all aliens, but instead more advanced human civilisations. I mean you're an alien species with technology capable of flying millions of light years in such a fraction of a lifetime as to make such travel viable and you can only teach clay pottery? You can only teach metal work for weapons? Why would we think if they were aliens the materials on our planet, under our atmosphere would behave like the materials on theirs under their atmosphere? 😂 You have such advanced technology and yet you're still using combustion rockets? No way. That isn't feasible. And why humans of all animals? I know your ape ego wants to pretend you're a special animal but objectively you aren't. If you then want to blame the rise of civilisation and all those things such as art, science technology and math that came with it on an extraterrestrial species then there go all the things humans would traditionally same make them "better" than other animals. Again, the most likely explanation is merely imagination. But if we entertain it as literal than we'd need a species invested in humans, capable of interbreding with humans, familiar with earth and earth materials, whom still might be using comhustion technologies and perhaps most importantly would look just like humans... When we talk about Ethiopia, we're talking about some of the darkest skinned humans on the planet. If you live in a society filled with very dark skinned individuals and a very white, fair skinned individual from Europe, perhaps Scandinavia, turns up, how might you describe their very white, very reflective skin? Noah is described in enoch as a white skinned boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. Who does that sound like? We know a millennia ago vikings who turned up were thought of as giants and we know Ethiopians have some Scandinavian DNA. We also know sea fairing northern europeans visited every country with a flood myth. 🤷‍♂️ If you were going to take enoch or the epic of Gilgamesh seriously (and you shouldn't), and try to come up with some materialist explanation for spiritualism (and you shouldn't) jumping to aliens seems a ridiculous leap of logic over mere contact with a more advanced human civilisation. Perhaps a civilisation that didn't survive a hypothetical flood. Perhaps a civilisation where the rich/powerful lived in flying structures and the working class lived in uneducated poverty. A civilisation where interracial relationships were frowned upon. Perhaps even a civilisation of nations whom went to war with each other and caused the flood. Sound familiar? Sound like something a hypothetical advanced human civilisation from the past might do? Did it happen? Probably not, there's no evidence for it. But it's more logical and realistic than freaking aliens. Again, the most likely explanation is they're works of fiction
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