Comments by "Debany Doombringer" (@debanydoombringer1385) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

  1. “If you can keep it”. It requires vigilance which too many forgot. Fortunately many are starting to remember if it’s not too late.
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  2.  @jokerpilled2535  Forgiveness isn't for them, it's for you. That's what people don't get. As long as you hold onto that hate and anger you'll never really be able to move past it and it will always influence you. The fact that you say you hate women for saying no to you is a huge flag that you really need to face and deal with your anger. Hating people because they don't respond how you want is all about you and has nothing to do with them.
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  3. This is the ideas that the US was founded on. It makes change slow so that if it's really a benefit or a detriment that has time to show. If a new idea works, it will be adopted by other states and that will test if it's compatible for all or if it's more limited based on resources available or wealth of the state. If it is found to be a benefit then it will be adopted at the federal level and by that time it's already pretty much been accepted by the majority of the people. It was never supposed to be as it has become with one or two states doing something and then it's forced onto the others by the federal government using party power rather than individual state power or by withholding funding until they comply. States are finally starting to remember that they are supposed to be the power within the country instead of the federal government. Outside of interstate conflicts, money printing, trade, treaties, etc the federal government isn't supposed to have much power. Edit: The closer the people are to their politicans in day to day interactions the more those laws are supposed to affect our day to day life. Each step further removed from the people, the less impact they're supposed to have on our day to day life. There should be vastly different laws and regulations between states all the way down to counties and towns. It was so people could live under laws they want to and those that didn't like them could easily move to an area that better suited them. We were never supposed to be identical to each other.
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  4.  @fullupper  God help us all
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  5. Everyone is a few missed paychecks away from catastrophe. Just like before money, everyone was a bad harvest away from catastrophe. At least now the government will give you money so you don't have to worry about starving unlike then and if you lose your job you can get unemployment. Easiest and most comfortable time to be alive in history and people acting like it's the 1500s and a swarm of locusts has arrived.
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  6.  @TheyCalledMeT  Any psychologist could have predicted that. This happened when the books and movies came out about multiple personality disorder too. An explosion of people claiming to have it. Which is why medical intervention should not be given out like candy.
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  7. Humans are animals literally. Have you seen nature? Survival is brutal. That said, since you say you've read a lot of history, you clearly see that as Christianity in particular spread, wars declined. Even more so after the reformation. Because it teaches the things this video talks about. Humility, value of the individual, and compassion. People today don't seem to understand or aren't able to grasp that this is the most peaceful time in human existence pretty much and that's been true for several generations. So you claiming believing in God never saved anyone is your own nihilistic tendencies. It's clear you're pretty deep in it and good luck getting out of it, but you won't be dragging me back into it. Edit: To fully understand imagine the amount of death that occurred during WWII population percentage wise every couple of years in different parts of the world. That's the history of mankind. To look at that and claim it's the same today is just not even remotely accurate. So no, what you're claiming is patently untrue.
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  8. Beyond geographic borders wouldn't work and would be impossible to enforce. Someone breaks the agreement, they're half the world away, and would face no consequences due to logistics. You'd have people living nextdoor to one another living by completely different societal rules. If your neighbor is in a group that human sacrifice is allowed but yours forbids it, there's nothing to prevent him from deciding you're who's to be the next sacrifice. I know that's an extreme example, but the point stands regardless of what example you use. They want to be nudist and strut all over the neighborhood that way subjecting their neighbors to things they didn't agree to.
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  9. Good for you! As someone that could be a professional counselor but choose to raise a family, all they do is help you see where the problems are, but they can't fix them. That's still up to you to do. So you figured that out for yourself and are on the road to they would have sent you down.
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  10.  @anon2427  Thanks for not understanding what a free economy and free trade is. That's what's called capitalism. It's been in practice since before civilization existed. We don't have a capitalist economy. We have a mixed economy. Capitalism has very little state interference. Western countries have tons of interference with massive amounts of rules and regulations that stifle a free economy.
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  11.  @allesdurchprobiert  That's not what makes a country rich. The poorest person in a rich country has things only the wealthy in other countries have. Cell phones, internet access, housing, food (no one starves to death in rich countries except from abuse), etc. It has nothing to do with anything you mentioned. The entire population of the US would be considered in the top 1% of the world in terms of wealth. $2 a day is considered poverty on a global scale. Even homeless beggars on the streets make more than that in the US. Ads talking about feeding the poor say "goes hungry" rather than "are starving". It's that they have a single meal a day, where as in most countries it's they only have food a couple of times a week. Famine isn't even a slight concern where as it's a very real concern for the majority of countries. That's what determines the wealth of a country.
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  12.  @Eyy98976  A private business having a policy is different than a government creating a law. I can go to a different business, I can't just go to a different government. It's their property, so their rules. Just like if you go to someone's house and they ask you to take your shoes off.
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  13.  @squigglyarmz197  Jung and Nietzsche weren't brought up in this video which is the one being discussed in the comment section. If this comment appears on those videos, it should be addressed there rather than a video about basic economics. I've come across far too many people that don't understand that an increase in the money supply is inflation. It's the definition of it. Instead they claim it's other things which are simply a result of the increase. Just like right now people believing inflation is declining when the current rate is based off of last year's prices which means the current inflation rate is on top of the previous years inflation. Technically we're experiencing around a 16% inflation from when prices began increasing, not 8%. It was around 8% the previous year and is around 8% currently. That equals a total of around 16%.
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  14. "We don't need God" and then you refer to "sin". Which is it? Without God there is no concept of sin. Vanity is neither good or bad without the concept of God because good and evil doesn't exist outside that concept either. Try to make that statement and really leave God out of it. It's impossible. Welcome to now understanding we do need God because that's what our entire society is founded on. Every law, every moral, every belief.
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  15. You don’t understand homelessness. Most homeless choose it. They don’t want to be a part of society. The difference is how wealthy nations have become has allowed them to live whereas before they’d just simply die. If you chose not to work, you starved. The state didn’t provide for you. The “majority” in wealthy and democratic nations are NOT poor. It’s a very small percentage of the population. Where as before they were. Serfs were poor and everyone not of nobility, high up in the church, or a merchant were poor. We’re talking 3rd world kind of poor. I simply love when people attempt to compare post industrial revolution to pre. If you’ve never lived like it didn’t happen, you have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m talking no electricity, no running water, no modern day conveniences. There are even a few places in the US you could go experience it. You won’t because you’d rather sit in your comfort making ridiculous comparisons of completely different time periods and proclaim the one you’ve not experienced better. Edit: Serfs didn’t own the land. If they didn’t produce enough to pay the landowner their required amount, which the lord had to pay the crown a percentage of in taxes, they were punished. They weren’t allowed to move up in wealth. As much as people like you complain you have no idea what it’s like to live in a society with zero upward mobility while pretending that’s somehow a good thing. You have no idea what it’s like to truly suffer yet long for it out of your own ignorance. You’re living in the top 1% of the world’s wealth while complaining about the 0.01%.
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  16. Thank you for not watching the video because that's not what it's about or says, but your ignorant comment helps the algorithm.
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  17. I think originally it was supposed to be similar to jury selection. At least at the local and state representative levels. I’d prefer the federal government shrinking and the power restored to the state and local governments. Part of the problem occurs when the rulers are tucked away far from their constituents. It’s much different when they have to come in contact with them every time they leave their home and being tucked hundreds or thousands of miles away in DC. This is why it was set up originally how it was. With the power concentrated where the people had more direct contact. If you did things against the citizenship you could face having tomatoes thrown at you when you walked down the street. What you’re up to is much more transparent.
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  18. That would cause the standard of living to increase not remain stable. As things become more expensive, the standard of living goes up because money no longer can purchase what it did before. Incomes do not rise at the same rate as inflation during an inflationary period so people drop into a lower class than they could afford before.
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  19. Oh the utopia. Your plan completely ignores human nature and pretends it doesn’t exist. What you’re talking about is tribes. Look at how peaceful that was please. We’re currently living in the most peaceful time in recorded history and act like it’s the opposite.
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  20. No violence. The only time violence is acceptable is if my freedom is being removed or to protect someone else's. Government's main goal should be to preserve the freedom of it's citizenry. Killing someone, stealing from them, etc are all acts of force that remove someone else's freedom and rights from them. I'll also point put not everyone wants more freedom. Far too many don't want the responsibility that comes with it, so you're basing your question on a false premise. Edit: A lot will claim they want more freedom when in reality they just want acceptance. They are not the same thing.
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  21. So you believe Jung is incorrect? That it isn't caused by avoiding a problem and using, what you call shaming words, to avoid the problem? Fear shouldn't be a trait that's elevated in society. The person is the one using those as an excuse to avoid the problem they don't want to face. It's not someone shaming them. It's not something anyone outside of the individual can fix. If you're stuck in limbo because you refuse to face your problem, being forgiving of your actions won't help at all and will just continue the cycle. Einstein was a physicist, not a psychologist. So his advice on how to solve a scientific problem, isn't applicable to a mental problem. Edit: I don't believe you understand that those words aren't to shame, but are traits caused by attempting to avoid the problem. It's for the psychologist to recognize those traits in a patient, help the patient see those aren't positive traits and figure out the problem they are avoiding or avoided at some point in their lives that's causing them. While nonconformity is fine, you still have to be able to function within society.
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  22. That's why when stuff like that first starts, dissidents are silenced quickly. It instills fear. Most will conform when threatened. Then, secretly people will come to believe since no one is speaking out anymore that they're alone. Thus it becomes just normal life. Once it's normalized the need to enforce it pretty much disappears because society will enforce it on it's own.
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  23. I'm not sure if you've watched all the videos, but as society becomes weaker what's considered traumatic to people becomes less and less severe. It's because they have nothing worse to compare it to. So by giving into the weak that find things that no other group would find traumatic, you weaken society further causing the threshold to go lower and lower until simple things are "traumatic" to them. It's relative to your own experience at that point rather than something universally understood as before. In reality, they've experienced far less trauma than any previous point in history. They've not experienced war like was common before in history, they've not experienced widespread death like was common before, most have not even experienced having to kill their own food. By allowing this continued decline in the universally understood definition of traumatic, it only causes societal harm. It's only crippling them for when they might face true trauma. Stop allowing their weakness to set the standard for everyone else.
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  24. I just take care of my kids and animals. Knowing they depend on me for life is enough for me.
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  25.  @rekt4guud134  You do realize the largest groups unvaccinated are black people, people with PhDs, and those under 30 right? So why are you blaming people over 50? The elderly, you know the people most likely to die, are mostly vaccinated. The average age of death from it is around 80. You're complaining about misinformation while spouting nothing but it. The people wanting the unvaccinated removed from society are mostly Millennials. They are middle age so hardly the "young" people.
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  26. It depends on you. Honestly after the last couple of years, I don't see how anyone could question if they have a purpose. Everything shutdown and because of that we've got global food shortages, economic disasters, ect. That proves everyone working together is what keeps humanity and our species intact and here. Before it would be hard to see how not going to work could cause someone halfway around the world to starve to death, but we've experienced that now.
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  27.  OG Sky Watch  So unless I can live by never having to eat again I'm not free? Freedom has to do with government and man. It has nothing to do with nature. You clearly don't even understand what freedom is so you can't possibly be able to accurately define it. Freedom is to be free of tyranny. It's the ability to have self determination. Before freedom from tyranny occurred, humans were reliant on the government as to what choices were available to them. Mostly class based. With freedom comes the ability to make that decision for yourself. You can be completely self sufficient or you can live in a communist commune. Both are allowed in a free society. That's not the case in any other society.
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  28. Suffering is a part of ALL life. Even from the smallest virus all the way to humans. That suffering creates growth. Viruses change and adapt to be spared just a bit longer from death, and suffering in humans have produced the most amazing things. From inventions that impact the future of all of humanity to art that moves us and changes us. It all stems from individual suffering. It's up to us if we use that suffering to push us forward or hold us back.
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  29. No that’s not what it’s saying. It’s saying the nature of every government is corruption. No matter the system it creeps in overtime. Notice how it’s saying modern democracy and not democracy period. All governments fail eventually. There is no perfect system. Democracy is currently the best system but it has flaws and those flaws need to be remembered and watched for. Complacency is one of the biggest threats to it.
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  30. That's why you pass on what you have learned, your DNA, or other things. That's what gives you meaning even after you're no longer physically here. It's the impact you have on others.
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  31.  @MuantanamoMobile  Nobody said what you're claiming. They are merely mentioning a large, longterm study that concluded it's not a chemical imbalance. No form of depression is caused by a chemical imbalance.
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  32.  B Shaw  This is a topic covered in psychological and philosophy. When someone finally starts to awaken, they are faced with the bad things they have done to those already awake. Some will never be able to fully awaken because they can't deal with that realization. It's too much for them to bare.
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  33. This is talked about when looking at the psychological aspects of how a totalitarian government comes into power. There is always 20-30% of the population that can see what's happening. They can see the truth behind the lies. There's 40% of the population that are just followers. Then there is another 30% that are the extremists. The ones that celebrate what is happening. If the 30% that are awake can sway the 40% to change to their direct, it will stop. If they can't, there's little the ones awake can do but keep speaking the truth to continue to chip away at the 40%.
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  34.  @RufusJacson  What trauma have they faced that's so much worse than people before them faced? They aren't dying in wars, they're not watching large numbers of society die from disease, they're not in danger of something from nature causing widespread death and destruction, they don't fear an animal hunting and killing them everytime they go outside their hut. Do some individuals face trauma and traumatic events? Certainly, but that's on an individual level and not societal. The original comment is speaking as if they are suffering from a societal trauma, which isn't reality. So Alex is correct because any other time in history, people who are too weak to function within a society would die or learn to function within it for survival. It's only a societal concern if it's a traumatic event suffered by all or if life has become so easy and comfortable society as a whole becomes weak.
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  35. That's a misunderstanding of anxiety. It's not always what will happen, but a reaction to what has happened. Traumatic events can cause extreme anxiety that takes time for your mind to process. Having panic attacks that are debilitating isn't just a "wave in the ocean". Jung knew that or he would never had needed to treat a patient beyond telling them to just deal with it.
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  36.  @antonyjh1234  It also means you'll never go beyond that to improve your situation. I've moved 3 times each for better financial success so we could provide a better future for our children. We could have remained in the area we had security for ourselves but offered nothing beyond what we had accomplished for our children or move to a place where we're better off and that's expanding and offers more for them. We chose the latter and our children are very grateful because they've already achieved far more than ever would have.
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  37. I’m going to say something a little different than this video. Yes way too many were fine with the loss of their freedom. However it was only tolerated briefly. Sure you had 4 very populated states continue it for a prolonged period but that’s a small number out of the total 50 , and those states have paid a hefty price as people are still fleeing them. That tells me it’s not as bleak as it was intended to be. That tech and entertainment were preparing for it to be how we would live forever after that and we know how tied those industries are to government, tells me it didn’t go as planned at all. They expanded rapidly into providing everything at home because they expected it to last for several years and that people would be so accustomed to being home, they’d remain there once restrictions were relaxed. It didn’t last as long as they’d been lead to believe in most areas and as soon as restrictions began to lift the opposite happened. People fled their homes. They walked away from their TVs and went to state parks, traveled, started gardening. Anything to see and interact with nature and the outside again. Most of the population now understands the ramifications of doing that and that it was never necessary or based on science. They’ll have an almost impossible time if they attempted anything similar in the next 40 years.
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  38. You've always had to "pay" one way or another or you died. If you didn't do your work in the field, you didn't have crops. No crops, no food and so you die. If you didn't hunt and gather most of your day, you'd starve and die. Now you work (take care of your crop), to get paid (crop yields food), now you have food (use money to purchase food grown by others), so you don't die. You're just no longer the one planting and growing which allows other things to be worked on.
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  39.  @dwargonedragon794  I'm confused. Do you think they are doing those things in under developed countries? My sons are 23 and 24 and those things were going on when they were teenagers just a few years ago. Hardly anyone had a job vs when I grew up in the 80s and most teenagers had a job. Perhaps you can't "feel the energy" because you're not personally connected to it by people in your life. Music isn't as interesting to the youth as it once was. Now it's art and creating video games and apps.
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  40.  @Rithmy  Jung is highlighted in this video as saying that fear and laziness should not be elevated. That's what the comment is referring to. Society has elevated bad traits. When society elevates things, people that have those are higher in the social hierarchy. That leads to others mimicking them in order to move up the hierarchy. Those traits are bad for an individual and bad for a society. Being higher in the hierarchy comes with certain privileges, that's the benefits the commentor is pointing to. Humans absolutely do react to positive reinforcement. That's why that combined with punishment has the best outcomes in child rearing. It's why raises are given for hard work and awards are given for achievements.
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  41. So a mom or babysitter so you have no need to think for yourself or grow?
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  42.  @kanyespastor5888  Which is exactly what this video is talking about. That's why they used the term "divine" rather than God to not confuse the thought with a particular religion. As this video explained, God is just the English word assigned to something we lack the vocabulary or thinking to explain.
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  43.  @TheOsamaBahama  If you paid attention to the video it explains not everyone who follows an organized religion ever experience God/the Divine because they can become corrupt by mankind as a tool to keep people from growing rather than help them achieve that experience. As someone that has experienced it, it is impossible to put into language that anyone could understand. The only way I, personally, can describe it is an overwhelming feeling and sensation of peace and calmness. The unbearable weight of just being that you weren't even really aware was there lifted off you. I do mean physically feel it lifted.
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  44.  @fearthehoneybadger  "If I don't post within a minute, my comments aren't interactive." This statement about you not watching the video before commenting, and thus your comment isn't really on topic of the video, is hilarious. Because comment I quoted fits the video more than the initial one. You're more concerned with engagement and the opinion of others than the actual content.
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  45. I will say I have taken anti anxiety medication for short periods. Only because I was having panic attacks while my mind processed the trama. As soon as I was able to deal with it, I stopped. It was less than a month. They aren't all bad as long as you understand they don't really fix anything and should just be used when there's an extreme.
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  46. Direct democracy isn’t being involved in government. It’s a system where everything is decided by popular vote. I don’t have to be in office to live in a direct democracy. We have a republic to prevent tyranny of the majority. What you’re proposing means California and New York would rule over everyone else. If I wanted to live under their policies, I’d move there. That’s why in the US we have direct democracy at the local level, a combination at the state level, and a representative republic at the federal level. The problem arises when the federal government takes power away from the state and local governments which is what’s happened. The scope of the federal government is laid out in the Constitution and all other power is supposed to be with the state. Now the power has concentrated into the federal government. Fortunately some states are remembering they’re supposed to have it and are attempting to take it back. Edit: The more a government has the power to affect your everyday life, the more direct the democracy was the idea. Local government has the most direct impact and federal should have almost none is how the original power structure was laid out. If you live in a place where the rules of the majority don’t suit you, you’re free to move where it does. Hence the freedom of movement is so important. You saw that really in mass during the pandemic as California and New York lost population.
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  47.  @Synodalian  Since all our "moral truth" stems directly from Christianity, which apparently you didn't know that, it's not arbitrary superstition. Most of the philosophy you follow in the West also stems from Christianity. Liberalism is directly from it. Everything you described comes from the society in which you live and that society was built around Christianity. Aztec society was built around it's religion which included human sacrifices. They viewed it as perfectly moral. Other societies built around their religion find things we'd find horrifying, beautiful. What you're seeing as such profound thinking is only showing your complete lack of knowledge and understanding of how those things came to be. So you're saying discard the foundation of these ideas and cling to the ideas that will fall without their foundation. Edit: Which is what's happening now. Tell me, how's that working out? Self harm at record highs, marriage and happiness at record lows. Working out great for society /s.
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  48.  @vetteluvnh  It's impossible because our philosophy comes from our religious beliefs. Everything that Western society is based on stems directly from Christianity. Our morals, our laws, our structure, our concept of freedom, all of it.
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  49.  @explosives101  He's not talking about belief. He's acknowledging our society is based on Christian principles and without them society will fall. Nothing stands once it's foundation is eroded away.
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  50. What's not true? Do you believe to kill someone is wrong? To take something that doesn't belong to you is wrong? Did you ever question why you believe those things or just blindly believe them? Do you believe in liberalism? ALL of that comes from what you're saying is untrue. That you expect everyone else to agree with your assumption is also fascinating.
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  51.  @ericsuarez834  No it's not "common sense" and that you think it is is hilarious. Lots of societies don't think what we think is immoral and survived for many years. Human sacrifice was very common and they certainly didn't see it as an immoral act. So it's not "common sense". You grew up in a society founded on Christian principles so all of that comes from those principles whether you believe in Christianity or not. Atheists believing somehow we'd have the same morals without those principles are entertaining because a quick glance at history shows that to be false. If it was "common sense" or a "human truth" as some like to claim, they would have been held before Christianity spread and they just weren't.
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  52.  @margarethoff1992  It depends on what you have. You can't fix paranoid schizophrenia. They tell you that because you're supposed to develop tools within your life to compensate for your problem. For example if you have ADHD, learning how to better organize can be a huge help. The medication for such things aren't supposed to be lifelong but a crutch while you sort it out and learn tools. Those tools are going to ge different for everyone so telling someone to do this or that might not help them. That causes them to believe there are no work arounds and to stop trying. Blaming the psychologist because the patient refuses to do what they're supposed to do is asinine. Edit: I have Lupus. The doctors said it's forever because it is. Should I hate myself too? It's factual. It'll never go away. You have to learn to deal with it. Would you rather they lie and say it'll magically go away so they don't bother learning how to deal with it so it consumes them and they live a life of constant failures? Just like you see with permanent medical conditions, there are people that will learn to cope with it and lead fulfilling lives and people that won't and wallow in their suffering. It's their choice.
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  53.  @drewsimoncomedy  Their sense of purpose back then has nothing to do with their job. Their sense of purpose was defined by what they were doing was for the betterment of society. They were not as focused on the self as we are now. They were much more focused on community, family, and God. Doing something only for yourself would have been looked down on. That's why people in cities in the roaring 20s that were focused on partying and indulgence were looked down on instead of envied like today. 100 years ago saw more people living in cities than rural areas for the first time in the US. So no, most people wouldn't have been self employed because a large population in a small area can't support that. I think you are confusing farming to feed your family and selling any extra as "self employed" instead of understanding it was for survival. That's like calling settlers "self employed". If your grandparents were sheep farmers, they would have been considered wealthy so not the norm. My grandmother's family were cattle ranchers. They were wealthy enough to send all their daughters to college. I have furniture from that side and it was considered expensive at the time(still is. 1 item I have would go for around$2-3,000 today). My grandfather family worked the family farm and were poor, struggling to survive. They had very little. My grandfather went to work at the oil refinery when it opened to support his family. Because your family was well off, it clouds your understanding of what it was really like for most causing you to romanticize it. Edit: This isn't a dig at you. Had my grandmother not married below her station, and she reminded my grandfather of that regularly, I would have had a similar understanding of that time period. Because she did, my family grew up poor (I live in the south and didn't have air conditioning until I was in middle school and my mother didn't have indoor plumbing until the mid 50s) so have a better understanding of what it was like for the majority at the time.
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  54. If it was at the beginning then people were afraid. Not of not conforming but if what they'd been told was true. Later the lies became obvious. If it was after that, then it depended on the area because then it became tribal. My area complied for about 2 weeks. Then when we weren't seeing what we were told, the majority pretty quickly rejected it. It helped that our police made it known from the start they weren't the mask police. So with no strong enforcement it was much easier to resist. Life returned to normal pretty quickly. In areas with strict enforcement it made it much harder to resist because it could mean fines you couldn't afford or possibly carrying around criminal for the rest of your life.
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  55. It's the longing for utopia. I've talked to people about this and the people that support it don't have a simple grasp of economics. It wouldn't work how they believe it would in their minds. We got a sample of it during the pandemic and we're paying the price for it now. Food shortages, messed up supply lines, economic crashes, etc. It's basically Communism just repackaged.
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  56. I just want it back how it’s supposed to be. Probably because civics is no longer considered an important part of education people seem to think of separation of powers only at the federal level. Originally it was everything. Separation occurred on multiple levels. Federal and state governments created a separation and local government another one. As this video pointed out multiple separate private organizations and institutions was another. We’ve experienced such a massive federalization people no longer even understand what the intended role of the federal government was. We’ve got to separate them again or we’ll just continue down this path.
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  57. I saw yesterday a good example of what's going on. A Twitter account called Canada Resistance was posting against the Freedom Convoy. They think they are the ones resisting something while they cheer the removal of the true resistance.
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  58.  @blue-ck9ns  Seriously? Historians agree he was a real person. Stop with that tired worn out drivel. Lying doesn't make you look intelligent like you seem to believe it does.
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  59. The great rat experiment for why. I think it's rats, it might be mice. They were given a utopia with all their needs met. Some created conflicts with each other for no reason, some groomed themselves all day. They ended up no longer able to reproduce.
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  60. Then stop isolating? There are plenty of places to go that offer social connections. You have to go to them though and make some effort.
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  61.  @LizardOnAMushroom2358  It's not different and why do you think it would be somehow magically different than every other relationship you have with people? Your partner is just another person. They're not magically different outside of the type of commitment you make to one another. You're going to look for similar but slightly different things than just a friendship because it will involve children so you need to keep that in mind when choosing. I've been married 25 years. We make a conscious choice everyday to love each other. That's the first thing most people need to understand and that's that love is a choice. To give someone love or withhold it is a choice. Romantic love or "falling in love" is really just infatuation. It's not really love at all but mostly lust and superficial. If you go into a potential longterm relationship like marriage believing that's what love feels like it's doomed to failure. Edit: You look for someone that's strong in the areas you're weak in and you have to be humble enough to recognize you're weak in that area and allow them to handle it. That's why you have to really know, love, and accept yourself first. If you're still under the belief that you're perfect and know everything you'll never find someone. You have be able to let your pride fall away so you can truly work together to improve both your lives.
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  62.  @the_expidition427  Please point to a time in history that the majority of the population had access to the same healthcare as the leaders or rich. It's not and never has been a right to use someone else's labor and knowledge for free. That's called slavery. The poor in the US have free healthcare. It's called Medicaid so what you claimed is 100% false. There's also free clinics, clinics with sliding scale fees, and charity. If people choose to not use them out of pride or whatever, that's not my problem or the rest of the population's. They aren't my responsibility. I'm responsible for myself and my family. That's it.
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  63. What? Unless you live in India or somewhere that still has a caste system then your class isn't very limiting. If you're smart there are scholarships available to help you reach your potential, if you're not you can get experience in the work field and change jobs and move to improve your situation. I'm sorry, but I've lived in poverty and that didn't limit my ability to make good choices and get out of it. Only a very small percentage of those in poverty remain in it. The majority reach middle class at some point in their lifetime. If class defined you that wouldn't be the case. You can't eliminate class because we're a hierarchical species. Just like you can't eliminate poverty because if everyone moves to the middle class then the middle class is considered poverty because the standard of living improved across the board. That's why there's a difference between poverty and abject poverty.
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  64. Good lord! Restaurants were closed for 2 years? That was only a couple of states fortunately. Mine was only 3 weeks.
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  65. What’s currently going on is you have several factions. There’s one that sees the collection of power that’s happened and wants to reduce it. Spread it back out. There’s one that just wants to maintain power and continue gathering more. The last is a group that sees the concentration of power and wants to use it to force their ideals onto everyone else for “the greater good”. Beware the words “our democracy” instead of just democracy because unless you think like them your democracy isn’t included. It comes from Marxist and neo Marxist works. Only members of the party are allowed to participate in democracy so it’s “our democracy”. I’m not saying everyone that says it understands that’s what they’re saying. Most just parrot what they hear. Always be leery of new terminology entering into speeches and repeated like this particular phrase. Edit: The West is currently engaged in an attempted Maoist cultural revolution. If you want to fully understand look into how it occurred in China. It’s currently unraveling in a very similar way. I’m sorry but I’m not going to become like that for the sake of peace.
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  66. That’s what it’s pointing out. That’s why it goes over how power has concentrated over the last century especially where it used to be held by private institutions or groups and thus separate from not just the state but each other.
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  67. I tell people all the time that other people only have the control over you that you give them. You can't control other people. You can only control your reaction to them. She sounds like someone who looked for your buttons and enjoyed pushing them just to get a reaction. Some people get their kicks from doing that. They were waiting for a reaction so they could go to the authority figure to get you in trouble. It's behavior I've seen often in children, but unfortunately for some it carries over into adulthood.
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  68.  @DarkSkay  The President isn't the only seat of power. You're looking at it from a dictatorship point of view. It can come from corruption and from a single party rather than an individual. Russia is technically a Democracy and they vote every 6 years (4 until 2012). They are still run like a totalitarian government. China has local elections, but still a totalitarian government. If a single party can eliminate, imprison, or not allow potential rivals to run for office it's not a democracy any longer no matter how often you vote. If the population is too afraid to vote for an opposition because they'll face dire consequences, it's not a real democracy. If the system has become so corrupt and entrenched with a single party, to the point the institutions can be and are being used against political opponents, it's no longer a real democracy. Edit: You have a very simple minded approach to how governments function and a naive faith in the strength of a Democracy.
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  69. Speak for yourself please. I’ve been against the concentration of power since before I was old enough to vote and I’m in my 50s. Unfortunately we don’t control regulations which is where most of this concentration has occurred. The managerial state does. The problem is when they manage to convince the public it’s needed for this extensional threat or that one. Now fortunately more and more see the problems with it and hopefully it can get turned around but it won’t be overnight.
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  70. Very timely. A lot of people are about to learn what it's like to suffer with the current economic situation. People accustomed to luxuries they don't even realize are luxuries. Having grown up without even air conditioning in the Delta and if we didn't kill it or grow it we didn't eat it, I'm grateful for every simple comfort I now enjoy. Physical suffering can definitely cause mental suffering. I've come across people that believe eliminating suffering is the most noble thing for a society to do. I point out the positives of it. Without suffering there would be no more art, literature, and innovation would cease. It's pain and suffering that drives creativity.
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  71.  @fib1478  North Korea would fit the definition of a totalitarian government no matter what time period. You also don't know the difference between being close to something and actually being that thing. Are you trying to claim China isn't a totalitarian government? They are very totalitarian. They decide, based on what you say or who your family is, what you can and can't buy. They weld people into their homes and have current concentration camps. You're belief is that in order to be totalitarian a government must be the most extreme example. There are levels of totalitarianism just like any other type of government. The video listed different types of totalitarian governments including fascist and communist. Germany and Italy voted like a Democracy, but were still totalitarian governments. A totalitarian government can hide behind the veneer of being a Democracy.
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  72. What does that have to do with the subject of this video? Are you saying you don't like that because it's something you hide about yourself? Is that your shadow? You're talking about a single trade, people in a small area, in a tiny section of the world as if they are gods who are responsible for some great evil plaguing the entire world. You give them any power you assume they have over your happiness and well being. You decide how their words impact you. I don't know what you think you'll get from a philosophy channel.
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  73. That was known in 2008 after the housing crash. It's a bit late to discuss that now. We've paid off our debt except our mortgage which we'll pay off in half the time because we double our monthly payments. It's living beyond your means and accumulating debt you can't afford that causes you to become trapped in it. Don't get fluctuating interest rate loans, only get fixed rates. Yes it's a bit higher rate, but it's stable and isn't impacted by whims of the fed.
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  74. I have it but it's not because I fear other people judging me. I'm claustrophobic so it's more from that. My brain just sees them as things sucking up oxygen and taking up space. Which honestly is pretty apt for most people.
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