Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Triggernometry" channel.

  1. Now, an hour or so on his neuroses would have been a cracker!
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  2. Thank you for sharing your thinking. I believe you're on the right track. Why don't we understand our world now? Who benefits when people don't understand what's going on? Why do people feel so threatened that they feel they need to join a tribe?Who benefits most from acrimonious division and fragmented communities? And what are those beneficiaries doing whilst the rest of us are struggling through this widespread mess and disruption?
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  3. How well said. I agree with all you say.
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  4.  @tommore3263  You did a grand job - usually it takes about 5 introductory books to begin to get your head round metaphysics! I was lucky enough to study philosophy as one of my u/g electives for 3 years. It helps! Robert Barron is wonderful indeed, a great teacher and he makes things so easy to follow.
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  5.  @MrJREllman  Poverty is relative.And a third of the UK's children are currently living in poverty. "Dickensian" That quote and statistic come directly from the UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty who investigated poverty in the UK a few years back. Don't take my word for it, go read his UN report.
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  6. Oh my goodness! It's such a joy to listen to such an intelligent young woman who values genuinely intellectual discourse. The abhorrent treatment to which she was subjected used to be called 'stereotyping' and it was a huge project in the 80s and 90s to eradicate such Neanderthal thinking, and thus to treat people as the individuals they are. The lack of a common, shared morality will be the downfall of society. imho.
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  7.  @mrror8933  To be fair, each gvt sells itself on their continued support for and enhancement of the welfare state. A portion of our taxes are explicitly for our welfare state. Thus it's part of the social contract, and it is well argued that citizens and taxpayers are within their rights to feel entitled to its benefits. i might have the wrong end of the stick though about what you've said - please elaborate if you wish.
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  8. The solution is not tablets and 'therapy'. The solution is a return to a way of life and systems that are people-friendly and respectful of human beings. That's not just my humble opinion, the British Psychological Society and many before have articulated this far better than I can here.
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  9.  @Esehe  Making women go out to earn doubled the potential income streams of gov and business.
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  10.  @MaggieTheCat01  30-40 years ago there was a Wages for Housework movement. Of course it got denigrated and obliterated. The outcomes would have been far less expensive and far less messy than the hellish mess we're faced with today.
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  11.  @beowulf_of_wall_st  👏👏👏
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  12. I'll remind YT of that every time they do it to me. Which is frequently!
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  13. 👏👏👏
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  14. "It's easier to fight with a figment of your imagination than actually engage with what people say." (Andrew Doyle - many thanks) But this phenomenon is certainly not new. E.g . Ask a thousand patients how many times their doctors have doggedly not listened to them but persisted in misdiagnosing them. What're the common factors here? Arrogance, sense of superiority, leading to 'I'm smarter than you', 'I know more that you,' 'I'm right, you're wrong', 'I'm saving people', 'I'm morally better than you'.....etc. Ask the bereaved relatives of such patients... Why do you think all our professions have leapt to adopt wokery...?? Because these attitudes were there all along in the background, unspoken - and most of those who challenged them have been 'cancelled' in various ways peculiar to whatever profession they've called out. We need to acknowledge and remove this ancient 'wokery' in our long-established culture as well. It is all about achieving power no matter if it's old or new wokery. 'New wokery' didn't arise in a vacuum. None of these wokesters ever wanted any sort of paradise for all...
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  15.  @rensha8635  Very good points.
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  16. And why would such exquisitely formulated rules develop so that eventually a rackety little life-form like us can ask these questions? Is the universe/multiverse quasi-Darwinistic? Does it continually birth and collapse universes until a version pops up that's capable of creating sentient beings that are curious about these things? Is this process itself sentient in some unfathomable way?
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  17.  @stepheneurosailor1623  He did too. Campbell years 1 and 2 were pretty worrying.
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  18.  @willallen7757  I guess the issue is that many, many were taken in by lies, but most can't or don't get on a wide reach platform to promote those inaccuracies. It's a teachable example not a crucifixion.
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  19.  @PittbuII  very well said.
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  20.  @james970027  Thank you, you've put it all so well. If you want to be left alone to live your life, don't put your life in other people's faces! That's just needy affirmation-seeking. I always say I don't give a flying fig about anyone's sexuality (unless they're into illegal/harmful things). I really don't. I'm only interested in you if you're a person of integrity, honest, considerate and sociable! So many of the characters who get themselves in the media are terribly needy and giving everyone in the letters 'community' a bad rap. It's such a shame.
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  21.  @rokko_fable  👍
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  22.  @Alliancewolf  Aye, there are always trade-offs.
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  23.  @Alliancewolf  Speaking as a woman and mother, that choice of 'standard of living' is far more acute for women. Especially as nowadays 'standard of living' and quality of life is almost exclusively measured in £financial terms. This is why birthrate is collapsing all over the West. For many decades, new humans have not been appreciated as intrinsically valuable simply for their existence. Pressures from leaders obsessed with economic success have shattered and scattered families which are essential in terms of help with bringing up children. Women know that choosing to have a child nowadays usually means losing perhaps £millions in income and benefits throughout their lifetimes, often leaving them with minimal income in old age. I would have had at least 1 perhaps 2 more children if our society were not so sociopathically run. I loathe our anti-family culture.
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  24.  @r.8902  One thing that no one's mentioned is simply talking to strangers. I used to do a shed load of travelling for my work before smart phones. Some of the most interesting, enlightening , honest and poignant conversations I've had have been with other solo travellers on planes, buses, trains etc.
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  25.  @getyoursupervisor8519  Well, yes, it's shocking to see how much freedom we've lost. But that was the commonly heard catchphrase of British children (and adults) up to 30-odd years after WW2. Which was still in our parents and grandparents' minds. There were still bombsites in the UK well into the late 1970s. We were proud that that our forces had fought to free Europe from tyranny.
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  26.  @jabbrewoki  YES! Exactly. Of course it's messy, but at least 1000yr's worth of argumentation led directly to Western democracy and economic success and stability for the vast majority of citizens. Social engineering needs to stop. It is evil and anti-human.
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  27. Nicely explained, thank you. AFAIC, there's been no 'left' and no 'right' for a long while now. Now there's just two tribes, them and us. One side reasonably respects the past not least for what it can teach us, good and bad, and can help us to form visions and plans for a united, healthy and productive future. The other side emotively dismantles all that's gone before - yet weaponises the bad bits to diminish and punish the other side - and doesn't seem to be able to create any sort of coherent vision of any future that supports a unified, nurturing and productive society.
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  28. Perhaps not so coincidentally, I found myself thinking about Charter 88 as Silkie Carlo was speaking. I understand your tears. Our political classes and their acolytes never seem to learn from the past.
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  29.  @somedandy7694  That's an absolutely excellent presentation and unimpeachably logical. Every household should get a copy of it.
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  30. 🙃I think you put a short dash (see keyboard) each side of 'comedian'! DASH : - word - DASH : * word * DASH : shift_ word shift_ Note, put all characters up close to word.
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  31. I'm by no means an apologist for the Catholics, but I can honestly say this about my own experience of schooling. Two of the three schools I was at had this effect. The third was brilliant. Perhaps not surprisingly, the damaging schools were state schools and the brilliant school was a secular fee-paying school (i.e. 'public' school' in the UK, private school in the US).
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  32. Intelligent perspectives.
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  33. It'll take generations. At least 4 more generations. That's if leaders stop warring- this only adds to the trauma.
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  34. You've raised a huge problem behind the scenes. Those who disagree with the favoured agenda are simply ignored. I applaud Shaun's call for people to take control of the problems....but over the years I've seen hundreds and thousands of people attempting to do that reasonably and they're simply squashed out of whatever sphere they're seeking to change. The local powers that be have it down to a fine art. As with most systemic problems in this country its roots are in the culture of the power-holders - it's rarely a question of lack of money. (And no, this isn't about race in any shape or form. It's about powerful people who're incompetent seeing off those who would do better than them.)
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  35. "There is no love but the deeds of love." Jean-Paul Sartre. Love is a choice, a commitment. The chemical imbalance lurve stuff is the willing suspension of disbelief in exchange for the fleeting pleasure of chemical highs. imho.
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  36. It's of note that the institutions mentioned here and in the US all receive funding from companies with vested interests. Similarly, the good doctor illustrates exactly the passion he sees in those he accuses of being 'plum wrong'. And, democratic systems are used to de-stabilisation. Only fascist systems 'nip' de-stabilisation in the bud. < ...need I go on...? >
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  37. ♥
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  38. I'm one of those 10% or so people without the caffeine receptor thing gene. This means coffee does nothing for me, it's just a nice warm taste. Conversely, alcohol just makes me feel sleepy. Is this why I've never been taken in by the BS?! Seriously though, my takeaway from Prof Nutt's description of the insane 'war on drugs' is that if we had an honest, straightforward and fair society we wouldn't have drug and alcohol problems. As ever, those who have the power cause the problems. Note also that there's a new movement within psychology and psychiatry which sees 'depression' , 'anxiety', 'ptsd' etc as caused by societal dysfunctions, not by the individual's 'chemical imbalances' or 'disordered' reactions. Big pharma read this writing on the wall some while back and have opted out of trying to treat these 'maladies' with their faux scientific concoctions.
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  39.  @scrock8621  To be honest, I just took it as non-significant mis-speech. I'm quite certain that we don't have another daft Diane Abbot in the making here!!
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  40. Could you explain firmament please?
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  41.  @avastone5539  What's a strand type universe please?
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  42. Hey. Everyone has a right to their own opinions. I don't agree with you but you made me think a bit more deeply about why. Quite often in life the ones to blame for cockups are not the most obvious.
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  43. AFAIC, there's been no 'left' and no 'right' for a long while now. Now there's just two tribes, them and us. One side reasonably respects the past not least for what it can teach us, good and bad, and can help us to form visions and plans for a united, healthy and productive future. The other side emotively dismantles all that's gone before - yet weaponises the bad bits to diminish and punish the other side - and doesn't seem to be able to create any sort of coherent vision of any future that supports a unified, nurturing and productive society.
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  44.  @bellelacroix5938  👍like our friends in the far east?
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  45. Exactly my first thought on his prognostications. SETI is already old hat. Scientists have already successfully entangled photons in their first baby steps to achieve instantaneous very long distance communication systems.
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  46.  @peterwebb8732  ​ I think your argument is simplistic. You are confusing what I wrote with your thoughts about what you call a 'poor-bugger-me syndrome'. In no way am I denying any victim their agency, self-respect and the ability to take advantage of whatever help is available.
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  47. I would like Nigel to REALLY investigate why so many people are stuck at home out of work. He might be surprised and horrified at what he finds. Social 'welfare' was created for a reason...
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  48. Well, I wonder. Is it a fresh insight? Our forebears knew a lot better than us it seems to me.
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  49.  @Elizabeth-jd3mn  I saw that and noted no buy in required.
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  50.  @TomNoles007  You absolutely don't have to believe in God to join a church.
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