Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Lex Clips" channel.

If it just happened to be true, as the scientist Stephen Hawking and other scientists theorized, that the universe always existed, then it would mean that electricity always existed. To undermine the idea that because organisms don't have human brains, that they are not aware, is just human arrogance and ignorance. As a species, we aren't at all special ... much less wise. These men of ancient times, agreed with Stephen Hawking's theory ... . From the book … 2000 Years of Disbelief … author … James A. Haugt … “None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man; it has always been.”—Empedocles (495—435 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher and statesman (Noyes) … “The universe has been made neither by gods nor by men, but it has been, and is, and will be eternally.”—Heraclitus (Noyes) ... “The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the flaws that mar it”—Lucretius, ibid.
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Thank you for honoring freedom of speech, by allowing me mine. If a person took a test to find out his or her I Q, and the person failed the test ... would that mean that the person who failed the test should be labeled for the rest of life as being dumb? White supremacists were satisfied that (Negroes) were dumb ... yet, when the black race was able to study the white man's ways ... those black men and women became judges and lawyers and doctors, et cetera, and beat the white supremacists at their own game of supposed superior intellects. I Q tests are fraudulent information, and should never be trusted, and neither should the people be trusted who promote those scams.
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Did we give permission to our parents to have sex, which in turn, caused us to be born?
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Jordan makes his big money from those on the right ... so it follows that he won't say a good word about any Prime minister on the left. I'm Canadian, and no matter which party is in office, I'm very thankful that we no longer live under the laws of what were once the supposed god-fearing Christians. From the book … Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada, author … Lorna Poplak. Capital punishment, the execution of someone found guilty of a crime, dates back to arrival of the European explorers on our shores. In those days, if you were condemned to death, quite a wide range of methods could be used to punish you. You could be hanged, or face a firing squad, or be burned at the stake. Although Canada remained a collection of separate British colonies until Confederation in 1876, a Royal Proclamation in 1763 replaced the prevailing Canadian legal system with the laws of England. By the end of the 1700s in Britain, however, the litany of crimes regarded as sufficiently horrible to warrant the death penalty had swelled to 220, including nefarious acts as keeping company with gypsies or skulking in the dark with a blackened face. In 1828, Patrick Burgan of Saint John, New Brunswick, aged eighteen or nineteen, received the death penalty for the double offence of stealing a watch and some money from his former employer and clothing from a sailors’ boarding house. Given the power and pre-eminence of religion in Canada at that time, your very life would have been in jeopardy if you were caught scrawling slogans on the side of a church. You could also be hanged for stealing your neighbor’s cow, which was the fate of B. Clement of Montreal. And just in case you thought that the law protected the young as it does today, think again. Children were regarded as miniature adults and treated as such — Clement was only thirteen years old when executed.
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Communism stems from the word commune ... which means to share the wealth equally among all the people. The word that fits the subject at hand, is dictator. Stalin studied for five years to be an Orthodox priest. He was cunning enough to comprehend that being a priest would not give him the power he needed to rule over the people, so he became a dictator … as were all the popes when they ordered the murders of those who dared to cross them.
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As the human population keeps on increasing, that results in more air, water, and land pollution. As humans keep reproducing at a faster rate than humans are dying, common sense tells us that we are polluting more, rather than less. Pollution is a fact of life, and unless there is a major catastrophe, such as a nuclear war ... we will keep polluting, because that is just how much all of us enjoy our personal comforts. It’s not fair to blame the manufacturers of the products, because if we weren’t buying … they could not be selling. So ... let us not point fingers at others … or expect governments to clean up the impossible messes that all of us keep on creating. What we destroy might ultimately destroy us … and that is only fair. Meanwhile, we should keep our fingers pointing at ourselves … where they belong.
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And by the way, aren't Christians such as Jordan supposed to be happy and give thanks to Jesus for what you DO have ... rather than always complaining about what you don't have?
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 What is it that you find snarky and smug about the following question? And by the way, aren't Christians such as Jordan supposed to be happy and give thanks to Jesus for what you DO have ... rather than always complaining about what you don't have? Mother Teresa was probably smug, but not snarky, when she preached to a dying, suffering Hindu, that suffering was the "kiss of Jesus."
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 I don't know about you, but I relate to the words of Mark Twain … GOD … a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell--mouths mercy, and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 Theologians also had and have a problem with their depictions of the supposed creator. Such idiocy. From the book … Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable by Ivor H. Evans … First published 1817. … Odium theologicum (o di um the o loj ikim) (Lat.). The bitter hatred of rival theologians. No wars so sanguinary as holy wars; no persecutions so relentless as religious persecutions; no hatred so bitter as theological hatred.
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 INDECENCY Each race determines for itself what indecencies are. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. - Notebook, 1896 Mark Twain
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 "Moreover -- if I may put another strain upon you -- he thinks he is the Creator's pet. He believes the Creator is proud of him; he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes, and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to Him, and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea? " 'Letters from Earth'- Mark Twain
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 "Moreover -- if I may put another strain upon you -- he thinks he is the Creator's pet. He believes the Creator is proud of him; he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes, and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to Him, and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea? " 'Letters from Earth'- Mark Twain
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 We all get our ideas from others. It's just that you approve of the ideas you take from others, more than the ideas that I take from others.
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@soumyadipgoswami1721 I don't believe that any human is "enlightened." In order to believe self to be enlightened, one would have to believe that self could know "truth" rather than the more humble word ... opinion. Some of the ancient people were aware that they must hold that word "truth" ... at bay. From the book … Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable by Ivor H. Evans … First published 1817. Truth. Arcesilaus said that man’s understanding is not capable of knowing what truth is. Carneades maintained that not only our understanding could not comprehend it, but even our senses are wholly inadequate to help us in the investigation.
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For 70 years I was confused by my childhood religious indoctrination. Religion is a primate guilt-inducer. Being taught by theologists that if we refuse to believe in the existence of a god ... we are EVIL ... is enough to depress anybody? I am almost 84 years of age, and for the last almost 14 years, I've been an Atheist, and finally am at peace with Stephen Hawking's theory ... that in one form or another, the universe always existed ... no creator ... no plan ... and that suffering of all forms of life ... is natural. And by leaving all religion behind as being man-created fiction ... I am far from being alone. Hundreds of members of clergy are now leaving religion behind, to find employment elsewhere.
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“I know a lot of 75 cent words. I just try not to use them.” … television star-psychologist Doctor Phil McGraw.
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By his desire to preach the religious theology that a god created only male and female, Jordan's mentality was already corrupted long before he became famous ... albeit that it was that statement, "I WONT DO IT" that resulted in him "becoming" famous. He lied that it was the Canadian Liberal government and Justin Trudeau trying to take away his "freedom of speech." The truth of the matter was, it was those in the transgender community wanting Jordan to show respect for the pronouns by which they wanted to be addressed. What a harsh difference in attitude from Jordan ... compared to the following "amiable" response. From the book A Few Words About Words … author Joe Diorio FALLING FLAT ON PRONOUNS First, please know that there is nothing new about using the plural pronoun “they” for singular usage. Emily Dickinson was doing it over 100 years ago. Second, identifying one’s personal pronouns is not some trendy idea. I participated in seminars on this topic whilst working at Vanderbilt University, where I learned this is a way to show respect toward others. Channeling my inner Ask Abby, it is perfectly acceptable when meeting someone to not only say what your preferred pronouns are, but to ask the individual what theirs are as well.
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@raah5583 Jordan Peterson demands respect, but he doesn't like to respect others that he perceives are "evil."
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@raah5583 First of all ... WHO is castrating children? And by the way ... I am sorry that you became a porn addict ... but is that not your own problem for messing around with pornography in the first place? I suggest that we are ALL part of the problems ... and that includes you and Jordan Peterson ... when you point at others while USING that nasty theo-anti-logical word "EVIL". In January Jordan claimed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that being transgender is a result of a “social contagion” and similar to “satanic ritual abuse,” and suggested that acceptance of the trans community is a sign that “civilization’s collapsing.”
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The sad part of religion is that so many people … including members of clergy … are convinced not only that a god exists … but that they are not able to live up to the god’s expectations. These devout believers often suffer from extreme depression … and many take their own lives. Abraham Lincoln suffered from extreme depression. He was born “out of wedlock” and was taught that he was “illegitimate," and that being illegitimate was a terrible SIN. From the book … LINCOLN'S BATTLE WITH GOD ... author ... Stephen Mansfield Lincoln would not have been the first man to long for divine acceptance but to think himself unworthy of it. He had translated this sense of shame to a theological level by believing that God rejected him for a wrong that occurred before he was born.
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If, as Stephen Hawking believed was possible, that the universe always existed, then, if that theory just happens to be true ... it would be true that consciousness also always existed. Ifs are possible.
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Thank you for honoring freedom of speech, by not deleting mine. The organization known as MENSA was founded in England in 1946 by a barrister named Roland Berrill, and Dr. Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer. Some people insist that it’s not possible to fail a MENSA IQ test, and that is a ridiculous conclusion, because there are those that belong to MENSA, and there are those that are not allowed entry into the organization of MENSA. Albert Einstein’s parents were informed by his teachers in elementary school that he was having problems with learning. He was probably bored with the subjects being discussed and wanted to study only math and science, as those were indeed suited to his intense personal interests. Later he was labeled as being an intellectual genius … yet had he lived in an era before math and science existed, in the public sphere he would have been unknown. If adults want to strive to belong to the group known as MENSA, it is their right to apply, and either be allowed to enter through the door, or to have the door to the Mensa organization slammed shut in their faces. It is not however a good idea to subject children to that test, because if the children succeed, the idea that they are much more intelligent than others could go to their heads and result in them being insufferable bores, as are so many adults that believe they are exceptionally intelligent. And if the children fail the test that allows them to belong to MENSA, it would be tragic for them to believe that they are nothing other than dumb losers … which in turn could result in them losing faith that they are able to succeed in any field of endeavor whatsoever. Years ago I read a book that was written by a man whose brother was told that he had a low IQ. I don't remember the title of the book, or the exact words, but I do remember the gist of the quote by the brother who was labeled as having the low IQ, and it went as follows ... "Because of what we don't know, we are all dumb." I suggest that his statement was and is correct … and that in contrast … there should not be any doubt that the scientist and lawyer that started the organization of MENSA were certain that they were so very intelligent by what they did know, as to be fully qualified to teach others the unadulterated meaning of that word “intelligence.” You may, or may not, appreciate the following humor on the YouTube podcast … Mike from Canmore applies to MENSA When I watched that podcast, I certainly learned something new.
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From my perspective, we have two choices. We can either believe that the universe was created by an entity that designed suffering as part of its plan ... or, we can believe (as did Stephen Hawking, before he died) that the universe always existed, and will always exist ... no plan involved. I prefer the second choice.
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Many years ago, I had a conversation with a man who thought of his self as being a staunch environmentalist. He said that HE would not accept advertising flyers in his mailbox, because they were unnecessary, and contributed to pollution. When I asked him if he cared that there were people depending on us for their financial incomes, accepting those flyers in the mail, he said that he didn't care, and that they could find other jobs that would give them their sources of financial income. The bottom line is, we are all self-indulged polluters, and I suggest that that word "environmentalist" leaves everything to be "desired."
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